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owing t^> his Loyalist principles. Pie became chaplain of the Queen's 

 Rangers, brut in 1781 was with his son, ('apt. Agnew, taken prisoner by 

 the French and taken to France where he was confined in the Castle of 

 St. Malo until the peace. He finally settled in New Brunswick and was 

 a member of the House of Assembly for the County of Sunbury. He 

 died near Fredericton in 1812, aged eighty-iive. 



THE CAPTAINS. 



John Saunders was a Virginia gentleman of wealth and came from 

 a good Englisli family. He took the Loyalist side and joined Lord Dun- 

 more with a troop of horse which he had raised himself. He aftferwards 

 became an officer of the Queen's Bangers and was a captain, first of in- 

 fantry and aftei-wards of cavaliy, in that distinguished corps. He was a 

 great favourite of Simcoe and receives high praise in his book as a valu- 

 able officer. He was twice wounded. Aft-er the peace he went to England, 

 became a member of the ^[iddle Temple and commenced the practice 

 of the law. In 1790 he succeeded Judge Putnam on the bench of the 

 Supreme Court of New Brunswick and in 1822, on the death of Judge 

 Bliss, became Chief Justice. He died at Fredericton in 1834, aged 80. 

 Col. Saunders was a man of small size, but very active and courageous. 

 His only son, Hon. John Simcoe Saunders, filled many important public 

 positions and at the time of his decease was President of the Legislative 

 Council of New Brunswick. Col. John Saunders, of the King's County 

 CavaJry, was grandson of Chief Justice Saunders. A grand-daught-er 

 married the late Professor Campbell of the University of New 

 Brunswick. 



James Kerr was a native of Dumfriesshire. He removed with his 

 family to New York State sometime before the Revolutionary troubles. 

 He embraced the cause of the Government and raised a half company of 

 the Queen's Rangers, receiving a commission as lieutenant in November, 

 1776. He was wounded in the battle of Brandy wine and his captain, 

 Robert Murden, was killed, so that he was promoted to captain on the 

 12th September, 1777. He fought all through the war and was one of 

 the corps that was surrendered at Yorktown. After this he returned to 

 Scotland, but afterwards settled in Nova Scotia, first for a time at Com- 

 wallis and afterwards in Parrsboro. The following notice of his death 

 is taken from the " Royal Gazette " of June 23rd, 1830 :— 



" At Amherst, N.S., on Sunday the Gth inst. (June, 1830), James 

 Kerr, Esq., in the 76th year of his age. Colonel Kerr was a native of 

 Dumfriesshire, and served as a captain in the Queen's Kangcrs on the 

 Continent of America during the revolutionary war, during which he was 

 distinguished by repeated acts of bravery and by his friendship and con- 



