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example of him. Like others of the Whigs, he was 

 wont occasionally to fly from the privations and 

 fatigues endured by the soldiers of Marion's bri- 

 gade to recruit within the bosom of his family. 

 The enemy having ascertained this determined, if 

 possible, to capture him. His own brother-in-law, 

 James Boisseau, who had enjoyed no other home 

 but his, was won over by bribery to betray him. 

 He was captured in the manner following. His 

 house was situated within fifty yards of the Santee 

 swamp, and it was his habit, when necessary in 

 order to avoid the danger which threatened from 

 the front, to retire by the back way to his usual 

 place of concealment. Boisseau, with a sufficient 

 force below, threaded his way to the spot at which 

 he knew Mr. Sinkler would enter it. Soon after a 

 force was seen descending the avenue. The victim 

 took his hat and returning to his place of con- 

 cealment found himself in the arms of his captors. 

 He was refused an interview with his wife and 

 daughters, made to witness the destruction of the 

 property as specified, carried off a prisoner to the 

 provost in Charleston, and there, without a change 

 of clothes, he was thrust into the southeast room of 

 the post-office cellar, among a crowd as unfortunate 

 as himself, without bedding or even straw to lie 

 upon. Typhus fever soon terminated their suffer- 

 ings. As his reward Boisseau enjoyed for life a 

 commission in the British army and a civil station 

 in Nova Scotia. 



