Jose Dapitan

Jose Dapitan was born on 28 March 1738 in Silinog Island, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines to Pedro Dapitan and Dulche Perez.
He grew up in a hut on Silinog and didn't move or leave the island until 1756 when he fled the island due to invasion of Spanish general, Jose Zaragoza.
He served as a guard in Kuta Don Julio (Named after Alberto Don Julio) from 1752 until 1756. He then became Kahayag Craneo's sidekick in Manila, Metro Manila when the UK invaded under the command of Samuel Cornish and William Draper.
In 1762, he was given the role of a representative of the Filipino Audax Brotherehood along with Craneo and Manuel Luzon in a meeting with John Stuart in London. He boarded HMS Edinburgh on 31 May 1763 and they set sail with Arthur Williams accompanying them. During a stop in Bengkulu, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia he was stabbed by a local Templar assassin.