I represent Richard Jasper. I was a private in the Provincial Corps of Pennsylvania Loyalists. I was enlisted by Capt. Thomas Stephens in November 1777 directly out of the prisoners taken at Brandywine and Germantown. I was to be a servant to Stephens. I obviously was not feeling further military service; I deserted in February 1778. I was caught the next summer in New Jersey, working for an American officer. I was arrested and court martialed in Brooklyn that August and sentenced to 1,000 lashes. I was returned to the Regiment in time to be sent to Pensacola with the Pennsvylania Regiment, along with the Maryland Loyalists and 3rd Waldeck Regiment. We arrived in Pensacola at the very end of 1778 and remained until the surrender of Pensacola to the Spanish on May 10, 1781. In his journal of the siege of Pensacola, Robert Farmar described an attack on May 4 at noon: “94 Provincials [that’s the Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists] under the command of Maj. McDonald and Waldecks under the command of Lt. Col. de Horn [sic], stormed the works in front of the advanced redoubt, burnt their work and spiked 6 pieces of cannon and 4 pounders.” He lists several soldiers killed and wounded on both sides, including a private that was wounded. Perhaps he neglected to update his entry – I was that private, and I died that day. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
Sources: 8, 28, 30, 130