General Fraser-He embark’d for Boston in North America as eldest Lieutenant of Grenadiers in the 2d Battalion of that Regt in April 1776 and upon the 18th of June following was made Prisoner with the whole of the Company by Eight American Arm’d Vessells in Boston Harbour.” After suffering in various New England prisons for eighteen months, Duncanson escaped on 23 Feb. Duncanson described his Revolutionary War service in an undated document prepared after 4 June 1784: “In October 1775, Captain Duncanson was Appointed Second Lieutenant of the Division of Marines lying in Portsmouth, and in November 177 obtain’d a Lieutenancy in the 71st Regimt of Foot then raiseing under the Command of Lieut. He received half-pay upon his regiment being disbanded. Robertson (Robert) Duncanson was commissioned a lieutenant in the 71st Regiment of Foot and subsequently promoted to captain.
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