The Loyalists of America and Their Times: From 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from to , Volume 1. Front Cover Bitter feeling and riot between the American sailors and citizens and French. 19 Samuel Anderson 2 Rev John Bethune 8 Doaneafive brothers.
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Ultimately, three were slain; Moses, after a desperate fight, was shot by his captor; and Abraham and Mahlon were living at Philadelphia. Joseph, before the revolution, taught school. During the war, while on a marauding expedition, he was shot through the cheeks, and was taken prisoner. He was committed to await his trial, but escaped to New Jersey.

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He resumed his former employment in New Jersey and lived there under an assumed name for nearly a year, but finally fled to Canada. The only mention of Israel is that "in February, , he appealed to the Council of Pennsylvania to be released on account of his own sufferings and the destitute condition of his family, and that his petition was dismissed. Stephen Jarvis , in was a lieutenant of cavalry in the South Carolina Royalists; was in several battles; was in New Brunswick; after the revolution came to Upper Canada, and died at Toronto in , aged eighty-four.

William Jarvis was an officer of cavalry in the Queen's Rangers; was wounded at the siege of Yorktown. David Jones was captain in the royal service, and the reputed spouse or husband of the "beautiful and good Jane McCrea," whose cruel death in , by the Indians, on her way to join him, is so universally known and lamented. He lived in Canada to an old age, but never married. Jane McCrea was the daughter of the Rev.

James McCrea, a Loyalist. Later in the war he was captain under General Frazer. He was descended from an old colonial family, and served during the revolution as a captain in the New Jersey volunteers. On the outbreak of the revolution he warmly espoused the side of the Crown, and was early in the war captured and confined in Burlington jail, from which he escaped in the year , and made his way to the British army at Staten Island.

During the remainder of the war he served with his regiment. His connection with the execution of Captain Joshua Huddy, of the rebel service, attracted a great deal of attention both in Europe and America. Captain Huddy was a partisan officer of some repute in New Jersey, and had been concerned in the murder of a Loyalist named Philip White, who was a relative of Lippincott, and a resident of Shrewsbury. One Edwards of the same neighbourhood had also been put to death about the same time.

Shortly after, Captain Huddy was captured and taken as prisoner to New York. He was authorized to execute Huddy in retaliation for White, who had already been put to death. Therefore, on the 12th of April, , having exchanged the two other prisoners, Captain Lippincott hung Huddy on a tree by the beach, under the Middleton Heights. In the tree was still to be seen, and tradition keeps alive in the neighbourhood the story connected with it.

Captain Lippincott, who was evidently only obeying orders, pinned a paper on Huddy's breast with the following inscription: This demand was refused, and Washington then ordered the execution of one officer of equal rank to be chosen by lot from among the prisoners in his hands. The lot fell upon Captain Asgill, of the Guards, who was only nineteen years of age. The British authorities secured a respite under promise of trying Captain Lippincott by court-martial.

After a full inquiry, Lippincott was honourably acquitted. In the meantime, Lady Asgill, Captain Asgill's mother, appealed to the Count de Vergennes, the French Minister, and, in response to her most pathetic appeal, the Count was instructed by the King and Queen of France, in their joint names, to ask of Washington the release of Captain Asgill "as a tribute to humanity.

Asgill lived to become a general, and to succeed to his father's baronetcy. After the war Captain Lippincott moved to New Brunswick, to a place called Pennfield, where he lived till the fall of , when he went to England, where he remained till the end of He was granted half pay as a captain of the British army, and in he moved from New Brunswick to Canada, when he was granted for his U.

Loyalist services 3, acres of land in the township of Vaughan, near Toronto. He lived near Richmond Hill for many years. His only surviving child, Esther Borden Lippincott, was married in to the late Colonel George Taylor Denison, of Bellevue, Toronto, at whose house Captain Lippincott died in , aged eighty-one years. The family of Denisons of Toronto are all descendants of Captain Lippincott through this marriage.

Alexander McDonald was a major in a North Carolina regiment, and was the husband of the celebrated Flora McDonald, who was so true and devoted to Prince Charles Edward, the last of the Stuarts who sought the throne of England. They had emigrated to North Carolina; and when the revolution broke out, he, with two sons, took up arms for the Crown. John McGill was, in , an officer of infantry in the Queen's Rangers, and at the close of the war went to New Brunswick; removed thence to Upper Canada, became a man of note and member of the Legislative Council, and died at Toronto, in , at the age of eighty-three.

Embracing the royal side in the contest, he formed one of a "determined band of young men," who attacked a Whig post, and, in the face of a superior force, cut down the flag-staff and tore in strips the stars and stripes attached to it. Subsequently he joined a grenadier company called the Royal Yorkers, and performed efficient service throughout the war.

At the peace he settled in Canada; and entering the British service again in , was appointed captain in the colonial corps by Sir Isaac Brock. He died at River Raisin, Canada, in , aged eighty years. Thomas Merrit , of New York father of the late Hon. Hamilton Merrit , was in cornet of cavalry in the Queen's Rangers. He settled in Upper Canada, and held the office of high sheriff of the Niagara district. He died at St. Catharines, May, , at the age of eighty years. The Robinson family was one of the distinguished families in America before, during, and after the revolution, and its members have filled some of the most important offices in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Lower and Upper Canada.

He removed to New York, and married Susanna, daughter of Frederick Phillipse, Esquire, who owned an immense landed estate on the Hudson river. By this connection Mr. Robinson added greatly to his wealth and became very rich. When the revolutionary controversy commenced, he was living on that portion of the Phillipse estate which had been given to his wife, and there he desired to remain in the quiet enjoyment of country life, and in the enjoyment of his large domains.

That such was his inclination is asserted by the late President Dwight, and is fully continued by circumstances and by his descendants. He was opposed to the measures of the British Ministry, gave up the use of imported merchandize, and clothed himself and family in fabrics of domestic manufacture. But he was opposed to the separation of the colonies from the mother country. Still he wished to take no part in the conflict of arms. The importunity of friends overruled his own judgment, and he entered the military service of the Crown.

Of the Loyal American Regiment, raised principally in New York by himself, he was commissioned the colonel. He also commanded the corps called Guides and Pioneers. Of the former, or the Loyal Americans, his son Beverley was lieutenant-colonel, and Thomas Barclay, major. He and Washington had been personal friends until political events produced separation between them. At the peace, Colonel Robinson, with a part of his family, went to England.

His name appears as a member of the first Council of New Brunswick; but he never took his seat at the Board. His wife, with himself, was attainted for high treason; in order to secure her property to the Americans, she was included in the Confiscation Act of New York, and the whole of the estate derived from her father passed from the family.

Colonel Robinson has highly respectable descendants in New Brunswick as well as in Canada.


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The Robinsons were unquestionably immediate sufferers from the events which drove them into exile. But though Colonel Robinson was not amply compensated in money by the Government for which he sacrificed fortune, home, and his native land, yet the distinction obtained by his children and grand-children in the colonies, though deprived of their inheritance, has not been without other and substantial recompense, as no persons of the Loyalist descent have been more favoured in official stations and powerful family alliances than the heirs of the daughters of Frederick Phillipse, Susanna Robinson, and Mary Morris see under the names of Colonel Roger Morris and Colonel Thomas Barclay.

At the evacuation of New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Robinson was placed at the head of a large number of Loyalists who embarked for Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and who laid out that place in a very handsome manner, in the hope of its becoming a town of business and importance. The harbour of Shelburne is represented to be one of the best in North America; the population rapidly increased to about 12, persons, but soon as rapidly declined, being outrivalled by Halifax—and many abandoned Shelburne for other parts of the British provinces.

His deprivations and sufferings for a considerable time after leaving New York were great, but were finally relieved by the receipt of half-pay as an officer in the service of the Crown. In New Brunswick he was a member of his Majesty's Council; and at the period of the French revolution, and on the occurrence of the Napoleonic war between England and France, he was entrusted with the command of the regiment raised in that colony, possessed great energy, and contributed much by his exertions and influence to settle and advance the commercial emporium of New Brunswick.

In the Confiscation Act of New York, by which his estate was taken from him, he was styled "Beverley Robinson the younger. At the peace he went first to New Brunswick, and then to Nova Scotia, receiving a grant of land in each province. His salary, half pay, and an estate of 2, acres, placed him in comfortable circumstances. Sir John Beverley Robinson was a son of Christopher Robinson, of Virginia; received his early legal education in England, and was admitted to the English bar. He returned to Upper Canada while yet young; served with distinction in the war of , and was in several battles.

He was early appointed Attorney-General, and held a seat in the House of Assembly for ten years; after which he was appointed Member and Speaker of the Legislative Council. During the insurrection of , in Upper Canada, he took his musket and went into the ranks, accompanied by his two sons. He was born in ; was appointed Attorney-General of Upper Canada in ; was raised to the Bench as Chief Justice in ; was created Baronet in ; and died in , aged seventy-two. He was with the Duke of Wellington, and saw much hard service.

At the storming of St. Sebastian he was dangerously wounded. He was in the battle of Vittoria, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. During the war of he came to America, and was employed in Canada. He commanded the British force in the attack on Plattsburg, under Prevost, and protested against the order of his superior, when directed to retire, because from the position of his troops he was of opinion that his loss of men would be greater in retreat than in advance upon the American works.

After the conclusion of hostilities he embarked at New York for England. When that corps was disbanded at the close of the war, most of the officers were dismissed on half pay, and settled in New Brunswick; but Captain Robinson, by good fortune, was continued in commission, and at the time of his decease he was lieutenant-colonel, and assistant-barrackmaster-general in the British army.

He had three sons officers in the British army, and two daughters, Susan and Joane; the former became the wife of Robert Parker, judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick; and the latter the wife of Robert T. John Robinson , of New York, likewise a son of Colonel Beverley Robinson, was during the revolution a lieutenant of the Loyal American Regiment, commanded by his father; and when the corps was disbanded at the close of the war, he settled in New Brunswick, and received half pay.

He embarked, and successfully, in mercantile pursuits, and held distinguished public stations, being deputy-paymaster-general of his Majesty's forces in the Province, a member of the Council, treasurer of New Brunswick, mayor of St.

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John, and president of the first bank chartered in the colony. John in , aged sixty-seven. Several other Robinsons were engaged on the royal side in the American Revolution, but none of them so prominently connected with the British provinces as those above mentioned. Roger Morris , of New York, was a captain in the British army, in the French war, and one of the aides of the ill-fated Braddock.

He married Mary, daughter of Frederick Phillipse, Esq. At the commencement of the revolution he was a member of the Council of the colony, and continued in office until the peace, although the Whigs organized a government, under a written Constitution, as early as A part of the Phillipse estate was in possession of Colonel Morris in right of his wife, and was confiscated. In order that the whole property should pass from the family into the hands of the Americans, Mrs.

Morris was included with her husband in the New York Confiscation Act of attainder. It is believed that this lady, her sister Mrs. Ingles, were the only ladies who were attainted of treason during the revolution, and that merely to get possession of their property. Morris's children, who were not named in, and therefore not disqualified by the Act of Confiscation.

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In , the Attorney-General of England examined the case and gave the opinion that the reversionary interest or property of the children at the decease of the parents was not included in their attainder, and was recoverable under the principles of law and of right. The terms of the arrangement required that he should execute a deed of conveyance in fee simple, with warranty against the claims of the Morrises, husband and wife, their heirs, and all persons claiming under them; and that he should obtain the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, affirming the validity and perfectibility of his title.

These conditions were complied with, and the purchasers of the confiscated lands were thus quieted in their titles derived from the sales of the Commissioners of Confiscated Property. During the war he received thirteen wounds. He accompanied his commander to Upper Canada, then a dense unpeopled wilderness. Sir Allan McNab, though very young, distinguished himself in the war of The Eve Of The Revolution. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: James Otis, the pre-revolutionist. Collected Political Writings of James Otis.

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