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shortly after the disappearance of their respective heads. In the case 
of the family of Ebenezer Punderson, a merchant of Norwich, Conn., 
who had found it necesssry to flee at the close of May, 1775, (first, 
aboard the ship Rose at Newport, where he sojourned four months, 
then to Boston and so to London for the winter, returning to New 
York in the spring) an interval of three and a half years elapsed before 
the members of this dissevered household were able to reunite.! 
When the tide of war moved to the southward in 1780, the Prince 
of Wales American Volunteers and the King’s American Regiment 
together with other Loyalist corps, moved with it. The Prince of 
Wales Volunteers saw service in South Carolina during nearly two 
years, beginning with September 1st of the year named, its last muster 
in the South being held on James Island, June 24, 1782, when the 
regiment numbered 267 men. The King’s American Regiment was 
sent with General Leslie in October, 1780, to the relief of Lord Corn- 
wallis, and consisted at the time of eight companies of infantry, one of 
light infantry, and one troop of light dragoons, the total strength 
being over 450 men. After participating in several battles in South 
Carolina, the corps proceeded to Savannah, Georgia, where it re- 
_ mained in garrison until the summer of 1782, when it returned to 
New York, and encamped at Flushing, Long Island, until the close 
of the war. The last muster of the regiment before its departure for 
the Bay of Fundy (this muster taking place in August, 1783), shows 
that it had dwindled to nearly half of its maximum strength, or to an 
enrollment of 273 of all ranks—a loss of 130 members since its final 
muster at Savannah fourteen months before.? 
Concerning the Queen’s Rangers, which contained a large pro- 
portion of Connecticut men at the beginning of its career, much more 
requires to be said in order to trace its component elements. This 
corps was raised by, Colonel Robert Rogers of Dunbarton, N.H., who 
appears to have openly espoused the royal side early in 1776. His 
recruiting operations were carried on ‘in Connecticut and the vicinity 
of New York,” and he encouraged enlistments by issuing a printed 

1 Mr. Punderson’s Narrative, Westminster, 1780, 8-10. 
Capt. Abraham De Peyster and his Grenadier Company of the King’s American 
Regiment had participated in the unsuccessful expedition from Newport against New 
Bedford, Conn., and Falmouth, Mass., at the end of March, 1779, and in the second 
attempt on New Bedford on May 14. Just what share it may have had in the 
capture of various prizes, besides a large number of farm animals in the following 
June and September, we do not know. (MS. Note-book of Archdeacon W. O. Ray- 
mond of St. John, N.B.; Raymond, Winslow Papers, 46, 47.) 
2 Rev. W. O. Raymond’s “Early Days of Woodstock,” in the Dispatch of Wood- 
stock, N.B., Jan. 23, 1907; MS. abstracts of Col. Edward Winslow’s Muster Rolls, 
by Rev. W. O. Raymond. 
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