Isaac Dolson

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: Unknown

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: Unknown

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Notes: Lived along river Latrench. The Dolsons, Fields and Chryslers all fled to Niagara, Ontario in 1782. They farmed at Fort Niagara, moving in 1784 to Detroit (then still British), Where Isaac's brother Matthew opened a tavern. Homesteaded near Raleigh (Chatham) Ontario ca.1786. All three families qualified as Loyalist on the 1789 U.E. lists, and all were given land grants near Raleigh. Isaac and Matthew Dolson had their farms occupied by the invading American army at the start of the War of 1812.

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