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Re :Stephen Kemble, c.1730-1822

Re :Stephen Kemble, c.1730-1822

Joyce Peck (View posts)
Posted: 30 Sep 2004 8:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Oct 2004 7:02AM GMT
Surnames: Kemble
Kemble, Stephen. c.1730-1822. Loyalist, British officer (Col.).
Adjutant general in charge of intelligence service under General Gage, 1712; remained adjutant general to both General Howe and General Clinton; resigned in 1779 to make room for John Andre'.


I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.353.
Joyce

Re: Re :Stephen Kemble, c.1730-1822

Posted: 28 Mar 2015 10:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
I find this so odd that Col. Stephen Kemble reigned to make room for Maj. John Andre, who was captured with the plans of West Point that American General Benedict Arnold (the traitor) had given him. Had the colonel not resigned, history would be say Col. Stephen Kemble captured with the West Point plans and later hung.

The colonel had a large home just south of Morristown, in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey. And prior to the war was a well-known public figure in the area. One of his daughters, Margaret, married British General Thomas Gage and returned to England with the general never to return to New Jersey or the U.S.

There is a lot of information written by the colonel in a two (2) volume collection called the Kemble Papers, which cover the war year and the long introduction which covers his family ancestry. I have seen a copy of these two book book in the special collection's area of the Morristown Free & Public Library, in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey.
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