Luke Teeple [37756]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Tailor, shoemaker and tanner: Vittoria, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

• Anecdote, 1812, New Jersey. ⁴¹¹⁹ Luke Teeple, second son of Capt. Peter Teeple, was born 12
September 1791. He went to New Jersey on a visit to an uncle
and was ordered to take the oath of allegiance or quit the
country. His uncle had a mail route from New York to some point
in New Jersey, believed to be Bordentown, and he put young Luke
on this route, thinking that while thus employed he would not
be molested. He was arrested, however, in the following
February, and cast into prison with about a hundred other
British sympathizers. These Loyalist political prisoners were
sorely tempted to desert their first love and join the American
forces. One by one they weakened until only fifteen remained,
Luke being one of the faithful few. At the close of the war
they were liberated, and the uncle, although a patriotic
American, gave Luke a present in token of admiration of his
pluck and endurance. When he returned to Canada he, on the 26th
of December 1816, married Nancy, second daughter of Elder Titus
Finch, already referred to, and settled at Vittoria, near
Simcoe, purchasing the two-storey frame house built by Caleb
Wood (also a Jerseyite, as the New Jersey Loyalists were called
in those days), and which house still stands, dark and
windowless and vacant in front of the Baptist burying ground,
fit companions to the weather-beaten, mossy old grave stones
which mark the background. On the flat opposite this house he
built a tannery which was operated by his son Alexander, after
his death in 1849. He had seven sons, Alexander, Jerome, Albert
Gallatin, Thermos, Lysander, Titus Ridley and Peter Latimer;
and four daughters, Mabro, Mobra, Clementine, and Almira.
Alexander was accidentally crushed to death in 1867, while
excavating a large boulder on his property.

Luke married Nancy Finch [37669] [MRIN: 551604979] on 26 Dec 1816.