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Gilberts: Merchant John McGregor played important role in Upper Canada
We are here to talk about merchant John McGregor, who owned the mill at the Forks (Chatham)
There were at least two John McGregors who lived in and around the lower Thames River settlement in the early days. Capt. John McGregor was involved with the Loyal Kent Volunteers in the War of 1812.
We are here to talk about merchant John McGregor, who owned the mill at the Forks (Chatham) which was burned during the retreat up the Thames in October 1813.
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Some of the details of his life come from the book by Leslie Palimaka. We learned a few things we didn’t know about John from this book, and we thank Palimaka for doing this.
Merchant John McGregor was born in Scotland in 1751 and arrived in Upper Canada in 1784. He originally was connected with his uncle Gregor McGregor, who had a trading post in Detroit. In 1796, when folks in Detroit were given a........