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Lorna, you are right that Duncan seems to have disappeared after the 1800 census. The only sources besides the Gazetteer you mentioned are: An Historical Sketch of Troy, NH by Abiel Moore Caverly; The History of Fitzwilliam, NH by John Foote Norton and Joel Whittemore; and Troy from 1764-1897 by M. T. Stone. They say he fought in the British army with General John Burgoyne in 1777, and was in the action near Bennington and Stillwater, in August-October 1777. If he was in the former event, he must have been in Caption Alexander Fraser's elite company of Rangers, since no other British unit was in that battle. The books also say he purchased land from Phineas Farrar, in Fitzwilliam, NH (later part of Troy) in 1778 and settled down to become a successful farmer. I suspect that, because his daughter Martha was born in Fitzwilliam in 1776, his wife may have been from there or had relatives there, and they rented him as a laborer in 1778 while Burgoyne's army were prisoners at Cambridge, MA, and perhaps Phebe's relatives lent him money to purchase land.
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