166 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



in the Bonetta. '' Many of the soldiei-s,"" says Simcoe, " who were pris- 

 oners in the v-ountry, were seized as deserters from Washington's amiy, 

 several enlisted in it to facilitate their escape, and being caught in the 

 attempt were executed; a greater nimiber got safe to New York, and 

 had the war continued there was little doubt but the corps would have 

 been re-assembled in detail. The Eangers were so daring and active in 

 their attempts to escape that latterly they were confined in gaol." 



The war did not continue and the Eangers had no more services to 

 perform. They existed, however, as a regiment until the 13th October, 

 1783, The date of the last muster roll that has been discovered is 24th 

 April, 1783. They then numbered 173 rank and file of cavaliy, of whom 

 (J-l were prisoners with tlie enemy, and 295 rank and file of infantry, 

 of whom 19-1 were prisoners. Prior to that, in December, 1782, the rank 

 of the officers of the Eangers had been made universally permanent and 

 the corps, both cavalry' and infantry, honourably enrolled in the British 

 army. 



Thus ends the story of the Queen's Eangers " whose services," as 

 Simcoe remarks, " can best be estimated by observing that for years in 

 the field they were the forlorn hope of the armies in which they served, 

 and that even in winter quarters, when in common wars troops are per- 

 mitted to seek repose, few hours can be selected in which the Queen's 

 Eangers had not to guard against the attacks of a skilful and enter- 

 prising enemy." 



Aft«r the Eangers were disbanded at the peace, many of the otficers 

 and most of the soldiers settled on the lands to which they had a claim 

 in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a great part of them settling on 

 the St. John Eiver and its branches. 



VI. 



THE queen's rangers IN OCTOBER. 1781. 



The Queen's Rangers, as we have before observed, settled mainly in 

 New Brunswick, and therefore a list of the Corps, officers and men, as 

 they stood after the surrender at Yorktown in October, 1781, cannot fail 

 to be of interest to their descendants. I therefore give below the names 

 of all who were included in the surrender, showing the company or troop 

 to which they belonged. A large number of these men fought through 

 the whole war aJid endured groat hardships and losses in the cause which 

 they deemed sacred. All of them had been in battle and some of them 

 bore the wounds and soars they had received. Their grand-children and 

 great g rand -children who road thoir names will bo reminded of their 

 honourable ancestry and of the toils and struggles of t])oii- fore-fathers. 



