Cornelius Hatfield, Jr. (1755 – 13 August 1823) was a

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spy, guide, intelligence gatherer, and raider in the American Revolution. Hatfield was commissioned a captain and leader of an independent company of Refugee partisans in February

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by British Commander-in-Chief Sir Henry Clinton. A native of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Hatfield and his partisans operated from British-held

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until the end of the war. An expert in surprise night raids along the northern New Jersey coast, Hatfield claimed to have "captured nearly three hundred officers of rank and soldiers, the chief part of which were at different times exchanged for British of the same rank."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatfield, Cornelius Jr. 1755 births 1823 deaths Loyalists in the American Revolution from New Jersey People from Essex County, New Jersey People from colonial New Jersey American Revolution spies