tat2guy
Sr. Member
After researching James Fitzpatrick "The Fitch" in Chester County, I wonder if the two are connected. He was a blacksmith apprentice in southern chester county who then worked on the Passmore Farm in the southern part of the county. Fitzpatrick a colonial army deserter was flogged after being caught and brought back to camp. And then deserted a second time and caught. He escaped his captures in fear of another flogging. He vowed revenge on the Whigs. He the went on a 12 month crime spree robbing and then murdering. He then captures Captain Mcgowen ties him to a tree, robs him, and then flogs him. Fitzpatrick then leaves him tied to the tree. After Fitzpatrick is captured, Mcgowen comes to Philadelphia to question where his belongings are. He left them hidden just a few hundred yards from where he was robbed. Read the following and give me your opinion on if you think they can be connected.
The bulk of his crime spree happened just before the Battle of Brandywine. Did he sell the location of the colonial army to the British
Is this what cost us this battle
Or is this theory off base Could this legend be based on a slave that had been living free in southern chester county
In the southern part of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is money, too, but
just where nobody knows. A lonely, crabbed man, who died there in a
poor hut after the Revolution, owned that he had served the British as a
spy, but said that he had spent none of the gold that he had taken from
them. He was either too sorry for his deeds, or too mean to do so. He
had put it in a crock and buried it, and, on his death-bed, where he
made his statement, he asked that it might be exhumed and spent for some
good purpose. He was about to tell where it was when the death-rattle
choked his words.
HH Jay
The bulk of his crime spree happened just before the Battle of Brandywine. Did he sell the location of the colonial army to the British
Is this what cost us this battle Or is this theory off base
Could this legend be based on a slave that had been living free in southern chester countyIn the southern part of Chester County, Pennsylvania, is money, too, but
just where nobody knows. A lonely, crabbed man, who died there in a
poor hut after the Revolution, owned that he had served the British as a
spy, but said that he had spent none of the gold that he had taken from
them. He was either too sorry for his deeds, or too mean to do so. He
had put it in a crock and buried it, and, on his death-bed, where he
made his statement, he asked that it might be exhumed and spent for some
good purpose. He was about to tell where it was when the death-rattle
choked his words.
HH Jay
