American Loyalists to New Brunswick: The ship passenger lists

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The Loyalists were colonial Americans who supported the British empire and opposed independence all the way through the long revolutionary war. When the American Revolution ended in a peace treaty that was once too feeble to offer protection to them against persecution in the newly independent United States, tens of thousands fl ed to a new life in exile.

In 1783 many of them sailed northward from the New York City area to the St. John River valley at some point Canadian province of New Brunswick. This volume makes to be had for the fi rst time the source materials documenting this vast migration. Most records were discovered at the National Archives of the UK.

In this book you’ll be able to follow thousands of loyal American refugees at a number of critical points in their journey of exile:

  • on registering their names at New York to participate in the exodus
  • on boarding a ship for the voyage northward
  • on drawing provisions from the army commissariat at St. John Harbour after arrival
  • as recipients of town lots at some point city of Saint John
  • as participants in the political turmoil that overtook the American Loyalists in exile

This rich resource will be treasured by both circle of relatives historians and those interested
in New Brunswick’s colourful past.

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