{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/manifest","label":"bhs_204514","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_204514"},{"label":"Rights","value":["Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user."]},{"label":"Language","value":["EN"]},{"label":"Format","value":["JPEG"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Photograph"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["People","Military"]},{"label":"Source","value":"Military Collection"},{"label":"Description","value":"Service: Militia: Private; 2nd York Regiment Burial: UEL: Son of a loyalist Ralph Morden was born in Pennsylvania in 1770 to Ralph Sr. and Ann Durham. Ralph Sr. had emigrated from Yorkshire sometime before 1750 while still a child. In 1765 he married Ann Durham. Ann may have been a Quaker and he may have adopted her pacifist faith on their marriage. This would help explain his being a 'conscientious neutral' helping both Rebel and Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War. Ralph Sr. was hung in 1780 for aiding Robert Land, who had been accused of acting as a British dispatch rider during the Revolutionary War. Robert Land escaped to Upper Canada where he became a leader in the settlement of Hamilton. Ralph Sr.'s son-in-law, Elias Long, died around the same time and his daughter Catherine (Elias' wife) died soon after, leaving their two small daughters in Ann's care. Sometime after the war, as part of a group of 400 United Empire Loyalists Ann set off for Upper Canada with at least two of her sons, Ralph Jr. and James, three daughters, a nephew and her two orphaned granddaughters. 1787 found them as settlers on land where the Town of Dundas is today (2014). In 1807, Ralph Jr. and his brother James sold this land and in 1810 they both bought land from Joseph Brant in Brant's Block. When the War of 1812 broke out, Ralph, at age 43 was not selected for service in a flank company. He worked for three days on Dundas Street in 1813, Oct 27, and Nov. 8 and 9. In 1814, July 21 to 30, he was at Burlington Heights where the British military had built a fort. The Hamilton Cemetery and Dundurn Castle are located on Burlington Heights today (2014). In 1818 Ralph and his brother James sold their property in Brant's Block to Joshua Freeman and moved to Michigan. Some of the family remained in Burlington: his youngest sister Nancy married Asahel Davis and his two nieces married two brothers of Asahel Davis."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor, Compiler"},{"label":"Date","value":"2014"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:2014"},{"label":"Title","value":"Ralph Morden Jr. (1770 -)"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"Ralph Morden Jr. (1770 -)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Ralph Morden Jr. (1770 -)","height":560,"width":380,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":560,"width":380},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/eeba766c-3f15-4204-ae2c-fa9c6ff333f5/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}