REVOLUTIONARY WAR - PENNSYLVANIA LOYALISTS (1785) Contributed by: R. Wallace Hale [halew@nbnet.nb.ca] http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** [The following 1785 document, included with a petition to Thomas Carleton, Governor of New Brunswick, for a Warrant of Survey of a grant of land to the disbanded officers and men of the Pennsylvania Loyalists, lists 48 men, (of whom 13 were absent from New Brunswick) 11 wives, 9 children, and 1 widow, for a total of 69, or, excluding the absentees, 56. Neither of these totals coincides with Wright's numbers on p. 248, Loyalists in New Brunswick.] State of the late Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists Rank Mens Names Wives Children Places where Lieut Col William Allen In England Major Francis Kearny In England Captn Thomas Stephens At the Island of Abico Captain Joseph Swift United States - going to England Lieutt George Hardin Ireland Ensign Stephen Potts Shelburn Lieutt Moses Holt Quebec Ensign -- Holt(1) Quebec Ensign -- Kearny(2) New Jersey: U States Quarr Mast Thomas Hart Ireland Chaplain Henry Addison Maryland, U States Surgeon John Cristall Scotland Captn Benjamin Boynton England Captain Thomas Colden 1 Present in New Brunswick Lieutent Ross Currie do Lieutt Wm A. McMichael do Adjutt William Kean 1 do Serjeant Arthur Conway do Serjeant William Grier 1 4 Corporals Joseph Miles 1 Musco Wright 1 3 Thomas Cannum 1 William Fanjoy 1 1 David Harvey Lewis Rafford Richard Nevill Privates George McGlaskey Edward Bailey John Carroll Michael Kean 1 1 John Maddox 1 Michael Lelentine Solomon Wilds Philip Oneil John Richards James Alcorn 1 Peter Cline Edward Sullivan Lawrence Taylor Thomas Cosgrove Michael Boyd John Anderson Charles McNellis Jacob Thomas Jonathan Roberts John Miller 1 Michael McElhatton(3) One Widow(4) [Undated document noted, "Recd 22d Feby 1785."] ---------- 1. Ens. William I. Holt 2. Ens. James Hude Kearney 3. Listed elsewhere as Michael Hatton 4. Listed elsewhere as "Widow Merarty." Name is possibly "Moriarty."