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=Saunders, John= (1754-1834). Born in Virginia. Joined the royal forces and served throughout the War of Independence. Went to England; studied law and called to the bar. In 1790 appointed judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, and a member of the Council; from 1822 to 1834 chief-justice of the province. =Index=: =W= Chief justice, 74; dies, 1834, 74. =Bib.=: Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_.
=Saunders, John Simcoe= (1795-1878). Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Went to England; educated at Oxford University. Called to the bar of Nova Scotia, 1819, and to that of Lower Canada, 1820. Surveyor-general of New Brunswick, 1840, and provincial secretary, 1845. Appointed to the Legislative Council, of which he became Speaker, 1866; also senior justice of the Court of Common Pleas. =Index=: =W= Advocate-general, New Brunswick, 34; Partelow succeeds as provincial secretary, 116. =Bib.=: _The Law of Pleading and Evidence in Civil Actions_. For biog., _see_ Morgan, _Annual Register_, 1878; Hannay, _History of New Brunswick_.
=Sauvage.= =WM= Frigate in which Levis embarked at Brest, 12.
=Savage, Thomas= (1608-1682). Went to Ma.s.sachusetts in 1635 with Sir Harry Vane, and the following year elected a freeman of Boston. In 1638 helped to found the settlement of Rhode Island. Served in the Indian wars, 1675. =Index=: =F= Third in command in Phipps's expedition, 281.
=Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._
=Savignon.= =Ch= Name given to young Algonquian taken as hostage for Nicolas Marsolet, 63.
=Scalping.= =WM= Forbidden by Wolfe except in case of Indians, or Canadians dressed as Indians, 102; declared by Vaudreuil to be necessary, 102, 108; by Indians on the side of French, 141; by Wolfe's rangers, 150.
=Schank, John= (1740-1823). Born in Scotland. Entered the navy, 1758.
Commanded the _Canso_ in the St. Lawrence, 1766. Placed in charge of the naval establishment at St. John's; succeeded in launching several small war vessels on Lake Champlain. Subsequently had charge of the marine depots at Quebec and at Detroit; and in 1777 employed under Burgoyne in the construction of floating bridges. =Index=: =Hd= Superintends building of gunboats, 125; his letter to Carleton, 159; marriage of, 236-237; his evidence in Du Calvet matter, 288, 289; sails for England with Haldimand, 209, 313. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._
=Schenderatchta.= =Hd= Seneca chief, serving under John Butler, 154.
=Schenectady.= The county seat of Schenectady County, New York. Settled in 1662 by Arendt Van Corlaer on the site of Schonowe, the capital of the Five Nations. It was chartered as a borough in 1765, and as a city in 1798. =Index=: =L= Attack on, 229. =F= Ma.s.sacre of, 245-248. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Old Regime_.
=Schultz, Sir John Christian= (1840-1896). Born in Amherstburg, Ontario.
Educated at Oberlin College, Ohio; studied medicine at Queen's and Victoria Universities; licensed to practise, 1860. Removed to Fort Garry, 1860, and began practice of his profession there. Also engaged in the fur trade. Owner and editor of the _Nor'Wester_, the pioneer newspaper of the Canadian West. Played an important part in the Riel Rebellion of 1869-1870. Imprisoned by the rebels, but made his escape, and, after enduring many hards.h.i.+ps, reached Toronto. Elected to the House of Commons at the first election after the formation of the province of Manitoba, and sat almost continuously until 1883, when he was called to the Senate. Lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, 1888-1895.
=Bib.=: Dent, _Can. Por._; Morgan, _Cyc. Can. Biog._; Begg, _History of the North-West_. _See also_ Riel Rebellion, 1869-1870.
=Schurz, Carl= (1829-1906). Fled from Germany in 1849, after the collapse of the revolutionary movement. Went to the United States, 1852.
Minister to Spain, 1860-1861; commanded a division in the war with the South; engaged in journalism in Detroit and St. Louis; elected to the United States Senate, 1869. Appointed secretary of the interior, 1877.
=Index=: =B= Favourable to proposed Reciprocity Treaty of 1864, 230-231.
=Bib.=: Works: _Speeches; Life of Henry Clay; Reminiscences_. For biog., _see Cyc. Am. Biog._
=Schuyler, Major John.= =L= Attack camp at Laprairie, 232. =F= His raid on Laprairie, 281; comes to Quebec with news of peace, 354.
=Schuyler, Peter= (1657-1724). Born in Albany. Appointed lieutenant in the militia, 1685, and served in the colonial and Indian wars. In 1709 second in command of the expedition against Montreal. Became president of the Council, 1719; and acted as governor of New York until 1720.
=Index=: =F= Commands expedition from Albany, 311. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am.
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=Schuyler, Philip John= (1733-1804). Born in Albany. Served in the French and Indian War, 1755, and took part in battle of Lake George.
Resigned from the army, 1757, and again served, 1758-1761. On the breaking out of the Revolution, took the colonial side, and in 1775 appointed major-general by Congress. Organized the invasion of Canada in 1775, and was court-martialled for the evacuation of Ticonderoga in 1777, but acquitted. Served in House of Representatives and afterwards in the Senate. =Index=: =Hd= Watches movements of the Allens of Vermont, 205, 206; Ethan Allen's letter to, 209; thanks Haldimand for kind treatment of Loyalists, 250; threatens Six Nations, 257; Francois Cazeau's correspondence with, 279. =Dr= Commands American force on Lake Champlain, 96. =Bib.=: Lossing, _Life and Times of Philip Schuyler_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._
=Scott.= =Hd= Chaplain to 34th Regiment, forbidden to exercise clerical functions, 256.
=Scott, Sir Richard William= (1825- ). Born in Prescott, Ontario.
Educated privately, and studied law; in 1848 called to the bar and practised with success in Ottawa. Elected mayor of Bytown (now Ottawa) in 1852. Sat in the Legislative a.s.sembly, 1857-1863. A member of the first Legislature of Ontario, 1867-1873; in 1871 elected Speaker; and in 1872 appointed commissioner of crown lands. Called to the Senate in 1874. Secretary of state and registrar-general of Canada in Mackenzie ministry, 1874-1878. In 1878 introduced the Temperance Act, more commonly known as the Scott Act, which const.i.tutes his princ.i.p.al t.i.tle to a place among Canadian legislators. In 1896 secretary of state in Laurier government, which position he held until 1908; knighted, 1909.
=Index=: =R= His Separate School Bills, 235-238. =B= Introduces separate school legislation, 144. =Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_; Dent, _Last Forty Years_.
=Scott, Thomas= (1746-1824). Born in Scotland. Studied for the ministry and became a probationer; employed for a time as private tutor. Studied law and called to the English bar, 1793. While yet a student, in 1788 employed by Dorchester to investigate the estates of the Jesuits in Quebec. Appointed attorney-general of Upper Canada, 1801; chief-justice, 1804. President of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada during the War of 1812; president of a special tribunal created for the trial of cases of treason during the war. =Bib.=: Dent, _Lives of the Judges_.
=Scott, Thomas.= =Md= Murdered at Fort Garry by Riel's followers, 160, 194, 242. _See also_ Riel Rebellion, 1869-1870.