The New York Loyalists

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813931166

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Unnatural Rebellion by Ruma Chopra Pdf

Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to the empire. Of course the loyalists were too American to be of one mind. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. Despised by the rebels as enemies or as British appendages, New York’s refugees hoped to partner with the British to restore peaceful government in the colonies. The British confounded their expectations by instituting martial law in the city and marginalizing loyalist leaders. Still, the loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.

Author : Judith L. Van Buskirk
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812218220

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Generous Enemies by Judith L. Van Buskirk Pdf

In July 1776, the final group of more than 130 ships of the Royal Navy sailed into the waters surrounding New York City, marking the start of seven years of British occupation that spanned the American Revolution. What military and political leaders characterized as an impenetrable "Fortress Britannia"—a bastion of solid opposition to the American cause—was actually very different. As Judith L. Van Buskirk reveals, the military standoff produced civilian communities that were forced to operate in close, sustained proximity, each testing the limits of political and military authority. Conflicting loyalties blurred relationships between the two sides: John Jay, a delegate to the Continental Congresses, had a brother whose political loyalties leaned toward the Crown, while one of the daughters of Continental Army general William Alexander lived in occupied New York City with her husband, a prominent Loyalist. Indeed, the texture of everyday life during the Revolution was much more complex than historians have recognized. Generous Enemies challenges many long-held assumptions about wartime experience during the American Revolution by demonstrating that communities conventionally depicted as hostile opponents were, in fact, in frequent contact. Living in two clearly delineated zones of military occupation—the British occupying the islands of New York Bay and the Americans in the surrounding countryside—the people of the New York City region often reached across military lines to help friends and family members, pay social calls, conduct business, or pursue a better life. Examining the movement of Loyalist and rebel families, British and American soldiers, free blacks, slaves, and businessmen, Van Buskirk shows how personal concerns often triumphed over political ideology. Making use of family letters, diaries, memoirs, soldier pensions, Loyalist claims, committee and church records, and newspapers, this compelling social history tells the story of the American Revolution with a richness of human detail.

Author : Alexander Clarence Flick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : History
ISBN : PRNC:32101072316910

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Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution by Alexander Clarence Flick Pdf

Classic study including extensive appendix of forfeited estates. Topics include the rise of the Loyalist Party, final organization, war against the loyalists, county inquisitorial organizations, activities of loyalists after issuance of the Declaration of Independence, activities of the commissioners on loyalists (1776-81), confiscation and sale of the property of loyalists, emigration of loyalists to Great Britain, Canada and Nova Scotia, and treatment of loyalists by Great Britain. Alexander Clarence Flick was Sometime University Fellow in History at Columbia University and Professor of European History at Syracuse University.

Author : Philip Ranlet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000081758652

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The New York Loyalists by Philip Ranlet Pdf

In the 1986 first edition, Ranlet argued that loyalty to the British crown was much weaker in New York State on the eve of independence than historians have believed. Here he appends a note on subsequent studies that buttress his argument. He examines details of specific events such as the Burgoyne Disaster, dimensions such as the military aspect, specific individuals, and organizations such as the Committees of New York City. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400075478

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Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

Author : William Offutt
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : 0393938891

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Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 by William Offutt Pdf

A Norton original in the Reacting to the Past series, Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City invites students to experience the chaos of the American Revolution.

Author : Alexander Clarence Flick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN : UOM:39015023137063

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Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution by Alexander Clarence Flick Pdf

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459503991

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American Loyalists to New Brunswick by David Bell Pdf

The Loyalists were colonial Americans who supported the British empire and opposed independence during the long revolutionary war. When the American Revolution ended in a peace treaty that was too feeble to protect them against persecution in the newly independent United States, tens of thousands fl ed to a new life in exile. In 1783 many of them sailed northward from the New York City area to the St. John River valley in the future Canadian province of New Brunswick. This volume makes available for the fi rst time the source materials documenting this vast migration. Most records were discovered at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. In this book you can follow thousands of loyal American refugees at one or more critical points in their journey of exile: on registering their names at New York to take part in the exoduson boarding a ship for the voyage northwardon drawing provisions from the army commissariat at St. John Harbour after arrivalas recipients of town lots in the future city of Saint Johnas participants in the political turmoil that overtook the American Loyalists in exile This rich resource will be treasured by both family historians and those interested in New Brunswicks colourful past.

Author : Ruth Holmes Whithead
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771080170

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Black Loyalists by Ruth Holmes Whithead Pdf

“Engaging and steeped in years of research . . . a must read for all who care about the intersection of Canadian, American, British, and African history.” —Lawrence Hill, award-winning author of Someone Knows My Name In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the British to the Americans, New York City was evacuated by the British Army throughout the summer and fall of 1783. Carried away with them were a vast number of White Loyalists and their families, and over 3,000 Black Loyalists: free, indentured, apprenticed, or still enslaved. More than 2,700 Black people came to Nova Scotia with the fleet from New York City. Black Loyalists strives to present hard data about the lives of Nova Scotia Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia—to tell the little-known story of some very brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to pass through the heart, ironically, of a War for Liberty, to find their own liberty and human dignity. Includes historical images and documents

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385546522

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Our First Civil War by H. W. Brands Pdf

"A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them. After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.

Author : Thomas Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : UCAL:B4519331

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History of New York During the Revolutionary War by Thomas Jones Pdf

Author : Flick Alexander Clarence
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1016776373

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Loyalism in New York During the American Revolution by Flick Alexander Clarence Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Mark Jodoin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625843326

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Shadow Soldiers of the American Revolution by Mark Jodoin Pdf

The little-known true stories of ten British loyalists who fled to Canada during the American Revolution, then came back to try to reclaim their land. In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec. Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south—as soldiers, spies, and scouts to fight for their multigenerational farms along the Mohawk River, Lake Champlain, and Hudson River Valleys. Eventually defeated, they were banished from their ancestral homelands forever. In this book, Mark Jodoin offers an enlightened look back at ten young men and women who were forced north into Ontario and Quebec, sharing the struggles these Loyalists faced during our nation’s founding. Includes illustrations

Author : William McEnery Offutt
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0205785794

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Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 by William McEnery Offutt Pdf

Part of the "Reacting to the Past "series, "Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-76 "draws students into the political and social chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces argued and fought for advantage among a divided populace. " " " "Students engage with the ideological foundations of revolution and government through close readings of Locke, Paine, and other contemporary arguments. Each student's ultimate victory goal is to have his/her side in control of New York City at the end of 1776 (not as of the end of the Revolution, when all know who won), as well as to achieve certain individual goals (e.g., slaves can attain freedom, propertied women can be granted voting rights, laborers can make deals for land). Winning requires the ability to master the high politics arguments for and against revolution as well as the low political skills of logrolling, bribery, and threatened force. Military force often determines the winner, much to the surprise of the students who concentrated merely on internal game politics.

Author : Peter Wilson Coldham,Sally Lou Mick Haigh,Great Britain. Public Record Office. Audit Office
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : National Genealogical Society
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001033250

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American Loyalist Claims by Peter Wilson Coldham,Sally Lou Mick Haigh,Great Britain. Public Record Office. Audit Office Pdf

This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive account of the relationships and interests of that vast number of colonial Americns whose loyalty to the Crown during the Revolution earned them exile and confiscation of their property. It offers maximum usefulness to readers, including the key, by names of testators, to many wills, will abstracts, and administrations-- some of which may be the only copies extant. C0045HB - $22.50