As a follow-on to my earlier post under the same subject line -- What I think I understand is that the apparent rush to Quebec had a profit motive at its roots, much the same as the initial settlement of my folks' own town in Vermont. I have heard that a whole bunch of people from what was then my town, Hartford, Windsor Co., Vermont, trucked on up there all within a very few years of each other. What I can fill in using a bit of imagination, which might well be just foolish crazies on my part, is that they got over the border into Quebec and applied for rich new lands there by lying about their having been "Loyalists." What I can *NOT* understand is why all this happened in 1803. The peace treaty officially ending the Revolution was signed in 1783, as I recall, twenty years earlier. I would think that any sort of Loyalist vs. Patriot distinction would have been forgotten long before 1803. Why would anyone here or in Quebec care about such labels any more after twenty years? And yet, at least for the Burch bunch, they go into "Loyalist" genealogy books and that sort of thing when I *know* they weren't Loyalists. Or, is the problem here simply that some influential genealogists got confused? Lester Powers UUABR Me: > As for their having been "Loyalists," well, again > I can't prove anything, but I suspect that they employed > their Yankee Ingenuity, which is to say, They Lied Bob Brooks: > I suspect that the Vermont/Quebec "loyalist migration" followed these lines; > i.e., they saw an opportunity to get something for nothing. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.