http://newyorkvolunteers.greathistory.com A Great History Blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:33:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://newyorkvolunteers.greathistory.com/2009/12/03/part-10-first-look-at-charles-town/#comment-87 Mark Colwell Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:33:31 +0000 http://newyorkvolunteers.greathistory.com/?p=36#comment-87 Hello Elijah. I also have an ancestor who served in the NYV - John Colwell. In fact Stephen Dusenberry and John Colwell served together in John Coffin's troop of dragoons in SC from Sept lf 1780 until the end of the war. John Colwell was recruited into one of the original two companies, Alexander Grant's, sometime in 1776. His discharge comment at the disbanding in Saint John, NB in Oct 1783 states that he served seven years. Despite years of research into Colwell families in the NYC city area before the war I have not been able to directly connect him with any of the half dozen candidate families. It is very possible though that my Colwells and your Dusenberrys were neighbors in Westchester Co. My family moved to the states in 1957 (DC area) and then to Greenville, SC in 1978. My father died in SC without ever knowing that his loyalist ancestor had ridden the SC backcountry as a cavalryman 200 years before. Would love to correspond. Hello Elijah. I also have an ancestor who served in the NYV – John Colwell. In fact Stephen Dusenberry and John Colwell served together in John Coffin’s troop of dragoons in SC from Sept lf 1780 until the end of the war. John Colwell was recruited into one of the original two companies, Alexander Grant’s, sometime in 1776. His discharge comment at the disbanding in Saint John, NB in Oct 1783 states that he served seven years.
Despite years of research into Colwell families in the NYC city area before the war I have not been able to directly connect him with any of the half dozen candidate families. It is very possible though that my Colwells and your Dusenberrys were neighbors in Westchester Co.
My family moved to the states in 1957 (DC area) and then to Greenville, SC in 1978. My father died in SC without ever knowing that his loyalist ancestor had ridden the SC backcountry as a cavalryman 200 years before.
Would love to correspond.

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