His “Black Brigade” was mixed with both white and black loyalists and often targeted rich slave-owning Patriots. “Colonel” Tye, as he was now known, was enough of a danger that Governor William Livingston declared martial law to help restore order.
Tye died from infected wounds, but he played no small part in the Revolution. Historian Robert Mayers writes “Many Americans contended that the war at the New Jersey shore would have been won much sooner had Tye been enlisted on their side. Others observed that had he lived on for the rest of the war, it would have been a disaster for the Patriots…”
With little in the way of physical description, I chose to use one of the new Wargames Atlantic minutemen kits, and a hand axe as tomahawks were a popular weapon on both sides.
