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He came to Upper Canada in with his parents and settled in Whitchurch Township northeast of Toronto. He became a blacksmith and moved his family to Holland Landing, north of Toronto, in There he prospered and developed a reputation as a man to count on if you needed help. The Lounts were members of a pacifist Quaker sect called the Children of Peace.

In , Lount won a seat in the colonial legislature and argued for political reform alongside Mackenzie until Disillusioned, his views radicalized. Lount and other Children of Peace members forsook their pacifist teachings and joined the rebel attack on Toronto, December , believing naively that they could succeed without bloodshed. Two of them were among the three rebel dead.

Samuel Bealey Harrison, Provincial Secretary.

On December 6, , he arrived at Montgomery's Tavern at the head of a group of rebels. The next day, Mackenzie sent him to create a diversion on the bridge over the Don River. His troop killed one man and set fire to the bridge and some nearby houses before being driven off by the militia.