John Peter Inglehart was born in Pennsylvania in 1791.The family emigrated 
to Canada as United Empire Loyalists around 1799, coming with about twenty 
other families, the Bouslows,Vandezers,Clines, Fishers, and others to the 
Niagara Peninsula where they drew land and made their homes.John Peter at that 
time was about nine years old. The family came by ox team. John Peter walked 
part of the way, holding Elizabeth Fisher`s hand. She was younger. He 
afterwards married her in 1818. They settled and lived on what was known as the 
New Purchase, later called Trafalgar Township, south of Palermo. Elizabeth`s 
father gave her forty acres as a wedding dowry - North half-lot 32, 1st 
concession S.D.S. Trafalgar. John Peter drew the south half of the same lot and 
did settling duties, boarding with the Hagars while he did the settling 
duties.John Peter also served in the War of 1812, and missed the Battle of 
Queenston Heights owing to being home on furlough. He drew land in the Township 
of St. Vincent`s as a grant to volunteers of 1812.