Loyalist Trails

November 2020

Loyalist Trails 2020-44

Admin CCG2022-01-11T12:57:00-05:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2020-44 (November 8, 2020)

In this issue:

Remembrance Day 11 November, and Veteran’s Week
New Brunswick Loyalists and their Runaway Slaves, Part 2 of 2 by Stephen Davidson
Podcast: Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, with Stephen Davidson
A Family Note on New Brunswick Loyalists and Their Run Away Slaves
Loyalist Samuel Williams’ Journey to Florida
JAR: Thomas Machin and His Chains
The Ties That Bind: My Scottish Loyalist Ancestor, Neil McRae by Carl Stymiest
Lacemakers and Handicraft: 1750-1775
Borealia: Are we there yet? On the Pandemic, Trumpism, and the History of Anticipation
Bay of Quinte Branch: Loyal Americans Hall […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-43

Admin CCG2022-01-11T12:55:39-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2020-43 (November 1, 2020)

In this issue:

New Brunswick Loyalists and their Runaway Slaves, Part 1 of 2 by Stephen Davidson UE
Loyalist Samuel Williams (1710-1786) By Phil Eschbach
Book: Loyalist Cemeteries & Gravestones: Annapolis & Digby Counties
Report: Col. Benedict Arnold to General George Washington
Borealia: Teach My Research: Jesuits and Demons in New France
JAR: Alexander Hamilton’s Missing Years: New Discoveries and Insights into the Little Lion’s Caribbean Childhood
Jamestown: André’s Tree: Even More Hidden History in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
JAR: The Connolly Plot
Kelly Arlene Grant: Fuelling the Great Shortgown Debate?
Ben Franklin’s World: […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-42

Admin CCG2022-01-11T12:54:35-05:00October 25th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2020-42

In this issue:
– The Head of Elk: A Turning Point for Loyalists (Part 5 of 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Life of Susanna Harrington, Wife of Frederick Shelp: Conclusion, by Arden Wade
– Boston Massacre Trial
– The Case of the Missing Revolutionary War Sabre
– JAR: Starting from Scratch: Combating “the Itch”
– JAR: A Moonlighting British Army Surgeon
– Borealia: Call for Papers: Canadian Coastal Histories
– Ben Franklin’s World: Elections & Voting in Early America: Native Sovereignty
– National Trust for Canada: Ecclesiastical Insurance Cornerstone Awards
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued Recently
– Where […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-41

Admin CCG2022-01-11T12:53:22-05:00October 18th, 2020|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

Loyalist Trails Newsletter 2020-41

In this issue:
– Fall 2020 Loyalist Gazette
– The Head of Elk: A Turning Point for Loyalists (Part 4 of 5), by Stephen Davidson
– Life of Susanna Harrington, Wife of Frederick Shelp, by Arden Wade
– Loyalist Settlement in New Brunswick: New Brunswick Loyalists
– The Yorktown Campaign
– JAR: Ethan Allen’s Mysterious Defeat at Montreal – Reconsidered
– JAR: Britain’s Last Throw of the Dice – The Charlestown Campaign of 1780
– Borealia: Loyalist Women and the Experience of Revolutionary Exile in Nova Scotia
– Ben Franklin’s World: Elections & Voting in the Early Republic
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2020-40

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:38:23-05:00October 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

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:39:37-05:00October 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

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:41:46-05:00September 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

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:43:34-05:00September 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

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:44:54-05:00September 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

Admin CCG2021-11-29T17:55:32-05:00September 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 – […]