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Blyden:
January 16th, 2013 at 9:02 am
This same phrasing appears in this listing of patriots http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pabcdar/patriots.htm
and in DAR records here http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alsrcdar/ourpatriots.htm
and here http://www.marylanddar.org/AnnArundel/patriots.htm
I wonder if it means that the British looted their belongings and/or brutalized them?