Being a royalist he retired to the British army when war was declared. His fine farm of two hundred acres was confiscated, and subsequently given by the government to John Paulding for his services as one of the three distinguished captors of Andre, the British spy. The property is now owned by Jacob Strang. He was buried in St. Peter's church-yard at Peekskill, notwithstanding that his gravestone is still to be seen in Trinity church-yard, New York. A portrait of Elizabeth
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Gedney, his wife, aged 53 years, was painted Feb. 27, 1783, -and she is interred in Trinity church-yard, New York.
Dr. John Huggeford of New York, son of the above, died during the prevalance of the yellow fever there; with his brother Peter Huggeford, also a physician, aged 56, was painted by William Williams. Major William Lainey Huggeford, painted Feb. 23, 1783. He is represented in a red coat turned up with blue, black cravat, hair powdered, tied with cue; he was a noted partisan officer and was the second man to scale the walls of Fort Montgomery. He died quite young in Nova Scotia. His wife Charity, who died in 1807, is buried at Harrison. The family were all staunch members of the Episcopal Church. After the close of the Revolution some of them returned to this country and settled at Horseneck, Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Betsey Field, aged over eighty-six years, who resides with her brother Capt. Requa, is a granddaughter of the elder Dr. Peter Huggeford. A grand-daughter of Dr. John Huggeford is now living at Northampton, Mass.