His wife and children were allowed to remain in an almost destitute condition by the King and his advisers.

Financially, Captain Godfrey could have been in no worse condition had he joined General Washington.
But there was no power on earth that could induce the Captain to turn his back upon his King and his country.
He, with the assistance of his heroic wife, had done all in their power to rouse the whole mind and heart of their fellow countrymen in office to a satisfactory settlement of their just claims, but all they had done seemed useless, and they knew not what more to do.
After the close of the American war Captain Godfrey once more thought of crossing the ocean to settle in the colony where he had experienced so much misfortune.

But after he had made all the arrangements for leaving England, he found out that he was too weak in body to stand the wear and tear of a passage across the Atlantic Ocean.

In those days it usually took two months to cross from Great Britain to Nova Scotia.
The Captain's case had been tossed from one official to another, and from one commission to another, until it had probably travelled through the completely developed rounds of _Red Tapeism_.

After this it appears to have been allowed to slumber till the close of the American Revolutionary War.
Captain Godfrey's health, since his last arrival in England from the colony, was anything but good, and his means of support being gone, he was largely depending on friends and relatives for the means of supporting his family.