William Gage (1744-1820) - Stoney Creek, Ontario (Canada) - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

William Gage was born in Ireland and at some date came to the United States. He served fought with the New York Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He later moved to Upper Canada, some time between the end of the Revolutionary War the War of 1812. By 1813 he owned a farm near present day Battlefield Park in Stoney Creek Ontario - the site where the War of 1812 Battle of Stoney Creek was fought. He was likely too old (69 or 70) to be involved with that war. Apparently his farmhouse was used to treat the wounded following the battle.

Unfortunately the gravestone is no longer legible due to erosion of the soft limestone. There is a small plaque placed in front of the headstone which reads:

William Gage Revolutionary War Soldier New Windsor, Ulster County, N.Y. Militia and Canadian Pioneer Born 1744, Country Derry, Ireland Died September 11, 1820, Stoney Creek, Upper Canada Marker Placed by Upper Canada Chapter, NSDAR May 12, 2007

There is limited information about this William Gage, while other members of Gage family went on to more fame. the following (unsourced) information comes from the Find A Grave webpage for this William Gage:

William died in Saltfleet Township, Wentworth County. He was the son of John Gage 1693 – 1763 and Susannah Johnston 1697 – 1751. Susanna and William married in 1770 in New York, USA.
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The oldest stone found in this cemetery was chipped so as to be almost illegible, a reddish stone from the neighborhood, something in color like the Credit valley stone.
On an old grey stone "Erected to the memory of Wm. Gage, from Ireland, Co.Derry, died Sept. 11th, 1820, aged 76."A smaller stone to his wife, Susan Gage, died 1821, and a more modern one: "In memory of Capt. John Gage, who died May 16th. 1860, aged 66."

James Gage (Jr; 1774-1796) was the nephew of this William Gage:

GAGE, JAMES, farmer and businessman; b. 25 June 1774 in Greenbush, N.Y.; m. 1796 Mary Davis, and they had four sons and six daughters; d. 15 Feb. 1854 in Hamilton, Upper Canada.

In June 1813 the adjoining farms of James and his uncle William Gage were the scene of the decisive battle of Stoney Creek, in which the American forces were halted by Lieutenant-Colonel John Harvey. James’s house was occupied as a barracks by the British; as a result of American and British depredations, by the end of the war he had suffered extensive losses of crops, flour, whisky, livestock, timber, and fencing, for which he received some compensation in 1823. The Gage residence is now a museum known as Battlefield House, and the farm a park
Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html

It appears that William Gage's brother was also called James Gage (Sr), who fought and died with the Americans during the revolutionary war:

Although there is some controversy surrounding the identity of James Gage’s father, it appears certain that he was James Gage, a private in the New York militia who was killed in 1777 fighting the British at the attack on forts Clinton and Montgomery, N.Y. About 1790 his widow, Mary, moved with her two children to the head of Lake Ontario, where her brother, Augustus Jones, was already working as a surveyor.
Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gage_james_8E.html

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