Cornet Francis Geary (1752, Great Bookham, Surrey-December 14, 1776, Hunterdon County, New Jersey) was a British military officer killed during the American Revolutionary War. Eldest son and heir of Admiral Sir Francis Geary and Mary Bartholomew, the younger Geary was raised in Surrey and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Commissioned a Cornet in the 16th Light (Queen's) Dragoons in 1773, Geary was sent to America in 1776, arriving in New York at the end of September. Wikipedia
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