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Note: Sally and her husband, Patrick Conroy, a British Officer, are said to have had eight children and lived in St. John's, Canada. See "The Genealogy of the Ross Family Descendants of Zebulon Ross," by W.R. Griffith and A.E. Preston (1885), p. 4; "Book of Ross," by Ernest E. Fewkes (1935; corrected to 1940), p. 508; "Settlers of the Beekman Patent," by Frank J. Doherty, Chapter 51 ("The Conroy Family"), page 605. As with many Loyalists, though, they apparently moved around considerably before settling in St. John's. She and Patrick witnessed deeds in the Oblong and Fishkill, New York in 1783 and 1788, respectively, Patrick appears to have lived in Nova Scotia in 1784 (Sally's brother, Friend Ross, moved to Nova Scotia in 1783), and the family seems to show in the 1790 census in both Alburgh, Vermont and Champlain, New York, (a "Patrick Conroy" with family members shows next to Richard Mott and Titus Clarke in both towns). "Settlers of the Beekman Patent," Chapter 51 ("The Conroy Family"), page 605.
The Conroy family seems to have maintained ties with the line of Sally's brother, Artemas Ross, another loyalist. Artemas' son, George, settled in Dunham, Quebec (not far from St. John's) and Sarah Conroy, daughter of Sally and Patrick, baptized their daughter, Sarah Ross Mills, in Philipsburg, just a few miles far from Dunham, in 1815. On July 18, 1830, Sarah Ross Mills witnessed the baptism of George Edward Pell, nephew of John Van Antwerp (by his sister Angelica Van Antwerp and her husband William Pell), at the Church of England, in Dunham: John Van Antwerp was the husband of Sarah Ross, George's daughter. It appears from online rootsweb.com entries that Sarah Conroy and Guy Mills had a number of children in the St. Armand/Frelighsburg/Philipsburg area from 1806 to 1827.
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