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later (that is, on June 22), Brigadier-General Montfort Browne wrote 
from Flushing, L. I., to Muster Master General Edward Winslow that 
the latter’s presence was much wanted at Browne’s headquarters in 
order to muster about eighty or ninety men. He remarked also that 
it was possible that many more might arrive before Winslow should 
reach Flushing, as ‘they only waited for Captain Hoyt’s armed sloop.” 
This is probably a reference to Captain Stephen Hoit of Norwalk, the 
substance of whose affidavit concerning his recruiting activities for 
the Prince of Wales American Volunteers was given on an earlier page. 
In the closing paragraph of his letter to Winslow, General Browne 
applauded the spirited conduct of a company of gentlemen that was on 
its way to join him (some of whose members had indeed already ar- 
rived), because, being persons of good fortune, they had declined ‘any 
emolument whatsoever” for the military service they hoped to render. 
By November 1, 1777, Browne’s corps numbered 470 officers and men, 
and was stationed at Kingsbridge, New York, where it seems to have 
remained until transferred to Rhode Island, near the middle of June of 
the following year. During the greater part of the twelve months 
after this removal its headquarters were at Conanicut, and here it 
probably continued until the British evacuated Newport in October, 
1779. Meantime, the corps had shrunk considerably from the number 
shown in its first enrollment. By the muster of February 24 (1779), 
we find that it had dwindled to the extent of more than 100 men.! 
Inasmuch as the filling of the Prince of Wales regiment is said to have 
drawn heavily upon the male population of Redding, as doubtless on 
that of other Loyalist centres in western Connecticut, it is interesting 
to note in this connection that the selectmen of Redding reported in 
February, 1778, that forty-nine Tories in that town had ‘‘gone over 
to the enemy.”” 
Like the Prince of Wales Volunteers, Fanning’s King’s American 
Regiment was at Kingsbridge, November 1, 1777, when it numbered 
481 men, its maximum strength of 517 being reached nearly six months 
later. It was sent to Rhode Island, doubtless along with Browne’s 
corps, but was stationed at Newport and maintained its strength 
while there at about 480 men. On June 16, 1779, it sailed for New 
York, and accompanied Tryon’s last expedition to Connecticut, which 
occurred in the early days of the next month. This expedition was 
directed against New Haven, Fairfield, Green’s Farms and Norwalk, 
and like the earlier one, was piloted by tory guides, William and 

1 MS. Note-book of Archdeacon W. O. Raymond of St. John, N.B.; Ray mond, 
Winslow Papers, Montfort Browne to Edward Winslow, June 18, 1778. 
2 Am. Hist. Rev., Jan., 1899, 278. 
