Same here, although I don't know what the actual number was. A 5th great-grandfather who was born in Newtown (now part of Queens), Long Island was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment Dutchess County (NY) Militia. He's listed in the DAR Patriot Index. There were 3 or 4 more with the same last name that were mustered into that same unit. Another 5th great-grandfather, born in Germany, first settled in Pennsylvania, then joined up with the Loyalist unit called Butler's Rangers. He eventually went to Canada. I also had other loyalist relatives. One of the sons who served under his father in the 2nd Regiment, left this country after the war, settled in Canada, married the daughter of a Loyalist from New York. His father wrote him out of the Will.
On my Father’s side of the family, my namesake ancestor arrived from France as an indentured servant at a fort on the frontier of western Virginia in 1774 and by 1775 was in a militia company that ended up at Yorktown with Washington in 1781.
On my Mother’s side my British soldier ancestor captured in 1777 was also an ancestor of William Kellogg who founded the Kellogg Company that makes corn flakes.