Article: Revolutionary adventures of a Loyalist Anglican minister: William Duncan of Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

In 1775 William Duncan, a Scottish immigrant, began what seemed to be a promising clerical career in southeastern Virginia, but forthwith the Revolution brought it to an end. He attempted to return to Scotland but a British warship captured his vessel and brought it and Duncan to New York. There he became a chaplain in a Loyalist regiment and served in that capacity in several locations. After the war Duncan returned to Great Britain, accepted an annual pension from the government, and disappeared from the records. Duncan was not a celebrated clergyman, but he served an important religious and social colonial institution, the established Church of England in the Old ...

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