I represent Capt. Adam Chrystie. I was a native of Scotland. I arrived in West Florida sometime around 1772 and became a wealthy planter with 2000 acres on the Amite River. This was in the Manchac district, of which I was a magistrate. In the spring of 1778, American rebel James Willing and his raiders plundered British plantations along the Mississippi and mine was in his path. I fled to Pensacola with less than four hours’ notice. In the fall of 1778, I was elected to represent both Mobile and Pensacola in the House of Commons for the 7th (and last) provincial General Assembly; after protests I could not seat both chairs, I chose Mobile. I became Speaker of the House of Assembly. After the Spanish took Mobile, General John Campbell raised a troop of light cavalry – the West Florida Royal Foresters – that I commanded as a captain. We were involved in every enemy contact during the siege of Pensacola in 1781. After the surrender on May 10, 1781, I became a prisoner of war with the rest of the survivors. I was among those sent to Havana and then to New York. The West Florida Royal Foresters continued to muster in Long Island, where we remained in prisoner status on parole, until at least June 1782. After the war, I returned to England and then went to the Bahamas where I was colonial secretary and member of council. I died in 1812.
Sources: 57, 64, 65, 86, 66, 6