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'', and was ambushed in the Battle of Bloody Creek on 10 June 1711 (21 June in the New Style). He was a major in Sir Charles Hobbey's Regiment, the North Regiment of Essex. He was taken prisoner, along with the rest of his crew, in Quebec and forced to pay 800 livres for his ransom.pp. 469–484; William A. Shaw and F. H. Slingsby, Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 30: 1716 He was placed on half-pay in 1713 and continued to draw a pension until at least 1722.

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