Kings College Alumni

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (Reprinted from The Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. XIII., No. 4, Sept., KINGS COLLEGE ALUMNI?IX CLASS OF 1775 William Amory NOTHING is known of the family or personal history of William Amory. Richard Auchmuty During the Revolution Richard Auchmuty took the side of the King and became a sergeant in...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (Reprinted from The Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. XIII., No. 4, Sept., KINGS COLLEGE ALUMNI?IX CLASS OF 1775 William Amory NOTHING is known of the family or personal history of William Amory. Richard Auchmuty During the Revolution Richard Auchmuty took the side of the King and became a sergeant in the British Army. He was taken a prisoner at the storming of Stony Point and was with Cornwallis at Yorktown. He died soon after the surrender in the year 1782, while on parole. Samuel Auchmuty Samuel Auchmuty, a distinguished general who attained his rank by merit alone, was born in New York in 1756. His grandfather, a prominent Scotch lawyer, had established himself at Boston in the reign of William III and his father, after beii'g educated at Harvard and Oxford, had become rector of the principal Episcopal church in New York. Our alumnus, with his father and his uncle, who was Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Boston, declared for the King at the outbreak of the war. Young Samuel entered the British army and was present with the forty- fifth regiment at the battles of Brooklyn and AYhite Plains. lie had been intended by his father for the ministry, but the young man's inclinations were from boyhood military. He was rewarded in 1/77 by an ensigncy, and, in 1778, was given a lieutenancy in the forty-fifth regiment without purchase. On the conclusion of peace he went to England with his regiment, but soon found it impossible to live on his lieutenant's pay or to expect any promotion in England. In 1783 he exchanged into the fifty-second regiment, then under orders for India, and was at once made adjutant. He saw service in the last war with Hyder Ali and, in 1788, was promoted to a captaincy of the seventy-fifth regiment. Lord Corn- wallis perceived his ...