Crysler

John Pliny Crysler, whose name is associated with the legislature and military history of Canada, was born on the 26th of February, 1801, on the farm on which the battle of “Crysler’s Farm” was fought, in 1813. His father was Col. John Crysler, a U. E. Loyalist, who came to Canada in 1781, being fifteen years of age, a drummer boy, or, as he used to call himself, a “sheep-skin fiddler;” was a farmer, merchant, and magistrate; had at an early day a patent deed for 6,000 acres of land in his chest, and was ” monarch” of nearly “all … Read more