Doubloon Plundered

Source

The Loyalists Of America ( Page 241): 


"About this time, 1799, a great number of old soldiers, who had served under and with my [Egerton Ryerson's] father, found their way to the Long Point Settlement. One of these soldiers had been taken prisoner with my father at Charleston, and when they were plundered of everything he managed to conceal a doubloon in his hair. With this he supplied my father's wants, who was wounded and suffering. My father now exchanged with him one of his choice lots, that he might be in the settlement and near a mill; and took his location, which was far back in the woods."