Another data point on this:



That ran in the October 5th, 1809 edition of the Savannah Republican out of Savannah, Georgia. That places his move smack in the middle of the Napoleonic wars. There's no way of knowing if he'd been a prisoner, if he went AWOL, was never in the military and just wanted to get out of town, or what. But he ground razors

Mr. Banatre ran the same ad twice, as near as I can tell, a few months apart, and I cannot find any more reference to him. Though Google Books turns up hits on his name in several journals of Southern Colonial art, the journals aren't viewable so I have no way of knowing if it's the same guy or even what the Banatre items were.