Thomas Coombe

AKA: Thomas Coombe Jr.
Released
Date of birth:21. 10. 1747
Date of death:1822
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1700s
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
8 Days
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Biography

Thomas Coombe was an Anglican clergyman and poet, an assistant minister at Christ Church, Philadelphia. Arrested in the September 1777 roundup with the "Virginia Exiles," he was paroled on account of ill health rather than sent on to Winchester, and afterward emigrated to England, where he served as a royal chaplain.

Case

Charges: No formal charges — detained in the 1777 roundup of suspected Loyalists ('Virginia Exiles')
Arrested: Sep 2, 1777
Incarcerated: Sep 2, 1777
Released: Sep 10, 1777
Sentence: Arrested and paroled for ill health; not banished to Virginia with the others.
Convicted: No

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