Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an Historical Essay, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1864 - American loyalists This book contains an historical essay and short biographies on those who stayed loyal to Britain during the American Revolution in the American colonies. The essay focuses on the coming of the Revolution and the reasons for American rebellion or loyalism, and the sparse biographies, organized in alphabetical order, offer what is known about the loyalist and their journey. |
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Addresser of Hutchinson aged American appointed attainted Battalion became born Boston British Army brother Brunswick Canada Captain cause Charleston Chester County Church Colonel Colony command commission Commissioners Committee confiscated Connecticut corps Council County Court Crown daughter death decease died at St England father friends Gage gentleman Government Governor graduated at Harvard granted Halifax Hampshire Harvard University Henry honor hundred jail James John Judge King King's King's County Lancey land letter lieutenant lived London Lord Loyal Loyal American Regiment Loyalists married Maryland Massachusetts ment merchant militia North Nova Scotia party peace Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia political prisoner proscribed and banished Province Provincial Congress Queen's Rangers received half-pay Rector Regiment retired returned Revolution Rhode Island Royal Army Samuel sent settled Shelburne Sir William soon South Carolina Thomas tion Tories town treason troops Virginia Washington Whigs widow wife wrote Yale College York
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Page 75 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 95 - And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated...
Page 174 - The General went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child. One moment she raved, another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife, and all the fondness of a mother, showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Page 95 - ... or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.
Page 94 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Page 94 - It is agreed that creditors on either side, shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 168 - I, AB, do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever; and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States...
Page 385 - ... appealed for the righteousness of their cause ; to thee do they now look up for that countenance and support, which thou alone canst give ; take them, therefore, heavenly Father, under thy. nurturing care ; give them wisdom in council, and valor in the field ; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries; convince them of the unrighteousness of their cause...
Page 150 - I am wearied to death with the wrangles between military officers, high and low. They quarrel like cats and dogs. They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
Page 142 - I would to God, that some one of the most atrocious in each State was hung in gibbets upon a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man, who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.