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PEDDLE

Memorial of Joseph Peddle - refernce: Public Record Office, London, Eng. AO.12/71,ff348-356.

Joseph Peddle became a tenant farmer at Black Horse, near Mount Holy, New Jersey, and just a few miles across the Delaware from Philadelphia. He remained in New Jersey during the Revolution and although his religious tenets prevented him from taking up arms on either side, he considered himself a loyalist and co-operated with the British. All his possessions were eventually seized by the Americans. In 1786 he returned to his native Somerset, due to the unsettled condition of affairs and his own bad condition, leaving behind in America, three sons (1 married) and four daughters (3 married) In 1789 he appeared before the Commissioners at the Office of American Claims, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London to submit his claim for losses to the Americans. His "memorial" is dated 29 April, 1789 and a summary follows.

He co-operated with the British in the supply and sale of cattle, horses, wagons and feed, and was in the possession of a protection from General Howe dated 13 Dec 1776. he carried c attle to Brunswick in Jersey for the King's Troop in 1776 at the risk of his life and was afterwards made a prisoner for concealing and with-holding his waggon & horses from the service of the rebels. Upon the march of the army from Philadelphia to New York in 1778 the Commisary took from him 6 head of cattle and 28 sheep, 20 tons of hay a 40 acre field of green wheat and a mare taken into Public service by Colonel Simcoe. He valued his losses st 560Pounds and made claim for this amount.

Peddle's claim was supported by an affidavit dated at new York 1st June 1783 and signed by Christopher Harrison stating;

That he was a conductor in the Quarter Master general's Dept. in 1778 and remebers that he cut hay included in this account for the use of the Horses in the Public Service, and that he saw the mare claimed in the possession of Colonel Simcoe's servant.

The affidavit of William Ashford stated:

That he was the driver of Joseph peddles waggon and horses for 14 months after Robert Jackaway was taken sick who had drove them for 2 months. that the horses were used for the large waggons on the march from Philadelphia to New York. That the waggon and horses are valued under their real worth. On July 13 1789 there is an entry which states: Letter from Colonel Simcoe in answer to one from the claimant, denying positively that the mare ever was in his possesssion or to the best of his belief in that of his servant. Joseph Peddle received 104 Pounds sterling on his claim. His claims for the mare and the green wheat were disallowed for lack of proof.


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