The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American RevolutionStark, James Henry
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The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution
Stark, James Henry
American loyalists -- Massachusetts; Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
The sixth son, JAMES, born in Boston, 1771, died at Quebec in 1835,
Assistant Commissary-General.
These Boston men and women, sons and daughters of brave John Coffin, are
all living instances of the loyal faith in which they were born, and of
its honorable and just reward of a grateful and kind government, and is
but one case of many which goes to show that the Americans who were
loyal, as a body fared infinitely better than the Revolutionists who
were successful. It is proverbial that republics are ungrateful.
Today their descendants are organized as the United Empire Loyalists and
count it an honor that their ancestors suffered persecution and exile
rather than yield the principals and the ideal of union with Great
Britain. They have made of the land of their exile a mighty member of
the great British empire, they begin to glory in the days of trial
through which they passed.
LIST OF JOHN COFFIN'S CONFISCATED ESTATES IN SUFFOLK COUNTY AND
TO WHOM SOLD.
To Christopher Clark, Aug. 9, 1783; Lib. 139, fol. 151; Land in
Boston, Essex St. S.; Short St. W.; Joseph Ford E.; Thomas Snow N.
To Moses Wallack, Mar. 12, 1785; Lib. 146, fol. 260; Land in
Boston, Essex St. S.; said Wallack W.; S. and W.; Blind Lane N.;
Thomas Downes and Samuel Bradley E.
To Edward Jones, Feb. 13, 1786; Lib. 155, fol. 111; Land in Boston,
Essex St. N.; the sea S.; sugar house and land of heirs of Thomas
Child deceased E.; Mary Pitman and heirs of Samuel Bradley W.; with
flats to low water mark.
JUDGE SAMUEL CURWEN.
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