Edward Antill (soldier)

[1] He was the fourth of six children born to Edward Antill (1701–1770), a colonial plantation owner, attorney, and early politician in New Jersey, and Anne Morris (1706–1781).

[2] After the Revolutionary War, Antill soon fell upon hard times, and he suffered a breakdown after the death of his wife Charlotte in 1785.

[4][5] In 1787, he left his youngest child, two-year-old Frances (Fanny) Antill, in the care of Alexander Hamilton (who was then a lawyer in New York City) and his wife Elizabeth: Colonel Antil [sic] of the Canadian Corps, a friend of General Hazen, retired penniless from the service—his military claims, a sole dependence, being unsatisfied.

Hoping to derive subsistence from the culture of a small clearing in the forest, he retired to the wilds of Hazenburgh.

Hamilton immediately took the little orphan home, who was nurtured with his own children...[4]Two years later, on May 23, 1789, Antill died in Canada at Saint-Jean, near Montréal.