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About Capt. Samuel Cady Chandler
From:The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who Settled in Roxbury, Mass.; George Chandler; Press of Charles Hamilton; Wocester, Mass.
Capt. SAMUEL CHANDLER (Joseph, Joseph, Daniel, Henry, Thomas, William) and Hannah Chapin, Bridgeport, Iowa.
She was dau. of Zenas and Eleanor (Rumrill) Chapin of Springfield, Mass., b. 17 Jan., 1794. She had two children and died 11 June, 1815; was buried in Bridgeport.
He m. second, June, 1818, Ann E. McKelsey, dau. of Mr. McKelsey, by his wife Polly (Hilton) of Albany Co., N.Y. She had eleven children.
He was a wagon maker by trade, which he learned in Granville, Mass. He belonged to the order of Freemasons.
Capt. Chandler wrote from Iowa as follows:
Bridgeport, Feb. 17, 1861
I will give you the genealogy of my family and some of the statistics of my life, as well as my memory serves me. My children's ages I am not able to give you, as all my records and books were destroyed. I moved from Albany to Canada in 1819; lived there till the Patriot War of 1838. I was identified with the patriots, and was four years a state prisoner; and taken to England; from there to Van Dieman's Land via the Cape of Good Hope, and returned by New Zealand and Cape Horn. I arrived home in July, 1842. Came to Iowa Oct. 1843 and settled at Bridgeport, where I now live. The reason of my not answering your first letter was I had mills about seventy five miles away, and when I came home I found a second letter here. I am sorry that I cannot give you the full statistics of the questions in your letter; but I cannot as my memory is so bad that I cannot recollect, owing to my having two fits of apoplexy and I don' t know how soon I may have the third.
In the Canadian rebellion of 1837, Mr. Chandler performed the duties of commissary general to the patriot forces. He often crossed the Niagara River at that time on affairs connected with the patriots, purchased provisions for them, and acted as a spy in Canada." He was taken prisoner at Short Hills, and in June, 1838 was condemned to be hanged, but by the earnest pleading of his daughter Sarah, his punishment was commuted to banishment to Van Dieman's Land, from which place he made his escape before the proclamation of pardon was made to those who had been engaged in the same rebellion as he." He returned to his family in 1842. In this Patriot War he lost a large property.
Dr. Wilson of Jackson said "Samuel Chandler was the most faithful patriot that crossed the line."
He died 29 March 1866, in his 75th year, of disease of the kidneys, having had thirteen children. The children of Capt. Samuel Chandler were:
- 2023 i Harriet, b. at Norwich, Mass., 13 Nov., 1812; m at Brimfield, Mass., 14 Dec. 1831, Anson Walker
- 2024 ii Samuel Chapin, b. 25 Nov., 1814; m. first, 25 Nov., 1839, Sarah Randall; m. second, 9 March, 1857, Sarah Andrews
- 2625 iii Sarah, b. at Albany, N.Y.; m. Jesse Wilson
- 2020 iv David McKelsey, b. at Short Hills, St. Johns, Canada West, 25 June, 1820; m. first,21 Sept., 1840, Eliza Goodnow; m. second, 29 April, 1850, Aurelia Fidelia Gillette, widow of William S. Rowley
- 2027 v Mary Elizabeth, b. at Short Hills, CW, 6 Aug., 1823; m. 17 Dec., 1845, William C. Grant
- 2028 vi Lydia Almira, b. 15 Sept., 1825; m. 15 April, 1847, Abner Wilcox
- 2029 vii Joseph, b. at Lundy's Lane, C.W.; m. at Clayton Co., Iowa, Maricia Preston
- 2030 viii Ezra, b. at Trafalgar, C.W., died of cholera at St Paul's; unm. Carpenter by trade
- 2031 ix William Case, b. at Short Hills, St. Johns, Niagara District, C.W.; m. Delilah Dean
- 2032 x Robert George; Bridgeport, Iowa; m. 1858, Matilda M. Lyle, dau. of Thomas of Bridgeport, Iowa; no issue
- 2033 xi Julia Ann, b. at Short Hills; m. Dr. David Isham Lambert Flanders
- 2034 xii Margery Eliza, m. Philip Beaman, wagon maker at Vandalia, Cass Co., Mich. She had one daughter. Harriet Beaman
- 2035 xiii Samuel Hawkins, b. at Short Hills
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Samuel Chandler Monument
In an inconspicuous location in the sleepy little village of St. Johns lies a monument commemorating the storied life of one of Niagara's most fascinating historical figures, a political rebel whose stance against the British in favour of American Republican-style government nearly cost him his life.
In the village of St. Johns, about one hundred metres along Orchard Hill Drive from the intersection of Hollow Road, you’ll see what looks like a half buried millstone. Reminiscent of a stylized millstone or perhaps a wagon wheel, the Samuel Chandler Monument commemorates the wagon maker and millwright who lived for 17 years in the St. Johns Valley. It stands at the base of the steep hill where Chandler’s house was located.
Chandler's tempestuous later life belied the peace of his quiet Short Hills home. His adventures were legendary: a political activist and Patriot, he supported William Lyon Mackenzie, joined an armed insurrection, and fought for his principles against the British; was captured, tried, and exiled to Tasmania; escaped penal servitude on a whaler; was shipwrecked in Brazil; made his way back against all odds to the United States with the assistance of fellow Freemasons; and finally settled in Iowa, where he lived until the age of 75, never again returning to Canada.
Born on October 8th, 1791, in Enfield, Conneticut, Chandler moved to Albany, New York, where he lived until about 1818. He moved somewhere near Lundy’s Lane, Upper Canada, before 1820. Within two years he had established a wagon making business in St Johns, and in 1835 and 1836, he purchased two lots in the thriving town. Chandler paid 250 pounds for the first lot in 1835, and 300 pounds for the other in 1836, reflective of the high value of land in the settlement at the time. Chandler worked in the community for several years, fathered a total of 13 children, and became a citizen of Upper Canada, but his republican political sympathies changed his destiny.
Chandler left St. Johns in 1837 to join followers of William Lyon Mackenzie and other promoters of American-style republican government in their revolt against the British Crown. He went on to notoriety as a guide, organizer, and participant in the 1838 Shorthills Rebellion. On June 21, he and about 40 other rebels surrounded a contingent of 10 Queen’s Lancers lodged at Osterhout’s Inn, located on Holland Road to the north, only 275 metres from the Chandler monument. Eventually, upon threat of being burned out of the bullet-riddled Inn, the Lancers surrendered, and the rebels relieved them of their horses and weapons before releasing them ‘on parole’. Chandler was purportedly in favour of executing the Lancers, a factor which influenced his fate later on.
However, the next morning, British reinfocements arrived, and the rebels fled into the countryside. James Morreau, Benjamin Wait, Samuel Chandler, and 36 others were later captured, arrested, tried, and convicted of high treason. Morreau, Wait and Chandler were sentenced to death. Morreau was executed in Niagara in July of that year, and Chandler and Wait were banished for life to penal servitude in Van Dieman's Land, a British penal colony near Hobart, Tasmania.
They were taken first to London, with a journey across the Atlantic that took place "in abject misery". They were then shipped to the penal colony at Van Diemen's Land on a journey that took four months. It was an unpleasant trip. Wait wrote, "Surely, if there are places in human abodes deserving the title of Hell, one is a transport ship, crowded with felons, culled from England's most abandoned criminals."
They arrived at Van Diemen's Land on July 18, 1839. While conditions in the English penal colony were miserable, the prisoners still fared better than on the transport ships or in the temporary jails that housed them during the long journey.
Upon landing, the prisoners were marched to the Hobart Penitentiary. Compared with the wretched conditions in jails and prison transport ships, the terms seemed quite lenient. The prisoners were given a probationary period when they were allowed to leave prison during the day, assigned to "masters" on the island where they would work for free. After a satisfactory probation period, prisoners were issued a "ticket," and were able to seek their own masters and work for slight pay.
Eventually, Samuel Chandler and Benjamin Wait were assigned to a 2,000 hectare estate about 90km north of the Hobart Prison. Chandler worked as a carpenter and Wait as a clerk and storekeeper. "The work day," Wait wrote in his journal, "began at 4am and lasted until 11pm."
When they were off work, the ticket allowed them to roam the island. This presented the opportunity for escape, when the men learned several American ships were at the Hobart harbour.
In December 1841, Chandler obtained a 10-day pass and went to the harbour, where he was befriended by a fellow Mason and captain of one of the American whaling ships. The men made their escape plans. They could not board the ship in the harbour because it was thoroughly searched before it left.
They obtained a rowboat under pretext of going fishing and rowed laboriously out well past the harbour. They were in the boat, with little food and water, for several days and about to return when they spotted the American whaler Julian and were taken aboard. The men were on the first leg of the road to freedom, but still thousands of miles and seven months away from home.
Unfortunately, the Julian hit a violent storm off the coast of South America and was wrecked near Brazil. Wait and Chandler soon found themselves penniless, but glad to be alive, in Rio de Janeiro. Another American captain agreed to take them to New York, where Freemasons took care of train tickets and the pair travelled to Niagara Falls. Chandler rejoined his family and settled first near Jackson, Michigan. In 1843, Chandler and his family moved to Iowa, where he founded a Freemasons lodge and lived out his days as a farmer and miller. He never again returned to Canada, and died in 1866 at the age of 75.
The Samuel Chandler Monumen was erected in 1906 and is inscribed,
UP THE HILL 50 FT STOOD HOME OF SAMUEL CHANDLER, PATRIOT. HE GUIDED MACKENZIE TO BUFFALO AND HERE THEY HAD SUPPER AUG 10 1837.
A handmade wooden plaque to the left of the monument reads:
Samuel Chandler
The St. Johns wagonmaker and reformer lived up this hill. He helped William Lyon Mackenzie flee to the United States after his failed Rebellion in December 1837. Mackenzie's sympathizers, with some Americans, attemptd to "free" Upper Canada again in 1838. The Shorthills Insurrection failed; many rebels were captured. Chandler, their local leader, was transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), a penal colony. Samuel Chander escaped and was later pardoned. He never again lived in St. Johns, prefering the United States.
On the bottom of the monument is inscribed the year of its erection, along with Chandler’s years of birth and death.
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Capt. Samuel Cady Chandler's Timeline
| 1791 |
October 8, 1791
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Colebrook, Coos County, New Hampshire, United States
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| 1812 |
November 13, 1812
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Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
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November 25, 1814
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November 25, 1814
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September 9, 1818
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Albany, Albany County, New York, United States
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June 25, 1820
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August 6, 1823
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Canada
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| 1866 |
March 29, 1866
Age 74
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Bridgeport, Monroe County, Iowa, United States
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