Transcript:Nicholas Brouse - Another U E Loyalist Gone

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NICHOLAS BROUSE - ANOTHER U. E. LOYALIST GONE.

Died at his residence, Village of Iroquois (Matilda) on the 4th April, inst., in his 85th year, Nicholas Brouse, Senior, after a prolonged illness and confinement. In the death of this old inhabitant is witnessed the departure of one of the last, if not the very last within the county of Dundas, of the old stock of U. E. Loyalists. Although of the youngest of that truly loyal class, he was made to feel at a tender age the suffering consequent on that eventful period - the American Revolution. Having lost his father just at the time of reaching the place of royal refuge, he was left a young and almost helpless stranger, and shared the privations and sufferings that are but too well recorded in the history of that time, which were undergone by the families of the United Empire Loyalists. He served in the American War of 1812; held a commission of Lieutenant in Lower Canada Militia, and was on duty under the late Col. DeSalaberry, at Lachine and other places, in expectation of an attack from the noted American General Wilkinson's army, so disastrously routed at the celebrated battle of Chrysler's Farm. His sons Nicholas and Edward were both out on active service for the Queen in 1837-8 their father being then disabled.

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Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, John George Hodgins, Adam Crooks, Ontario. Dept. of Education, The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, 12:58 (April, 1859) https://books.google.com/books?q=Nicholas+Brouse&id=xesBAAAAYAAJ

Also reprinted under the headline "Obituary of Nicholas Brouse" in Loyalist Narratives from Upper Canada (1946), p.43.