The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
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The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]
Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
American loyalists; United Empire loyalists
Loyalists, the, vilified by early writers, 1-2;
reparation made, 2;
honoured in Canada, 3;
effect of their exodus on United States, 4;
effect of their migration on Canadian history, 4-6;
subscribe to the principles of passive submission to authority and
the right of petition, 8-10;
disapprove of British policy, 11-12;
causes of increase in numbers, 12-14;
loyal toast, 14;
numbers and strength, 16-19;
persecution of, 20-31;
and the test laws, 26-8;
story of two Loyalists hanged in Philadelphia, 28;
some penalties, 29;
confiscation of property, 29-30;
lack initiative, 32;
success in battle, 33-4;
charges of barbarism against, 34-5;
charges refuted, 41-4;
some regiments of, 36-8, 73;
raids and incursions, 38-41;
their hopeless position at end of war, 45-52;
British betrayal of, 48-9;
Britain makes amends, 52;
migration to Nova Scotia, 53-61;
some statistics of Loyalists in Maritime Provinces, 63, 66, 68, 73;
the Shelburne settlement, 63-70;
migration to New Brunswick, 71-85;
Prince Edward Island, 86-90;
Quebec, 91-6;
Upper Canada, 97-111;
allowances to, 102-4;
compensation to, 112-16;
honours and grants to, 116-18;
their ‘Marke of Honor,’ 118-19;
their houses and furniture, 127-9;
clothing, 130-1;
means of exchange, 131-2;
social customs, 132;
schools and churches, 132-4;
their happy lot, 136-7.
Loyalist regiments, settled in New Brunswick, 73;
their distress, 75-6;
when formed in Canada, 91;
settlement of, in Upper Canada, 34, 37, 38, 99-100.
Loyal Rangers, 38;
at Wyoming valley, 39;
at Mohawk valley, 41.
Macdonell, Alexander, in ‘the ’45,’ 36;
his ideas of border warfare, 39;
barbarity of, 42.
Machiche, Loyalist discontent at, 93-4.
McKean, Thomas, on number of Loyalists, 18-19.
Maclean, Colonel Allan, raises a Loyalist regiment, 37.
Massachusetts, Loyalist migration from, 65-7.
Mountain, Bishop, on religion in Upper Canada, 134.
Montgomery, General Richard, in the American Revolution, 7.
Mowat, Captain, and the Shelburne settlement, 67.
New Brunswick, candid view of Loyalist in, 14;
Governor Parr’s opinion of, 71;
Loyalist settlements in, 72-7;
erected into a province, 78-9;
Loyalists fill chief offices in, 80;
capital of, and election of representatives, 81-3;
means of communication in, 134-5.
Newton, William, amusing case of, 84.
New York, strength of Loyalists in, 17;
riots in, 22;
a strange order, 23;
and the test laws, 27;
and confiscation of Loyalist property, 30;
debts due to Loyalists cancelled, 46;
laws enacted against Loyalists, 51;
Sir Guy Carleton too much for congress of, 60.
Niagara, Loyalist settlement at, 107-9.
North, Lord, denounces Britain’s desertion of Loyalists, 48.
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