I represent Joseph Swift. I was a captain and company commander in the Provincial Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists. I was from Bensalem Township and was one of the few members of the corps that was actually from Pennsylvania. Raised in Philadelphia in 1777, the corps arrived in Pensacola at the very end of 1778 and remained until the surrender of Pensacola to the Spanish on May 10, 1781. The Pennsylvania Loyalists were sent with the rest of the prisoners of war to New York. I was on the St. Joseph and St. Joachim, a ship carrying Pennsylvania Loyalists (and was in command of them at the time), that was boarded and taken by Rebel privateers. They sent us to Philadelphia, rather than New York as per the terms of the surrender. The ship was captured again by a Loyalist privateer schooner before it reached the Delaware River. We arrived in New York toward the end of July 1781, a week behind the rest of the garrison. We remained as prisoners on parole for a year in Newtown, Long Island. I appeared on 1785 list of petitioners for land grant in New Brunswick, which is where a lot of Loyalist refugees ended up. Though I went to Nova Scotia, I died in Philadelphia in 1826. Apropros of nothing: I apparently had a stutter.
Sources: 8, 30, 56, 100