The U.E. Poem

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The Journal Of Alexander Chesney

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The Loyalists In The American Revolution

The Loyalists in the American Revolution,  By Claude Halstead Van Tyne:

Israel Williams though old  and infirm was taken from his home at night a mob placed in a house with the doors and closed and smoked for several hours poet Trumbull has chronicled the result in the of M'Fingal which tells us that they smoked old Williams to a Whig. When the mob let him out he signed a paper promising not to serve on the Mandamus Council.

 At Taunton some five hundred inhabitants assembled at the court house in which was the office of Daniel Leonard to express their sentiments against his acceptance of a place on the Mandamus Council Mr. Leonard disappeared and the crowd dispersed without disorder or violence but on the following evening certain Sons of Belial fired several balls into one of Leonard's chamber windows.

Legacy Of The American Revolution

The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British ...:

Also see: Thomas Brown in a Hornet's Nest and The King's Rangers Colonel Brown.

The Fort

Source: LOC of Penobscot Bay (Maine) Map

A quote from The Fort; A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell; the subject was the Siege of Penobscot Bay, then part of Massachusetts, from July 24, 1779 to August 14, 1779):

We have received intelligence...from patriots in the Penobscot region.  We know for certain that a considerable force of the enemy has landed, that they are guarded by three sloops-of-war, and that they are commanded by Brigadier-General Francis McLean.  ...an experienced soldier.  Most of his service was in the Portuguese employment. (Page 96)

An authentic document that included a real-life character of The Fort:

Dr. Califf, affiant, was also a charachter in the book The Fort.

"Dr. Califf thinks that Matthew Lymburner cannot return to Penobscott.  he was taken prisoner by the Rebels during the Siege of Penobscott and cruelly treated but was liberated when the Rebel Fleet was drove a shore." [Source Audit Office: AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists...]

General McLean was also mentioned in the "Claims."

Remainder Of Justus Sherwood's Company Of Tories

At any rate, *[Colonel John] Peters tells Haldimand that in September he mustered 317 men at Saratoga; doubtless that number included the contingent brought in there by Gershom French, which was incorporated with Peter's corps. It probably also included whatever remained of Captain Justus Sherwood's company of Tories, for Sherwood, who had entered Canada in 1776, had raised a company and served under Peters throughout the campaign, returning to Canada immediately after the Convention. [Source]

*"A...corps that accompanied Burgoyne was that of John Peters, a colonel of militia and judge of the court of common pleas from Gloucester County, New York. As early as August, 1774, Peters had been 'mobbed and kept from his house'... .  In consequence he fled to Canada... .  On June 24, he received formal enlisting orders from General Carleton for his batallion, which was to be called the Queen's Loyal Rangers, and...was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the new corps." [Source]

See Problems With Justus Sherwood's Petition and Justus Sherwood, Thomas Sherwood And Gersham French at my In Deeds blog.

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The United Empire Loyalists

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William Dummer Powell, First Judge At Detroit

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William Dummer Powell

From the blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society:

The Diary of Ann Powell, 1789...describes a trip down the Saint Lawrence River, 11 May-June 1789, with her brother William Dummer Powell and his family. The Powells were United Empire Loyalists... . 

Renowned Heroine Mary Musgrove

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A passage about Mary Musgrove (who was featured in the novel, Horse-Shoe Robinson) from King's Mountain and Its Heroes:...:

Background of the author of Horse-Shoe Robinson, John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795-1870, and his novel, can be found here in Documenting The American South (University of North Carolina):

"Kennedy's...second and most successful novel, Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendancy (1835), is an historical romance set during the American Revolution."

"...Horse-Shoe Robinson, a work of historical fiction, depicts the severity of southern colonial life at the end of the American Revolution. The novel follows the travels of Major Arthur Butler and Sergeant Galbraith "Horse-Shoe" Robinson as they head south from Virginia to help the Continental Army's General Clark reclaim military outposts at Ninety-Six and Augusta."

"Adair, a former friend to Robinson and the Continental Cause, had recently been bribed by Tories to deliver his friend and Butler into their possession. Although Adair's niece, Mary Musgrove, hears of the plotted ambush and tries to warn Butler in his sleep, the two men find themselves the captives of several Tory ruffians the next day."

Thomas Brown In The Hornet's Nest

The Hornet's Nest, A novel of the Revolutionary War by Jimmy Carter, is concerned with the war "as it was fought in Georgia and the Carolinas...".

The character of particular interest is Thomas Brown, "organizer and leader of Florida Rangers," who is one of the characters "mentioned in history books, actions fictionalized."

Thomas Brown was Donald Cameron's father-in-law; Donald Cameron MIGHT be an ancestor through his first wife (the jury is still out on that one).

Chapter 21 is entitled, "Thomas Brown, British Spy."  Brown approached Orangeburg [South Carolina], which was sixty miles from his house.  The locals learned from a visitor from Augusta [Georgia] that Brown was "...the king's man... ."  "He's just a damned lieutenant in the British army, but they say he's the bastard son of Lord North....". [He wasn't, according to the novel]  "My cousin went to his house across the Savannah River...where [he's] been given five thousand acres of land...".  "Governor Wright made him a magistrate... ."

According to The Hornet's Nest, "Thomas Brown was actually a native of Yorkshire, born in 1750, and the eldest son of Jonas Brown, a prosperous shipowner."

From the website My Georgia History:

"Thomas Brown, the name can bring cold shivers.  Thomas Brown was born  May 27, 1750, in Whitley of Yorkshire.  His dad was Jonas Brown, and his mother, was Margaret Jackson Brown."

"In 1774, Thomas moved to Georgia and became the next door neighbor to Daniel Marshall, the great pioneer preacher of the “Separate Baptist Movement.”  Marshall had arrived in what is today called Appling [Columbia County, Georgia], then known as Brownsboro."

The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution..., by Edward J. Cashin, added the following details:

--A member of the family that included Sir Anthony Browne, who was Master of the Horse for King Henry VIII

--Jonas's great-grandfather may have been disinherited because he was Protestant

--Jonas was a native of Whitby

--In 1739 Jonas married a widow, Margaret Jackson (nee Hustrodes?), who was 10 years older and was part of the Newton family

--Jane Browne Linskill was Jonas's aunt from whom he inherited a house

--Children of Jonas and Margaret Browne were Jane, Mary, Margaret, Jonas and Thomas


--Bagdale Hall, where Isaac Newton (a possible relative of Sir Isaac Newton), Thomas's great-grandfather had lived, along with Thomas's grandmother, Adeline (Adeline and Margaret, Thomas's mother, were dead by 1771)

--Jonas remarried

An article about Thomas Brown was published with information about his post-Revolutionary War life.