John Ussher Fonds
This fonds contains a transcript of a 1793 letter written by John Ussher during his time serving with the Militia in Niagara. He comments on the relations with the Indigenous people. He notes that "In one of my letters I informed you several of our Officers were going to settle in this Province, they now think better of it and seem to have adopted the idea as you justly say, they may find the Indians about this part troublesome, being more in the interests of the United States than ours. It was since my last commissioners from the United States went up to treat with the Indians about the boundary. The Indians will not accept any other but the Ohio, so both sides are ready for war which I believe will be a very bloody one as they have all joined against the Americans except the Six Nations round us. No doubt there have been some engagements ere this…”
John Ussher lived in Chippawa. He served with the Queen’s Niagara Fencibles Regiment, Incorporated Militia. He married Mary Street and they had six children together including John Ussher Jr. and Edgeworth Ussher. Edgeworth was a well-known settler in Niagara who was murdered by rebels during the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1838.
