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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.
JAMES S. LEAMON. "The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist": "For God, King, Country, and for Self" - A lively biography of a loyalist caught in the upheaval of the American Revolution. University of Mass. Press. 2012. The Frontier Missionary: A Memoir of Rev. Jacob Bailey. 1853; Rev. Jacob Bailey: His Character and Works By Charles Edwin Allen
The New Jersey Volunteers was an irregular Loyalist regiment which frequently conducted guerilla operations behind American lines. In 1782, Lippincott's brother-in-law, Philip White, was dragged from his home by a group of Patriots, who made him run a gauntlet before killing him.
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 ...
James Moody (c. 1744 – April 6, 1809) was a loyalist volunteer during the American Revolution who became a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1793 to 1806. [1] He wrote one of the most important loyalist memoires of the war.
James Chalmers was a Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution.. Born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, Chalmers was an ambitious military strategist after the War of Independence, who immigrated to America in 1760 "with several black slaves and 10,000 British pounds in his pocket," [citation needed] settling in Kent County and becoming "one of the Eastern Shore's most prominent ...
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.
The defeated Tories of the Revolution became the United Empire Loyalists of Canada, the first large-scale group of English-speaking immigrants to many parts of that country, and one which did much to shape Canadian institutions and the Canadian character. Loyalists became leaders in the new English-speaking Canadian colonies.