March 2021

Loyalist Trails 2021-09

2021-04-15T14:58:41-04:00March 1st, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-09 (February 28, 2021)

In this issue:

  • The Many Legacies of Frederick William Hecht: Part Four by Stephen Davidson
  • What Slavery Looked Like in Canada
  • JAR: Such As Are Absolutely Free: Benjamin Thompson’s Black Dragoons
  • Washington’s Quill: Introducing Isaac and Kitty, Two Individuals Enslaved at Mount Vernon
  • Haldimand plans to take over historic cemetery in Canfield ON
  • JAR: Incredible Insults and Hardships: The Hostage Experience of Ebenezer Sullivan
  • Response to Query: What Impact did Loyalists have on the UK?
  • Saskatchewan Branch Book Project: “Loyalist Descendants in Saskatchewan”
  • Cliveden (Philadelphia) reconsiders Battle of Germantown reenactment
  • Kelly Arlene Grant: In […]

February 2021

Loyalist Trails 2021-08

2021-04-15T14:58:41-04:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-08 (February 21, 2021)

In this issue:

  • UELAC Conference 2021: Registration is Open
  • The Many Legacies of Frederick William Hecht: Part Three by Stephen Davidson UE
  • Connecting Canada and Sierra Leone
  • JAR: Colonel Tye: Leader of Loyalist Raiders—and Runaway Slave
  • Ben Franklin’s World: Whitney Plantation Museum
  • Provincial Award for Heritage Excellence; Heritage Trust recognizes William Terry
  • Book: The Loyalists of Digby by Brian McConnell UE
  • JAR: The Impeachment of Senator William Blount—the First in American History
  • Toronto’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited Home
  • William Tudor Falls In Love With A Loyalist
  • Query: What Impact did Loyalists have on the UK?
  • Events:

Loyalist Trails 2021-07

2021-04-15T14:58:41-04:00February 16th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-07 (February 14, 2021)

In this issue:

  • The Many Legacies of Frederick William Hecht: Part Two by Stephen Davidson UE
  • Restoring the legacy of a ‘trailblazing’ Black Saint John writer
  • Trumpeter “Black Barney” of the Queen’s Rangers
  • JAR: Francis and Gottlieb Otto: Rebels or Loyalists?
  • JAR: Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Edward Hector, Bombardier and Wagoner
  • Boston 1775: Searching for Mr. Molineux’s Cannon
  • Pandemic boredom sparks record drive to prove Loyalist roots
  • Borealia: Debating (Canadian) Presentism: Narrative, Nation, and Macdonald in 2021
  • Query: Where are the Missing Muster Rolls Mentioned in the Loyalists of Quebec
  • NS Branch Resource: […]

Loyalist Trails 2021-06

2021-04-15T14:58:41-04:00February 8th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-06 (February 7, 2021)

In this issue:

  • UELAC Conference 2021: Event Map
  • The Many Legacies of Frederick William Hecht: Part One by Stephen Davidson
  • Captain Jacob Getcheus, Master of ships supporting American Patriots, British, and Black Loyalists
  • Col. John Peters Autobiography
  • Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Remote Research: Selected Online Resources for Loyalist History
  • Ben Franklin’s World: 1774: The Long Year of American Revolution
  • JAR: Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Hannah Till, George Washington’s Cook
  • JAR: Nineteenth-Century Remembrances of Black Revolutionary Veterans: Thomas Carney, Maryland Continental Soldier
  • Kelly Arlene Grant: Curtching Experiment
  • Getting Dressed: Clothing for a 17th Century English […]

Loyalist Trails 2021-05

2021-04-15T14:58:41-04:00February 1st, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-05 (January 31, 2021)

In this issue:

  • The Loyalist Postmaster of Newport, Rhode Island, Part Four of Four by Stephen Davidson UE
  • Murray Aikman Locked Down and Searching for his Roots
  • JAR Review: To the End of the World: Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and the Race to the Dan
  • The Inhabitants of the New England Colonies at the Time of the Revolution
  • Why Yorktown? Yorktown in Human and Geological Time
  • Jamestown Settlement: ‘No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion’: National Religious Freedom
  • Under Cover in the Renaissance; Early Modern Masks
  • Query: Were George’s Parents or Grandparents Loyalists?
  • NS Branch […]

January 2021

Loyalist Trails 2021-04

2021-08-14T19:23:55-04:00January 28th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-04 (January 24, 2021)

In this issue:

  • The Loyalist Postmaster of Newport, Rhode Island, Part Three of Four by Stephen Davidson
  • JAR: The Most Unlucky Man: Patrick Ferguson’s Early Years
  • JAR: Thou Shalt Not Steal: Plunder, Theft, and Sticky Fingers
  • Contested Elections – in New Brunswick!
  • History of the Old South Meeting House in Boston
  • The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution
  • Francis Philip Fatio and New Switzerland: The Williams History
  • Ontario Heritage trust: Getting ready for Black History Month
  • Ben Franklin’s World: Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholding in Jamaica
  • Borealia: A Summer Paddle on […]

Loyalist Trails 2021-03

2021-04-15T14:58:42-04:00January 18th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-03 (January 17, 2021)

In this issue:

 

  • Update on Loyalist Migrations
  • The Loyalist Postmaster of Newport, Rhode Island, Part Two of Four
  • JAR Book: Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution
  • JAR: The British Naval Signals Missions of 1781
  • Age of Revolutions: Loyalists and the Birth of Libraries in New England: The Marriage of Martin and Abigail Howard
  • Age of Revolutions: Friendship and Sociability: A Reexamination of Benjamin Franklin’s Friendship with Madame Brillon de Jouy
  • Jesse Fish and Fish’s Island – Part of the Samuel William Family Story
  • Borealia: New Brunswick’s Militia and Home Defence During […]

Loyalist Trails 2021-02

2021-04-15T14:58:42-04:00January 11th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-02 (January 10, 2021)

In this issue:

  • Did you miss the Jan 3 issue?
  • Be Safe and Healthy in 2021: Sue Hines UE, President
  • The Loyalist Postmaster of Newport, Rhode Island, Part 1 of 4 by Stephen Davidson UE
  • Atlantic Loyalist Collections: Spirits to Sustain Us, Acorns to Restore Us
  • A Forensic Investigation of Jane McCrea’s Final Resting Place
  • The Latest Update on Soldier Skeletal Remains Found in Ridgefield CT
  • JAR: James Lovell: Schoolteacher, Prisoner, Patriot
  • Lodowick and William Ashley, Grandsons of Patriarch Samuel
  • Jar: Plight of the Seamen: Incarceration, Escape, or Secured Freedom
  • Boreal1a: Debating (American) Democracy
  • Response […]

Loyalist Trails 2021-01

2022-01-11T13:31:44-05:00January 5th, 2021|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2021-01 (January 3, 2021)

In this issue:

  • Loyalists Gone Astray, Part Two of Two by Stephen Davidson UE
  • Ethan Allen’s “Motley Parcel of Soldiery” at Montreal
  • JAR: Texas and the American Revolution
  • Jane and Susan Williams, Daughters of Patriarch Samuel
  • Response to Query: Missing Sources for Information about Butler’s Rangers
  • Kelly Arlene Grant: to Curtch, or not to Curtch?
  • Book Info: “Loyalist History of Nova Scotia” and “Loyalist Cemeteries & Gravestones of Nova Scotia: Annapolis & Digby Counties”
  • Heritage Resource for Ontario: Ontario Heritage Directory & Map
  • Additions to the Loyalist Directory
  • From the Twittersphere and Beyond

 

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December 2020

Loyalist Trails 2020-51

2022-01-11T13:30:55-05:00December 28th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2020-51 (December 27, 2020)

In this issue:

  • The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2020
  • UELAC Face Mask
  • Loyalists Gone Astray, Part One of Two by Stephen Davidson UE
  • JAR: The Mount Vernon Slave Who Made Good: The Mystery of William Costin
  • Abner “The Elder” Williams, Last Son of Patriarch Samuel
  • JAR: “The Devil at the Helm:” A Quote that Went Astray
  • “I believe they are a smuggling”
  • Query: Missing Sources for Information about Butler’s Rangers
  • Response to Query: Copy of The Loyalists in Ontario.
  • Historic Deerfield: Pass it Round: Festive Drinks for Holiday Cheer
  • George Washington’s boozy eggnog recipe — and […]
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