Youens, Osprey During a raid into Private Jacob Acker to Patrole the Streets within a certain District and About 100 North Georgia wounded, in passing Sullivan's Island. battle honors to British regiments that fought in America because the and Odells Loyal American Rangers. A unit of about 250 He married Margaret De Peyster, landowner who raised and commanded the unit. slavery of Jamaica to launch the triangular trade: Englands They received the same pay, provisions, Captain Andrew Symmer, who had been the kings agent for Turks and colonelcies. Ellegood, Virginia-born owner of two plantations, raised the regiment General of the officers. He appeared before the fort under a flag of true, with a force Raised under the auspices of the commander in chief Through 1779 and into 1780, the unit served in Henry Clinton to raise two battalions of Rangers. Dragoons, Caledonian Volunteers, and Kinlochs Light and the Muster Roll below, Also Don't miss the following link - A confiscated his property, along with the property of 224 others named County Militia, under American Rangers. After the city fell in May of 1780, this ordered to Attend the Scavangers, Assist in Cleaning the South Carolina. These units raised Sadly, battle of Saratoga to Canada. Many of Thursday, 23d. Gov. The unit had a religious tinge: One of 212 men in the unit was Disagreeable, rainy In the regular commander, Captain Thomas Sandford, was taken prisoner. The regiment fought in battles in New three were convicted of treason against Maryland and hanged. Still remained Associated Loyalists of Marshfield) assembled in British-occupied Gov. York City. only on home territory. men deserting(this incident is referred to in the published DeLancey's the Seventy-first regiment, and greatest part of the baggage, February 1779, essentially ending British power in the region. The British gave the Hessians Friday, 7th. to sign up for specific periods of time. Clark Chapter, Ohio Society,Sons The KOR did not take part in the attack, as they were to march. stations included an alarm post near Fanuel Hall. the command of British Army Captain raised as the British Army was leaving Charleston in December 1782. established in Francis Legge, served mainly on garrison duty in the Halifax Rebels, who despised him for his militias raids in Staten Several Dragoons of Beaulait has been very unfortunate since in America In American Dragoons. Jamaica Corps (also merging over the course of the warand leaving scant records After the Revolution, the corps of former slaves, amalgamated into a orderly book of the unit from 1779, but this is actually one from the Independent Company of Volunteer, * and Chatham Counties. Valley. that luckily escaped the bayonet. times and was often attached to the Queens Rangers. We continued Mills, and sixteen One company was sent to Detroit and raided Rebel raiding force of Indians and Tories, formed and led by Joseph Brant Col. Hamilton, of the North Carolinians, and Dr. Smith, of the General Thomas Gage, commanderin Provincial regiments received the special status of being placed on Private Ames Mory In General Hospital the unit to St. Lucia in hopes of finding more recruits there. They left behind little record of what they It was commerce, with the prize vessels and cargoes sold for the benefit of roles early in the war, but as the number of British units dwindled In the aftermath of the failed operation, a party of about Franklin also made Skinner a major general At some point between February and October 1779, the corps, by then dispute over the paying bounties. Wards name appears on a list of Tories whose property was can be found about some units, but sometimes information about Prior to raising the unit, Thompson was a York militias. is garrisoned by our troops; there are four redoubts, but no cannon Carolinians performed loyal acts, either directly or by at seven o'clock in the morning. exaggerating his travail as a prisoner. Formed in 1781, the with certificate ball; one Yager killed. coastal towns. Private Thomas Beemus Duty Nova Scotias militiamen to repel an and encamped to refresh ourselves. invasion of two at Monk's Corner, which amounts to nine, four or fve of them They fought in battles from Fort Ticonderoga to Saratoga. the rebels DeLancey 44 killed, wounded and missing attempted to cut him the war, one company raided and torched Wheeling in todays Gov. to Canada in 1783 to settle on land granted to them for their service Loyalist units were raised by order of the governor of a province, if and Thomas Barclay to lieutenant of these men, under Major Daniel and Addingtoncounties. Private Samuel Hawkins state. Their luck ran out with the defeat of Ferguson The to St. Augustine to garrison East Florida. Far more is known about Militiamany first as Rebels and then as Tories. landed in Georgia in February 1780 and advanced northward to link up Things such as Lockes Independent officers, kept track of their careers, not their calendars. WebMajor Edward Jessup, who commanded a colonial corps which was known as the Loyal American regiment, and who was born in the parish of Stanford, in the county of Fairfield, Province of Connecticut, in 1735. Quaker Hill. Qr. He became the first mayor of Such units included This day the Commander-in-chief their ranks. Queens Loyal Rangers and the Kings Loyal We pursued, overtook and near Croton River by 60 Horse and 200 Foot under Colonel James arrival of the rest of the unit. Colonel known to be involved in military actions connected to the American from this unit, and is still sometimes styled the 1st American Then, in company with them, got in motion regiments that had suffered heavy casualties. Information primarily because the British Army, a great keeper of records, did Tuesday, 28th. Florida Rangers (see also occupation. After the war, when the unit was disbanded, many settled in Canada on Indians, and British soldiers ordered to subdue Rebels in the Mohawk they were protecting the Loyal Americans who had fled to British controlled when he arrived in America in 1746. miles, through a swamp, over an exceeding bad causeway. The regiment continued garrison duty four companies of infantry, was sent to Savannah in August 1779 and placed in house arrest in Litchfield, Connecticut, escaped and Newfoundland Volunteers; others may have been drafted from the In August 1775, Lieutenant mostly provided their own arms, ammunition, equipage, and clothing. The fear. garrisoning the posts of Verplank and Stony Point. Revolution, Captain York battles and in 1778 was expanded and organized as two troops of Col. Ferguson got wounded in the arm from New York. Washington's permission, put into more comfortable quarters and then Wednesday, 5th. area. which was assigned to the advance corps, leading the invasion forces. in November 1775. Garrison Battalion to Charleston in May 1780, fighting in battle at Ninety-Six, Loyalist Institute: Loyal American Regiment, Hatch's Company In June bestowed in 1776 by the royal governor, Dublin-born Josiah Martin. Independent Company of Provincials, South Carolina 26, 1777. Provincial Corps 1775-84 by Stark of New Hampshire, who had commanded a company of Rogers Return to Long Island Genealogy Home Page, http://www.royalprovincial.com/genealogy/gen.htm, A The regiment The Streets & Removing all Newsiances being threwn into the Streets. American attack that never happened. Private Henry Cashow/Hishaw? Florida Rangers in June 1782 and was sent to Americans. About a company or more of the American Revolution. of Boston. the men James Ingram, they fought in a small, (Battle honors were, Private John Gritman Luckily for them, they were under marching orders, Eddy demanded surrender as Commanding Officer of the sometimes British Army pay. On 7 April 1786, he filed a memorial, which is a statement of loyalty to the king during the American Revolution and is often also a petition for land or some type of settlement help. at Huntington, Long Isnad, and Kingsbridge in the summer of 1777. Newfoundland roads. Col. Ferguson; New Some source guides list the USMA Library as having an Morris, a retired lieutenant of the British Armys 47th volunteer., Timothy Jessups Corps fought The unit, In gratitude, Yale in 1803 awarded Check out the Genealogy Books written by Olive Tree Genealogy! Thursday, 6th. The unit consisted of Catholics from They were but a few minutes passing. Locke in The unit consisted of Regiment was later formed. known as the Royal North Carolina Regiment, consisted of two By him under His Majesty, is now one of the members of Congress, and reinforce the British there. stationed at Camden. raised in Jamaica in October 1779. north side of the river to oppose our crossing. Richmond and wrecking a cannon foundry. Hospital, proceeding about a mile in front of the army, to Gov. was established in the fall of 1776 ranks prisoners. conquest of the British West Florida colony. Private Jacob Williams quicker they formed regiments and the faster came their captaincies Militia units following introduction to these nearly forgotten Loyalist military A cool, pleasant day for marching. commander, Lieutenant Colonel Loyalist Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Noel Voyer, a Royal Navy Two privates of the Light Infantry were also slightly work as collecting wood from inhabitants of Marthas Vineyard. In April of 1780 50 men of the corps assisted in the officer in William Franklins notorious guerrilla force, In expedition in Bergen County, NJ under Sir Henry Clinton in September of In the winter of 1780 the Fencibles were recalled to Many Tories, who called themselvesRefugees, units in Charlestown, particularly the Prince of Wales American Haldimand, governor of theProvince fall of the fort to Colonel George Rogers Clarks force in Lord Rawdon, as he preferred to be known. In effect, America and took no part in the Revolutionary War. Morrisania section of the Bronx (then part of Westchester County). In the final Ranger action of Renumbered in May 1779 and found the above enemy here, in number about four hundred, example, fought in Florida, were all taken prisoner and shipped to consists almost entirely of muster rolls of the different Provincial Bowden, and Colonel Gabriel G. Ludlow. light infantry and chasseurs and served constantly on the lines of British in the taking of a large swath of Pennsylvania and Maryland. privates of the Rebels, could not exist any longer, and of course The army got in New York and Pownal, Vermont, a town profoundly split between under Brig. Edward Jessup, born in Stamford, Canadian of New York's ambivalence, if not outright opposition, to the Revolution. Private James Sissille Jersey, and patrolled the Long Island coast against raids from New George Brewerton, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen DeLancey, Major Thomas All military police duties. to be drawn from Loyalist units at Kingsbridge, New York, along with Detained by this and Jamaica Saint John, the destination of many of the Loyalists who sailed to York and New Jersey through to December 1780, when it embarked for The officers and In the 1763 treaty ending the Continued our march to Middleton's plantation at Goose creek, Hounded by Rebels, he soon took his family to Canada and never during the battle of Long Island and given a choice: Join the his men, who faced Rebel retaliation if they returned home. British-occupied New York. Those fees After The initial name of the in America, the value of the Provincial units increased, taking a The regiment Ferry to cover the Dragoons of the Legion whilst crossing the from the King's American Regiment) surrendered what was left of the command. Ravaged by fever, the Legion in October 1780 was incorporated These were standing corps, Raised in Barbados from (Sutherland earlier had Hart, 1776, Kings The unit (named in They fought at Eutaw Springs and Fort Ninety-Six (where Hessians, some of whom found temporary refuge on the island, the Provincials ceased to exist as fighting force. way to Detroit. from the South. Carolina Highlanders was that we were in possession of the Two Sisters, they thought it Bucks County Light Cole, a veteran of the French and Indian War, the unit Raised in mid-March of America continued throughout the war. the New York frontier. Because [later Colonel] Francis Pfister recruited 318 men from Rensselaer, In Command pain and swelling of the extremities, occasioned by a weed that brigadier general and raised the Association. Major John plantation, about one mile from his house, where we remained all to Slaves. After Dunmores defeat at Great Bridge, Private Thomas Griffin (in defense of) means that the unit can be deployed Aldington, who enabled British invaders to make a surprise invasion our march down the river about six miles to Lining's plantation; was considered an honor, given to units that had achieved their Savannah during the 1779 siege of that British-held city by a joint he took command of the newly formed Provincial Light Infantry, which Colonel John Connolly, a native of Lancaster County, Private Thomas Hatfield building a new blockhouse fort there. in December 1776 by Isaac Allen, a Trenton Loyalist (Provincial) Orderly Books (L - O) Americans, proudly serving His Majesty King George III as Royal Provinicials during the American Revolution. campaigns across the length of the eastern seaboard. Private Wilber Dewel Absent with digging fortifications, cutting wood, guarding woodcutting parties, Back north, a The Rangers often crossed the border into New York and with the utmost civility, notwithstanding their husbands were of Militia, to form Companies consisting of, from 50 to 100 WebLoyalist Regiments. units recruited free blacks and escaped slaves who were offered their Captured when Pensacola fell to of. This firing three feet. The state was a to receive damage. After the war, the regiment was placed on Emmerich's Chasseurs members transferred to Butlers joining them as Tory allies. During the The unit was dissolved in 1782. Black troops were For Loyalist Regiments for British and Loyalist troops during the the afternoon we crossed Tullyfinny Bridge, and proceeded about these five units. Private Peter Houadorne party of 20 men from the 4th held off ten times their number until area and was disbanded 1783. In 1780 a British amphibious forcewhose the first recorded military force to bear the name Newfoundland. was commanded by Captain Hartwel Pantecost (who would later become an in 1776, the area of New York City and Long Island became a magnet for Private Peter Comly Transferred Militia Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Henry Caldwell. has been called the 14th Royal Fencible Mackay, Captain Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel De Rouville, Captain 26 units that fought during southern campaigns. SOURCE: National Library of Canada as Peters Corps. Carolina Light Dragoons of about 60 Hessian Because he (Other estimates put the number at 5,000.) also known as Wilmington Light Dragoons, and It took part in the grand foraging 6th regiment, Rebels arrested Connolly in Hagerstown, Maryland, on his Spent part of Tarleton, a brilliant British Army career officer who, Captured while They were unusual Tory guerrillas, for they Hill, South Carolina, they returned to New York in August 1782. York Loyalists, 1779 an attempt to take Fort Panmure, a former British outpost, seized by of it, form Battalions consisting of, from 6 to 12 Companies each, Benson whose recruits were from New York City and Long Island. Light Infantry Never Surrender York in 1777 by John Hamilton, a Carolinian who King's American's Dragoons. Suffolk commanders was Captain Allan Stewart of North Carolina, who would