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the house of a Loyalist about half a mile from the field. Here again she heard every gun fired during the engage-ment.
Speaking of Lt.-Col. Cruger's conduct on this occasion, the Loyalist historian, Judge Thomas Jones, observes:
"If anything could add to the heroism of this amiable and loyal New Yorker, it is the active, spirited and judicious part he acted in the battle at the Etways, or Eutaw, in 1781, where his bravery, coolness, resolution, judgment and steadiness turned the fortune of the day in favor of the British, when the jilt was upon the point of abandoning them."
At the evacuation of Charleston in 1782, the first and second de Lancey battalions (now consolidated into one) returned to New York, whence at the peace the majority came to New Brunswick. They received a grant of a large tract of land at Woodstock, in the county of Carleton. They were the first settlers in that locality, and their descendants are numerous and respected citizens of Woodstock and its vicinity at the present day.
In all the hard fighting through which he passed, John Harris Cruger was never once wounded. At the evacuation of New York he went to England with his wife, where, as Judge Jones tells us, "they lived peaceably, happily and contentedly at Beverley, in Yorkshire, esteemed by the people, the gentry and the nobility."