Born in Tiverton in Devonshire, England, Land emigrated as a young man to the British Thirteen Colonies in America.
Upon Land's release, he was wounded and chased by a gang of vigilantes whilst travelling to Niagara with a group of Loyalists, but managed to escape.
He traveled through New York State to the Niagara River, which he crossed to what was then the British Province of Quebec, but was later to be Upper Canada, and then Ontario.
[1] Seven years after arriving in New Brunswick, Phoebe heard a rumor about a man named Land who lived near Lake Ontario.
Pheobe's youngest brother's son was the American general Winfield Scott who led a military incursion into Upper Canada in the War of 1812.