Global Heritage Press

HARDCOVER EDITION

To Their Heirs Forever, United Empire Loyalists, Camden Valley, New York, to Upper Canada 
By Eula C. Lapp.

To Their Heirs Forever is the story of families who migrated from Europe to England in the 1700's, then to Ireland, finally settling in the Camden Valley, Charlotte County, of present day New York State. This story focuses on those families that were forced to seek a new life in Canada after the American Revolutionary War. 

Contents include:

• Prologue
• Acknowledgment 

• PART ONE: GERMANY
  • I The Palatinate on the Rhine
    • Table I: Locations of Schweitzers, Imbergers, Hacks and Lorentzes before 1710
    • Table II: Descent of John and David Dulmage from Johan Adam Dolmetsch
    • Table III: Descent of John Lawrence from John Lorentz
  • II Exodus and Encampments
    • Table IV: Encamped at Blackheath, May to August 1709
• PART TWO: IRELAND
  • I The Palatine Colony on the Southwell Estate
    • Table V: Original Palatine Families on Southwell Estate
  • II Childhood in Ballingrane Table VI: Youths born on the Estate who were later in Camden Valley, N.Y.
  • III Before the Wesleyans Came
  • IV "Ireland Will Repay"
  • V "Her Habitual Resource"
  • VI "Have Landlords No Common Sense?"
    • Table VII: Passengers on the Ship Pery
• PART THREE: NEW YORK CITY
  • I Environment and Private Lives
  • II Petitions and Political Upheaval
  • III Making Friends and Building a Chapel
• PART FOUR: CAMDEN VALLEY
  • I Caught Between Yankees and Yorkers
  • II Clearings, Cabins, Crops and Commissions
  • III "My Partners Insisted on my Writing"
  • IV Tragedy in the Valley
    • Table VIII: School-age Children in Camden Valley 1773
  • V Community Changes and "A Continual State of Alarm"
• PART FIVE: FATEFUL DECISION
  • I "Treated With Additional Severity"
  • II "He Collected His Loyal Friends"
  • III Separation
  • IV With Burgoyne's Campaign
  • V After the Battle
  • VI Displaced Persons
  • VII "Leake's Corps Being Dispersed"
• PART SIX: "UPON THE GROUND ALLOTTED FOR THEM"
  • I Montreal and Mississquoi Bay
  242
  • II Bay of Quinte
  253
  • III Augusta Township
    • Table IX: Hecks, Lawrences and Dulmages in Augusta and Edwardsburgh 1785
  • IV Bay of Quinte Chapels and a Schoolmaster for the Mohawks
  • V The Significant Seventeen-Nineties
  • VI Farewells and Memorials
  • VII The. Excellent of the Earth
• EPILOGUE
• APPENDICES
  • A Family Origins and Traditions
  • B A Tantalizing Tradition
  • C Background on Carscallens
  • D Was the Palatine Colony in County Limerick a Success?
  • E Letter from Thomas Bell to John Wesley, 1769
  • F Dulmages in Jamaica
  • G Abraham Bininger's Accusation
  • H Churches in the U.S.A. Named for Philip Embury
  • I Some Canadian Members of Parliament Descended from Camden Valley Families
  • J Marriages of Daughters and Granddaughters
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX