I represent Richard Carrique. I was a lieutenant in His Majesty’s 16th Regiment of Foot. I was commissioned in February 1769. The 16th was part of the garrison of Pensacola for a long time compared to other regiments; we arrived in the spring of 1770 and stayed through the surrender of the city in May 1781. According to Robert Farmar’s journal of the siege, on Apri 28, 1781: “Early this morning two field pieces and 50 men of the 16th and 60th Regt. went out as an advanced piquet under the commands of Lt. Carrique and Ward. About 4 o’clock p.m. the enemy advanced with their field pieces but was drove back by the picquet.” I was discharged from the Regiment on August 25, 1781 in New Town, Long Island, where I had gone with the rest of the survivors of the siege of Pensacola as a prisoner of war.
Sources: 28, 137