From THE STORY OF COLONIAL LANCASTER by Marion Fuller Safford
He was in the battle of Louisburg in Canada and was promoted to Captain-lieutenant
Later, in 1755 he was given command of 250 men who were to go again to Canada. Knowing how the British officers treated Colonial officers he refused to serve untl give assurance of support for his authority.
In later years he was branded a tory amd a traitor his name a reproach among his lifelong neighbors, his property confiscated -he went back to Nova Scotia - never to return again.
He was the riches man in the Lancaster area and might have joined the patriots but was in Boston when the war started. He went to the British and was offered a commission as Colonal but refused to fight agains his friends but joined the forces as a commissary and was of great help to the British. He was granted a large amount of land in Canada and settled 10 miles north west of Saint John, New Brunswick after the war where he established a village he named Lancaster, He was an important man in the providence and died there. His family had joined him there but returned to Lancaster, Ma. after he died where they lived a refined and cultured life. It is thought that now days he would have ony been a conscientious objector but as a soldier carrying out the orders of the King in the battle in Canada , violating every law of human justice in his treament of the Arcadians ( French ) he could expect no justice for himself.