Person:George Brouse (1)

George settled in Johnstown, New York, leasing 100 acres from Sir William Johnson and clearing 20 of those acres.^[1]

George followed Sir John Johnson to Canada in 1776, ^[1] and joined the Kings Royal Regiment of New York.^[2] He died while in the British military.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Claim of Peter Prous. (Second Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario (1904), p.410).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 United Empire Loyalist Centennial Committee (Toronto). The centennial of the settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists, 1784-1884: the celebrations at adolphustown, Toronto and Niagara, with an appendix containing a copy of the U. E. list, preserved in the Crown Lands Department at Toronto. (Toronto, Ontario: Rose Publishing Co., 1885)
   143.

   Browce, George; E District; Royal Yorkers, L. Bd. L.

3. ↑ New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; New York) Reformed Dutch Church (Stone Arabia; and Royden Woodward Vosburgh. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia in the town of Palatine, Montgomery County, N.Y., 1739-1912. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968)
   1:46.

   Petrus, son of Georg Prauss and Elisabeth born 1 Jan 1764, baptized 5 May 1764, sponsors Peter Kraus und Elisabeth, Nicolaus Serves' wife. [part of a group of nine baptisms under "in Sir Williams Hall"]