After the death of his mother (Charity), his father remarried, this time to Barbara (née Slough) (1773–1849).
George, Morris, Charles, Samuel and John settled in an area that is now in Georgetown, Ontario in 1823.
[1] George dammed the Silver Creek property in the early 1820s to power a sawmill, and later a gristmill and foundry and then a woolen mill; a small settlement formed around the mills, often called "Hungry Hollow".
After its conclusion in 1783, life became unbearable for the Loyalists who settled in places like Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.
Niagara District, Upper Canada was the place that John and Charity travelled to with their children.