Alexander Montgomery, Jr
1758 - 1841 (83 years)-
Name Alexander Montgomery Suffix Jr Birth Feb 1758 Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA 
Gender Male Burial 1841 St James Cath, King Street, Toronto, Canada Death 3 Jun 1841 York, Upper Canada Person ID I15138 Clan Montgomery Society | Alexander Montgomery and Sarah Lockwood, Montgomery of Beaulieu Last Modified 12 May 2024
Father Alexander Montgomery, Sr, b. Abt 1725, Brandrum, Monaghan, Ireland d. Abt 1810, Oswego County, New York, USA (Age 85 years) Relationship natural Mother Sarah Lockwood, b. Abt 1734, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. Abt 1774, Spencer Town, Albany, New York, USA (Age 40 years) Relationship natural Marriage Abt 1750 Family ID F4922 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Juda or Judith Myer, b. 24 May 1759, Phillips Manor, Yonkers, , New York d. 16 Mar 1831, York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Age 71 years) Marriage Abt 1779 New York, New York, USA Children + 1. Sarah Louise Montgomery, b. 31 May 1779, New York, New York, USA d. 31 May 1883, Ridgetown, Carleton, Ontario, Canada (Age 104 years) [Father: natural]+ 2. John Montgomery, b. 29 Feb 1784, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada d. 31 Oct 1879, Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 95 years) [Father: natural]+ 3. Alexander III Montgomery, b. Abt 1790, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada d. 27 Aug 1868, Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada (Age 78 years) [Father: natural]4. Abigail Montgomery, b. 16 Jan 1790, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada d. 16 Jan 1855, York, Ontario, Canada (Age 65 years) [Father: natural]+ 5. Mary Ann Montgomery, b. 1793, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada d. 1873, Clay, St Clair, Michigan, USA (Age 80 years) [Father: natural]+ 6. Statira Edith Montgomery, b. 1 May 1795, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada d. 20 Nov 1887, Ridgetown, Carleton, Ontario, Canada (Age 92 years) [Father: natural]7. Juda Montgomery, b. 1799, York, Ontario, Canada d. 1808, York, Ontario, Canada (Age 9 years) [Father: natural]8. Frances Montgomery, b. 2 Aug 1801, York, Ontario, Canada d. 5 Sep 1896, Leeds, Ontario, Canada (Age 95 years) [Father: natural]+ 9. Richard Montgomery, b. 9 Feb 1807, York, Ontario, Canada d. 14 Aug 1873, York, Ontario, Canada (Age 66 years) [Father: natural]Family ID F4932 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 May 2024
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Birth - Feb 1758 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA 
Marriage - Abt 1779 - New York, New York, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Submitted via GEDCOM diskette from Betti Hinman Paull, CMS 1313. Also contains information on lines for other CMS members:
Nancy High, CMS 55; Jane Porter, CMS 417; Arnold K. Stewart, CMS 1405; Roger B. Montgomery, CMS 1489.
This is our direct ancestor thru Alexander Sr & Sarah Lockwood; Alexander & Judith Myers married in New York. First child, Sarah was born there in 1779. They sailed to St. Johns, NB aboard the ship, "Hope" may 1783. First settled in Gagetown where other children were born: JOHN was probably born in Feb 1783 in New York City, Abigail, Alexander III, Mary Ann,Statira, Juda were born in Gagetown between 1783 and 1798. They family went to lived in small new settlement in Muddy Flats, or York, Ontario (then still Quebec Prov). Records show birth of last two children. one being for Frances "Fanny" who Baptised with Juda in 1801. Their ninth and last child was a son.
Richard Montgomery b. 1807, married Hannah Smith the daughter of John Smith & Rebecca Chapman of Thornhill. They had fourteen children. David Montgomery was their ninth child, born in 1847 in Markham, Ontario.
During the War of 1812, the Fort York needed supplies to strengthen it against a possible American attack. It is reported that Alexander Montgomery Jr., John, his son, and William Hill his son-in-law were on a boat on Lake Ontairo when they spotted the American forces led by General Z. Pike making its way to attack the village of York. John is said to have gone ashore with Wm. Hill hoping on foot they could make speed in order to warn the village of York that the Americans would soon attack the fort. However, the Americans overwhelmed both the Fort and volunteers so that York was burned in 1813.
In Feb. 1994 correspondence with Ontario Genealogy Society (Toronto Branch)
Alexander Montgomery Jr. of York, Ont. from 1797-1817 was mentioned 18 times in the minutes of Town Meetings of York. In archives it mentions that Alexander the father had a falling out with his eldest son, John over politics and they sawed the "Bird In Hand" on Yonge Street in half. John took his half several miles up north on Yonge Street where in time it became the infamous "Montgomery Tavern." In an account of this in C. Blackett Robinson Pub. 1885, "History of Toronto and County of York Ontario" page 117 under name of "John W. Mongomery, son of John & Mary Montgomery it tells about the two cousins playing in his father's old hotel, "The Sickle & Sheaf" as it was shelled by the British forces which knocked down three chimneys and resulted in it being burned to the ground. The British were responding to the so called threat of a rebellion. John was not there, but his sons, John Willmott was there with his cousin, Abraham Willson. John Montgomery had kept a room where they were the two lads were playing in an upstairs room. John sold the Inn but kept a room which he had not yet moved out some of his furnishings. "When the first cannon shot came crashing through his home, cutting down the three chimneys, they thought it was mere sport until a second shot entered the wing. Some of their friends removed them from the Tavern before it was burned to the ground."
John Wilmot Montgomery who was named for John's first wife, Mary Nee Willmott. (Family name spelled Willmott in Marriage bonds but his middle name Wilmot) The site of John Montgoemry's tavern now holds Postal Station "K" at Yonge St. and Montgomery Ave (used to be Finch). There is also a mounted plaque.
Alexander Montgomery Jr. is mentioned numerous time in the Town Meeting minutes of York, Ont. from 1797 through 1818. The father's will is available upon payment for a copy. It left most to his son, Richard. Thus his sister Statira who married Willson, sued Richard. Alex died in 1841 before John, his eldest son was pardoned by Queen Victoria. However, it did appear that they mended their political differences prior to John's arrest and trial. The bitterness, however, between father, Alexander Jr. & son, Alexander III had not been healed so Alexander III was also excluded from the father's will. Do not know the outcome of the suit brought by Stitira & Stillwell Willson to break the will but that further alienated several families. It appears that Alexander III had descendants who settled in the United States. It must have been one of them named George Montgomery who gave information about the family to Malcolm Stern for his book on Jewish Genealogy. On Myers V chart it shows, Bejamin & Rachel Myer, their sons and Judah Myer who married Alexander Montgomery and then shows only three children born to them: Sarah, John & Alexander.
- Submitted via GEDCOM diskette from Betti Hinman Paull, CMS 1313. Also contains information on lines for other CMS members: