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Bristish Deserters In Georgia 1768
A PROCLAMATION. Whereas I have received information from Lewis Valentine Fraser
Esquire, Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Sixtieth Regiment of Foot doing duty at
Charles Town in South Carolina that the following persons being soldiers duly
inlisted have deserted from His Majesty's Service and are supposed to be come into
this Province [Georgia]:

Bedson, John, 5’ 6”, 27, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Ireland
Berg, John, 5’ 5Ύ”, 20, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Sweden
Briest, John, surgeon "who may probably pass for a doctor," 5’ 6 ½”, 28, brown
complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Germany
Burns, William, 5’ 9½”, 20, brown complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, b. Ireland
Burton, John, 5’ 10½”, 25, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. England
Eimbert, George Christian, 5’ 10”, 31, fair complexion, gray eyes, fair hair, b.
Hanover
Esensee, Henry, 5’ 7½”, 29, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Germany
Firsk [Frisk?], Charles, 5’ 3½”, 29, black complexion, black eyes, black hair, b.
Poland
Houghman [Ploughman?], John, 5’ 6½”, 24, brown complexion, gray eyes, black hair, b.
Germany
Mason, Robert, 5’ 11Ό”, 22, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Scotland
Meyer, Henry, 5’ 8Ύ”, 26, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Germany
Paterson, Thomas, 5’ 5”, 19, fair complexion, gray eyes, light hair, b. Ireland
Pool, Joseph, 5’ 5”, 22, fair complexion, gray eyes, fair hair, b. England
Stollsinburg [Hollsinburg?], John, 5’ 5”, 26, brown complexion, brown eyes, brown
hair, b. Germany
Teffcott, Francis, 5’ 5”, 16, brown complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, b. America
Tollis, Samuel, 5’ 3Ύ”, 21, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Germany
Toomey, Bartholomew, 5’ 7”, 30, brown complexion, gray eyes, brown hair, b. Ireland

Province of Georgia at the Council Chambers in Savannah the sixteenth day of July in
the year of our Lord 1768.... God save the King.
/s/Jas. Wright

Additional Comments:
[Proclamation Book H, 1754-1794, pages 128-130, Microfilm Reel 40/40, Georgia
Department of Archives and History]
—Contributed by Robert S. Davis, Jr.
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National Genealogical Society Quarterly
March 1984, Vol. 72, No. 1
Page 49

Published by: The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Washington, D.C.


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