I represent George Mathews. I was a private in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment that was raised in 1777. I was a native of Dundee, Scotland. I enlisted in Captain Isaac Costen‘s company. We saw action at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 before being sent later that year to West Florida to defend Pensacola and Mobile against the Spanish. When the Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists regiments were merged in 1779 – our numbers have been so far reduced by disease and desertion that we couldn’t function individually – I was placed in Capt. Caleb Jones‘ company. I remained with Capt. Jones until the surrender of Pensacola to the Spanish in May 1781, when the survivors of our regiment were sent to New Town, Long Island, as prisoners of war. I stayed with the regiment until the end of the Revolutionary War, when I and many of my Loyalist comrades sought refuge and a fresh start in Canada. I settled in St. John’s, New Brunswick, where I became Harbor Master at the port. I died there in 1832, aged 83.
Sources: 129, 131, 140