The American Loyalists: Or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution; Alphabetically Arranged; With a Preliminary Historical Essay (Classic Reprint)
(Loyal ists or, as they were called in the politics of the...)
Loyal ists or, as they were called in the politics of the time, the Tories of the American Revolution, but little is known. The most intelli gent, the best informed among us, confess the deficiency of their knowledge. The reason is obvious. Men who, like the Loyalists, separate themselves from their friends and kindred, who are driven from their homes, who surrender the hopes and expectations of life, and who become outlaws, wanderers, and exiles, such men, leave few memorials behind them. Their papers are scattered and lost, and their very names pass from human recollection. Hence, the most thorough and pains-taking inquirers into their history, have hardly been rewarded for the time and attention which they have bestowed. Were there books materially to aid such labor ers, greater success would have attended their researches. But the third volume of Hutchinson s History of Massachusetts, the Life of Peter Van Shaack, the Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, and Simcoe s Journal of The Operations of the Loyalist Corps called the Queen s Rangers, comprise, I believe, all the published works, which afford any considerable information of those of our countrymen who adhered to the mother country in the momentous struggle which resulted in making us a free people. My own pretensions are extremely limited.
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