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
Nova Scotia, migration of Loyalists to, 53-61;
uncomplimentary opinions of, 61-2, 64;
schools and churches in, 132-4.
Odell, Rev. Jonathan, a Loyalist, 80.
Oliver, Andrew, persecution of, 21.
Ontario. See Upper Canada.
Parr, John, governor of Nova Scotia, on the condition of Loyalist
refugees, 58-9;
and the Shelburne settlement, 65, 67-8;
on New Brunswick, 71;
and land grants in New Brunswick, 77, 79;
on social status of Loyalists in Nova Scotia, 83.
Pennsylvania, strength of Loyalists in, 17;
and the test laws, 27.
Prince Edward Island, Loyalists in, 63;
scurvy treatment, 86-90.
Pullency, Sir William, and land speculation, 125.
Pynchon, Joseph, and the Shelburne settlement, 65-6.
Quebec, Loyalist refugees flock to, 91;
settlements, 92-5;
all traces of lost, 95.
‘Rivington’s Gazette’ on terms of peace, 49.
Rochefoucauld, Duc de la, and the Americans in Upper Canada, 123-4;
on education at Cataraqui, 133.
Rogers’s Rangers, settlement of, 100.
‘Royal Greens,’ or the King’s Royal Regiment, raised, 37;
at ambuscade of Oriskany, 38;
settlement of, 100.
Royal Highland Emigrants, 37.
St John, social bitterness among Loyalists in, 82.
Scottish Highlanders, rebels of ‘the ’45,’ become Loyalists, 36.
Seabury, Dr, and the Loyalists, 56.
Shelburne, story of the Loyalist settlement at, 63-70.
Simcoe, Col. John Graves, and the U.E. regulation, 119;
his good work in Upper Canada, 122;
invites Americans to cross the border, 123;
and road-building, 135.
Smart, Rev. William, on the Loyalists in Upper Canada, 111, 116.
Sons of Liberty and the Loyalists, 23.
Stamp Act, the, some effects of, 21.
Stuart, Rev. John, at Cataraqui, 133.
Tarleton’s Loyal Cavalry, success in the Carolinas, 33-4.
Tea duty, Loyalist objection to, 11.
Test laws, tyranny of, 26;
not strictly enforced, 27.
Tories, American, get support of English Tories, 7;
loyalty of, 8;
an Episcopalian party, 15;
a social comparison with Whigs, 16;
tarring and feathering of, 22, 23;
test laws, 27-30.
Tryon, Governor, and Loyalist success, 34.
United Empire Loyalists, origin of name, 118-19.
See Loyalists.
Upper Canada, migration of Loyalists into determines form of
government, 5-6;
Loyalists removed to, 95;
settlements in, 97-100;
‘Family Compact’ party, 111;
names of districts in, 120-1;
Americans flock into, 123-5;
schools and churches in, 132-4;
means of communication, 134-5.
Van Alstine, Major, and settlement of Loyalists, 100, 111;
his grant, 117.
Van Schaak, Peter, a Whig, disapproves of test laws, 26-7.
Versailles, Peace of, and the Loyalists, 46-52.
Virginia and the Loyalists, 17, 47.
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