Also known as Merritt's troop, after its first commander, Captain William Hamilton Merritt. When raised in June 1813, it numbered two subalterns, one sergeant major, three sergeants, two corporals, one trumpeter and forty troopers, who were all who could afford to keep their own horses. Served on the Niagara peninsula. The Provincial Dragoons would later be seen as an ancestral unit of the 2nd/10th Dragoons, which currently exists today as 10th Field Battery, 56th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA in St. Catharines, Ontario.