I represent John McDonald. I was a Major in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment that 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. In the last days of the siege of Pensacola, I ended up being the highest ranking officer for both the Maryland and the Pennsylvania Loyalist Regiments Robert Farmar’s journal of the siege of Pensacola has this entry for May 4, 1781: “12 o’clock 94 Provincials under the command of Maj. McDonald and Waldecks under the company of Lt. Col. De Horn to support them, stormed the works in front of the advanced redoubt, burnt their works and spiked 6 pieces of cannon & 4 pounders. The enemy had a great many killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Those of us who survived until the surrender of Pensacola were sent to New York with the rest of the prisoners of war. I retired on November 30, 1781.
Sources: 28, 30, 38, 58