Seventeenth Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, Amer.   53

 

                                                                                                      Rank in the

Rank                           Name                         Regiment                               Army

 

Colonel                      George Preston             9 Nov. 1770       L.Gen. 29 Aug. 1777

 

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

 

Major                          Oliver De Lancey            3 June 1778

 

Captain                      Samuel Baggot              13 Apr. 1779

                                  Wm. Henry Talbot             3 June 1778

                                    Robert Archdale             17 Aug. 1780

 

Captain Lieut.            John Stapleton              31 Dec. 1780

 

Lieutenant                     Harry Nettles                   1 Jan. 1766

                                    Mathew Pateshall              2 Apr. 1768

                                           Mark Ker       20 Oct. 1773

                                       James Huffey                26 Mar. 1776

 

Cornet                       Thomas Paterson                  31do.

                                       Charles Searle              15 Mar. 1778

                                       John. St. Clair                    23 Apr.

                               John Tho. Fonblanque               3 June

                                      Thomas Tucker              10 Apr. 1779

                                         John Black                        13do.

                                       John St. Clair                13 Sept. 1779

                                       Dan Maculluck                7 Aug. 1780

 

                                   

                       

Chaplain                       Richard Griffith               16 Feb. 1780

Adjutant                           John Jones                  14 Nov. 1777

Surgeon                  Christopher Johnson         8 Dec. 1767

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IND: 5470 War Office Army List, 1780