“Loyalist Trails” 2016-39: September 25, 2016

In this issue:
– An Epitaph in Ink: Part Two, by Stephen Davidson
– Digital Gazette: Fall 2016 Issue is Being Developed
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond

Articles

An Epitaph in Ink: Part Two

© Stephen Davidson, UE

Polly Jarvis grew up in a middle class home in Stamford, Connecticut, where she had the opportunity to learn how to read and write. She married a man of letters, Fyler Dibblee, who eventually accumulated a library valued at over £500. In addition to having a lawyer as a husband, Polly had […]

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-37: September 11, 2016

In this issue:
– Browsing through an Orderly Book: Getting Along with the Locals, by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Captain John Peck Rathbun – As Audacious as John Paul Jones
– Digital Gazette: Help Save Costs; Sign up by April 14
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: Albert Edward Preece, UE

Articles

Browsing through an Orderly Book: Getting Along with the Locals

© Stephen Davidson, UE

The American Revolution was a different type of war for the British army. Their troops were not in enemy territory where […]

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-35: August 28, 2016

In this issue:
– Carleton’s Book of Negroes: A Ledger’s Legacy (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Stern Measures – Thomas Jefferson Confronts the “Hair Buyer”
– JAR: Daniel McGirth, Banditti on the Southern Frontier
– Tarleton’s Legion
– Teaching the African Diaspora with a Trip to Canada
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: James Arthur (Art) Keller, UE
– Memorial Service For Lois Dickinson, UE

Articles

Carleton’s Book of Negroes: A Ledger’s Legacy (Part 2)

© Stephen Davidson, UE

More than just a ledger that recorded […]

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-33: August 14, 2016

In this issue:
– If Loyalist Furniture Could Talk (Part 2 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Revolutionary War Olympics – The Games Our Founders Played
– Ben Franklin’s World: Founding Friendships Between Men and Women
– Myths of the American Revolution: The Smithsonian
– Book: Valiant Ambition – A Piece of the Back Story
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in July
– War of 1812: Lemuel Scott, Prisoner of War
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: Hazel “Eleanor” Philip (Brown), UE
– […]

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-31: July 31, 2016

In this issue:
– Conference 2016
– Heroes in the Loyalist Hall of Fame, by Stephen Davidson
– Data Correction: Revised Article “A Favour of the Queen”
– Joseph Brant, the Mohawk Warrior, Tribal Leader & Diplomat
– Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850
– Historicist: Elizabeth Simcoe, A Toronto Pioneer
– JAR: War on the Middleline: The October 1780 British Raid on Ballston
– Home Makeover: Loyalist Estate Turned Patriot Headquarters
– 2016 UELAC Conference donates to Scholarship
– Reminder: Your Loyalist History in the Loyalist Gazette
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and […]