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brought 100 followers to New York from his neighborhood, and Captain 
Isaac Atwood, a New Jersey Tory, who enlisted a troop of Light 
Dragoons. The recruiting services of another of Fanning’s agents 
ended in the tragedy of an execution for high treason. In 1776 
Moses Dunbar of Waterbury, which lies in the northwestern part of 
the County of New Haven, fled to Long Island. Some months later 
he was induced to accept a captain’s commission at the hands of 
Colonel Fanning, and while on a visit to Connecticut, for the purpose— 
according to his own account—of removing his family across the 
Sound, his presence was divulged to the authorities, and after a period 
of imprisonment and trial before the Superior Court at Hartford, he 
was executed, March 19, 1777, not only for enlisting in the service of 
the enemy, but also for persuading John Adams of Farmington and 
others to engage in levying war against the state. That the fated 
Dunbar was not the only citizen of Waterbury who joined the British 
finds confirmation in the list of 68 names, printed in histories of the 
town, of those alleged to have left the place for that purpose. 
There were, of course, others engaged in bringing off their Tory 
associates and friends, but unfortunately we are not able to identify 
the regiments that received material additions through their efforts, 
though we know that an occasional man from Connecticut found his 
way into Wentworth’s Volunteers, Sir John Johnson’s second battalion, 
the Royal Guides and Pioneers, the Loyal American Rangers, and 
other corps. These were doubtless individual enlistments requiring 
the labors of no recruiting officer. How many of the following named 
men carried on their activities under military warrant or what the 
effect of their labors in swelling regimental rolls is unknown. Daniel 
Smith of New Milford, Litchfield County, operated under a warrant, 
or commission, during the winter of 1776-77, and secured ‘‘a good 
many’; John McKee of Norwalk and Benjamin Sealy of Stratford, 
were caught in the act of spiriting away fugitives, and got themselves 
into jail by their illtimed efforts; John Cable of Glastonbury, whose 
vessel on the sound served as tender to the British ship Swan (Captain 
James Ayscough), supplied transportation to Long Island on occa- 
sion, while Azariah Pritchard of Derby, operated out of Milford Bay, 
landing not less than 160 persons on the shores opposite up to May, 
1777, when he escaped into Canada. However, Pritchard’s activities 
as an abductor of Loyalists appear not to have ceased with his flight, 


1 Raymond, Winslow Papers, 48, n.; MS. note-book of Rev. W. O. Raymond 
of St. John, N.B.; Sabine, Am. Loyalists, 1847, 281, 282; Rev. W. O. Raymond’s 
“Early Days of Woodstock” in The Dispatch of Woodstock, N.B., Jan. 16, 1907. 
Bronson, Hist. of Waterbury, Conn.; Pond, Tories of Chippeny Hill, 56-60; Conn. 
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