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

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

Abraham Chapman, Who Was At Guilford Court House

Petition of Mary Chapman, widow of Abraham Chapman, late cornet in the British Legion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton

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C11

Abraham Chapman enlisted in Philadelphia under the command of General Sir William Howe...

Lord Cathcart was Colonel

1781 Abraham Chapman was promoted to a Lieutenant; he served in Virginia and Carolina with his regiment...under Earl Cornwallis...was at Guilford Court House...

To Nova Scotia

Petition Postmarked and Dated: New York, December 27, 1819

An affidavit in the C-11, Archives file W.O. 42 [Image 884] referred to the marriage at Trinity Church between Abraham Chapman and Mary Willis, of December 17, 1782.

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