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King's American Keginient. 



Detachment ol' the Garrison Battalion. 



New Yorlv \'olunteers. 



First DeLancey"s Battalion. 



Second DeLaneey's Battalion. 



Loyal American Keginient. 



First Battalion Xew Jersey Volunteers. 



Second Battalion New Jersey Volunteers. 



Third Battalion New Jersey Volunteers. 



Prince of Wales, American Kegiment, 



Pennsylvania I^oyalists. 



Maryland Loyalists. 



American Legion. 



Guides and Pioneers. 



Detaclunent King's American Dragoons. 



Detachment North Carolina Volunteers. 



The fleet eontainin<ï this large representation of the Loyalists who 

 entered the service of the Crown, reached St. John on the -^Tth September 

 with the exception of the transport ship " Martha/' which was wrecked 

 on a ledge of rocks between Cape Sable and the Seal Islands. The 

 '' Martha " had on board the Maryland lioyalists and part of the Second 

 Battalion of DeLanceys. Of the 174 persons on the " Martha," 99 per- 

 ished and 75 were saved by fishing boats and taken to St. John. 



The Queen's Rangers and the other corps under the command of 

 Lieut.-Col. Hewlett were disbanded at St. John on the 13th October. 

 l'!he men received grante of land in the county of York, in the parish of 

 Queensbury, which was named after them and the officers went on half 

 pay. A return made on the 2r)th September, 1781. by Thomas Knox, 

 Deputy Commissioner of Musters, shows that the nimiber of persons 

 connected with the Queen's Rangers who were settled in the province of 

 Nova Scotia at that date was 361, consisting of 210 men, G4 w^omen, 64 

 children, and 23 servants. Although sadly reduced in numbers they 

 formed the largest body of militant Loyalists that settled in Nova Scotia. 



It was one of the grounds on which Sir Henry Clinton, the Com- 

 mander-in-chief in America, recommended that the Queen's Rangers 

 should be enrolled in the British Army that this step should be taken 

 "in justice to his country, that in case of future war it might not be 

 deprived of the sen'ices of such a inimber of excellent officers." It 

 would indeed have been difficult to find in any regiment so admirable 

 a body of gentlemen, as the officers of the Rangers, inured as they were 

 to the hardships of war by so many successive campaigns and so intelli- 



