June 1798, the petition of John, Barnabas, William, Mary, and Katherine Hare, children of Lieutenant Henry Hare,  United Empire Loyalist, was received and read in the Executive Council of Upper Canada. The above claimed that their father was made a prisoner in the ‘late American War’ [Revolution] and hung as a spy. The subsequent Council Order recommended 500 acres to be granted to each as children of a subaltern soldier -Lieutenant. [1]   Henry Hare  was born about 1742 in t