from "The Descendants of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell", Raymond J. Stillwell,
2010

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Richard Allan Jenni wrote:

“James wished to take no part in the American Revolution. However,
being outspoken, his house was surrounded by about 30 rebels who robbed
and plundered him at will. He escaped to the woods, where his wife Eleanor
fed him for nearly a month. Emerging from his hiding place, he joined
Skinner with 70 men and was in a number of battles against the rebels.
Taken prisoner and doomed to death along with his Loyalist brothers Joseph
and William, they escaped the day before their appointed execution.

James swam the Delaware and joined his corps. He served with the New
Jersey Volunteers and was an ensign at the peace. Removing to St Johns,
New Brunswick after the war, he rose to the rank of colonel in the New
Brunswick Militia and at his death was the oldest magistrate in Kings County.

(The American Loyalists, Lorenzo Sabine, 1847, pp. 176-177).”

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