13. James Greenlaw
James GREENLAW
(~1732 - 1777)
Catherine CRAWFORD
(~1730 - )
Marriage: 05 Mar 1759Research needed....????
________________________________________________________________________RS108 LAND PETITIONS: ORIGINAL SERIES 1783-1918
Name: GREENLAW, JAMES
Year: 1795
County: SAINT JOHN
On microfilm F1039 see petition of: AMBROSE, MICHAEL
Researchers should note that when a "Name" has been drawn from a petition submitted by someone else or by a group, the "See Petition of:" column directs them to the name under which the document is filed and microfilmed.
All names of this petition:
AMBROSE, MICHAEL
GREENLAW, JAMES
HOWARD, ----- (CAPT.)
KANE, JEREMIAH
KEATING, ANN
KEATING, ROBERT
MCLEAN, ALLEN
MCLEOD, JAMES
MILITARY--PRINCE OF WALES, -----
MOSHER, PHILIP
ROSS, ARTHURVIEWING THE COMPLETE PETITION:
The petitions are available only on microfilm: they cannot be used in their original, paper format. The microfilm number ("F-number") is included in the index. Also, the entire index is available on microfilm F13763. The films can be viewed at the Provincial Archives in Fredericton, or at a library participating in the inter-library or inter-archives microfilm loan program. Films can also be purchased from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick at $50.00 each.GETTING A COPY:
A copy of a petition can be acquired by sending a full mailing address, a full reference of the petition, along with $5.00 for each petition requested to Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, P. O. Box 6000, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, E3B 5H1. Requests received without full details or without payment cannot be processed. In all cases, please allow at least 4 - 6 weeks for delivery.
** Denotes Direct Ancestry Family Line
Prior to moving to Saint Andrews New Brunswick Canada John was banished from Massachusetts which Maine was also a part of. See Massachusetts Banishment Act
1775 - Went to Provinces and Settlements, was suspected of spying.
Source: Pierce - page 41, 115.
New York, Nov. 25, Fort George, at Castine
One of the parole books of the 74th at Fort George is still in existence and it is curious to notice in the list of officers that every one was named Campbell. Some of the blank pages of this book were used as an account book at a later date by a man whose name does not appear; and they contain a ‘List of cattel brought down in the sloop from Penobscot.’ Under date of June 20, 1784, separate charges appear against each of the following names, with mention of the number of cattle and other live stock brought for each, and the bill of expenses incurred:-
Ebenezer Greenlaw
Occupation: St. Andrews, NB; Castine; shopkeeper
James Rusel
Matthew Linburner
Mr. Thomson
Jonethean Greenlaw
Daniel Brown
Alex. Greenlaw
Mr. Cooksons
John Nason Mr.
William Sween
Deer Island Late 1783; St. Andrews NB Captured and was a POW
Source: Book, Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists, 1765-1790
RS108 LAND PETITIONS: ORIGINAL SERIES 1783-1918
Name: GREENLAW, JONATHAN
Year: 1796
County: CHARLOTTE
On microfilm F1040 see petition of: TURNER, JAMES
Researchers should note that when a "Name" has been drawn from a petition submitted by someone else or by a group, the "See Petition of:" column directs them to the name under which the document is filed and microfilmed.
All names of this petition:
BALDWIN, JOHN
BRADFORD, BEN
COOKSON, WILLIAM
DALEY, DAVID
DOUGHERTY, EDMOND
EASTMAN, DAVID
GREENLAW, JONATHAN
HALEY, JOHN
HITCHINGS, AMOS
JOYCE, JOHN
LINNEKIN, ZEBEDEE
MCCURDY, LACHLAN
MCINTOSH, JOHN
MILLEKIN, DOMINICUS
PENOBSCOT ASSOCIATION, -----
RIGBY, JOHN
SIM, ROBERT
THOMSON, DUGALD
TURNER, JAMESVIEWING THE COMPLETE PETITION:
The petitions are available only on microfilm: they cannot be used in their original, paper format. The microfilm number ("F-number") is included in the index. Also, the entire index is available on microfilm F13763. The films can be viewed at the Provincial Archives in Fredericton, or at a library participating in the inter-library or inter-archives microfilm loan program. Films can also be purchased from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick at $50.00 each.GETTING A COPY:
A copy of a petition can be acquired by sending a full mailing address, a full reference of the petition, along with $5.00 for each petition requested to Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, P. O. Box 6000, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, E3B 5H1. Requests received without full details or without payment cannot be processed. In all cases, please allow at least 4 - 6 weeks for delivery.
** Denotes Direct Ancestry Family Line
40. Charles Greenlaw
The American Revolution.From Hosmer -
"An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle" page 34 - 35"Although there were acts of violence between Whigs and Tories in other places, I never learned of any here, for there was too great a disproportion between them; for the Tories were but few in comparison to their opponents,
and all they could do was to carry information to the officers at Castine; and the others were kept in awe in consequence of the fears entertained of the troops there, who would speedily retaliate, if any injury were
inflicted upon their loyal friends. Only one act of injury ever came to my knowledge, which was that of the crew of an American privateer upon one of the Tories here, a member of that family which moved away at the close of the war, who was either carried or enticed on board the vessel, while she lay at anchor not far from his place of residence. He was forced to go into the main-top, where he was fired at with the intention not to kill, but to see how near the bullets could go and not hit him. His terror while it was being done was so great as to cause insanity. It was an act of cruelty and cowardice."Also check "Deer Isle in the Revolution" by Vernal R. Hutchinson, Capter 3...
Also see "The Loyalists of Massachusetts" by E. Alfred Jones, page 154.
According to this account it was Charles Greenlaw.BIOGRAPHY: Hutchinson, Vernal. (1949). Deer Isle in the revolution. Hancock County Pub. Co., Ellsworth, ME (MSL Stacks 974.1 tD31h, 1949)
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Deer IsleBicentennial Committee of Deer Isle. (1989). Deer Isle remembered 1789-1989. Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME.
Gross, Clayton H. (1977). Island chronicles: Accounts of days past in Deer Isle and Stonington. Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME.
Hosmer, George Lawrence. (1886). An historical sketch of the town of Deer Isle, Maine, with notices of its settlers and early inhabitants. Stanley and Usher, Boston, MA. Reprinted in 1999 by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD.
Hutchinson, Vernal. (1949). Deer Isle in the revolution. Hancock County Pub. Co., Ellsworth, ME.
Hutchinson, Vernal. (1957). A Yankee town in the Civil War: Being a pioneer chronicle of the vanished town of old Deer Isle, in Maine, during the crucial years, 1861- 1865. Deer Isle, ME.
Hutchinson, Vernal. (1967). A Maine town in the Civil War. Bond Wheelwright Co., Freeport, ME.
Hutchinson, Vernal. (1972). When revolution came; the story of Old Deer Isle in the province of Maine during the war for American independence. Ellsworth American, Ellsworth, ME.
Hutchinson, Vernal. (1976). Deer Isle revolutionary soldiers. V.R. Hutchinson, Deer Isle, ME?
Watts, Edith Spofford. (1997). Deer Isle, Maine: From pre-history to the present. Penobscot Press, Camden, ME.
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This event happen in the Revolutionary War. It is a quote from the Greenlaw Claim contained in Audit Office 12 & 13 at the Public Record Office (U.K.). The exact citation is in ref. Charles Greenlaw.
New York, Nov. 25, Fort George, at Castine
One of the parole books of the 74th at Fort George is still in existence,2 and it is curious to notice in the list of officers that every one was named Campbell. Some of the blank pages of this book were used as an account book at a later date by a man whose name does not appear; and they contain a ‘List of cattel brought down in the sloop from Penobscot.’ Under date of June 20, 1784, separate charges appear against each of the following names, with mention of the number of cattle and other live stock brought for each, and the bill of expenses incurred:-
Ebenezer Greenlaw
Deer Island Late 1783; St. Andrews NB Captured and was a POW
James Rusel
Matthew Linburner
Mr. Thomson
Jonethean Greenlaw
Daniel Brown
Alex. Greenlaw
Mr. Cooksons
John Nason
Mr. William Sween
Source: Book, Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists, 1765-1790
Served in the American Revolution under the command of Captain John Walden Meyers of the 74th Regiment Discharged 1783.
Constantinides: "Meyers, who was from New York State, served as a Loyalist spy," operating under the British Northern Department headquartered in Canada. "From Fryer's description, a good deal of this service was as courier for the British between Canada and New York City, although Meyers achieved fame at the time for his attempt to kidnap the American General Philip Schuyler."
Formed [Dec 1777]
Arrived New York [1779]
Sent to Halifax
Sent to Penobscot, ME [Jul 1779]
Returned to Scotland [1783]
The 74th was raised in 1787 and styled "The 74th Highland Regiment of Foot." The uniform was the full Highland dress, the tartan being similar to that of the 42nd Highlanders (now The Black Watch). In 1881 the 74th became the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry.
At the
begining of the war, the 42d Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlanders a.k.a "The
Black Watch") was the only Highland Regiment which had not been disbanded
following the French & Indian Wars. In 1775, this regiment was expanded to
about 1100 men. At the same time Simon Fraser of Lovat was given a charter
to raise a large, two battalion regiment of about 2100 men. This Regiment
was designated the 71st Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders). The 42d
and the 71st sailed at the end of April 1775 from Greenock for Boston (which
had been evacuated a month earlier). Six of the 33 transport ships in this
convoy were captured by the Americans (five with the 71st and one of the
42d). Of the about six humdred men who became POWs, 200 ended up in gaols
in interior Virgina counties and 400 in eastern or central Massachusetts
with some officers in Rhode Island and New York..In 1775 a Highland Regiment was raised in Canada called the Royal Highland
Emigrants. The promise was that it would be on the British establishment
however this took a while to happen -- three years later in 1778 when the
Regiment officially became the 84th Regiment of Foot. It was raised
initially from soldiers who had been discharged in America at the end of the
French & Indian Wars. Two battalions strong, the 1st Battalion remained in
Canada but the 2d Battalion served in America.In 1777, charters were given to Lord McLeod (73d Regiment a.k.a Lord
McLeod's Highlanders), John Campbell of Barbreck (74th Rgiment a.k.a. Argyll
Higlanders), John Lord MacDonald of Sleate (76th Regiment a.k.a. MacDonald's
Highlanders), James Murray, son of Lord George Murray (77th Regiment a.k.a.
Atholl Highlanders), Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth (78th Regiment a.k.a.
Seaforth Highlanders), Sir William Erskine (80th Regiment a.k.a Royal
Edinburgh Volunteers), and Hon. Wm Gordon, brother of the Earl of Aberdeen
(81st Regiment a.k.a Aberdeenshire Highlanders). Not all these regiments
came to America. The 1st Battalion of the 73d went to India and the 2d
Battalion of the 73d went to Gibralter, the 77th went to Ireland, the 78th
initially was spilt and stationed at Jersey and Guernsey until 1781 when
they departed for India, and the 81st was sent to Ireland.In 1778 the 74th went to Halifax with the flank companies sent to New York,
then in 1779 the 74th went to establish Fort George, Penobscot (now Castine,
Maine) where they remained 'til Jan 1784. The 76th and 80th came directly
to New York in 1779 and ended up surrendering under Cornwallis at Yorktown.In 1780, A second battalion for the 42d Regiment was raised
I have studied the 74th but must report that apparently no muster rolls have
survived. Monthly strength reports list the dead and deserters by name. A
friend is writing a history of the 71st and he, too, is short muster rolls.
There may be extant lists for the 42d simply because it is the only Regiment
named above which did not disband in 1783 or 1784. I have no idea as to
what exists for the 76th and 80th.Counting replacements, my guess is that between 7,000 and 8,000 men were
raised for the Highland Regiments sent to America (and another 5,500-6,000
sent to Gibralter, India or Ireland)Captain John Peebles of the 42d Regiment kept a Journal now published (Ira
Gruber, ed.) but there is no one book I can recommend. To the best of my
knowledge, There was no Highlander presence in the Boston theater
(Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Dorchester Heights) except for the capture
of four of their transports in Massachusetts Bay. There was no Highlander
presence with Burgoyne's Army. The 71st was the principal force utilized in
the capture, and later defense, of Savannah, Georgia; however, one battalion
later was captured in the Carolinas and the second surendered at Yorktown.
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Sources:Fryer, Mary Beacock. Loyalist Spy: The Experiences of Captain John Walden Meyers During the American Revolution. Brockville, Ont., Canada: Besancourt, 1974.
Gardner W. Allen, A Naval History of the American Revolution (Boston: Houghton, 1913).
John Henry Fay, "Disaster on the Penobscot," Naval History, December 2000, pp. 31-33.
Allan R. Millett, Semper Fidelis: A History of the United States Marine Corps (New York: The Free Press, 1991).
Craig L. Symonds, "The American Naval Expedition to Pensobscot, 1779," Naval War College Review, vol. XXIV, no. 8, April 1972, pp. 64-72.
“Sea of Glory” by Nathan Miller, pp. 412-417
New York, Nov. 25, Fort George, at Castine
One of the parole books of the 74th at Fort George is still in existence,2 and it is curious to notice in the list of officers that every one was named Campbell. Some of the blank pages of this book were used as an account book at a later date by a man whose name does not appear; and they contain a ‘List of cattel brought down in the sloop from Penobscot.’ Under date of June 20, 1784, separate charges appear against each of the following names, with mention of the number of cattle and other live stock brought for each, and the bill of expenses incurred:-
Ebenezer Greenlaw
Deer Island Late 1783; St. Andrews NB Captured and was a POW
James Rusel
Matthew Linburner
Mr. Thomson
Jonethean Greenlaw
Daniel Brown
Alex. Greenlaw
Mr. Cooksons
John Nason Mr.
William Sween
Source: Book, Divided Hearts, Massachusetts Loyalists, 1765-1790
