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DELAWARE
GEORGE READ was able to deceive his British captors when he took his family across the Delaware River to safety. Using an assumed name, he told the men aboard the British barge that he was a loyalist who was trying to take his family to his estate on the far shore. It is reported that the sailors carried the baggage and assisted his wife and children ashore. Until the war ended, he and his family stayed in numerous homes around the state.
THOMAS MCKEAN wrote to John Adams in 1779 that he had been “hunted like a fox by the enemy . . . compelled to move my family five times in a few months, and at last fixed them in a little log-house on the banks of the Susquehanna. They were soon obliged to move again on account of incursions of the Indians.”
GEORGIA
GEORGE WALTON was shot in the thigh and taken prisoner when the British attacked Savannah on December 29, 1778. He was an officer in the Georgia militia during the attack. British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell gave Walton a parole so a private doctor could treat his leg wound. When his leg healed, Campbell put Walton back into prison. He was released during a prisoner exchange in September 1779.
LYMAN HALL’S rice plantation, Hall’s Knoll, was seized and burned. He was able to move his family safely into South Carolina before the British arrived. All of his property was confiscated.
SOUTH CAROLINA
THOMAS HEYWARD was wounded and taken prisoner during the 1780 British siege of Charleston. British forces occupied his plantations, plundered his mansion and burned his fields. His wife died while he was imprisoned in Florida. He was released in late 1781 in a prisoner exchange arranged by British officials and Congress.
EDWARD RUTLEDGE helped to defend Charleston during the 1780 British siege. He was taken as a prisoner of war and imprisoned in Florida. His property was seized, his mother was arrested and removed from her plantation home and confined in Charleston. He was released in late 1781 in a prisoner exchange arranged by British officials and Congress.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON was taken as a prisoner of war during the 1780 British siege of Charleston. His wife and children were not harmed when the British took over their plantation during the siege. While he was imprisoned in Florida, his wife and children were destitute. He was released in late 1781 in a prisoner exchange arranged by British officials and Congress.
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