John Bonell's Claim

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903 (Image 496):

Halifax, 27th July 1786 - Evidence of John Bonell's Claim (formerly of Georgia)

• Claimant says he was in Georgia, about 80 miles from Savannah
• In 1784 he went to St. Augustine
• He now lives in Colequid in this Province
• Father lived upon Ogetchie Georg(ia) (and Briar Creek)
• Claimant was taken by the Rebels and taken prisoner

Source

"Says he joined the Militia under Col. Brown at St. Marys...".