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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. SIMCOE, John G. (1752-1806). Manuscript document signed ("J. G. Simcoe"), as Lt. Col., Queens Rangers, a Parole as Prisoner of War, Trenton, 29 October 1779. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed.
SIMCOE'S PAROLE AS A PRISONER OF WAR, "UPON THE WORD AND HONOUR OF A GENTLEMAN".
The parole states; "I John Graves Simcoe, Lt. Col. of the Queens Rangers do acknowledge myself a Prisoner of War to the State of New Jersey, and do engage to His Excellency Governor Livingston or to the Governor of the time being of said State of New Jersey, upon the word and Honour of a Gentleman, that I will not say or do anything prejudicial to the Interest of the United States of America, and will conduct myself in every respect, as a prisoner ought to do and that I will remove myself to Bordentown and confine myself to the House of Col. Oakey Hogeland at said place until I receive directions from His Excellency William Livingston Esq., or the Governor for the time being."
The son of a naval officer killed at Quebec in 1759, Simcoe joined the 35th Foot in 1771 and fought with them at Boston and at Brandywine, where he was wounded. In October 1777 he was named commander of the Queen's Rangers, whom he led throughout the New Jersey-Pennsylvania theatre in 1778, and carried out successful attacks against Stony Point, Verplank's Point and Pound Ridge. His troops took part in the so-called Tappan Massacre, where a small British force ambushed some 100 sleeping Continental troops at New Tappan, N.Y., killing 30 in their barracks--allegedly without giving any quarter. But Simcoe was not present at the action. He was wounded severely a second time, and taken prisoner at Somerset, New Jersey on 17 October 1779, and exchanged two months later. He fought with Benedict Arnold in Virginia in 1781, and was still bedeviling the Americans at Yorktown, where he surrendered with Cornwallis's force.
SIMCOE'S PAROLE AS A PRISONER OF WAR, "UPON THE WORD AND HONOUR OF A GENTLEMAN".
The parole states; "I John Graves Simcoe, Lt. Col. of the Queens Rangers do acknowledge myself a Prisoner of War to the State of New Jersey, and do engage to His Excellency Governor Livingston or to the Governor of the time being of said State of New Jersey, upon the word and Honour of a Gentleman, that I will not say or do anything prejudicial to the Interest of the United States of America, and will conduct myself in every respect, as a prisoner ought to do and that I will remove myself to Bordentown and confine myself to the House of Col. Oakey Hogeland at said place until I receive directions from His Excellency William Livingston Esq., or the Governor for the time being."
The son of a naval officer killed at Quebec in 1759, Simcoe joined the 35th Foot in 1771 and fought with them at Boston and at Brandywine, where he was wounded. In October 1777 he was named commander of the Queen's Rangers, whom he led throughout the New Jersey-Pennsylvania theatre in 1778, and carried out successful attacks against Stony Point, Verplank's Point and Pound Ridge. His troops took part in the so-called Tappan Massacre, where a small British force ambushed some 100 sleeping Continental troops at New Tappan, N.Y., killing 30 in their barracks--allegedly without giving any quarter. But Simcoe was not present at the action. He was wounded severely a second time, and taken prisoner at Somerset, New Jersey on 17 October 1779, and exchanged two months later. He fought with Benedict Arnold in Virginia in 1781, and was still bedeviling the Americans at Yorktown, where he surrendered with Cornwallis's force.