“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)

© Stephen Davidson, UE

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” 2020-33: 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” 2020-31: 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?
– […]

“Loyalist Trails” 2020-29: July 19, 2020

In this issue:
– British Columbia ‘Loyalist Day’
– The View from Here: Stephanie Seal-Walters, PhD Candidate
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 8
– The Baileys and the Callahans: Friends in Difficult Days (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– The American Revolution in the Eyes of Other Countries
– Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax NS, a Loyalist Resting Place
– JAR: Creating Order: Rufus King and the Nascent American Republic
– Borealia: Teach my Research: Food, Colonization, and Religion in New France
– The Junto: Hunting Shirts, Backcountry Culture, and “Playing Indian” in the American RevolutionA
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“Loyalist Trails” 2020-27: July 5, 2020

In this issue:
– The View from Here: Kelly A. Grant, PhD candidate, Concordia University
– 2020 Scholarship Challenge Update: Week 6
– Decoding the Book of Negroes (Part 4 of 4), by Stephen Davidson
– Coronavirus, BLM, and Trump: What Hidden Secret of July 4th Can Save Us?
– Loyalist Quarterly Newsletter, June 2020, by Paul J. Bunnell, UE
– Deborah Sampson: The Female Soldier
– Teaching American History With NYPL Digital Collections: Revolutionary New York
– Book: The Rebel and the Tory: Ethan Allen, Philip Skene, and the Dawn of Vermont
– JAR: Lessons […]