I represent Daniel Shay. I was a volunteer in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment. This regiment was raised in 1777. 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. Those of us who survived until the surrender of Pensacola were sent to New York with the rest of the prisoners of war. I died on August 19, 1779, at a place the British called Red Cliffs, but which the Spanish would call Barrancas. No cause of death was in the record.
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