On this day 250 years ago in Elizabethtown (now the City of Elizabeth), New Jersey, Col. William Alexander (usually referred to as “Lord Stirling”), commander of the New Jersey Militia, ordered Lt. Col. William Winds to lead a detachment to guard Royal Governor William Franklin’s home in Perth Amboy. Winds was not ordered to guard the Governor but to guard his house to make sure Governor Franklin did not escape to the safety of British ships in New York harbor.
Lord Stirling would become a major general in the Continental Army by the end of the War, and Lt. Col. Winds would rise to be a brigadier general in the New Jersey Militia.
Sources: Nelson, Paul David, The Life of William Alexander, Lord Stirling, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1987 at pp. 68 & 104; https://arw.fandom.com/wiki/William_Winds
And on this day 250 years ago in Savannah, Georgia, Scottish immigrant Lachlan McIntosh was commissioned as a colonel in the Georgia Militia. He raised and initially commanded the 1st Georgia Regiment, but would eventually rise to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_McIntosh; https://www.electricscotland.com/history/highlands/chapter15.htm
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Thank you for the history and the link. I followed the link to find that this branch of the McIntosh Family was related to William McIntos, the famous Creek Indian chief that every Alabama boy who ever studied state history is familiar with.
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