Tag: Associated Loyalists

Posted on April 14, 2020April 12, 2020

Attack up the Connecticut River: The First British Raid on Essex

By April 1782, the war in America was supposed to be over. It had been nearly six months since Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to Generals Washington and Rochambeau at Yorktown. The previous February, the British Parliament had voted to stop funding the war. Peace negotiations between British and American representatives had begun in Paris. […]

by Matthew Reardon

Posted on February 20, 2020February 19, 2020

Plight of the Loyalist Refugees of Lloyd’s Neck, Long Island

Queens County of Long Island, New York, had an overwhelming Loyalist population throughout the Revolutionary War period. After the war many Loyalists remained on the island and assimilated into the local population. It is estimated that a large majority of Long Islanders who were loyal and stayed in the United States after the war lost […]

by David M. Griffin