David DOPP

                   David was a resident of Staatsburg when he married Rachel Oostrander of Rhinebeck Flats on 4 Feb 1758 at Rhinebeck Dutch Reformed Church. (2167, Kelly Trans) David's last name was spelled Dop, Top and Dopp.
David Dop was on the Rhinebeck Tax Lists (Clifford Buck Copy) from 1753 to Feb 1755 and again in 1769. He was assesssed for having a son with the enemy in 1781; but rated as too poor to pay the penalty. (Gov. George Clinton papers, Vol VI, p. 653)  His sloop had been burned in 1775 and would have been a great financial loss. The son "with the enemy" was John (Johannes) and the "enemy" was the Colonial Army, Continental Line of New York.
David was about two years old when George Washington was born and Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac".  Three years before he married, the first postal system in America was established and Samuel Johnson published the first "Dictionary".
THE LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT
From Muster Roll of Loyal American Regiment
Corporal David Dopp In General Hospital (Died June 6, 1782)

Regimental History
Raised in the early spring of 1777 by wealthy Beverley Robinson, the LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT consisted almost entirely of New York loyalists from lower Dutchess and Westchester Counties. Robinson managed sixty thousand acres and 146 tenant farms in Dutchess County. Not surprisingly, his tenants (and relatives) accounted for a large percentage of the soldiers and officers of the regiment.
Robinson, a childhood friend of George Washington, was one of the wealthiest men in the New York colony and like any good leader, he played the game of politics well by eventually gaining access to British Commander-in-Chief Sir Henry Clinton. Robinson quickly became Clinton's friend and trusted advisor.
Robinson's men were quick to distinguish themselves. The LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT participated in the storming of Forts Montgomery and Clinton in the fall of 1777.  First to enter Fort Montgomery was Captain George Turnbull of the LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT. Turnbull took command of Major Grant's company of New York Volunteers when Grant himself was killed before the attack on the fort commenced. Sir Henry Clinton subsequently made Turnbull Lieutenant Colonel of the New York Volunteers.
The LAR was garrisoned variously at Kingsbridge (near present-day West 230th Street and Marble Hill Avenue) and Bloomingdale (close to present-day Columbia University) on Manhattan Island as well as a stint on Long Island at Flushing NY (referred to as Flushing Fly in LAR muster rolls and various Loyalist orderly books).
Men from the regiment were frequently detached to serve with other regiments -- usually for light infantry warfare.  There are three distinct examples of note:
In 1777, Captain Joshua Barnes and his company of the LAR were detached as marksmen to Emmerick's Chasseurs under the command of Andreas Emmerick and were present at Fort Montgomery in 1777. "Certain light infantry troops were known as Jagers in the German army and as chasseurs in the French and British army. Even the Germans, however, used the term chasseurs for those Jagers who were part of a regiment, as opposed to those who were in Von Wurmb's Jager Corps." (Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution)
In 1779, British Captain Patrick Ferguson took in members of the LAR to serve as rangers and riflemen on his ill-fated expedition to South Carolina -- an expedition which ended in disaster at King's Mountain.
Lieutenant Anthony Allaire of the LAR was at King's Mountain and kept a diary that became an important record of the British perspective of the battle. Allaire was taken prisoner by the rebels and treated reasonably well although he disliked a congregation of Presbyterians who forced him to listen to one of their sermons. "Horse thieves all," wrote Allaire.
Finally, Captain Morris (son of Beverley) Robinson's company was detached to the corps known as the Provincial Light Infantry under British Lt. Col. John W. Watson of the Brigade of Foot Guards. It is interesting to note LAR influence. Thomas Barclay, the Major for the LAR, served as the Major of the Provincial Light Infantry.
Political Intrigue
Besides commanding his regiment, Colonel Beverley Robinson was also deeply involved in the treason of Benedict Arnold. Sometime in 1779, Robinson wrote the following in a letter to Arnold, which urged him to help England end the war:
"It is necessary that a decisive advantage should put Britain in a condition to dictate the terms of reconciliation . . . There is no one but General Arnold who can surmount obstacles so great as these. A man of so much courage will never despair of the republic, even when every door to a reconciliation seems sealed. Render, then, brave General, this important service to your country . . . Let us put an end to so many calamities. You and ourselves have the same origin, the same language, the same laws . . . Beware, then, of breaking forever the links and ties of a friendship whose benefits are proven . . . United in equality, we will rule the universe, we will hold it bound, not by arms and violence but by the ties of commerce -- the lightest and most gentle bonds that human kind can wear."
Exile
hen the war ended in defeat for the Crown, loyalists were forced to leave America. As part of the mass exodus to Canada, the LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT left New York City5 in the transport ships Ann and Apollo and headed to Fredericton, New Brunswick where they received a land grant known as Block 12. Once there, the men of the regiment started their lives over. Some stayed. Some moved on to other parts of Canada.
The upheaval in their lives certainly didn't go unnoticed. In later years, Major Thomas Barclay of the LOYAL AMERICAN REGIMENT wrote of his former American neighbours:
"I find that those who were termed Royalists or Loyalists, in addition to their attachment to their king and country, preserve their principles of honor and integrity, of openness and sincerity, which marked the American previous to the year 1773; while those who have sold their king for a Republican Government, have adopted all the frivolity, intrigue, and insincerity of the French, and in relinquishing their allegiance, resigned at the same time, almost universally, religion and morality."
A harsh, but revealing statement of loyalist mind set.
ACTIONS (many of these in detachment strength):
t. Montgomery & Ft. Clinton NY (6 Oct. 1777) Map
Horse Neck, Conn. (25 Feb. 1779)
Stony Point NY (16 July 1779) Map
Paramus NJ (April 1780)
Monk's Corner SC under Ferguson (1780)
King's Mountain SC under Ferguson (7 October 1780)
Virginia Campaign under Benedict Arnold (Spring 1781)
Pleasant Valley NJ under Skinner (1781)
New London, Conn. Raid under Arnold (6 Sept. 1781)
Eutaw Springs SC (Sept. 1781

the Loyal American Regiments, Another View
This corps was raised almost entirely by the efforts of Colonel Beverley Robinson, a wealthy citizen of Duchess County on the Hudson River. Its officers and men were nearly all natives of the Province of New York. A few months after its organization the regiment took part in the expedition of Sir Henry Clinton against Forts Clinton and Montgomery. The loyal Americans, though little more than raw recruits, formed a part of the column that stormed and captured Fort Montgomery. After their return to New York they formed part of the garrison there.
They took part in the campaign in Pennsylvania and assisted in the capture of Stoney Point on the Hudson River May 30th, 1779. Afterwards they were engaged in the campaign in the south under Lord Cornwallis. They suffered very heavily at the disastrous battle of King's Mountain where a band of the loyalist troops, outnumbered by their enemies and surrounded on all sides, were obliged to surrender.
Col. Robinson had, as his Lieutenant Colonel, his son Beverly Robinson and others of his sons were officers in the king's service in one or other of the provincial corps. Thomas Barclay was major and Rev. John Beardsley rector of Poughkeepsie on the Hudson was chaplain. At the close of the war part of the Loyal American Regiment went to Nova Scotia and the remainder settled on the St. John River.
Col. Beverley Robinson died in England. His son, Lieut. Col. Robinson at the peace went with other loyalists to Shelburne but afterwards removed to New Brunswick and settled at Nashwaaksis in the parish of Douglas where his descendants still reside.  Many of the officers and men of this corps who settled in the province made their influence felt in their respective communities.
Rev. John Beardsley was rector of Maugerville. He was the ancestor of the Beardsleys of Woodstock. Dr. Peter Huggeford, a surgeon of the corps, was in early days a leading physician at St. John. Captain Christopher Hatch was a magistrate and colonel of militia at St. Andrews where he died in 1819 aged 75 years. Capt. Lemuel Wilmot, grandfather of the late Lieutenant Governor L. A. Wilmot, settled near Fredericton. Lieut. Anthony Allaire settled at Douglas, York County, where he died in 1839 aged 84 years; his diary which he kept during the southern campaign has been lately published by Dr. Lyman Draper in
his book on "King's Mountain and its heroes."
Lieut. John Ward was a prominent St. John merchant an active and useful citizen; he was interested in steamboating, and one of the first boats that ran between Fredericton and Woodstock was named after him; he died in St. John in 1846 in his 93rd year.   The oldest half pay officer in New Brunswick, Captain William Baillie died near Fredericton in 1832 aged 97 years. The great age attained by many of these half pay officers is very remarkable.

The Loyalist Regiments Leave New York

The number of Loyalists who left the United States at the close of the American Revolution has been variously estimated. Judge Thomas Jones, the Loyalist historian, says that Sir Guy Carleton sent away from New York 100,000 persons; perhaps 70,000 would be nearer the mark. But be the number less or more, the British commander-in-chief was obliged to put forth his utmost exertions to provide for the establishment of the Loyalists in their new homes in the various parts of the world whither they desired to go. And busily engaged as he was the summer days of 1783 sped all too quickly, both for Sir Guy and, as the events proved, for the Loyalists as well. Refugees made their way from all parts of the old colonies to New York where they embarked for all parts of the world -- some going to England, Scotland and Ireland, some to Canada, some to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, some to Newfoundland and the Island of St. John's (now Prince Edward Island).
Those who had independent means formed companies and hired vessels for themselves; those impoverished by the event of the war were sent in fleets of transport ships to their several destinations by the British government. By the close of the summer the great majority of the loyal exiles had sailed from New York to their future homes.
Meanwhile the Provincial Regiments still remained. Sir Guy Carleton had been exceedingly anxious to hasten their departure, but the late arrival of the King's instructions relative to their disbandment, and the scarcity of transports rendered delay unavoidable. As already mentioned, Amos Botsford and his associates, and a little later Col. Edward Winslow, Muster-Master-General of the Provincial forces, had been sent to explore the St. John river with a view to the settlement of the loyal regiments in that locality. Gen. Fox, commander of the forces at Halifax, personally visited the St. John River accompanied by Col. Winslow as his private secretary, and it is probable that upon their recommendation and that of Surveyor General Charles Morris, the general locations were assigned to the loyal corps.