Pastor John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg – Rose to the rank of major general and was one of the most dedicated and accomplished leaders of the American Revolution. After descending from his pulpit in Virginia, he recruited an entire regiment from his congregation and the Shenandoah Valley, he was involved in most of the important battles of the war from Charleston in 1776 to Yorktown in 1781. Died, 1807.

John Murray/Lord Dunmore – The year 1775 proved to be the start of bad things for Dunmore: he and his troops were defeated in the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9 and he retaliated with an artillery barrage from his fleet off Norfolk early in 1776 which resulted in the city burning. He left for Great Britain on New Year’s Day 1777, where he supported the interests of Loyalist Virginians. He tried returning to further prosecute the war, but Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown diverted his plans. Died, February 25, 1809.

Natanis – Identified in August 1775 as a “Norridgewock” and “Abenaki” Indian by Dennis Getchell and Samuel Berry, two scouts hired by Reuben Colburn to conduct a reconnaissance of the route Arnold intended to take to Quebec. They found Natanis living alone in his house on a beautiful stretch of the Dead River—and immediately realized he could speak fluent English, apparently from Christian missionaries.

Other Indians and settlers in the region who knew of Natanis and his brother, Sabatis, claimed he was in the employ of the British—which Natanis freely admitted. Nevertheless, he agreed to accompany them to the font of the River Chaudière. Hearing rumors of a British-allied Mohawk war party near the French-Canadian settlement at Sartigan, they wisely returned to deliver their report to Colburn.

When Arnold learned of this “British spy,” Arnold ordered Lieutenant Steele—preparing to depart Fort Western on his scouting mission, “If you find this villain, kill him.” Steele never saw the Indian until he reached Sartigan in November where the Indian volunteered to enlist in “Arnold’s Corps of Patriots.”

Natanis proved to be invaluable. He helped locate canoes and dugouts to cross the St. Lawrence, recruited local Indians as guides, “paddlers,” and fighters, navigated the Corps to “Wolfe’s Cove,” was wounded in the wrist during the New Year’s Eve fight, was captured and made a POW by the British, but released in less than a week by British Governor-General Carlton.

Natanis wasn’t through yet. He organized the prison break for Lieutenant Steele and his five comrades, and aided them, Marie Sirois, and Ensign Nathanael Newman in their escape all the way back to Gardinerston, Maine.

In September–October 1777 he was on the Saratoga battlefield, serving as a scout and fighter with Daniel Morgan.

Natanis was last seen in August 1779, helping the American survivors of the ill-fated Penobscot Campaign make their way safely back to Boston. How, where, or when he died is not yet known.