Dear Pierre,
I believe that your Nathaniel Douglass most likely is Nathaniel
Douglass Jr. [or his father] son of Capt. Nathaniel Douglass who settled in what is
now Chazy after the Revolution with his large family in
what is the Wheeler Douglas Patent. Nathaniel Jr. married a Lucy
Converse in 1796 and moved to Vermont. "In 1810 he and Alexander
Hyde walked through Canada for Isle La Motte to what is now Douglass
Corners or Douglassville, Quebec, looking for a tract of land. In
1812, after Nathaniel Douglass, Jr., acquired the land he sought, his
father left Chazy to settle with his son in Canada, taking with him
his sons, James and Jonathan. The father is said to have married in
Canada as a second wife a Miss Travaisee, whose father had come from
France with Lafayette...." The quote is from nell Jane Barnett
Sullivan and David Kendall Martin, <A History of the Town of Chazy,
Clinton, County, New York> (George Little Press, Burlington, 1970)
p.55. There are several other brief references to the Nathaniel
Douglasses in the book. Hope this helps.
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Pierre Couture wrote:
> Hello! I live in St-Cyprien-de-Napierville, in southern Québec, near
> Champlain, New York. I live in a house that was built c.1815 by
> Nathaniel Douglass, who came from Champlain, where he may have operated
> a ferry boat on the lake. Does anybody know anything else on this man
> and his descendants. Thank you in advance. Pierre Couture.
>
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