--part1_197.80c158a.2a36bb79_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >In a message dated 6/9/2002 7:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jr@jrshelby.com >writes: > ><< We are sometimes given the impression that after the war, all those who >had > been Loyalists lost everything they had and had to leave the country. This > is believed to have been true for only one loyalist in five. >> > >In Connecticut, it was close to universal. Loyalists were encouraged by one >means or another to leave the colony, then state, and I don't think they were >welcomed back either. At the same time, there was not much violence, at >least not of the ferocity seen later in the South. People were shunned, they >were called before Committees of Inspection, some were jailed, one was hanged. >In New England, the Congregational clergy had long thundered from the pulpit >against the governmental policies of the time. Since everyone went to >church, this was a strong influence. There were related conflicts, like the >lingering divide created by the Great Awakening of the 1740's, the distaste >for Anglicanism and fear of an Episcopal bishop, etc. > >In 1775, I believe it would be hard to make a case that there was any >substantial percentage of the population favoring independence > >No, that was virtually unheard of, although it gradually seeped into >attitudes after the actual outbreak of fighting, then hardened with the >King's Proclamation of Rebellion (spurning the Olive Branch Petition from the >Continental Congress), and was fanned into actuality with the news of the >hiring of Hessians and, especially, with the publication of Thomas Paine's >Common Sense. This last illuminated many of the contradictions people had >been trying, in vain, to reconcile within themselves. Anne --part1_197.80c158a.2a36bb79_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <jr@jrshelby.com> Received: from rly-st05.mail.aol.com (rly-st05.mail.aol.com [172.31.34.4]) by air-yb05.mail.aol.com (v86.11) with ESMTP id MAILINYB54-0610060418; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 06:04:18 -0400 Received: from rly-ye03.mx.aol.com (rly-ye03.mail.aol.com [172.18.151.200]) by rly-st05.mail.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with ESMTP id FAA03860 for <jmjjf@aol.com>; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:59:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail5.carolina.rr.com ([24.93.67.52]) by rly-ye03.mx.aol.com (v86_r1.12) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYE32-0610055929; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:59:29 2000 Received: from john-akb7ma1ejp.jrshelby.com ([24.74.56.237]) by mail5.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:59:00 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020610055528.02b09e70@pop-server> X-Sender: johnrobertson@pop-server X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:56:55 -0400 To: JMJJF@aol.com From: John Robertson <jr@jrshelby.com> Subject: Re: [A-REV] Some thoughts on allegiance In-Reply-To: <51.1f35369d.2a356e73@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed You should send this to the list. All this posting I am doing is trying to provoke some thoughtful, informative discussion (and get their minds off trivia!). John At 10:52 PM 6/9/2002 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 6/9/2002 7:45:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jr@jrshelby.com >writes: > ><< We are sometimes given the impression that after the war, all those who >had > been Loyalists lost everything they had and had to leave the country. This > is believed to have been true for only one loyalist in five. >> > >In Connecticut, it was close to universal. Loyalists were encouraged by one >means or another to leave the colony, then state, and I don't think they were >welcomed back either. At the same time, there was not much violence, at >least not of the ferocity seen later in the South. People were shunned, they >were called before Committees of Inspection, some were jailed, one was hanged. >In New England, the Congregational clergy had long thundered from the pulpit >against the governmental policies of the time. Since everyone went to >church, this was a strong influence. There were related conflicts, like the >lingering divide created by the Great Awakening of the 1740's, the distaste >for Anglicanism and fear of an Episcopal bishop, etc. > >In 1775, I believe it would be hard to make a case that there was any >substantial percentage of the population favoring independence > >No, that was virtually unheard of, although it gradually seeped into >attitudes after the actual outbreak of fighting, then hardened with the >King's Proclamation of Rebellion (spurning the Olive Branch Petition from the >Continental Congress), and was fanned into actuality with the news of the >hiring of Hessians and, especially, with the publication of Thomas Paine's >Common Sense. This last illuminated many of the contradictions people had >been trying, in vain, to reconcile within themselves. --part1_197.80c158a.2a36bb79_boundary--