Captain John Bacon: The Last of the Jersey Pine Robbers
by“Captain John Bacon: His name was second only to that of the New Jersey devil for producing nightmares among the inhabitants of the pine…
Tories
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Massachusettensis and Novanglus: The Last Great Debate Prior to the American Revolution
byWhen John Adams returned to Massachusetts after the session of the First Continental Congress, he was surprised to find that there was growing opposition…
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The Battle of Shallow Ford, October 14, 1780
byIn September 1780, writing from Hillsborough, North Carolina, just one month after the disastrous defeat at Camden, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates penned a disconcerted…
This Week on Dispatches: Christian M. McBurney on General Charles Lee and the Oath of Allegiance
byOn this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews author, attorney, and JAR contributor, Christian M. McBurney on the enigmatic General Charles Lee and his role…
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The Fort Wilson Riot and Pennsylvania’s Republican Formation
by“There has been hell to pay in Philadelphia,” exclaimed Samuel Shaw, referring to the Fort Wilson Riot of October 4, 1779 in a letter…
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Communities Divided: Massachusetts, January to March 1775
byOn January 1, 1775, Charles Stockbridge visited his neighbor’s house in Hanover, Massachusetts, twenty five miles south of Boston. He heard a rumor that…
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North Carolina Patriot Women Who Talked Back to the Tories
byOn January 10, 1776, the British governor of North Carolina, Josiah Martin, then bobbing on the HMS Scorpion off Wilmington, appointed just over two…
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5 Political Characters of Americans
byThe March 18, 1777 Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) published an essay by “S.” that classified five political characters of Americans. The article was republished in…
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John McClure Rallies the South
byHad he made it through the war, John McClure’s name would likely draw equal fame and respect as the nation’s most celebrated southern patriots….
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The Experience of New London Tories
and Quakers
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On December 8, 1776, British soldiers, supported by a large fleet, easily invaded and occupied Newport, Rhode Island, and the rest of Aquidneck Island. …
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Establishing the Tory Myth
byOur understanding of loyalists in the American Revolution is a relic of the eighteenth-century turn from what one might call “constitutional sense” to a…