I represent Philip Pittman. I was a military engineer at Pensacola, a surveyor detached from His Majesty’s 15th Regiment. I came to West Florida in 1763. I kept hard at work at Pensacola and on the Iberville, and I went with Major Robert Farmar’s expedition of 1765 to the Illinois country. Major Farmar and I had a spectacular falling out and I ended up joining Governor Johnstone’s allies in bringing charges of misconduct against him. We came back to Pensacola in 1767 for Farmar’s court-martial and General Haldimand had to use all manner of measures to keep us from each other’s throats. In June of that year, Haldimand finally ordered me to go with surveyor George Gauld to Fort St. Marks in Apalachee to assess damage from a winter storm, mostly to get me out of Pensacola. (PS: Farmar was acquitted.)
Sources: 14, 35