Joseph Hinton had arrived in the Richmond settlement in December 1818 with the first contingent of retiring soldiers from the 100th Prince Regent 's County of Dublin Royal Regiment of Foot , to make his fortune as the storeowner . He had risen in social standing to become a justice of the peace , a coroner , and councillor , reeve and Warden in Carleton County . His father , William Hinton , had escaped being burned alive in a barn in Ireland during the Scullabogue Massacre of 1798 , thanks to a warning by a faithful Catholic maid who lost her own life in the fire . Joseph deplored the fanatical strife in Ireland stoked in part by the Orange Order . He supported the alternative Protestant Benevolent Society of Ireland which was not anti-Catholic ; thus he had little time for Lett , the Orangeman journalist
Scullabogue Massacre of 1798 ,
Scullabogue Barn massacre
William Pittman Lett