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Families were often divided during the American Revolution, and many felt themselves to be both American and British, still owing loyalty to the mother country.Maryland lawyer Daniel Dulaney the Younger opposed taxation without representation but would not break his oath to the king or take up arms against him.
The numbers of those who left, and who stayed away, are debatable. For more information on this topic, see Loyalist (American Revolution), United Empire Loyalist, and Expulsion of the Loyalists. In Canada, Loyalists of each regiment were usually given land in the same area so that soldiers who fought together could remain together.
Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet (1759–1839), Royal Navy officer and member of a prominent Massachusetts Loyalist family; John Connolly (c. 1741 –1813), planned with Lord Dunmore to raise a regiment of Loyalists and Indians in Canada called the Loyal Foresters and lead them to Virginia to help Dunmore put down the rebellion
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2012) excerpt and text search; Thomas B. Allen. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (2011) excerpt and text search; Ronald Rees, Land of the Loyalists: Their struggle to shape the Maritimes, Nimbus, 146 p., 2000, ISBN 1-55109-274-3.
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
Many of the states continued to maintain their militia after the American Revolution until after the U.S. Civil War. Many of the state National Guards trace their roots to the militia from the American Revolution. The lists below show the known militia units by state for the original colonies plus Vermont. [note 1]
The Doan Outlaws, also known as the Doan Boys and Plumstead Cowboys, were a notorious gang of brothers from a Quaker family most renowned for being British spies during the American Revolutionary War. The Doans were Loyalists from a Quaker family of good standing. The sons of family patriarch Joseph Doan reached manhood at the time of the ...
As with other colonies in British America, Maryland was bitterly divided by the American Revolution.Members of the existing political elite tended to make reluctant revolutionaries; men such as Benedict Swingate Calvert, illegitimate son of the ruling Calvert family and a judge of the land office, remained loyal to the British Crown, and would suffer the consequences.