Oliver Delancy, (1)
484. DELANCY’S BATTALIONS.-1st Battalion. Col., O. Delancy; Lieut. Col.,
John Harris Cruger;* Major, Joseph Greene+; Captains Jacob Smith, Thomas and James French; Galbreath, Roorback, Kerr; Lieutenant, T. Cunningham;
485. 2d Battalion. Col. George Brewerton. (see 245), Lieut. Col.
Steph. Delancy; Major. Tho’s Bowden;* Captains Geo. Dunbar, Tho’s W. Moore, Sam’l Hallet, Walter Campbell, H. Hatch, E. Potts; Lieutenants A. McMillan,
B. Lister, Dan’l Hallet, B. P. Griffiths, Colin Campbell, J. McCartney, D. Cameron; Ensigns, Shrieve, H. Ferguson, Geo. Brewerton, Jas. Delancy; Chaplain,
M. Badger; Surgeon, J. Johnston.
486. 3d Battalion. Col, Gab. G. Ludlow;(1) Lieut. Col. Richard Hewlett:(2)
Major Alex. Menzies; (3)Captains, Edward Allison(4), Gilbert Colden Willet, Chas’s Hewlett, Elijah Miles
(5),
Tho’s Lister, Barth’w Doughty, Gerardus Clowe’s, Ichabod Smith; Lieut’s
John Clowes, Sam’l Clowes, Edmund Evans, Henry Jackson, Gab. De Veber, Jr.,
Michael Laffen, Wm. McFarland, Zach. Brown; Ensigns Nath. Barnum, Wm. Montgomery, Francis De Veber, Tho’s Carpenter,
487. Queen’s Rangers.* - Cavalry and Infantry-uniform, green, with white
facings.+ Lieut. Dol., J. Graves Symcoe;++ Major, R. Armstrong.
488. Volunteers of Ireland.* Col., Lord Rawdon; Lieut.
Col. Doyle; Majors, Despard, and Joseph Campbell.
489 New-York Volunteers.(1) Lieut. Col. Com’t. George
Turnbull; Majors Coffin(2) and Sheridan;
490. British Legion.--Cavalry.* Col. Lord Catheart; Lieut. Col.,
Banastre Tarlton; Majors, Geo. Hanger and Cochran.
491. King’s American Regiment.* Col. Edmund Fanning.+
Lieut. Col’s. Ed Winslow and Geo. Campbell;
492. Prince of Wales’s American Volunteers.* Col. Montfort Brown;
Lieut. Col’s., Tho’s Pattinson+ and De Verber; Major Carden++
493. Loyal American Regiment. Col., Beverly Robinson;*
494. King’s American Dragoons--(see 203) Lieut. Col.,
Benj. Thompson; Majors,D. Murray and Upham.
495. Loyal Forresters Lieut. Col., Conolly. (see 152)
496. Royal Garrison Battalion Lieut. Col., Donkin, (see 149;)
Major. Austruther.
497 Maryland Loyalists.* Lieut. Col, Chalmers; Major
Dulaney.
498. Beside the preceding, there were the Florida Rangers, North Carolina Volunteers.
(see 366) Wentworth’s Volunteers, or New Hampshire Regiment, (see 344, 353.)
Volunteers of New England*, Associated Refugees,+ and Loyal Refugees.++ In fine, refugees from all the colonies poured into Long Island, and
were located on the farms of those Whigs who had fled the county, or sought a livelihood
as laborers, woodcutters, mechanics, traders and boatmen, or as recruits in the new raised corps.
499. Hessian Regiments--Jager Corps, mounted and dismounted; uniform
green, faced with crimson.(1) Lt. Col. Com’t Lewis De Wurmb;(2) Lieut. Col,
Preuschenck;(3) Major Philip de Wurmb; Captains, Baron Ewald
(4), Donop (5), Wangenheim, Hanger, Romrod, Heinricks(6), 1st Lieuts.,
Hagen, Kellerhaus, Wolf (7), Winzingeroda (8), Schoeffer; 2d Lieuts
Bickell (9), Cornelius, Flies, Boheln, Besger. Gerresheim, Ocksie;
Judge Advocate, Wiscker (10).
500. Free Battalion of Hesse Hanau-raised Jan. ‘81.
501. Regiment de Knoblauch- uniform blue, white facings.*
502. 3d. Battalion of Hessian Grenadiers. (see 195) Col.,
De Schreiber; Lieut. Cols De Lengerke and Loewenstein; Majors
Kutzleben and Wilmousky.
503. Benning’s Corps Cols. Benning* and Kurtz;
Lieut. Cols. Hildebrand and Martini.
504. Regiment du Corps.* Lieut. Col., Linsing;
Majors, Stamford and Dincklage.
505. British Regulars.--17th Regiment Light Dragoons.
506. 17th Regiment of Foot. Col., Moncton; Lieut. Col., Johnson;
Major Armstrong. (see 176)
507. 23d. Regiment or Royal Welsh Fusileers*, Col., Sir William Howe, K.B.,;
Lieut. Col., Balfour; Major, Mackensie.
508. 33d Regiment (see 1329, note) Col., Earl Cornwallis; Lieut Col.,
Yorke; Major Dansey.
509. 37th Regiment,* Grenadiers. Col., Coote, K.B., Lieut. Col., Abercrombie; Major, Graham.
510. 38th Regiment*--uniform, red faced with yellow. Col,
Sir Robert Pigot.+ Lieut. Col., Henry Edward Fox;++ Major French.
511. 42d, or Royal Highland Regiment.* Col., Lord John
Murray; Lieut. Col., Tho’s Sterling; Major Cha’s Graham.
512. 54th Regiment of Foot.* Col., M. Frederick; Lieut. Col.,
A. Bruce;+ Majors A. Foster and John Breese.++
513. 60th or Royal American Regiment*-uniform re, blue facing,
514. 64th Regiment,* Grenadiers-uniform, red faced with black.
515. 71st Regiment, or Highland Foot.* Col., Simon Frazer;
Lieut. Col., Archibald Campbell
516. 74th Regiment Highland Foot.* Grenadiers, Lieut. Col. Com’t.
J. Campbell; Majors, Alex. Campbell+ and Rob’t Montresor.
517. 80th Regiment,* or Royal Edinboro’ Volunteers. Col.,
Sir William Erskine; Lieut. Col., Tho’s Dundas; Majors, Ja’s
Gordon and Wm. Maxwell; Captain, David Kinlock.+
518. 82d. Regiment Cols. gunning and F. McLean;* Lieut.
Col., Craig; Major Robertson.
519. 84th Regiment or Royal Highland Emigrants. Col.,
Sir H. Clinton, K. B.; Lieut. Col., John Small; *Majors.
Alex. Macdonald and Tho’s Murray.
The British officers expected the utmost condescension. If a farmer,
in passing, should neglect to take off his hat, he might depend on a caning; though the Briton would scarcely deign to notice him, much less return the civility. In addressing an officer, your hat should be under your arm.
The quartering of officers and billeting of soldiers in private houses, was a great
annoyance. An officer was entitle to one or more of the best rooms, and had a guard constantly parading to and fro before the door. The soldiers generally took the kitchen.
The first notice you had that your house would be wanted, was, "Well, madam, I’ve come
to take a billet on your house." Insubordination arose among the slaves, who either ran away, or became less respectful to their owners, when they saw them lorded over by British officers.
Between the oppressions of British soldiers, and the depredations of American whale boats,* the inhabitants suffered sadly, and all hailed the period of their deliverance from both.
*The whale boatmen were Americans (many of them refugees from Long Island)
living on the Connecticut shore, who had commissions from Governors of New-York and Connecticut to cruise in the Sound against British vessels; and it required no great stretch of conscience to go on land and plunder indiscriminately, Whig, and Loyalist. (see 388), under pretence of carrying off British goods. The whale boat warfare at length degenerated into downright robbery. The whale boats were sharp at each end, the sheathing often not over half an inch thick and so light as to be easily carried on men’s shoulders, either to be hid in the bushes or re-launched in the South Bay. Some were thirty-two feet long, and impelled by from eight to twenty oars, and would shoot ahead of an ordinary boat with great velocity, and leave their pursuers far behind. They were always on the look-out, and in al calm would row out of their lurking places, and board market boats, or even cut off the detached vessels of a convoy.
Another more honorable employment of whale boats was to carry off distinguished Loyalists, so as to exchange them for Whig prisoner. (see 304, 305, 314, 336, 374,
395, 397, 398, 402.)
((1)Died, at Beverly, England, Oct. 27, 1785, aged 68, Oliver Delancy, late of New-York,
who lost a large estate by his loyalty.--Gent. Mag. {There were two Delancy’s, father and son; the latter was Major of 17th Dragoons, and succeeded Maj. Andre as Adjutant, and died within a few years with the rank of Barrack Master General fo the British Empire,
Cortland Skinner.(2)
(2) He was from New Jersey, (see 243, 251)
Montfort Brown(3)
(3) Formerly Governor of New Providence, carried off by Com. Hopkins, and exchanged for Lord Stirling. (see 169)
Benedict Arnold(4)
(4) His Legion lay near Black Stump.
Brigadier Generals
N. Rogers, Quarter Master; N. Smith, Surgeion; Cha’s
Bowden, Chaplain. (see 128, 129, 174, 227)
(*Married Delancy’s daughter, and removed to England at the peace.
+Married John Townsend’s daughter, of Oyster Bay, and removed to Ireland.)
(*Sailed for England, Nov 22, ‘83. (see 238)
Noah Selick, Shadrach Chase;
Chaplain. Wm. Walter;(6) Adj.Tho’s Carpenter; Quarter Master, Richard Floyd;
Surgeon Cha’s Doughty. (see 266)
(1)Outlawed, with other brother officers by the State of New-York,
"for not only giving aid and assistance to the enemies of their country, but
putting themselves in arms to enslave them."--Elected Mayor of St. John’s, 1785.
(2) Served in the old French war, (see190) Distinguished for
his heroic defence of Setauket. Died in New Brunswick, July 1789.
(3) Died, February, ‘81 at Hempstead.
(4)Owned a farm at Foster’s Meadow
(5)One S. tried to raise a company of recruits, and so
get a captain’s commission; but not succeeding, he transferred his eighteen recruits to Capt. Miles for ten guineas a head.
(6) Chosen minister of the Church of England at Shelburn,
Nova Scotia, in 1785.
*Capt.M Diemar’s Independent Company of Hussars, and Capt. Sanford’s
Bucks County Volunteers, (dress in red,) were joined to the Rangers. Capt.
D., with his wife, was quartered at Rem (since Jos.) Hegeman’s. His Hussars lay in tents
under the hill in front of the house.
+The wore green coatees and leather breeches. This regiment, 320 in number,
was taken at Yorktown, and settled in Nova Scotia at the peace.
++Afterwards Governor of Canada, and printed a journal of his military services.
(see 186, 205, 258)
*Southern recruits--’400 strapping fellow, neither influenced by Yankees of
agues"--settled at Rawdon, Nova Scotia, in 1784, (see 249.)
Captains John Althouse.(3)
Fred. Depeyster, Tho’s Hewlett.(4) Kane, Coffin, Gray, Johnstone, McLean.
(1) Lay at Foster’s Meadow after the evacuation of Charleston, Dec. 14, ‘82,
till the peace. Lay at Jerusalem also. First to enter Fort Montgomery, Oct. 6, ‘77
(2) Coffin having repeatedly been publicly thanked by the officers under him,
and having distinguished himself, Sept. 8, ‘81, was appointed
Major of the King’s American Regiment, vacant by the death of Major Grant.
(3) Married Miss Jackson, of Jerusalem. His son John, an ensign, is now living.
(4) Killed at Hanging Rock, Sept 20, ‘80.
*Mostly clad in white at Yorktown. At Jericho, Nov. ‘78; at
Sag Harbor, Fe., ‘79; at Springfield, April, ‘82 (see 267)
Majors, Ja’s Grant
and Coffin; Captains. Abm. Depeyster, T. Cornwall, J. Atwood, J. W. Livingston,
T. Chapman, R. Gray, P. Clements; Chaplain, Sam’l Seabury. ++
* "June 8, ‘77. Fanning’s Corps is nearly complete." For raising this corps
of 460 men, £500 was subscribed by Staten Island, £310 8s. by Kings
county, £219 by Jamaica, and ߐ by New York city.
+ Son-in-law and secretary of Gov. Tryon. Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia, May, ‘83
++ St. Peter’s exhortation to fear God and honor the King; a sermon preached
before his Majesty’s Provincial Troops by Sam’l Seabury, Sept. 28, ‘77, published
by order of Gov. Tryon.
*(See 170) Reduced from 278 to 9, at Hanging Rock, S.C., July, ‘80
+At Lloyd’s Neck. (see 383)
++Died at Charleston before Dec., ‘82
Lieut. Col., Beverly Robinson, Jr., Major, Tho’s Barclay.+
*(see 173)
+ Son of Rev. H. Barcaly, quartered at Wm. Leaverich’s and Richard Berrian’s,
Newtown. Had an estate at Hell-Gate.
*Lieut. Townsend and Adj. Henley were quartered at Wm. Leverich’s, (now Sackett’s)
Train’s Meadow. (See 178)
* At Lloyd’s Neck.--Carried off the congregation at Middlesex. (see 412)
+ Lieut. Col. Winslow, at Lloyd’s Neck, March, ‘79. (see 180()
++ Col. Abm. C. Cuyler. (See 248)
(1) O. T. says, "The Jagers, a higher order of Hessians, lay at North Side in the
cold winter--drawn close together for fear of being cut off by the Americans, and suffered much from the cold. The officers often met together, had dinners, suppers, cards, &c., which often ended in a quarrel that was settled by the sword next day in the back
fields.
(2) Quartered at Judge Valentine’s, at W. Titus’s, Wheatly, and at other places,
(see 317, 319) After the war, Wm. Savery, a traveling minister, met
Co. W. in Germany, who expressed himself pleased with the treatment he received
while among Friends in Queens county.
(2) Quartered at Jackson’s, Jericho, and at D. Laton’s Wheatly
(3) Quartered at Timothy Smith’s
(4) Quartered at Hend’k O.’s. Published a military work on his return to Germany.
(5) Quartered at John Simonson’s
(6) Quartered at Dr. Tredwell’s
(7) Quartered at T. Townsend’s
(8) Quartered at Timothy Smith’s
(9) Quartered at D. Mudge’s.
(10) Quartered at Ryerson’s Inn, Black Stump.
Lieut. Col., N. Von Janecke;(1) Major, Scheele(2), Captains
, Franck(3), Spangenbergh, Leiningen, Schelm, Westerhagen (4),
1st Lieuts. Kaerner, Koch, Eitelwein, Zipf; 2d Lieuts,
Haelcken, Schaeffer, Goerduck, Condrade, Stockel, Goener.
(1) Quartered at Judge Mitchell’s (see 336, 431, 433)
(2) Died at Oyster Bay, March, ‘83.
(3) Quartered at D. Kissam’s, Cow Neck
(4) Quartered at Peter Onderdonk’s
Col., De Porbeck(1), Majors, D’Ende and Goeble; Captains
Boedicker (2), Hegeman (3), Hoenstein, Huepeden, Dalwigk; 1st Lieuts.,
Waldeck (4), Knoblauch, Goebell, Schenck, Koeber; 2d Lieuts, Apell,
Gessner, Justi, Dick, Peternell, Stuckradt, Cordeman.
* Their dress varied, but is thus described by Dunlap, "The
Hessian had a towering brass-fronted cap. {some had three-cornered hats} mustachios
colored with the same material that colored his shoes, {which were square-toed, turned
up, and had large buckles,} his hair plastered with tallow and flour, and tightly drawn into
a long queue, reaching to his waist; a blue uniform, almost covered by the broad belts that sustained his cartouch box, his brass-belted sword, and his bayonet; a yellow
waistcoat with flaps, and yellow breeches met at the knee by black gaiters. Thus
heavily equipped, he stood an automaton to receive the command or cane of the officer
who inspected him."
(1) Quartered at Judge Valentine’s, (see 161, 328)
(2) Quartered at Martin Schenck’s.
(3) Quartered at Judge Schenck’s
(4) Quartered at Timothy Smith’s. "Tis said the Hessians lay three
winters at North Side.
*Quartered at Wm. Lines, (now John Hicks’s;) came to North Side
after the evacuation of Charleston, Dec. 14, ‘82; when the Jagers gave
place to them, and went to Huntington.
*Grenadiers. Uniform, blue faced with yellow. (see 149, 254)
Col. Geo. Preston;* Lieut. Col., Sam’l Birch;+ Major
Oliver Delancy, Jr., Captains, R. Archdale, S. Baggot, J. S. Bradshaw,
J. Stapleton; Capt. Lieut. H. Nettles; Cornet Searl; Chaplain
J. Beever. (see 286)
*Uniform red, white facings. (see 133) Remount horses arrived from England,
May, ‘77--made up of the 16th and 17th. The former had 312 men and 265 horses; the latter had 398 men and 337 horses--engaged at White Plains and Monmouth. When in New-York, they used the Middle Dutch church as a riding-school, to train their horses.
+ Commanding officer at Hempstead, May, ‘80.
*see 325
*see 144
* Lay at Duryea’s,
Fresh Meadows, six weeks in the summer of ‘83. (see 183, 201, 207)
+see 292, ++see 203
*Uniform, red faced with blue; also belted plaid and hose. The Highlanders
changed their national dress for one better adapted to our cold climate.
*Uniform, red faced with popinjay green. Lay at Sprong’s, Fresh Meadow.
+see 200, 201
++see 354, note
Col. Com’t, John Dalling; Lieut. Col., Archibald MacArthur;
Major, Geo. Thompson.
*Lay about Hempstead just before the peace, and marched out to the tune of Roslyn Castle.
Col., Pomeroy; Lieut. Col., Ed. Eyre; Major, Brereton.
*see 177, 210, 266.
*Clothed in red, white facings, in winter; in kilts and bonnets in
summer. ‘Tis said a Major Baird, of 71st, cruelly wounded Gen. Woodhull--
doubtful--Ed.
*Uniform, red faced with yellow. Child baptized at Jamaica, April, ‘82. (see 269)
+see 220
*Baptism at Jamaica, Nov., ‘80. (see 183)
+see 231
*see 181.
*see 203
The preceding list includes only such Regiments as have been noticed in
the course of this work.