Loyalist Trails

October 2019

Loyalist Trails 2019-42

Corcoran2021-11-30T13:56:31-05:00October 20th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-42: October 20, 2019

In this issue:
– New Brunswick’s Loyalist Slave Owners: Part 1, by Stephen Davidson
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: To Face Violence at Home or go into Exile? Daniel Babbit’s Decision
– JAR: Picking Up the Pieces: Virginia’s “Eighteen-Months Men” of 1780-81
– JAR: Joshua Barney, the Hyder-Ally’s Triumph, and its Aftermath
– Washington’s Quill: Bushrod Washington: Slavery and Colonization in the Shadow of George Washington
– Ben Franklin’s World: Creating the First Ten Amendments
– Loyalist Gazette Spring 2019 Issue Catch-up Mailing
– Region and Branch Bits
+ Sir Guy Carleton Branch Fall […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-41

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:00:51-05:00October 13th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-41: October 13, 2019

In this issue:
– Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia: Part 3: Other Loyalists, by Stephen Davidson
– Worthy of Commemoration
– How Paul Revere Scooped a Rival and Created One of the Most Infamous Images in American History
– JAR: The Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Service of Georgia’s John Milton
– JAR: Book Review: Printing the News, 1763-1789
– Washington’s Quill: George Washington Sees the Circus
– Ben Franklin’s World: American Legal History & the Bill of Rights
– Fall 2019 Loyalist Gazette: Paper vs. Digital
– Loyalist Certificate Applications: Deadline for 2019 is October 31
– Where […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-40

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:07:18-05:00October 6th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-40: October 6, 2019

In this issue:
– Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia: Part 2: More German Loyalists, by Stephen Davidson
– New Additions to Loyalist Monuments, Memorials and Commemoratives
– Fort Edward National Historic Site in Windsor, Nova Scotia
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Ephraim DeForest – The Shoemaker’s Ultimate Fate
– JAR: How Magna Carta Influenced the American Revolution
– JAR: The Whitall Family and the Battle of Red Bank
– Washington’s Quill: A Glimpse of William “Billy” Lee: George Washington’s Enslaved Manservant
– Ben Franklin’s World: John Dickinson – Life, Religion & Politics
– Book: De Kalb: One of […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-39

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:08:39-05:00September 29th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-39: September 29, 2019

In this issue:
– 2019 UELAC Conference
– Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia: Part 1: Its German Loyalists, by Stephen Davidson
– The “Sussex” Declaration of Independence
– What is Work? By Kelly Arlene Grant
– Loyalist Quarterly Newsletter – Sept. 2019 , by Paul J. Bunnell, UE
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Natural disasters, Unnatural Rebellion
– Borealia: The Business of Transnational History: An Editor’s Perspective
– JAR: Massachusetts Privateers During the Siege of Boston
– Washington’s Quill: Polite Prohibition?: Bushrod Washington, Mount Vernon, and the Steamboat
– The Junto: Students Writing Letters, Students Reading Letters
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-38

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:10:09-05:00September 22nd, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-38: September 22, 2019

In this issue:
– Return to Loyalist Times in the Mohawk Valley – starting this weekend
– Ye Have the Poor With You Always: New Brunswick’s Loyalist Welfare System, by Stephen Davidson
– Living History 101: One Persona Will Not Fit Every Event
– JAR: Officers Who Never Saw Combat
– JAR: Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and French Fries
– Washington’s Quill: Wild and Wonderful George Washington
– The Junto: Interview with David Doddington, Author of Contesting Slave Masculinity
– Ben Franklin’s World: Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake
– Where in the World?
– Region and […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-37

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:11:20-05:00September 15th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-37: September 15, 2019

In this issue:
– Return to Loyalist Times in the Mohawk Valley, Sept. 29 – Oct. 4
– Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone: 18 Black Loyalists’ Stories (Part 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Lethbridge Alberta: New Plaque Honours Loyalists
– Henry Gesner UEL and Grandson Abraham Pineo Gesner, Inventor of Kerosene
– Once More Into the Breeches: How to Make Period Pants, by Kelly Arlene Grant
– JAR: A French “King of America”?
– JAR: Fire-Hunting by Night in South Carolina: A Pursuit of British Officers
– Washington’s Quill: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Militias in […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-36

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:12:57-05:00September 8th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-36: September 8, 2019

In this issue:
– Go Back to Loyalist Times in the Mohawk Valley, Sept. 29 – Oct. 4
– Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone: 18 Black Loyalists’ Stories (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Who Were The Black Loyalists?
– George Ludlow UEL: Addendum and Clarification
– Loyalists, Abaco Islands, Bahamas and Hurricane Dorian
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Medical Pioneers, Part 2: Freaky Pharmaceuticals and Quack Cures
– JAR: James Moore’s Commission in the East Florida Rangers
– JAR: A Plan for a British “Female Corps”
– Washington’s Quill: Refusing the Commander in Chief
– Ben […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-35

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:14:02-05:00September 1st, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-35: September 1, 2019

In this issue:
– Explore the Mohawk Valley This Fall! (Sept 29 – Oct. 4)
– Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone: 18 Black Loyalists’ Stories (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– George Duncan Ludlow, UEL
– Controversy over Ludlow Hall at University of New Brunswick
– A Loyalist’s House in Saint John, New Brunswick
– JAR: Four Battleflags of the Revolution: Captured by Lt.-Col. Banastre Tarleton
– JAR: The Beeline March: The Birth of the American Army
– Washington’s Quill: Martha on Money: The History of the Martha Washington Silver Certificate
– Ben Franklin’s World: Life […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-34

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:17:52-05:00August 25th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-34: August 25, 2019

In this issue:
– Explore the Mohawk Valley This Fall, Sept. 29 – Oct. 4
– Loyalists and Canada’s First Residential School, Part 4: Indigenous Apprentices, by Stephen Davidson
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Medical Pioneers: Peter Huggeford and the Horrors of 18th Century Surgery
– JAR: Cornwallis Quits Charlotte, Abandoning the Autumn Campaign of 1780
– Prospect Hill, Bunker’s Hill, and Psychological Warfare During the Siege of Boston
– JAR: Augustine Barrett, Escaped British Prisoner of War, Pleads his Case
– Washington’s Quill: The Fulcrum of the Revolution? George Washington Explores the Possibility of a Southern […]

Loyalist Trails 2019-33

Corcoran2021-11-30T14:18:44-05:00August 18th, 2019|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2019-33: August 18, 2019

In this issue:
– Seeking Truth with The Good Americans Film Project
– Loyalists and Canada’s First Residential School, Part 3: Sussex Vale, by Stephen Davidson
– Short Stays from the Scrap Bin
– JAR: The Penobscot Expedition of 1779
– JAR: Their Pockets Filled with Paper Dollars: The Raid on Little Ferry
– Ben Franklin’s World: Frontiers of Science
– Theodosia Prevost Burr & Slavery in 18th c. New Jersey
– “No Stamp Act”: Pots & Politics in Early America
– Bushrod Washington: Distinguishing Natural Rights from Legal Rights
– Where in the World?
– […]