as soon as possible. In this manner we proceeded with safety and expedition, till the fatal day I have just related; and happy it was that this disposition was made, otherwise the whole must either have starved or fallen into the hands of the enemy, as numbers would have been of no service to us, and our provisions were all lost.

Our number of horses very much reduced, and those extremely weak, and many carriages being wanted for the wounded men, occasioned our destroying the ammunition, and superfluous part of the provision, left in Colonel Dunbar's convoy, to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy.

As the whole of the artillery is lost, and the troops are so extremely weakened by deaths, wounds, and sickness, it was judged impossible to make any further attempts. Therefore Colonel Dunbar is returning to Fort Cumberland, with everything he is able to bring up with him. I propose remaining here till my wound will suffer me to remove to Philadelphia, from whence I shall proceed to England. Whatever commands you may have for me, you will do me the favour to direct to me here.

By the particular disposition of the French and Indians, it was impossible to judge of the numbers they had that day in the field. I am, dear sir,

То

your most obedient,

and most humble servant, ROBERT ORME. Hon. Robert Hunter Morris,

Lieut. Gov. of Pennsylvania.

K.

THE TORY CONTINGENT IN THE BRITISH ARMY IN AMERICA IN 1781.

(Continued from page 326.)

NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS, FIRST BAT

TALION.

Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner, Esq;

colonel.

Joseph Barton,1 Esq; lieutenant colonel

1 Perhaps the one captured on Staten Island in 1777.

1 Surveyor-general of N. J.; died at Granville, Annapolis county, N. B., in 1816.

2 Died at Carleton, N. B.

3 Mortally wounded at Eutaw Springs in 1781. 4 Of Delaware; published as an enemy to his country in 1776, by committee of Dover, for refusing continental money.

5 Probably the one who died at Weymouth, N. S., in 1820.

6 In 1782 capt. lieut.; died in Upper Canada, to which he removed from New Brunswick. Isaac Hadden, in Sabine, was clerk of the assembly in N. B., and died in that province. 8 Died soon after peace at Derby, N. S.

9 One of the most celebrated tory partizans in the war, whom incessant persecution by whig neighbors drove from his farm where he lived quietly and inoffensively. In April, 1777, with 73 neighbors, he reached Col. Barton's corps at Bergen. In his first expedition he was defeated, and lost most of his men; but his services as a spy were found beyond price. In June, 1779, he captured a colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, two captains, and several other officers, and destroyed a valuable depôt of ammunition and arms; and, on his return, routed another party with terrible loss. He was then used as a spy on Washington, Sullivan and Gates. In 1780 he attempted to carry off Gov. Livingston; and, failing, carried a jail, releasing several loyalists. After capturing 18 militia officers and committee men with a party of 7, he was himself taken, and conveyed to West Point, where he was treated with unexampled barbarity by Arnold. Condemned to death, he broke prison and escaped. He was made a lieutenant for capturing Washington's dispatches. In a second attempt he barely escaped with life. In a third, again, succeeded. In 1781 he attempted to penetrate Philadelphia and carry off the books of congress. He failed, and his brother was taken and hung. Moody, for all his losses and services, was but poorly compensated by the English government. He died at Weymouth, N. S., in 1809, aged 66.

1 Zenophon Jouette, or Jewett, was sheriff of York county, N. B., in 1792, and held other offiHe died at St. John, N. B., in 1843.

ces.

2 Son of the major; died at Annapolis, N. S., in 1836, aged 71.

3 Taken prisoner on Staten Island in 1777, and sent to Trenton.

Sent in 1777 to destroy salt works at Tom's River, N. J.; but finding them private property, declined.

5 Waldron Bleau, of N. Y., captain 3d Battery N. J. V., died in St. John, N. B., in 1783, five days after landing.

6 Taken prisoner on Staten Island in 1777, and sent to Trenton.

7 Taken prisoner at Eutaw Springs.

8 John Hamilton Rowland, Episcopal missionary, of Pennsylvania, after the peace removed to Shelburne, N. S.

A lawyer of Trenton, N. J.; attainted in

Bartholomew ThacherJohn Coombs11

Daniel Cozens

Thomas Hunlock 5

John Barberie 6 Edward Steele capt lieut

Lieutenants

John Jenkins 7

John Willis

John Camp

Nathaniel Coombs

Cornelius Thompson John Swanton

John Shannon

Chaplain

John Jenkins, Adjutant John Folker, Quartermaster William Peterson, 12 Surgeon

NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS, FOURTH BAT

TALION.

Abraham Buskirk,13 lieutenant colonel commandant

Pennsylvania; became judge of the supreme court of New Brunswick; died at Fredericton, N. B., in 1806, aged 65.

1 Died at Chelsea, England, in 1789. He enlisted 200 of his neighbors in the battalion. It was almost entirely swept away by disease in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

by provincial congress, and fined £100; magis2 Of N. J.; confined in jail at Trenton in 1776, trate in York county, N. B., in 1792.

His

3 Died at Maugerville, N. B., in 1822. property in Pennsylvania was confiscated. 4A relative of President W. H. Harrison. After the peace he went to New Brunswick. His fate is unknown.

5 Retired to New Brunswick, but returned to the U. S.

6 Taken prisoner on Staten Island in 1777, and sent to Trenton; wounded at Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs; militia colonel and magistrate in New Brunswick; died at Sussex Vale in 1818, aged 67.

7 Settled in New Brunswick in 1783

8 Mortally wounded at Eutaw in 1781. Died at Fredericton in 1812, aged 64. 10 Wounded at Ninety-Six in 1781.

11 Died in New Brunswick in 1827, aged 74. 12 Taken prisoner in 1777, and sent to Trenton. 13 Attempted to capture a militia force at Paramus in 1777. In 1779 he set out from Pawlus

Hook (Jersey City) up the river with part of the garrison and other troops, to cut off a foraging party, but had to retreat. In 1780, with 400 men, he crossed from Staten Island to Elizabethtown, burnt the church and town house, and carried off prisoners and plunder. He was with Arnold at New London. I write this note in the house of a gentleman whose grandfather, Cornelius Demarest, was killed by Buskirk at Closter in his raid in May, 1779.

The Jersey Volunteers were called, also, Skinner's Greens."

1 Born in 1739; descended from Secretary Van Cortland, who came over in 1629; 1775, deputy from Westchester county, N. Y., to meet members of the continental congress; frequently in action; died in England in 1814.

2 Brother of Colonel Joseph; raised a company of 60 near Paterson, New Jersey; at the peace went to New Brunswick, and thence to Canada.

3 Evidently son of Lieutenant Colonel Buskirk. In 1777, when lieutenant, taken prisoner by Gen. Dickinson, and wounded at Eutaw, as captain in 1781.

4 Died at Grand Lake, N. B.

5 Died at St. John, N. B., in 1803.

6 Became adjutant; settled at Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

7 Died in New Brunswick.

8 Son of Gabriel; also a refugee. Was instructor at King's college, N. S., and afterwards held office in Bermuda.

9 Settled in New Brunswick. 10 Born in New York in 1766.

11 Episcopal minister in York and Cumberland counties, Pa.; committed to York jail in 1776. Congress permitted him to sell his personal effects and remove with his family to New York. He died in England.

1 In 1782 a James Brace was major of the Royal Fencibles.

2 One of the claimants of the Westenhook patent; arrested by Lee at New York in 1776. In 1782 he was major.

3 Was at one time under Tarleton, and quarreled with him. He was an intimate friend of Beverley Robinson. Died at Hampton, N. B., in 1824, aged 82.

4 Sabine gives it Philip De Mayern.

5 An officer of this name died in New Brunswiek in 1835, aged 72.

"Became captain lieutenant.

7 Captain in 1782.

8 A Colin Campbell was ensign in De Lancey's 2d battalion, quartermaster and lieutenant. 9 Went to Nova Scotia.

10 Sabine says, son of Capt. Lawrence Van Buskirk; a captain in this corps, born in Hackensack, who died at Shelburne, N. J., in 1803. Thomas became a lieutenant, went to Nova Scotia, but returned to New Jersey.

11 This may be Rev. Epenetus Townsend, Episcopal clergyman, of North Salem, N. Y., whom Sabine supposes to have perished in 1777.

12 Scotch. Died at Shelburne, N. S., in 1840, aged 88.

1 Son of Hon. John Robinson, president of Virginia; inclined to whigs; figured greatly in cases of defection, and was prominent in Arnold's treason; died at Thornburg, near Bath, England, in 1792, aged 70. He received from the British government £17,000 for his losses.

2 Graduate of King's college, N. Y.; studying law when the revolution broke out; at the peace went to Nova Scotia; lived chiefly at St. John, N. B., but died in New York in 1816.

3 Son of Rev. Henry Barclay, of New York, born Oct. 12, 1753; a graduate of Columbia college, and law student under John Jay; entered the army as captain in the Loyal Americans; after the peace, speaker of the assembly of Nova Scotia, and adjutant-general of the militia; commissioner under Jay's treaty; consul-general for the northern and eastern states, and commissary of prisoners; and, finally, commissioner under the treaty of Ghent. He died at New York in April, 1830, aged 77. He had a pension of £1200 from the English govern

ment.

4 Of Boston; proscribed and banished in 1778. While captain, wounded and commended for gallantry. Died at St. Andrew, N. B., in 1819, aged 70.

5 Sabine gives a captain in De Lancey's corps of this name; captured in 1778 with his company by Major Leavenworth of Massachusetts.

6 Of Long Island, N. Y.; died at Fredericton, N. B., in 1814.

7 Son of Bev. Robinson; died at Gibraltar in 1815, aged 56; lieutenant-colonel in the British army. Sabine says, capt. Queen's Rangers.

8 Of Delaware; active in 1777 in using counterfeit continental money, and enlisting men; went to Nova Scotia.

9 Of Westchester county, New York; a loyal protester in 1775. He became captain, and died at Fredericton, N. B. William and Gilbert were probably relatives; but Mr. Sabine's researches failed to establish the fact.

10 Became captain-lieutenant; died near Fredericton in 1832, aged 97.

11 Became captain before the peace; died in Douglas, N. B., in 1838, aged 84.

12

James Gunganven Anthony Kennedy Alexander McMullen Humphrey Henderson Timothy Wm Hierlihy Caleb Wheaton, jun 19 Joseph Osborne Franklin G. Etter George Wetmore

1Of Westchester county, N. Y.; entered service in 1776; frequently in battle; died at St. John, N. B., in 1846, aged 93, styled "The Father of the City."

2 Died in 1828 at St. Andrew, N. B., aged 77. 3 Died at Sussex Vale, N. B.

* Of Norfolk, Va. After the peace, he settled at Digby, N. S., but died in Virginia.

5 Wounded and taken at Stony Point; lieutenant in 1782.

6 Of New York; wounded in 1777 at the storming of Forts Montgomery and Clinton.

Son of Bev. Robinson, Sr. At the peace, a lieutenant; settled in New Brunswick; became deputy paymaster, member of the council, treasurer of the colony, mayor of St. John; died at St. John in 1828, aged 67.

8 Sabine says, Thomas; taken at Stony Point in 1779.

9Of Virginia; a relative of Beverly; was a divinity student, but fled to escape impressment in militia; died in Canada; deputy surveyor of crown lands.

10 Episcopal clergyman of Poughkeepsie and Fishkill, N. Y.; born at Stratford, Conn., in 1732; studied at Yale, but received his degrees from King's college, New York; ordained in England; returned in 1762; refusing to take oath of allegiance to congress, he was stripped of everything, and retired with his family to New York. Col. Robinson had been the chief supporter of his church at Fishkill. After the peace, became pastor of Maugerville, N. B., and died at Kingston in 1816.

11 Died at Fredericton, N. B.

12 Caleb, of Sandwich, Mass., banished in 1778.

1 Went to New Brunswick.

A Richard Holland, of Massachusetts, was ensign in the Queen's Rangers.

3A Lieutenant John Wightman died at Carleton, N. B., in 1819, aged 71.

4 Banastre Tarleton, who here appears as commander of a tory regiment, was born in Liverpool, England, in August, 1754. At the commencement of the revolution he left his legal studies to enter the army, and came to America with Cornwallis. After the war, he was a member of parliament. In 1798 he married a daughter of the duke of Ancaster. In 1817 he was made major-general. George IV. made him a baronet, and a knight of the bath.

5 Of Pennsylvania; acted for a time with the Queen's Rangers, and made many captures. His company was finally incorporated with the Legion.

Of Pennsylvania; active in 1777, kidnapping whigs near Philadelphia; stole horses for British army. His troop finally joined Tarleton. In April, 1780, he was a prisoner in North Carolina; and the president of Pennsylvania asked that he should not be exchanged, but sent home for trial for his many villanies.

7 James.

8 Of Pennsylvania; joined army in 1776; captured at sea, and carried to Massachusetts. Like James, he was claimed by the governor of Pennsylvania, tried in 1781, but acquitted.

9 Nathaniel Vernon, sheriff of Chester county in 1775. Property confiscated.

The infamous Christian Huck, "the swearing captain," was killed in 1780, before this list came out.

Donald M'Crummen Murdock M'Caskell

Donald M'Leod

Donald M'Pherson Ralph Cunningham

Alexander M'Crea

Campble

M'Leod, chaplain

William Taylor, Adjutant 1

Donald M'Donald, Quartermaster

Surgeon

MARYLAND LOYALISTS.

James Chalmers, 2 lieutenant colonel commandant

James M'Donald, major

Captains Grafton Dulaney3 Patrick Kennedy4 Caleb Jones5 Philip R. Key" James Trisley Isaac Costen

Lieutenants

James Millar James Inglis Thomas H Parker John Stirling? Leven Townsend

1 A William Taylor, of New Jersey, lawyer, son of John, sheriff of Monmouth county, born at Middletown in 1746; became chief justice of Jamaica, but returned to New Jersey, bought his old estate, and died at Perth Amboy in 1806.

2 His corps was very deficient in numbers, says Sabine; but the show of officers is quite good. It was at Pensacola in 1781.-H. M., iv, p. 167. In 1783 it embarked at New York for St. John, N. B., but was wrecked off Cape Sable, and more than half perished. Chalmers had gone to England.

3 Walter Dulaney was major in 1782.

4

Physician of Baltimore; escaped to New York in 1777; saved at the wreck of the Martha. 5 Sheriff of Somerset county, Md.; escaped from Baltimore in 1776, and arrived at New York in the frigate Brune in 1776; removed to New Brunswick.

6 Made prisoner in Florida, but paroled and went to England; returned to Maryland in 1785; elected to the assembly in 1794; resigned his half pay in 1806-7. He was elected to the 10th congress, and held his seat till 1813. Died at Georgetown, D. C., in 1815.

Captain at the peace; wrecked in the Martha; died at St. Mary's, N. B., in 1826, aged 76.