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A Chronology of events in Loyalist Kingston is basic to placing your ancestor among the early settlers of Kingston.

In 1996 the late historian Larry Turner provided Kingston and District Branch with an excellent summary of the founding of Kingston by the Associated Loyalists. Mr. Turner's book, Voyage of a Different Kind: The Associated Loyalists of Kingston and Adolphustown expands greatly on the brief summary presented here.
Researchers are able to access Mr. Turner's notes and papers at Trent University Archives -- see the listing of the Turner fonds at www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/98-014.htm

A paper by historian Earle Thomas on the arrival of Loyalists into Upper Canada in 1784.

A listing of the first registered deeds issued to owners of each property in Ernestown Township, Lennox & Addington County. Compiled by Sharon J. Cadieux, UE, from a map in custody of Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives.

Page last updated May 7, 2008