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Loyalist John Randolph and his brother Peyton portrayed by Charles Redd and Jack Flintom. John Randolph (1727 – January 31, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from Williamsburg in the British colony of Virginia. He served as king's attorney for Virginia from 1766 until he left for Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. [1]
Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution, often referred to as Tories, [1] [2] Royalists, or King's Men at the time. They were opposed by the Patriots or Whigs, who supported the revolution and considered them "persons inimical to the liberties of America."
David Fanning (c. 1755 – March 14, 1825) was a Loyalist leader in the American Revolutionary War in North and South Carolina. Fanning participated in approximately 36 minor engagements and skirmishes, and in 1781, captured the Governor of North Carolina, Thomas Burke, from the temporary capital at Hillsborough.
John Connolly (c. 1741 –1813) was an American Loyalist during the American Revolution. [1]Connolly, a man of English descent, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to an Irish Catholic father who served in the British Army.
Ferling, John E. "Joseph Galloway's Military Advice: A Loyalist's View of the Revolution." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 98.2 (1974): 171-188. Newcomb, Benjamin H. Franklin and Galloway: A Political Partnership. Yale U. Press, 1972. Norton, Mary Beth. "The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends." Liberty's Daughters: The ...
Edmund Fanning (1739–1818), commanded militia in the War of the Regulation and Loyalist militia in the American Revolution; later Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and Saint John's Island [22] David Farnsworth (died 1778), British agent hanged for his participation in a plot to undermine the American economy by distributing counterfeit currency
William Franklin was the last colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763–1776), and a steadfast Loyalist throughout the American Revolutionary War. In contrast, his father Benjamin was, in later life, one of the most prominent of the Patriot leaders of the American Revolution and a Founding Father of the United States.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Butler (c. April 28, 1728 – May 12, 1796) was a British Indian Department officer, landowner and merchant. During the American Revolutionary War, he was a prominent Loyalist who commanded Butler's Rangers.