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Facts and Events
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- married his first cousin, Rebecca Van Dyke
- lived near Rocky Hill, NJ and owned considerable property there
- Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Inferior Court of Somerset county
- French and Indian War - said to have been an officer in the Royal Navy, although no record has been found
- Revolutionary War - in opposition to the views of his parents and other members of his family, he threw in his lot with the British and declined the command of a regiment in the Patriot Army
- 1776 - taken prisoner and called "a malicious and active Tory" but was exchanged some time later
- Mar 1778 - appointed Lt. Col. of the West Jersey Volunteers, a Loyalist unit disbanded later that year
- attached to other Loyalist regiments and went South with the 17th Foot as a volunteer, serving in several campaigns ; received recommendations for good conduct from Lord Cornwallis, Sir William Howe, and others
- his papers in the London Audit Office contain a certificate from Col. John Watson that he was a true Loyalist and good soldier
- 1783 - after peace was declared, he fled to Nova Scotia with other Loyalists and remained for some years
- later returned to Harlingen where he died in 1811
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