Loyalist Trails

October 2020

Loyalist Trails 2020-40

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:38:23-05:00October 11th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

In this issue:
– New: UELAC Face Mask
– The Head of Elk: A Turning Point for Loyalists (Part 3 of 5), by Stephen Davidson
– David Dinsmore: Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile
– Ten Great Revolutionary War Prints
– JAR: The Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist Partisan of the American Revolution
– JAR: Colonel Henry Jackson Accused of Misconduct at the Battle of Monmouth Court House
– Borealia: Settler Science in New Brunswick: The Brydone Jack Observatory and the Invention of European Sovereignty
– Ben Franklin’s World: Democracy & Voting in British America
– Book: Pioneers of […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-39

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:39:37-05:00October 4th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

In this issue:
– “Join the rEvolution”: UELAC Conference 2021 by Bridge Annex
– The Head of Elk: A Turning Point for Loyalists (Part 2 of 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Book Review: 18th Century Loyalist Recipes
– JAR: The Battle of Shallow Ford, October 14, 1780
– JAR: Thomas Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts, January 1759-1760
– Borealia: Success/Failure? Louis Riel and the History of Policing Canada
– Colonial Williamsburg: Creating an Embroidered Coat for George Washington
– Crossing the Atlantic: Passengers of the Arbella, 1630
– The Loyalist Gazette, Fall Issue 2020
– Where in the World?
– Additions to […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-38

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:41:46-05:00September 27th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

In this issue:
– The Head of Elk: A Turning Point for Loyalists (Part 1 of 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Book: St. Lawrence Branch UELAC Launches Loyalists At Table
– Book Review: Loyalist History of Nova Scotia
– JAR: The Mysterious March of Horatio Gates
– JAR: What Killed Prisoners of War? A Medical Investigation
– Borealia: The Disappearing Daughters of Jerusalem: Erasing Women from Early Canadian Methodist History
– Ben Franklin’s World: Acadie 300
– The Spoils of War, in Baby Shoes & a Patchwork Quilt
– Just a Pinch of Salt
– Historic Burlington ON Cemetery Needs Expensive […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-37

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:43:34-05:00September 20th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

In this issue:
– Well-to-Do Loyalist Widows in London (Part 4 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– Kelly Arlene Grant: Spring 2020: a Tale of Two Jackets
– JAR: The First Efforts to Limit the African Slave Trade Arise in the American Revolution (Part 1)
– JAR: Battle of the Saintes
– Borealia: The Readers called Methodists: A Review of Pulpit, Press, and Politics
– Ben Franklin’s World: Tacky’s Revolt
– National Trust Canada: The Legacy of Labour and Industry in 5 Historic Places
– Jamestown: 450th Commemoration of Ajacán – the Spanish Mission of 1570
– Researching German Ancestors: Virtual […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-36

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:44:54-05:00September 13th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-36: September 13, 2020

In this issue:
– Well-to-Do Loyalist Widows in London (Part 3 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– Stephanie Seal Walters Defended her PhD Dissertation
– Father-son journey to Digby County NS shines light on little-known Black history
– JAR: L’Expédition Particuliere: Winter 1780 and the Battle of Cape Henry
– JAR: Margaret Eustace and Her Family Pass through the American Revolution
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Death and Suicide in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 1784-1850
– Borealia: The State and Organized Rifle Shooting in Nova Scotia in the 1860s
– Ben Franklin’s World: The Business of […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-35

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:55:32-05:00September 10th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-35: September 10, 2020

In this issue:
– Well-to-Do Loyalist Widows in London (Part 2 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– Sir Guy Carleton Branch Certificate Applications
– Where in the World?
– Additions to the Loyalist Directory
– Last Post: Dennis Lachlin Lloyd, UE
– Editor’s Note

Articles

Well-to-Do Loyalist Widows in London (Part 2 of 4)

During its sessions in London, England, the Royal Commission on the Losses and Services of American Loyalists (RCLSAL) heard the testimony of 25 Loyalist widows. As we saw last week, only four of these female claimants were – […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-34

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:56:46-05:00August 23rd, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-34: August 23, 2020

In this issue:
– Well-to-Do Loyalist Widows in London (Part 1 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– A Special Scholarship Invitation: Dissertation Defense by Stephanie Seal Walters
– Aaron Burr, a Bust of Napoleon, and Dreams of Conquest
– Illustrated Diary of 18th-Century Sailor
– JAR: Countervailing Colonial Perspectives on Quartering the British Army
– JAR: Did John Adams Respond to Abigail’s “Remember the Ladies”?
– Map of Massachusetts Proper, 1802
– Book: World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey through the American Revolution
– Book: Defiance of the Patriots, The Boston Tea Party, and […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-33

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:57:47-05:00August 16th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-33: August 16, 2020

In this issue:
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge: It Was a Very Good Year!
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Donation Tax Receipts
– When Did the American Revolution Begin?
– Book: On The Loyalist Trail: Loyalist History of Nova Scotia
– Book About General Peter Muhlenberg
– JAR: A Painter Abroad: John Singleton Copley Writes to His Wife
– Ben Franklin’s World: The British Are Coming
– Pins, the Georgian Post-It Used by Jane Austen
– “Horrid Scenes of Villainy”: The Stamp Act Protest of August […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-32

Corcoran2021-11-29T17:59:38-05:00August 9th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-32: August 9, 2020

In this issue:
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 4), by Stephen Davidson
– The Life of Stephen Watts, by Gavin Watt
– Comment About “Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War”
– JAR: A “Truly Noble” Resistance: The Sons of Liberty in Connecticut
– JAR: A Visit to Fort Mifflin on the Delaware
– The Launch of the Massachusetts Spy
– King’s Chapel Interior Color Schemes & Georgian Architecture
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
+ National Trust for […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-31

Corcoran2021-11-29T18:02:35-05:00August 2nd, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-31: August 2, 2020

In this issue:
– A Universal Despair and Phrenzy: A Loyalist’s letter of August 1782
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Clarifying Two Widows Named Grant
– JAR: Longhouse Lost: The Battle of Oriskany and the Iroquois Civil War
– Book About Philip Eamer Family: Three River Valleys Called Home
– Boston 1775: Safe No Where But In His House
– The Enslavement of African People in Canada (c. 1629-1834)
– Those Mysterious 18thc Masks
– How Much Did 18Th-Century Women Know About Their Clothes?
– […]