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Richard Lippincott (Loyalist)

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Lippincott was not convicted, but "Clinton was forced to hold Lippincott in custody for the duration of the war to prevent Washington from exacting his revenge on an officer in Lord Cornwallis' captive army." After conferring with his officers, Washington determined a course of retaliation was called
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court-martial Lippincott. At Lippincott's court-martial, his defence successfully argued that as an irregular, he was technically a civilian, and as such was subject to civilian law instead of military law. Chief Justice
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to be executed in retaliation for Huddy's death. Washington relented and spared Asgill only after pressure was applied on the Americans by the
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After the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1775, Lippincott sided with the Loyalist camp and was captured and imprisoned by
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ruled that he did not have jurisdiction to try Lippincott since the incident occurred in an area outside effective British control.
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The conduct of General Washington : respecting the confinement of Capt. Asgill, placed in its true point of light
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In 1782, Lippincott's brother-in-law, Philip White, was dragged from his home by a group of Patriots, who made him
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before killing him. When White's body was found, there were more signs of
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for generations. On March 4, 1770, he married Esther Borden, a woman from
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officer, in retaliation for similar murders of Loyalists, provoking an
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Loyalist military personnel of the American Revolutionary War
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The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816
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The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816
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Loyalists in the American Revolution from New Jersey
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Joshua Huddy
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
York, Upper Canada
Weston, Ontario
Great Britain
Provincial Corps
Captain
New Jersey Volunteers
Captain
New Jersey Volunteers
American War of Independence
Asgill Affair
Loyalist
summarily executed
Joshua Huddy
New Jersey Militia
international incident
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
Thirteen Colonies
Bordentown, New Jersey
Patriots
Burlington, New Jersey
Staten Island
New Jersey Volunteers
Provincial Corps
British Army
run a gauntlet
torture
mutilation

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