71st Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders) action in Savannah, Georgia

[Orvis]

Just came upon this thread. My 5th great-grandfather, James Logan, was a member of the 71st. He was wounded, and along with many Highlanders of different regiments was sent to the Royal Garrison Battalion to garrison Bermuda. After the war, he and many of the Battalion, took land grants, and founded my home town of Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. I have quite a few copies of the discharge papers, along with copies of correspondence by him and his wife.

Frank

The documents you mentioned represent quite a cache not only of ancestral family history, but of material potentially of interest to historians. Congratulations on possessing this material. In my research into the RevWar British Army in North America, I generally found that Scottish soldiers were more likely to be literate than English ones, as proved by the letters you possess. Treasure them.

My ex-wife was from eastern Ontario (Cornwall), which was settled as a royal township by Loyalists of the King's Royal Regiment of New York under Sir John Johnson. Other towns along the St. Lawrence River were settled by veterans of the 84th Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants). There are cemeteries from the Cornwall area to Morrisburg (including some that were moved from the submerged towns west of the Cornwall power dam) that contain graves of Loyalists who were forced to evacuate their homes in the USA and start over in the wilderness. Upper Canada Village (near Morrisburg) gives an excellent depiction of what these new settlers must have gone through before they became comfortable farmers in the 19th century. This site is also near the War of 1812 battlefield of Crysler's Farm, where British regulars and Canadian militia (including the Glengarry Militia, a light infantry regiment) defeated American forces.

[Highland Logan]

The documents you mentioned represent quite a cache not only of ancestral family history, but of material potentially of interest to historians. Congratulations on possessing this material. In my research into the RevWar British Army in North America, I generally found that Scottish soldiers were more likely to be literate than English ones, as proved by the letters you possess. Treasure them.

My ex-wife was from eastern Ontario (Cornwall), which was settled as a royal township by Loyalists of the King's Royal Regiment of New York under Sir John Johnson. Other towns along the St. Lawrence River were settled by veterans of the 84th Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants). There are cemeteries from the Cornwall area to Morrisburg (including some that were moved from the submerged towns west of the Cornwall power dam) that contain graves of Loyalists who were forced to evacuate their homes in the USA and start over in the wilderness. Upper Canada Village (near Morrisburg) gives an excellent depiction of what these new settlers must have gone through before they became comfortable farmers in the 19th century. This site is also near the War of 1812 battlefield of Crysler's Farm, where British regulars and Canadian militia (including the Glengarry Militia, a light infantry regiment) defeated American forces.

Not to stray too far from the topic, but a great book for anyone looking into the Loyalists is; This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791 by Neil MacKinnon. Another book dealing more on the war would be; Scottish Highlanders and the American Revolution by G. Murray Logan (no known relation).

Frank