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James secord biography
James Secord (merchant)
Merchant, soldier and civil servant in Upper Canada
James Secord (July 7, 1773 – February 22, 1841) was a merchant, soldier, and civil servant in Upper Canada.
He served in the militia during the War of 1812, but was severely wounded at the Battle of Queenston Heights. James married Laura Ingersoll, who is considered a Canadian heroine after she warned the British of a planned American attack in 1813.
Early life
James Secord was born on July 7, 1773 in Westchester County, Province of New York.
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He was the youngest child of James Secord (1732–1784) and Madelaine Badeau. James was a descendant of Ambroise Sicard, a Hugenout who had come to British America in 1688 to escape religious persecution in France.[1]
While James was still an infant, his family moved west and settled on the Susquehanna River in an area that was claimed by both Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, his father and three older bro