I, Jacob TAGUE, Farmer residing at Lake Osega before this unhappy Dissention in America in the Province of New York County Tryon was Driven from my property On account of my Loyalty to his Majesty and atached to the British Government and Join’d the British Armey Under Cornel John BUTLER at Nigara the first of April 1777 and served under as Privit Solder in Capt. BUTLERs Companey as a loylest.

Jacob TAGE

[10 April 1786]

Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 16, folio 2.

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