State of the late Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists
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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.
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Rank
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Mens Names
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Wives
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Children
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Places where
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Lieut Col
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William Allen
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In England
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Major
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Francis Kearny
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In England
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Captn
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Thomas Stephens
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At the Island of Abico
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Captain
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Joseph Swift
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United States going to England
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Lieutt
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George Hardin
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Ireland
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Ensign
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Stephen Potts
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Shelburn
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Lieutt
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Moses Holt
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Quebec
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Ensign
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Holt1
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Quebec
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Ensign
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Kearny2
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New Jersey: United States
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Quarr Mast
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Thomas Hart
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Ireland
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Chaplain
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Henry Addison
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Maryland, U States
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Surgeon
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John Cristall
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Scotland
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Captn
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Benjamin Boynton
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England
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Captain
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Thomas Colden
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1
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Present in New Brunswick
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Lieutent
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Ross Currie
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do
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Lieutt
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Wm A. McMichael
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do
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Adjutt
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William Kean
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1
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do
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Serjeant
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Arthur Conway
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Present in New Brunswick
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Serjeant
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William Grier
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1
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4
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Corporals
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Joseph Miles
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1
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Musco Wright
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1
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3
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Thomas Cannum
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1
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William Fanjoy
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1
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1
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David Harvey
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Lewis Rafford
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Richard Nevill
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Privates
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George McGlaskey
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Edward Bailey
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John Carroll
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Michael Kean
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1
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1
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John Maddox
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1
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Michael Lelentine
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Solomon Wilds
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Philip Oneil
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John Richards
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James Alcorn
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1
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Peter Cline
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Edward Sullivan
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Lawrence Taylor
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Thomas Cosgrove
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Michael Boyd
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John Anderson
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Charles McNellis
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Jacob Thomas
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Jonathan Roberts
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John Miller
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1
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Michael McElhatton3
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One Widow4
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[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."