I represent Patrick Kennedy. I was a captain and company commander in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment. The Regiment was raised in 1777, and I was commissioned at the same time. 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. Robert Farmar‘s journal of the siege of Pensacola has this entry for March 30, 1781: “About 9 o’clock an advanced piquet under the command of Capt. Kennedy of the Maryland Loyalists was obliged to retreat as the enemy was marching down upon them and began to fire their field pieces. 10 o’clock Capt. Kennedy’s party marched down to Neils Meadows about a mile and a quarter from our works.” The siege was made up of dozens of these kinds of skirmishes – at least until May 8 when the Queen’s Redoubt exploded and brought the white flag up. Those of us who survived until the surrender of Pensacola were sent to New York with the rest of the prisoners of war. I appear on the last extant muster roll of my company, June 24, 1783.
Sources: 28, 58, 59, 129