I represent Stephen Boatman. I was a corporal in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment that was raised in 1777. I enlisted as a private in Captain Grafton Dulany’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. Sometime between October 1778 and February 1779, I was promoted to corporal. When we arrived at Pensacola in December 1778, many of us were sick with smallpox, possibly contracted during our stop in Jamaica. We were quarantined in the bay, and many of us died. I am one of several with a death date in February 1779 (the 4th), all of us victims of the epidemic.
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