General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, was a career soldier in the British Army. At the end of the American Revolutionary War he became the principal of the so-called Asgill Affair of 1782, in which
Colourised image of Asgill from a mezzotint of a lost original by Thomas Phillips
Asgill's handwriting in 1778: "An Honest Man is the noblest work of God."
Timothy Day's Tavern, Chatham, NJ, the location of Asgill's imprisonment in 1782
Coat of arms of Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet. The motto translates as "regardless of his own interest".
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William Franklin was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator. He was the acknowledged extra-marital son of Benjamin Franklin. William Franklin was the last colonial
Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet
…to a prison in New York. Under the auspices of a prisoner exchange, Richard Lippincott took Huddy from British custody and had him hanged, by order of William Franklin. New Jersey militia protested; to avoid further outbreaks of violence George Washington ordered Moses Hazen to select by lot a British officer likewise…
A portrait of William Franklin, c. 1790
Proprietary House in Perth Amboy, where Franklin lived as governor