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When the revolution broke out Odell became a strong loyalist and wrote poetry promoting the loyalist cause. He was brought before the New Jersey Provincial Congress for such actions and on July 20, 1776, he was ordered to sign a loyalty oath and remain within eight miles of the Burlington County courthouse.
Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts (1997) explores the identities and loyalties of those who moved to Canada. Lambert, Robert Stansbury. South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution (2nd ed. Clemson University Digital Press, 2011). full text online 273 pp; Lennox, Jeffers.
A visit by government agents dissuaded Johnson, so Paine gave the book to publisher J. S. Jordan, then went to Paris, on William Blake's advice. He charged three good friends, William Godwin, Thomas Brand Hollis, and Thomas Holcroft, with handling publication details. The book appeared on March 13, 1791, and sold nearly a million copies.
This book incorporates text taken directly from The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816, a text in public domain. Ryerson, Egerton (1880). The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816. Vol. II (2 ed.). p. 194.
The Good Americans: The Loyalists in the American Revolution. 1969. Brown, Wallace and Hereward Senior. Victorious in Defeat: The American Loyalists in Exile. 1984. Calhoon. Robert McCluer. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760–1781. 1973. Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Knopf ...
The Loyalist units of Burgoyne's army returned to British Canada seriously mauled and badly under-strength. The Corps was loosely assembled into a battalion, initially under Sir John Johnson of the King's Royal Regiment. In May 1779, the unit was turned over to McAlpin, who was made Major-Commandant. [3]
Many Loyalist refugees resettled in Canada after losing their place, property, and security during the Revolution. The Loyalists, some of whose ancestors helped found America, [citation needed] left a well-armed population hostile to the king and his loyalist subjects to build the new nation of Canada. The motto of New Brunswick, created out of ...
Claudius Smith (1736 – January 22, 1779) was a Loyalist guerrilla leader during the American Revolution. He led a band of irregulars who were known locally as the 'cowboys'. Claudius was the eldest son of David Smith (1701–1787), a respected tailor, cattleman, miller, constable, clergyman, and finally judge in Brookhaven, New York.