I represent Thomas Gill. I was a sergeant 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. I was born about 1757 in Delaware. I enlisted in the Maryland Loyalists Regiment as a corporal in Captain Walter Dulany’s company but was appointed sergeant in Captain Frisby’s company in August 1778. When Pensacola surrendered to the Spanish in May 1781, we survivors of the siege were sent to New Town, Long Island, New York, as prisoners of war. I continued to serve in the regiment, eventually being promoted to Ensign in 1783. After the Revolutionary War, like many of my Loyalist comrades, I went to Canada to seek refuge and try to start my life over. I married Anne, a native of Rhode Island, in 1784 in New Brunswick, and died there in 1833.
Sources: 51, 58, 126, 129