David Secord

During the American Revolution, he joined the British Indian Department at Fort Niagara in April 1777 along with his father and older brothers.

[1] According to family tradition, the prisoners had been part of a party that had attacked a Mohawk village and killed the wife of Oneida Joseph.

Secord was appointed a justice of the peace for the Home District in 1796 and represented 2nd Lincoln in the 5th Parliament of Upper Canada from 1809 to 1812.

During the War of 1812, Secord served as a Major in the 2nd Regiment of Lincoln Militia.

On July 5, 1814, he was with his regiment at the Battle of Chippewa where the 2nd Lincoln suffered heavy casualties.