Clark versus Livingston: Pettiness, Paper Money, and Elections
John Adams said of his Whig contemporaries that they had views as “various as the Colors of their Cloths.”[1] Such was the paradigm in…
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Hell’s Half-Acre: The Fall of Loyalist Crean Brush
On October 18, 1777, New York provincial assemblyman, and tory, Crean Brush, penned his final will and testament from prison in Boston. After nineteen…
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The Outlaw Cornelius Hatfield: Loyalist Partisan of the American Revolution
The war for all practical purposes was over when hostilities ended with a cease fire negotiated by the Americans, British, French, and Spanish in…
Blue Mountain Valley and the Rise of Lord Stirling
“A Most Dreadful Voyage” was how the captain of British supply ship Blue Mountain Valley described his mission to North America in the fall and…