I represent William Augustus Bowles, also known as Estajoca. Born in 1764 in Frederick County, Maryland, I was commissioned an ensign in the Maryland Loyalist Regiment in 1778 at the age of 14. A year later, after conflict with my fellow officers in Pensacola, I resigned and headed out to what was called Indian country. By the end of 1780 I had married a Creek woman and become a leader among the warriors. In early January 1781, a few months after the Spanish had captured Mobile, General Campbell sent a group of Waldeckers, Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists, and indigenous warriors to The Village (on the eastern shore near the head of Mobile Bay) in an attempted counterattack against the Spanish. I was among the British fighters at this battle, probably having come with the Creek who answered the call, and I distinguished myself by my calm courage, despite the attack ending in defeat and retreat back to Pensacola. I returned to the Maryland Loyalist Regiment in time for the siege and surrender of Pensacola and went to Long Island with the rest of the prisoners of war. I appear as an Ensign on the last extant muster roll of my company, June 24, 1783. After the capitulation I went to the Bahamas, but returned in the 1790s to Creek country and continued working in trade on the Chattahoochee River.
Sources: 14, 30, 57, 58, 59, 129, 130