Lawrence, and the various detachments were disembarked at their respective destinations.  It had been decided that the settlers should be placed on the land as far as possible according to the corps in which they had served during the war, and that care should be taken to have the Protestant and Roman Catholic members of a corps settled separately.  It was this arrangement which brought about the grouping of Protestant and Roman Catholic Scottish Highlanders in Glengarry.  The first battalion of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York was settled on the first five townships west of the provincial boundary.  This was Sir John Johnson’s regiment, and most of its members were his Scottish dependants from the Mohawk valley.  The next three townships were settled by part of Jessup’s Corps, an offshoot of Sir John Johnson’s regiment.  Of the Cataraqui townships the first was settled by a band of New York Loyalists, many of them of Dutch or German extraction, commanded by Captain Michael Grass.  On the second were part of Jessup’s Corps; on the third and fourth were a detachment of the second battalion of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York, which had been stationed at Oswego across the lake at the close of the war, a detachment of Rogers’s Rangers, and a party of New York Loyalists under Major Van Alstine.  The parties commanded by Grass and Van Alstine had come by ship from New York to Quebec after the evacuation of New York in 1783.  On the fifth township were various detachments of disbanded regular troops, and even a handful of disbanded German mercenaries.

As soon as the settlers had been placed on the townships to which they had been assigned, they received their allotments of land.  The surveyor was the land agent, and the allotments were apportioned by each applicant drawing a lot out of a hat.  This democratic method of allotting lands roused the indignation of some of the officers who had settled with their men.  They felt that they should have been given the front lots, unmindful of the fact that their grants as officers were from five to ten times as large as the grants which their men received.  Their protests, contained in a letter of Captain Grass to the governor, roused Haldimand to a display of warmth to which he was as a rule a stranger.  Captain Grass and his associates, he wrote, were to get no special privileges, ’the most of them who came into the province with him being, in fact, mechanics, only removed from one situation to practise their trade in another.  Mr Grass should, therefore, think himself very well off to draw lots in common with the Loyalists.’  A good deal of difficulty arose also from the fact that many allotments were inferior to the rest from an agricultural point of view; but difficulties of this sort were adjusted by Johnson and Holland on the spot.