One Loyalist defiant of local authorities was Simon Doggett, a cabinet maker who lived on today’s South Main Street in Lakeville. Known as the Tory Farmer, Doggett “was conscientious in his ...

The loyalists, Tories or friends of the king, as they were variously called, would pay a particularly steep price for choosing what turned out to be the losing side.

During the Revolutionary War, many loyalists were treated brutally -- like the tarred and feathered man in this print. When the war wrapped up, loyalists often found they had to fend for ...

Two other major evacuations of African-American Loyalists departed from ports in Savannah, Georgia and Charlotte, South Carolina, who were dispersed throughout territories within the British Empire.

If your ancestors were Loyalists, it is likely that they were members of the Church of England. Most births, marriages and deaths were recorded in the parish registers before the Assembly in ...