Seventeenth Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, Am.   45

 

                                                                                                      Rank in the

Rank                           Name                         Regiment                               Army

 

Colonel                      George Preston             9 Nov. 1770       M.Gen. 25 May 1772

 

Lieut. Colonel              Samuel Birch               24 Apr. 1773                    25 May 1772

 

Major                            Richard Crewe            25 Feb. 1776

 

Captain                      Joseph Moxham             15 May 1772

                                    Oliver De Lancy            15 May 1773

                               Hon. Fran. Needham           21 May 1774

                                  Hon. Tho. Stanley          25 Feb. 1776

                               Peter Hedman Elliston            6 June                             8 Oct. 1775

 

Captain Lieut.            Robert Archdale            15 May 1772        Capt. 25 May 1772

 

Lieutenant                     Harry Nettles                   1 Jan. 1766

                                    Mathew Pateshall              2 Apr. 1768

                                           Mark Ker       20 Oct. 1773

                                       James Huffey                26 Mar. 1776

 

Cornet                     Frederick Metzner                    8 July

                                    Samuel Baggot                 4 Aug. 1774

                                    William St. Leger            25 Dec. 1775                  30 May 1775

                                       David Ogilvie                      26do.

                                        John Sloper                       27do.

                                      John Hamilton                      30do.

                                  Thomas Pattinson             26 Mar. 1776

                                        John Jones                    14 June

                       

Chaplain                       Richard Griffith               31 Dec. 1772

Adjutant                         John St. Clair               2 Sept. 1767

Surgeon                  Christopher Johnson         8 Dec. 1767

 

Agents, Messrs. Cox and Mair, Craig’s Court.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IND: 5467 War Office Army List, 1777