Found on the NY GenWeb Rensselaer County, The Loyalist Muster Roll of 1777 by Capt Samuel McKay at Chateauguay, Quebec, 20TH DECEMBER 1777.

* Samuel Adams ( Loyalist ) ( 1730 – 1810 ), Loyalist officer in the Revolutionary War, physician, surgeon

She won Columbia's Bancroft Dissertation Award in American History in 1976 and her dissertation was published by the prestigious Columbia University Press in 1980 under the title, From Loyalist to Founding Father: The Political Odyssey of William Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Smith ( 27 December 1756 – 20 October 1826 ) was a Loyalist British army officer and politician.

The need for building materials and other supplies led Admiral Samuel Graves to authorize a Loyalist merchant to send his ships from Boston to Machias in the District of Maine, accompanied by a Royal Navy schooner.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The British remained in control of the Delaware River for much of the rest of the war, disrupting commerce and providing encouragement to an active Loyalist portion of the population, particularly in Sussex County.

Fanny came from a notably Loyalist background ( including Crean Brush, notorious for acts during the Siege of Boston, from whom she inherited land in Vermont ), but they were both smitten, and the marriage was a happy one.

Crest-coronets are generally simpler than coronets of rank, but several specialized forms exist ; for example, in Canada, descendants of the United Empire Loyalists are entitled to use a Loyalist military coronet ( for descendants of members of Loyalist regiments ) or Loyalist civil coronet ( for others ).

* November – American Revolution: Colonel Richard Richardson's South Carolina revolutionaries march through Ninety-Six District in what becomes known as the Snow Campaign, effectively ending all major support for the Loyalist cause in the backcountry of South Carolina.

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.

On June 28, 1776 General Henry Clinton with 2, 000 men and a naval squadron tried to seize Charleston, hoping for a simultaneous Loyalist uprising in South Carolina.

This gave the Loyalist cavalrymen the impression that the Continentals had shot at their commander while asking for mercy.

The creation of Upper Canada was in response to the desire expressed by recently arrived United Empire Loyalist settlers for British institutions and laws, especially British laws of land tenure.

This was in retaliation for attacks on Loyalist homes the previous weekend and after a young girl was hit in the face with a brick by Republicans.

After several lawyers with Loyalist leanings refused to defend Preston, he sent a request to John Adams, pleading for him to work on the case.

Because it was an important munitions depot, Worcester was targeted for attack by Loyalist general Thomas Gage.

* Charles Lynch ( 1736 – 1796 ), a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which incarcerated Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war, although lacking proper jurisdiction, on the plea of wartime necessity.

In the afternoon, re-enactors, playing the part of angry citizens and Continental Soldiers, march to the docks where redcoats ( played by members of the Maryland Loyalist Battalion ) defend the a ship for a short skirmish, then retire.

An alternative derivation is that the Township was named for Joseph Galloway, a Loyalist delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, who was opposed to independence of the Thirteen colonies.

Antes also built a gristmill and his fortified home, Fort Antes, provided a safe haven for the early settlers against raids conducted by Loyalist and Indian forces during the American Revolution.

In the early summer of 1778 news came of a group of Native American warriors, perhaps accompanied by Loyalist and British soldiers, heading for the West Branch Susquehanna River Valley to destroy settlements.

The mantling of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society is a unique example in which the mantling is of two furs ( ermines, lined ermine ).

New England Planters moved in to occupy the abandoned Acadian farming areas and the region also saw subsequent settlement by Loyalist refugees of the American Revolutionary War, as well as foreign Protestants.

Behind them much of the territory they abandoned dissolved into a chaotic guerrilla war, as the bands of Loyalist one by one were overwhelmed by the patriots.

These troops occupied Norfolk, Virginia, which had recently been abandoned by Loyalist forces.

It was infused with a series of complex disputes, sometimes centred on religion ( Catholic and Protestant ), Northern Ireland-related politics ( Loyalist and Republican ), and social ideology ( Conservatism and Socialism ).

The strategy has also been attributed as having inspired members of the Loyalist Ulster Defence Association such as John McMichael to seek a similar route into electoral politics through vehicles such as the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party.

Eventually, the land came into the possession of William Bayard, who originally supported the revolutionary cause, but became a Loyalist Tory after the fall of New York in 1776 when the city and surrounding areas, including the west bank of the renamed Hudson River, were occupied by the British.

Among other ventures, Hamilton became land wealthy expropriating lands from subsistence Loyalist settlers who were incapable of settling their debts.

In London, Franklin became a leading spokesman for the Loyalist community.

Loyalist John Butler was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel for his role in the battle, and was authorized to raise a regiment that became known as Butler's Rangers.

Although a delegate for Georgia to the Continental Congress in 1775, he resisted independence from Great Britain and became a Loyalist.

Like many other wealthy elites in Pennsylvania, however, he resisted radical change, and became a Loyalist after the Declaration of Independence and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.

As the revolution came to an end Haldimand helped settle American Loyalist refugees who became known as United Empire Loyalists, many in territories that are now in New Brunswick and Ontario.

Galloway became a Loyalist during the American War of Independence, after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania.

" Tarleton's quarter ," meaning no quarter would be offered to British and Loyalist soldiers, became a rallying cry for American Patriots for the rest of the war especially at the massacre by American troops on loyalist forces at the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780, where all the participants save for one British officer were colonists.

Continuing to produce his paper, now called The Loyalist, Bean soon became frustrated at both the lack of political activity and the links to the Conservative Party that were the hallmarks of the LEL and so left in 1957 to set up the National Labour Party with Fountaine.

The purchase was eventually made in 1781 and Sorel became a clearing house for the steady stream of Loyalist refugees from the south.

Most men who wanted to find a compromise solution would up on the Loyalist side, while the proponents of immediate action became Patriots.

In what became called the Waxhaw massacre, a Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton severely defeated a force of about 350 Virginian Continentals under Abraham Buford.

By conventional historical accounts, Tarleton's unhorsing gave some of the Loyalist cavalry the impression that the rebels had shot at their commander while asking for mercy, and they began what became a slaughter.

When the Brigade retreated during the final collapse of the Loyalist forces, his daughter, Erica, became ill and was separated from her parents.

At the end of the war in 1783 he became a United Empire Loyalist, settling in Nova Scotia.

Though a Loyalist, and British colonel in the Revolution, he became a longtime opponent of American colonial intrusions on Creek lands.