Jack Teagle (b. circa 1784 - d. ?)
MSA SC 5496-001684
War of 1812 Claimant, Somerset County, Maryland, 1814
Biography:
On October 15, 1814, thirty-year-old Jack Teagle escaped from Thomas Beauchamp's farm in Somerset County. He fled with the brothers Stephen Beauchamp and Elijah Beauchamp. Mentor Beauchamp fled from Isaac Beauchamp's farm at the same time. They reached the British ship Regulus in the Tangier Sound, off the coast of Somerset County.1 Captain Robert Ramsay had commanded the 74-gun2 frigate Regulus since October 29, 1813.3
Elijah and Stephen Beauchamp both joined the Sixth Company of the Colonial
Marines under the British. Jack was likely the John Teagle who fought in
the same regiment. British records show that John Teagle escaped from the
Chesapeake area on October 15, 1864, the same date that Jack Teagle escaped.
Like the Beauchamp brothers, Jack settled in Trinidad. He was still living
in 1823, although he had moved to the Fourth Company's village, in plot
twenty-three in the Guaracara Division.4
1. Claim of Samuel Beauchamp,
Case 784, Case Files, compiled ca. 1827 - ca. 1828, documenting the period
ca. 1814 - ca. 1828, *ARC Identifier 1174160 / MLR Number PI 177 190,*
National Archives, College Park.
3.
John McNish Weiss, The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad:
1815-1816 (London, UK: McNish & Weiss, 2002) 43.
2. James MacQueen, A Narrative of the Principal Military Events During the Memorable Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814... (Glasgow, UK: Edward Kuhl, & Co., 1814) 641.
3. Admiralty-Office, The
Navy List (London, UK: H.M. Stationery Office, 1814) 66.
3.
Michael Crawford, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History.
Vol. 3 (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 2002) 163 and 165.
4. Weiss 46.
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