James Reid

He may have been born in Fettercairn, Scotland in 1779, son of John Reid. His father would have been either John Reid (1750) married to Margaret Watson or John Reid (1750) married to Margaret Valentine. I believe this is our family because of the connection to Thomas Reid, the Scottish philosopher) but I have no way of confirming this is our family. I can’t find any Ann Marlin/ more likely Martin in this area or any married to any Reids during this time James was in the Royal Navy, settled in Ballynchurche or (Ballynahinch) N Ireland after losing a leg in a naval battle (see below) Moved to Canada in 1827 with family. May be the nephew of Scottish common sense philosopher Thomas Reid. There is a family resemblence. His wife died during the first winter in Quebec. Link to Thomas https://books.google.ca/books?id=cU7cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq...

1841 Census, listed as a farmer. line 7 http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1842/lc/pdf/004569582_00380.pdf

Info on Naval Experience, wounded in 1807 per the following Wikipedia entry. On 14 February 1807, the schooner Bacchante, captured the French navy schooner Dauphin off Cape Raphael after a 10-hour chase. Dauphin mounted one log 12-pounder gun and two 4-pounders, but she threw the 4-pounders overboard during the chase. She had a crew of 71 men and Dacres was extremely happy to have captured her as she had been preying successfully on British trade.[14] Dacres then fell in with Captain Wise and Mediator in the Mona Passage. Both were patrolling, looking for French warships and privateers (pirates), so Dacres took Mediator under his command and hatched a plan to raid the port of Samana (Dominican), "that nest of privateers". Dacres had Dauphin come into the harbour there under her French flag, with Bacchante disguised as her prize, and Mediator, a former merchantman, appearing to be a neutral ship. This stratagem permitted the British vessels to navigate into the harbour and anchor within a half a mile of the fort before the enemy realized that they were British vessels. After a four-hour exchange of fire with a fort there, manned primarily by men from the privateers in the harbour, the fort fell to a land attack by the seamen and marines from Bacchante and Mediator, the landing party being under Wise's command. The British captured two French schooners undergoing fitting as privateers, and an American ship and a British schooner, both prizes to French privateers.[Note 1] Before they left on 21 February, the British destroyed the fort and its guns. Mediator bore the brunt of the fort's fire. Dacres had four men wounded (includes James Reid); Wise had two men killed and 12 wounded. Dacres estimated that French casualties had been high, but did not have a number as the Frenchmen took to the woods as the fort fell.[14] The Lloyd's Patriotic Fund, subsequently awarded both Dacres and Wise a sword each worth £100 that bore the inscriptions: • "From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to James Richard Dacres Esqr. Capt. of H.M.S. Bacchante for his Gallant Conduct in the Capture of the French National Schooner Dauphin and the Destruction of the Fort and Cannon in the Harbour of Samana on 16th February 1807 effected by the Bacchante in company with H.M.S. Mediator as Recorded in the London Gazette of the 25th of April".[16] "From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to William Furlong Wise Esq. Capt. of H.M.S. Mediator for his Gallant Conduct in Storming and Destroying with the Seamen and Marines belonging to His Majesty's Ships Bacchante and Mediator the Fort and Cannon in the Harbour of Samana on 16th of February 1807 as Recorded in the London Gazette of the 25th of April".[17] According to one source he was the magistrate in Frost Village (Waterloo, QC) from 1837- 1850 (reward for loyalty??)