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File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 2 Drummers, 66 Rank & File Total. Captain Brace’s Company 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 2 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 45 Rank & File Effective; 30 rank & File Non Effective; 2 Sergeants, 1 drummer, 75 rank & file Total. Captain Bayard’s Company 1 Captain 2 Lieutenants, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 37 Rank & File Effective; 53 Rank & File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 90 Rank & File Total. Captain McDonald’s Company 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Sergeant, 1 Drummer, 2 Rank & File Effective; 5 Rank & File Non Effective; 1 Sergeant, 1 Drummer, 7 Rank & File Total. Late Captain Burgess Company 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 37 Rank & File Effective; 56 Rank & File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 76 Rank & file Total. Late Captain Barclay’s Company 1 Lieutenant, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 20 Rank & File Effective; 28 Rank & File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 76 Rank & File Total. Captain Rotton’s Company 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 38 Rank & File Effective; 33 Rank & File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 71 Rank & File Total. Captain Howard’s Company 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 2 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 41 Rank & File Effective; 28 Rank & File Non Effective; 2 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 80 Rank & File Total. Captain Buskirk’s Company 1 Captain, 1 Ensign, 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 39 rank & File Effective; 24 Rank & File Non Effective; 3 Sergeants, 1 Drummer, 63 Rank & File Total. Total 1 Lieutenant Colonel, 1 Major, 7 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 6 Ensigns, 1 Chaplin, 1 Adjutant, 1 Quarter Master, 1 Surgeon, 1 Mate, 26 Sergeants, 9 Drummers, 325 Rank & File Effective; 2 Drummers, 347 Rank & File Non Effective; 26 Sergeants, 11 Drummers, 672 Rank & File Total. Over Raised 1 Drummer, 142 Rank & File. King’s Orange Rangers John Bayard Lt. Col, Commandt. KOR I hereby Certify that the above list of Effectives & Non Effectives KOR as taken from attested Muster & Inspection Rolls of the Regimt. sic, signed by the Muster Master & Dy. Inspr. Genl. Of this Province. 87 87 William L. Clements, Op. Cit. 34
35 The autumn continued to find various of the King’s Orange Rangers in difficulty of one form or another. It was advertised in the Nova Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle 12th September 1780 that “ The Creditors of the late Capt. Barclay of the King’s Orange Rangers are desired to meet at the House of Mr. John O’Brien on Friday the 15th Instant at Seven O’Clock in the Evening.” 88 1781 February 9th 1781, Samuel Bayard was promoted to the rank of major. In the spring he lead a detachment of King’s Orange Rangers to Cornwallis to bring to heel the pre-Loyalist Planter community there. It seems that they had become so infatuated with things revolutionary that they were preparing to erect a liberty pole in the community. Marching from Halifax to Fort Sackville then through St. Croix to Windsor, they went on to Horton and forded the Cornwallis River near Port Williams. There they were ordered to fix bayonets and “with bright weapons glittering, colours flying and drums beating, they marched up Church Street and back to Town Plot, where the barracks stood” 89 . At least some of the KOR remained at Cornwallis based at Fort Hughes. 90 This display of force did the trick and after a brief stay and their mission accomplished, they returned to the Eastern Battery in Halifax. Bayard did return to the Annapolis Valley from time to time and began to take a personal interest in the area. After the Revolution, he chose to stay in Nova Scotia rather than follow the rest of the regiment which was scheduled to be settled on lands at Quaco, New Brunswick for which he had applied on their behalf. He and his wife Catherine (neé Van Horne) who had been married in New York April 24th 1778 chose to build their new home at Wilmot Mountain in Annapolis County. The bell and church plate of Holy Trinity Church in Cornwallis were given by William Bayard and Samuel’s brother Stephen, respectively. The estate where he built his substantial home consisted of a grant of 4,730 acres. 91 Returns of strength of British provincial forces in Nova Scotia in October and December 1781 show the King’s Orange Rangers to have 262 92 and 245 Rank and File respectively. 93 In September 1782 Bayard got in trouble with Lieutenant Governor Sir Andrew Snape Hamond when he enlisted several seamen from government transports. “...Major Bayard not only refuses to give them up to the Transports they belong to, but persists that he has a right to enlist any seamen that does not belong to any of His Majesty’s Ships...” 94 1782 88 Nova Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle, Halifax, NS. September 12, 1780. 89 A.W.H. Eaton, The History of King’s County, The Salem Press, Salem, Massachusetts 1910, p.432. 90 Robert S. Allen, Ed. The Loyal Americans, National Museums of Man, Ottawa 1983 p.68. 91 Peter J. Mitham, Op Cit., Pp.96-101. 92 Huntington Library, American Loyalists Papers HM 15230. 93 Ibid. HM 15229. 94 University of Virginia Library, Sir Andrew Snape Hamond Papers, Vol. VII, pp. 126-7. King’s Orange Rangers
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