I represent William Brown. I was a private in what was for a time called the United Pennsylvania and Maryland Loyalists. I enlisted in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment in December 1777, not long after it was raised, as a private in Captain Grafton Dulany’s company. We arrived in Pensacola at the very end of 1778, and in late December, Captain Dulany died. I was transferred to Capt. Isaac Costen‘s company. In late 1779, with both our corps depleted by disease and desertion, the Maryland and Pennsylvania Loyalists regiments were merged. I was serving in Captain Kearney‘s Invalid company, which means that because of age, injury, or illness, the men in this company were unfit for field duty. On the muster roll for January 1, 1780, I was noted as being “in hospital,” probably from illness. The next muster roll announced my death on January 7, 1780. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
Sources: 8, 129, 131