Shep's Place Family Tree

'I was given a nice-looking horse, but a very bad one to ride in the ranks, always fighting and kicking, and he got me a kick from another horse in the ankle. I rode all the morning, and when I came in, I was obliged to be carried into my tent, and have my boot cut off, and to go to the hospital. I was obliged too ride with one boot for a good while, and now I would not exchange my horse for the best in the troop. I was obliged to have some hard battles with him, before I was master.'

July 1814 from Cawnpore:
'I am very poorly owing to an accident I met with on the 7th. The Regiment ‎(H.M. the 24th Light Dragoons)‎ was out at exercise, and my horse reared up, and fell backwards on me, and broke my left leg all to pieces. There have been several bones taken out of if. It should have been taken off ere this, but it has a violent inflammation. Ishall be sure to lose my leg, and, perhaps my life.'
Two days later he died.

‎[I wonder if this date is correct because Charlotte Carey, dau. of Peter and Mary Ann of Cawnpore, was baptized on 11 October 1821. She was born on the 30....? (MKS)‎]