This website is dedicated to the Memory of my Great-Great-Great-Grand-Uncle, Adam Wartman of Butler's Rangers, killed by the rebel militia of Wyoming County in the Province of Pennsylvania, October 1777, while attempting to remove his family to the safety of Niagara. It is also dedicated to the memory of his father Abraham and his brother Peter Wartman, who served with Adam in Captain Walter Butler's Company of Rangers at Oriskany and elsewhere, Peter later serving as Sergeant in Captain Herkimer's Company of Batteaumen and, during the War of 1812-14, as Lieutenant in the First Frontenac Battalion of the Sedentary Militia of Upper Canada - my great-great-great grandfather. It is further dedicated to Captain Michael Grass and Barnabas Day of the Incorporated Loyalists of New York, and to Nazareth Hill, the army scout, all my great-great-great-great- grandfathers, who survived the rebellion and established a new Province in Upper Canada. In 1783, Captain Grass was ordered by the Commander in Chief, General Sir Guy Carleton, to take five shiploads of Loyalists by sea from New York City to Quebec. The following year, he led them up the St. Lawrence River to settle at the mouth of the Cataraqui and found the City of Kingston.