The Negro Fort
That your Petitioner’s Husband suffer’d great Losses & severe persecutions, on account of his active zeal & Loyalty, the resentment of the Rebels was particularly excited at your Petitioner’s late Husband’s having given useful signals from his House, to the King’s Garrison at Amboy & having gone out with the Troops as a volunteer & Guide. They threaten’d his Life imprison’d and compell’d him to quit his House & family; a large number of arm’d men afterwards forced into the House at Midnight, and plunder’d your Petitioner of all her valuable effects, treating her and her Children with great Barbarity, in consequence of which she was obliged to fly to New York & leave her possession in the hands of the Rebels. Two of her Children died of Epidemical Fevers caught from the Rebels and she soon after lost her Husband & her remaining Son. Her Brother, a Captain in the 38th Regiment, who might have assisted her, was kill’d in Action; and She is now in the utmost distress with two Infant Daughters with no other prospect but the clemency of your Lordships who she hopes will take the great hardship of her case into consideration…
The Ordeal of Mary Stephen
“That your Petitioner’s Husband suffer’d great Losses & severe persecutions, on account of his active zeal & Loyalty, the resentment of the Rebels was particularly excited at your Petitioner’s late Husband’s having given useful signals from his House, to the King’s Garrison at Amboy & having gone out with the Troops as a volunteer & Guide.
They threaten’d his Life imprison’d and compell’d him to quit his House & family; a large number of arm’d men afterwards forced into the House at Midnight, and plunder’d your Petitioner of all her valuable effects, treating her and her Children with great Barbarity, in consequence of which she was obliged to fly to New York & leave her possession in the hands of the Rebels. Two of her Children died of Epidemical Fevers caught from the Rebels and she soon after lost her Husband & her remaining Son.
Her Brother, a Captain in the 38th Regiment, who might have assisted her, was kill’d in Action; and She is now in the utmost distress with two Infant Daughters with no other prospect but the clemency of your Lordships who she hopes will take the great hardship of her case into consideration…”
- Mary Stephen, widow of Thomas Stephen, Collector of Customs for East Jersey. AO 13/112A f.35
Loyalist Evacuees and Exiles, Per County
Loyalist Evacuee Destination/Last Known Residence in Exile
The Loyalist Diaspora
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For Further Research
NJ Rev War Miscellaneous Bound Books Film 677 Books 27-33