CADWALLADER ELLISON,6 b. July 7, 1773, in Ulster Co., N. Y. His nephew, James Pagan Sayre, writing in 1816, says that he was in the East India Company's service, and had been last heard of in 1814, when he was seen by a friend in the island of St. Helena, where he had command of a small fort; but that since the island had become the residence of Bonaparte the E. I. Co.'s troops had been withdrawn. It is clear from other letters that Cadwallader Sayre returned to New Brunswick in 1817. He was probably never married. Sayre Family: Lineage of Thomas Sayre, a Founder of Southampton By Theodore Melvin Banta[1]
On 25 Feb 1785, he received a grant of 55 acres in Maugerville Parish, Sunbury Co., New Brunswick. Other persons on the grant were Rachel Cunningham, Esther Robinson, Francis B. Sayre, Henrita Sayre, James Jr. Sayre, John Sayre and Mary Sayre, all receiving 55 acres.
He died 27 Mar 1855 in Dorchester, Westmoreland Co., New Brunswick. The 13 Apr 1855 edition of the Weekly Chronicle reported: "d. Dorchester (West. Co.) 27th ult., Cadwallader E. Sayre, age 84."