| Notizen : : Johann Friedrich Stegmann was born at Kassel (Hessen) on 26 Jan. 1760. He , went to America as a free corporal in the Regiment of Major-General von Lossberg , and was made ensign on 26 Oct. 1780. On 5 Oct. 1783 he was discharged in North , America., His German name was Johann Friedrich Stegmann, born around 1758 in the , City of Kassell, Province of Hessen, loyal subject of his Landgraf Friedrich II of , Hessen-Kassel. He was a real and true "Hessian". He came to America with the , Hessian troops in 1776, serving as an Ensign with the Regiment von Lossberg in , New York. The Hertrina II computerlisting (S#132) shows him as Free Corporal in , June 1777, however, in a petition he made to the Upper Canada Landboard in 1788, , he stated that he served His Majesty in America from 1776 to 1783, his rank in 1783 , being that of a Lieutenant., When the new Governor of Canada feared renewed attacks on the colony from the , Americans, the Regiment v.Lossberg was loaded on three ships named Adamant, , Badger and King George and set sail out of New York September 8th 1779.They were , joined by the Knyphausen Regiment aboard the ships, Archer, Triton and Molly., About the middle of September, the fleet set sale for Canada but only a few days out , at sea, a devastating powerful hurricane hit the fleet ... The Badger and King George, , both heavily damaged made theirway back to New York., Ensign Stegmann was on board one of the ships which returned to New York. After , repairs ... in May of 1780, the Regiment boarded ships again, and this time reached , the destination of Quebec City without further incidents., For Ensign Stegmann (now a Lieutenant), was stationed at the Isle D'Orleans in the , St. Lawrence just belowQuebec City. In 1783, after the war had ended, the Regiment , was sent home but some received honourable discharges inCanada ... The Lieutenant , Johann Friedrich Stegmann, fromhis date of discharge on known as John Stegman, , married in January of 1874 at L'Islet (thus daughter Lisette?) just downstream from the , Isle D'Orleans on the south shore of the mighty St. Lawrence. His bride was Marie-Ursule , Choisy from the parish of L'Islet (thus daughter Maria?)., Already in 1783 the Governor of Canada gave him employment as a surveyor and ... , he was ordered to survey the County of Dundas, west of the Ottawa River ... in the year , 1786, John Stegman himself received his first land grant in the Township ofOsnabruck, , County of Stormont, and there settled with hisyoung family. In 1788, his grant was , increased to 500 acres and by 1792 he called a total of 900 acres his own., When John Graves Simcoe (new Governor of Upper Canada) picked York (Toronto) as , new center of command for seat of Government for Upper Canada (1793), task of surveying , given to Surveyor General Augustus Jones. But Simcoe also requested Surveyor-General , Holland (Quebec) to furnish him with the names of deputy surveyors, and included on that , list was thename of John Stegman (not employed since 1790) (S#11vol.21p59). , Shortly thereafter, John Stegman was ordered to takesurveyor duty in the York area , (his names comes up in many different historical books and other sources)., John Stegman per a document dated at York, the 30th day of June 1801, is shown to , have taken an oath of allegiance in order to qualify for a grant of land ... "I, John , Stegmann, born in the City of Hesse-Cassall, late Captain in the Hessian Regiment , of Sossberg, but now living in this Town of York, black eyes, dark brown hair - about , five feet seven inches high. Forty three years old, having taken..., [November 1804 issue of the "Upper Canada Gazette" - Dinah M. Cruse] |