Some background information.............

Major Pitcairn is the leader of the redcoats in Lexington and Concord. He was born on December 28, 1722. He joined the Marines and was given the position of a Lieutenant in 1746. In his early 20s, John Pitcairn married Elizabeth  Dalrymple, cousin of his father's old Colonel, the Earl of Stair.

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