Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution; with an Historical Essay Volume 2
Description:... This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... County, New Brunswick, in 1826, aged seventy-six. Ann, his widow, died at the same place, in 1845, at the age of eighty-two. St. John, . A physician of this name, and a near relative of Hector St. John, died in England, in 1785, aged sixty-five. "He lost the whole of his property during the late troubles in America." Of this name I find two: Thomas, an Ensign in the Royal Garrison Battalion; and Nehemiah, of Connecticut, a member of the Reading Loyalist Association; possibly the Doctor was one of them. Stobo, John. Died at St. John, New Brunswick, in 1799, aged thirty-five. Stockbridge, Benjamin. Of Marshfield, or Scituate, Massachusetts. Physician. Fled to Boston in 1775; but returned home, and placed himself at the mercy of the Whigs. Committed to Plymouth Jail; petitioned the Council to release him. October, 1776, was discharged, on condition of paying the expenses of his imprisonment, and of confining himself to his own estate, except with the leave of the Whig Committee, and to attend public worship. Stockton, Richard V. Major in the New Jersey Volun teers. Known as "Stockton, the famous land pilot" to the King's troops. He was surprised, February 18, 1777, by Colonel Neilson, of Brunswick, New Jersey, and, with fiftynine privates, taken prisoner. General Putnam sent him to Philadelphia in irons, which Washington disapproved. The Major, he said, "has, I believe, been very active and mischievous; but we took him in arms, as an officer of the enemy, and by the rules of war we are obliged to treat him as such, and not as a felon." Stockton, June 15, 1777, wrote General Skinner from the State Prison, Philadelphia, that he was about setting, out for Yorktown with other prisoners; and that he had been in a...
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