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Biographical Sketches of Loyalists...Vol 1, ...Lorenzo Sabine, 1864

Vol 2.

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Volume 1:557

HUSTON, ROBERT. Of Pennsylvania. lie was born in Ireland, and came to America while young. He settled near Philadelphia, as a farmer. In the Revolution he be longed to a troop of heavy dragoons, and was often engaged in skirmishes in New Jersey and West Chester County, New York. At the peace, accompanied by his family, he went from New York to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where the Crown granted him one farm, one town and one water lot. He settled at Yarmouth in the same Province, subsequently, and engaged in navigation and trade. He died in 1842, aged eighty-eight, leaving two children, one of whom is (1861) the wife of Edward K. Timpany, Esq., of Digby.

Volume 1:557

HUSTON, JOSHUA. The leader of a party of u New York horse-thieves." In 1778, in an adventure to West Chester County, he and three others attempted to break into the house of a Whig, who, acquainted with the design, resolved to defend himself. Huston, while entering a window, was stabbed and carried to a fellow Tory s, where he died and was buried in a field. Those who had suffered at his hands threatened to search for his body, and if they found it, to hang it upon a gallows.

Volume 2:535

Huston, Alexander. Of Virginia. Merchant. At the peace, accompanied by his family of four and a servant, he went from New York to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where the Crown granted him one farm, one town and one water lot .