Amen Warren to the little being done on the subject of the Tories! I have a pile of stuff on loyalists out here (WV). There was a major uprising in 1777, others in 1781, and 1782, they had agents all over the place, communications were being passed between the frontiers and Detroit, some were hanged, in SW PA they had their own militia and covert court complete with justices etc., but alas most of the writers over the nineteenth century had a decidedly (small "R") republican bias and anyone who didn't have a glowing contribution to the Revolution to boast of (or anyone for whom one couldn't be invented) has been ignored. I have articles in my head about Jacob Brake, Timothy Dorman, the Schoolcraft brothers, and a host of others whom I suspect of being in league with Hamilton and old King George but it will be a long time before I can get any ready.Hang in there with the Friend lady! Best Regards David Armstrong Elkins, WV