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List of Loyalists (American Revolution)

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Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, opposing the Patriots.

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  • Grace Growden Galloway (1727–1783), Loyalist who documented her fight for property rights
  • Joseph Galloway (1731–1803), Member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly[23]
  • Alexander Garden (1720–1791), Scottish-born naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina until fleeing to London in 1783
  • Silvester Gardiner (1708–1786), Massachusetts physician, visionary land developer; in 1774 added his name to a letter addressed to Massachusetts Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson, affirming his allegiance to the Loyalist cause
  • David George (c. 1743–1810), African-American Baptist preacher and a Black Loyalist from the American South who escaped to British lines in Savannah, Georgia; later accepted transport to Nova Scotia and land there; eventually resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Abraham Gesner (1756–1851), served with the King's Orange Rangers during the American Revolution; purchased a commission of major in the British Army
  • Zacharias Gibbs (1736–before 1793), Loyalist militia officer of South Carolina. Veteran of the French & Indian War. Raised to Lieutenant Colonel prior to 1779. He fought at Orangeburg, Ninety-Six, Kettle Creek and other engagements. After the Siege of Charleston, Gibbs fled to East Florida, then to Jamaica, then County Down, Ireland. Died at sea in 1793
  • Simon Girty (1741–1818), British liaison with the Indians
  • John Goodrich (1722–1785), Loyalist privateer
  • Captain John Gore (1730–1790), Royal Navy Captain and explorer. Circumnavigated the globe four times, including Cook's first and third Voyages.
  • Harrison Gray (1711–1794), wealthy merchant; Treasurer and Receiver-General for the Province of Massachusetts Bay

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  • Henry Nase - born in what became Connecticut. Fled to avoid being forced by rebels to fight against the king p. Sgt Major eventually Colonel. Kept a diary for the revolutionary war which is in the New Brunswick Museum. For his service he was awarded land in what became St. John New Brunswick. First settler in New Brunswick. Car ferry named after him and the downtown development COL. Henry Nase bolvd. His home and family cemetery reqmain untact.
  • William Nase - brother of Henry. Born in what became Connecticut

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  • Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814), of Massachusetts, Royal official and scientist, established the Royal Institution in England.[39]
  • Consider Tiffany (1732–1796), Connecticut storekeeper and sergeant during the French and Indian War[40]
  • William Tryon (1729–1788), Royal Governor of North Carolina[41]
  • Colonel Tye (c. 1753–1780), New Jersey native who escaped from slavery and achieved fame leading a brigade of partisans in raids against Patriots in Monmouth County.[42]

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  • Peter van Schaack (1747–1832), New York lawyer
  • John Vardill (1749–1811), New York City-born British spy, clergyman, educator, pamphleteer, playwright, and poet

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  • Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), last Royal Governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution; Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia[43]
  • Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), Church of England missionary in South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, diarist, poet, and corresponding member of the Royal Society of Arts, London.[44][45] He authored an article published (under the pseudonym "Sylvanus") in the South Carolina Gazette and Country-Journal on March 28, 1769 chiding the local Patriot leaders for hypocrisy and asked pointedly how they could justly complain of "No taxation without representation!" regarding Acts of Parliament, while these very same powerful men denied the Carolina Backcountry any representation in South Carolina's Assembly, yet expected them to pay taxes passed by that body.[46]
  • James Wright (1716–1785), last Royal Governor of Georgia, buried in Westminster Abbey

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  1. ^ Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 154–155.
  2. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 157–158.
  3. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 222-223.
  4. ^ Stone, William Leete (1838). Life of Joseph Brant, Thayendanegea. New York: George Dearborn & Co. pp. 210––214. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  5. ^ Anne Y. Zimmer. Jonathan Boucher, loyalist in exile. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1978.
  6. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 240–241.
  7. ^ Maya Jasanoff (2011), pp. xiv–xv,234–242, 321–323, 348.
  8. ^ J. Leitch Wright. William Augusutus Bowles: Director General of the Creek Nation. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1967.
  9. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 245-246.
  10. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 260–265.
  11. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 278–280.
  12. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 280.
  13. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 301.
  14. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 335.
  15. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 348-349.
  16. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 363–366.
  17. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 372–374.
  18. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 377–378.
  19. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 381–383.
  20. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 402.
  21. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 408–412.
  22. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 417–418.
  23. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 453–457.
  24. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 511-512.
  25. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 548–550.
  26. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, pp. 563-565.
  27. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 1, p. 566.
  28. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, p. 9–10.
  29. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 10–12.
  30. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 32–33.
  31. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, p. 55.
  32. ^ "Report by George Milligan [Millegen], surgeon to the garrison for His Majesty's forces in South Carolina - Colonial America - Adam Matthew Digital". www.colonialamerica.amdigital.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  33. ^ Webber, Mabel Louise. "Extracts from the Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault" (PDF). The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Vol. XXI. p. 72.
  34. ^ "Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia, 1800-1867". www.blupete.com.
  35. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, p. 128-129.
  36. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 208–209.
  37. ^ Maya Jasanoff (2011), pp. xi, 34–36, 93–94, 123–125, 131, 134, 143, 313.
  38. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 221–225.
  39. ^ Bradley 1974
  40. ^ Connecticut Births and Christenings 1649-1906. Consider Tiffany, 15 Mar 1732; citing; FHL microfilm.
  41. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 364–366.
  42. ^ Gilbert, Alan. Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  43. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 410–413.
  44. ^ Richard J. Hooker, ed. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant. 1953.
  45. ^ Joseph R. Gainey. "Rev. Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789): Author, Loyalist, Missionary, and Psalmodist." West Gallery: The Newsletter of the West Gallery Music Association, Issue No. 59 (Autumn 2011), pp. 18–25.
  46. ^ South Carolina Gazette and Country-Journal in the March 28, 1769 issue (much abridged and heavily edited). The complete text is in Hooker, pp. 260–263.
  47. ^ Sabine (1864), Vol. 2, pp. 466–468.
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