LOYALIST & BRITISH MUSTER ROLLS, First (or Royal) Regiment of Foot, 2nd Battalion America

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LOYALIST & BRITISH MUSTER ROLLS First (or Royal) Regiment of Foot, 2nd Battalion America

Contributor Murray McCombs
Source: First (or Royal) Regiment of Foot, 2nd Battalion American p54 (1763), British Officer's handbooks.

The following British Regiments served in North America during the French and Indian Wars. Many soldiers were granted land at the end of the conflict. This may prove relevant to Loyalist Family research.

These are the following Identified:

1st (Royal Scots), 2nd battalion
13th
15th
17th
22nd Foot
27 th Foot (Inniskilling)
28th
35th
40th Foot
42nd (Blackwatch Highlanders)
43rd
44th
45th
46th
47th
48th
55th
58th
77th Mongomeries Highlanders
78th Fraser Highlanders
Nine Independant companies of Foot

RANK ; Name ;Regiment Rank Date

Colonel James St. Clair 27 June 1737
Lieut. Colonel William Forester 24 Dec, 1755
Major Frederick Hamilton 7 May, 1757

Captains

Alexander Hay 12 Mar 1754
James Wall 16 Feb, 1756
Benjamin Gordon 2 Feb. 1757
David Alleyne 25 Dec. 1758
James Dalyell 13 Sept, 1760
Rudolph Bentinck 14 May 1761
Henry Balfour 8 Oct, 1761
Alexander Baillie 30 Nov 1761

Lieutenants

John Hill 9 Apr. 1756
James Douglas 17 Apr 1756
Francis Fitzsimons 27 Dec 1756
Adolphus Benzell 2 Jan 1757
James Stuart 2 Feb, 1757
Richard Marshall 25 Feb, 1757
Patrick West 15 June 1758
Henry Marcell 16 July 1758
Robert Cook 18 July 1758
George Burton 14 April, 1759
John Elliot 14 Feb, 1760
Henry Waterson 18, Sept, 1760
Christopher Forster 19 sept, 1760
William Sherlock 20 Sept, 1760
Richard Friend 29 Sept, 1761
Charles Lowson 4 jan, 1762
Thomas Roth 27 June, 1762
Joseph Knight 23 July, 1762
Patrick Bellew 15 Aug, 1762
John Evatt 3 Sept, 1762

Ensigns

John Cochran 18 Sept, 1760
George Mackenzie 22 Mar, 1761
Stephen Gually 22 Apr, 1762
John Scott 29 Apr. 1762
Richard Wilkinson 28 June 1762
Thomas Waterman 9 July 1762

Chaplain William Halliburton 22 May 1747
Adjutant John Hill 15 Oct, 1760
QuaterMaster James Douglas 19 Feb, 1757
Surgeon John M'Colme 21 May 1744
Agent Sir Thomas Wilson, Dean-Street, Soho

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