Author: G. Patrick O'Brien

G. Patrick O'Brien is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tampa. He is a historian of the American Revolution, specializing in loyalist women and families, refugee communities in eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and the resistance of enslaved loyalist refugees. His scholarship has been published in The Journal of the Early Republic, The New England Quarterly, Acadiensis, and Remembering the Revolution at 250, among others. His current book project explores the exile and return of Marblehead, Massachusetts' Robie family during the Revolutionary Era.

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Alexander Thompson and Declaring Peace in the Borderlands of Western New York, 1783

On April 17, 1783, a dispatch arrived at Fort Rensselaer along the western bank of the Mohawk River, around two miles northwest of modern Canajoharie, New York. The messenger carried directions from Gen. George Washington to send “an Officer To the British Garrison at Oswago To announce a Cessation of Hostilities on the frontiers of […]

by G. Patrick O'Brien