I represent Cornet John Allender. I served in the West Florida Royal Foresters, a company of light cavalry raised by Maj. Gen. John Campbell in March 1780 and commanded by Adam Chrystie. We fought against the Spanish at such notable battles as Baton Rouge, Mobile, and the Siege of Pensacola. In the initial orders forming the company, I was identified as a Gentleman. (“Cornet” is an old British cavalry rank equivalent to an ensign in the infantry.) I was on the final extant muster roll taken at New Town, Long Island, New York (now Elmhurst, Queens) on 25 June 1782. New Town was where the Pensacola garrison was sent after the surrender of Pensacola on May 10, 1781. In 1789 I would marry Hannah, and I returned at some point to Baltimore as I died there in 1822.
Sources: 64, 86, 126