Joshua Lamoreaux

Joshua LAMOREUX

B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 1-9-1739; D• Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1834; M• Dutchess Cº, NY, 1757, Elizabeth OGDEN, B• Dutchess Cº, NY, 1738•

Children of JOSHUA LAMOREUX & ELIZABETH OGDEN :

» James LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 7-__-1758; D• Pickering, Durham, Ontario, Canada, 11-16-1869;

M• Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada, 9-19-1795,

Martha ≺Patty≻ CROSS, B• Pickering, Durham, Ontario, Canada, 1-__-1777; D• Pickering, Durham, Ontario, Canada, 8-29-1828•

» Jerusha Rhoda LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 1760; D• Kirtland, Lake, OH, 1838;

M• Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada, 1792,

Henry EARL, B• Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, 175~•

Jemima B• 1762; D• 1768•

» Jemima LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 1768; D• Whitby, Durham, Ontario, Canada, 11-13-1855;

M• Queen's County, New Brunswick, Canada, 1788, Archibald WRIGHT, B• Iverary, Argyllshire, Scotland, 1762; D• 1837•

Susan •

Perusia •

» Joshua LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 1-7-1770; D• Ontario, Canada, 2-18-1853;

M• Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada, 3-6-1797, Anna CROSS, B• New Brunswick, Canada, 1777; D• Ontario, Canada, 7-6-1853•

» Isaac LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 3-6-1772; D• Chester, Meigs, OH, 4-9-1868;

M• New Brunswick, Canada, 11-__-1803,

Nancy Ann MILLER, B• New Brunswick, Canada, 178~•

» John McCord LAMOREUX B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 7-19-1774; D• Coucil Bluffs, Pottawattamie, IA, 10-2-1848;

M-1 Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada, 5-30-1805, Abigail Ann LOSEE, B• Dutchess Cº, NY, 1768; D• Springfield, Sangamon, IL, 1839;

M-2 Catherine SUTHERLAND, B• Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, 11-30-1779•

Andrew B• Philipstown, Putnam, NY, 1775; D• Young•

Josué Lamoreaux & Elizabeth Ogden

Josue [Joshua Lamoreaux] was born 9 Jan 1739, in Colonial New York, son of

Daniel Lamoreaux and Jeanne Masse. His mother died soon after his birth.

Josue moved several times in his life, first along the Hudson River. Later,

because of his Loyalist sentiments he was exiled into Canada and traveled up

the St John River and settled in Parrtown and Gage, and finally, in Upper

Canada, an area which is now Toronto.

Joshua and Elizabeth Lamoreaux, were actually living in

New York State in the early 1792, but were persuaded by a proclamation issued by John Simco,

chief administrative officer of Upper Canada, to turn their backs on the United States and settle in Canada, “where the king was still the king.” The Lamoreauxs may not have been so politically motivated. Instead, the

enticement of free land may have been the largest motivating factor in their move to the north.

They were offered two hundred acres, food available upon their arrival, and building materials

and tools such as “nails, hammers, gimlets, plains, chizzels, gouges, hinges, iron rimmed locks,

padlocks, handsaws…”

The settlers were also promised that when their children came of age, they would be given free

land grants as well.

Joshua and Elizabeth Lamoreaux went north to Canada. They had seven children

total, two daughters, and then five sons. They traveled to Grand Bay, New Brunswick, Canada

which is East of Maine close to the Bay of Fundy, which separates NB from Nova Scotia.

They stayed here until 1809, during which time Joshua Jr. married Annie Cross of neighboring

town St. John, and Isaac married Martha Cross, probably Annie’s sister.

John also married Abigail Ann Losee, and they had their first son named James, but he died as

an infant.

Around 1809, Joshua and Elizabeth and their children including their four oldest sons, James,

Joshua Jr., Isaac, and John and their families decided to homestead farther west. They

ascended the St. John River northward across its portage to the St. Lawrence River.

They then ascended the St. Lawrence River to Lachine near Montreal, where they prepared to

embark on a journey to the Bay of Quinte, near the eastern part of Lake Ontario.

Once they reached Lake Ontario, the Lamoreaux family went on to Pickering, about 100 miles west of where the St. Lawrence enters Lake Ontario. From Pickering,

Isaac went inland and settled at a township called Markham.

Pickering and Markham are less than ten miles from Toronto, and Scarborough lies just in between on the shores of Lake Ontario.

John and his father Joshua both homesteaded in Scarborough. Joshua bought lot #33,

concession 3, which contained 88 ½ acres from Asa Patrick. He paid 50 pounds for the land on 5 January 1809.

John and Isaac apparently leased land next to Joshua on lot 34, concession 3.

This land had been set aside by the United Empire as clergy reserve.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Dec 29 2016, 22:47:41 UTC

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Notes for Joshua Lamoreaux: A HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH; 1785-; p. 46; Scarborough, ON: Scarborough Public Library JOSUE L'AMOREAUX, founder of the L'Amoreaux settlement in the north western corner of Scarborough, was a descendant of a French Huguenot, Andre L'Amoreaux, a shipmaster and pilot of the little port of Meschers near Bordeaux. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, he and his wife and two children escaped from France to Bristol, England; and in 1700 the family came to New York, when Andre became a captain of a merchant vessel. When the British evacuated New York at the end of the American Revolutionary wear in 1783r, his grandson Josue, came to New Brunswick, along with other Loyalist Huguenot families. From there he and his wife Elizabeth Ogden, with their seven children and two young nephews, moved on to Upper Canada and settled in Scarborough.

Their sons Isaac and James had ten children apiece and our L'Amoreaux area soon developed into a vigorous Huguenot settlement. In 1817 a little log school was built, and here in this school, along with the brick schools of S.S. No. 1 which succeeded it, several generations of children from the L'Amoreaux family have been educated

27 Sep 1830 -- Joshua's will probated at York, York Co., Ontario by his son Isaac. Will had been drawn up 13 years earlier (3 July 1817) and mentions lots #32 & 33 Concession 3 of Scarborough (about 20 acres). Names Isaac Lamoreaux, his son, as heir of this property.

More About Joshua Lamoreaux and Elizabeth Ogden: Marriage: Abt. 1757, Westchester, New York, USA.

Children of Joshua Lamoreaux and Elizabeth Ogden are: +James Lamoreaux, b. Jul 15, 1758, Phillipstown,Putnam,New York,USA, d. Nov 16, 1869, Pickering, Ontario.