I represent Will Pepper. I was a private 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. When we arrived, 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. While most of the victims died in February, my date of death – January 26, 1779 – probably makes me a victim of that epidemic.
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