Crouse Loyalist Cemetery Zealand, York Co., New Brunswick,
Canada Philip Crouse, Sr. 1760 – 21 Feb 1857 Philip was born in
the Province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. When he was young,
around 1763 to 1768, presumably with his parents, he emigrated
from Rotterdam to Philadelphia. Philip was in Salisbury, North
Carolina as a young teenager and later lived on a family farm
next to Beaverdam Creek not far from the present-day town of
Crouse, North Carolina. He strongly opposed the rebels that
promoted the independence of the American Colonies from Britain.
After the Revolution, recognized as a Loyalist sympathizer,
Philip was asked to leave North Carolina. He saved his money and
in 1789 booked passage on a ship for Saint John, New Brunswick.
Upon arrival he immediately traveled up the St. John River
looking for land that he could homestead. He found his way to
Keswick Valley where he applied for his 200 acre (later 400
acre) British Crown Land Grant. There, next to where he is
buried, he built his log cabin. He