| It has pleased God to keep him ever since enlisting
in the army from the least stain on his character to this present time
and has exerted himself in the several stations he was in, such as
private, then corporal, then seargant and was in the battle and sieges
at Dottingham, Fontenoy, Oudenarde and several skirmishes and was a
prisoner of the French.
He was Sergeant of Grenadiers in General Holmes
Regiment of fort, commonly called the "Young Buffs" and was removed by
order of the above regiment to the East Kent Militia when they were
first embodied to help train them, sent from there at the time of
Everness in Northern Britain, 17th March 1760, and joined the Militia
at Canterbury on 5th April 1760.
He kept his station in the field of Battle at
Fontenoy until only he and nine privates of the whole company came out
without injury, the rest being killed or wounded.
| No officer or sergeant came out alive,
afterwards. What remained of the "Young Buffs" were sent
to Oundarde where we were besieged by the French and all of us
taken prisoners by the French. At the siege of Oundarde, the
Regiment being cut off to a small number at the Battle of
Fontenoy, everyone of us had three fire locks, when one was hot,
took up a cold one and kept the French out two weeks then we
were obliged to surrender and were marched out in a field and
stripped of our arms, etc. before the King of France and some of
his Generals and others marched into France prisoners for the
term of three
months. |
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