[page break] 92 664 184. 73 -father against the House of Hanover, and I mean to oppose them with it as long as I have power to wield it." I know Stuart about from 1795 to 1800. I believe he died in New York about 1800 or soon after. [Probably so, J. M. M.] Stuart left a wife and children in Scotland. There were a great many tories in Quaker Hill, Fredericksburg, Dover, Beekman, and New Fairfield in Connecticut. Newtown, in Connecticut, contained only seven whigs, and one of them got so drunk one 4th of July at dinner that he died, and so there remained only six. Adjutant James Grant had been a major in the British service and lived on the place where Osborn afterward lived adjacent to old James Grant's who was only a lieutenant. Major James married Lieutenant James's sister. He was a royalist and went below. Nich. McLean who lived at Fredericksburg was a Lieutenant in the old French

[page break] 665 95 185 74. war. He boarded there, being a batchelor and went below, and received a Captain's commission. Bernard Kane of Fredericksburg, (Brother of John) was a schoolmaster there - went below, and got a Captain's commission in one of the new raised corps. Allen Cameron, a Scotchman and blacksmith at Fredericksburg went below & got to be a Captain. I don't know the first names of Hoag, and Major McKay. Major Menzies and James Grant were both prisoners on their parole which I believe was not to go further from home than six miles. Archibald Campbell, killed at Ward's house, was, I believe, only a Captain, but was soon to be promoted to a majority in one of the new raised corps. The name of Crawford, of Fredericksburg or South East, who belonged to Tarleton's Legion, was William.