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| Last Name | MUIRSON |
| First Name | HEATHCOTE |
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| Cemetery Number | NT010 |
| Cemetery Name | TRINITY CHURCH YARD |
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| Birth Year | 1754c |
| Death Day | 27 |
| Death Month | JUL |
| Death Year | 1781 |
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| Notes | There is no gravestone for him. Information from a paper by John B. Hattendorf.
While Rochambeau and his soldiers marched overland toward the Hudson north of New York City, de Barras mounted an amphibious expedition from Newport against British and Hessian troops at Fort Franklin near Lloyd’s Neck at Huntington Bay on Long Island Sound. Under the overall command of capitaine de vaisseau La Villebrune, two hundred men under colonel baron d’Angely, consisting of 140 naval infantrymen and 60 French soldiers, were embarked in four French ships, Romulus, Gentille, Ariel, and Prudence.
The left Newport in 10 July and made a landing at Huntington Bay on the early morning of 12 July, but the British opened a heavy canon fire, forcing the French back. They had only three casualties, two soldiers of the Picardie Regiment among the naval infantry and a young American volunteer who had served as their guide, Heathcote Muirson. A 1776 Yale graduate from Setauket, he knew the area well and while examining the British fortifications with a spy glass, he had his arm shot off. Brought back to Newport and carefully nursed by the French forces, he died of his wounds on 27 July and was given a military burial in the churchyard at Trinity Church in Newport. |
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