Researching the American Revolution

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Loyalists

Informations on primary and secondary sources as well as web sites.

Primary Sources

Boucher, Jonathan, ed. Reminiscences of an American Loyalist. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925.

Davies, Gwendolyn. The Diary of Sarah Frost, 1783: The Sounds and Silences of a Woman’s Exile,  Conference Paper.

Sarah Frost, the wife of an American Loyalist follows him into exile in Canada.  The diary covers the couple’s transit from New York City to Hallifax in a fourteen ship transport fleet.  Davis discusses the background, diary entries and limitations on its interpretation in a conference  paper.

Secondary Sources

Allen, Thomas B. Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War. New York: Harper-Collins, 2010.

Callahan, North. Royal Raiders:  The Tories of the American Revolution. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1963.

Cruikshank, E. A, and Gavin K Watt. The King’s Royal Regiment of New York. Toronto: G.K. Watt, 1984.

Gara, Donald J. The Queen’s American Rangers, 2015.

Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Ranlet, Philip. The New York Loyalists. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Pr, 1986.

 “The Queen’s American Rangers – Journal of the American Revolution.” Accessed July 30, 2016. https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/09/the-queens-american-rangers/.

Web Sites

University of New Brunswick Libraries, Microforms Unit

The On-line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies

Tories Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War

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