Hannah Jarvis

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Hannah Jarvis
Other names Hannah Peters
Born 1763-01-02
Marlsborough, Massachusetts
Died 1845-09-20
Queenston, Upper Canada
Occupation settler

Hannah Jarvis was an United Empire Loyalist, whose husband was appointed to an important position in the first administration of the Province of Upper Canada, only to be reduced to poverty, through the mismanagement of her husband William Jarvis, her son Samuel Peters Jarvis, and her son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton.