My 6th GGF Capt Timothy McGinnis was a colonialist who fought with the British Army but he and his fellows were never ‘Regulars’
They were of the Provincial Army and wore their buckskins Remember the Yankee Doodle Dandy song ???
My GGF was killed at the Battle of Bloody Pond at Lake George NY fighting the French and Indians on 8 Sept, 1755...
His widow and children were ‘rewarded’ for that by being mistreated by some of the very neighbors he had died saving ...
GGM and daughters and grandchildren were arrested and thrown into Fort Dayton, a rebel prison, and their trading post burnt down ...
My 4th GGM Hannah De Forest Secord was only 10 years old at the time ...
The rebels fled when they heard General St Leger was coming and the family and other women and children were able to escape and go north to Canada ...
So as I listen to the fireworks outside....you are not a loyalist anymore?
It’s been 247 years and King George is a skeleton....just sayin’
So you like Mad King George and served in our military? Very strange. He’s like bones.
Whatever gets you off....