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liad twenty killed or wounded ; among the latter was Captain Christopher 

 Hatch, who afterwards settled in N/Cw Brunswick and died at St. An- 

 drews, where some of his descendants still reside. Beverley Robinson, 

 Colonel of the ivgimont, was a member of the first Council of New 

 Brunswick, but never took his seat. The Lieutenant-Colonel, Beverley 

 Kobinson, Jr., also went to that province and was a member of its Council 

 for many years, and his descendants still live there. John Robinson, 

 brother of the last mentioned Beverley, was a lieutenant in the same 

 regiment and also settled in New Brunswick. He was father of the late 

 Beverley Robinson, treasurer of that province, and of the late John M. 

 Robinson, barrister of St. John. There were no less than five Robinsons 

 in the Loyal American Regiment, the others besides those already named 

 being Christopher and Robert Robinson, near relatives of Col. Beverley 

 Robinson. Robert Robinson, who was a lieutenant, was the grandfather 

 of Thos. M. Robinson, late manager of the Western Union Telegraph 

 Office of St. John. He retired vrith the half-pay of a Captain and settled 

 in Wilmot, N.S., and afterwards removed to Digby, where he died. 

 Christopher was the father of Sir Beverley, Chief Justice of Upper 

 'Canada, who died in 1863, and grandfather of Sir Lucan Robinson, who 

 resided in England. 



Arnold, having removed the guns from Hood's batteries, dropped 

 down the river to Harding's Ferry and from thence marched to Spring- 

 field. Simcoe and his Rangers then proceeded to M'Kie's mills, where 

 he attacked and dispersed a considerable force of the enemy; he next 

 captured an officer and 12 men and, by means of the former, induced the 

 whole body of militia to surrender on parole. The next day the army 

 continued its march and the Rangers went to Portsmouth, where they 

 arrived on the 11th January, after capturing or dispersing two or three 

 detachments of Americans on the march, 



Simcoe in his work gives an incident which occurred at this time, 

 which presents, although told in the simplest language, a vivid picture 

 of the horrors of war. " On the 25th," says Simcoe, " Col. Dundas, with 

 a party of the 80th and a detachment of the Queen's Rangers crossed 

 Elizabeth River and went into Princess Ann. This party returned at 

 night, and on its arrival at the ferry an account came from General 

 Arnold that some of the artillery, who had been foraging on the road to 

 the Great Bridge, had been attacked, their waggons taken and the officer 

 killed. The general ordered a detachment to be passed over from Nor- 

 folk to endeavour to retake the waggons; the troops had just arrived from 

 a fatiguing march; the night was closing in and it began to rain tre- 

 mendously, Lieut.-Col. Simcoe ferried over, as ordered, to Herbert's 

 Point, 14 Yagers and Rangers ; they were joined by the conductor of th** 



