Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Jeremiah Drake Loyalist

Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York By Ira K. Morris: "of the noted Governor It may be after all that the name of Dr Henry Dongan faded away on a crumbling stone that once marked one of these old graves DRAKE JEREMlAH He was an ardent Loyalist but took no part in the Revolution He left Staten Island in 1783 and settled in the Province of New Brunswick He died in St John in 1846 aged eighty years DUNN JOHN He left the United States at the close of the Revolution and was one of the founders of St "

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