I represent Andrew Rainsford. I was commissioned a captain-lieutenant in the 9th Regiment in 1765. I came to West Florida where I was made Barracks Master of the garrison (meaning I was in charge of supplying and maintaining housing for the troops) and Receiver General for Quit Rents for the province. (A quit rent was a tax payable every year by landowners on their property.) I was appointed to the Council, which not only advised the governor but sat as the Upper House of the provincial General Assembly, in 1778. I appear on a list of inhabitants of Pensacola for February 1780, and on the Spanish list of householders remaining in the town at the time of the capitulation in May 1781. According to my 1783 claim to the Crown for losses in West Florida, I was paid 100 pounds per month as Receiver-General of Quit Rents, I had a wife and seven children, and I wanted to return to America if I could raise the money for the passage.
Sources: 3, 7, 12, 38, 65, 82