Boschong Subscribers, I received this comment from a subscribers about how the Bushongs that live in Canada could have arrived there originally. I have no knowledge one way or the other of how this happened or the religion of those Bushongs. Just presenting this from another Subscriber. Believe me, I would love nothing better then to test the DNA of some of these Canadian Bushongs. ------------ FROM SUBSCRIBER: Gloria. I was watching a documentary of the American Colony Revolutionary War of 1776 to 1783. That's when British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. The American Colonial Loyalists nearly one-hundred thousand, had to pack-up and leave their homes and businesses on British ships, and either went to Nova Scotia, West Indies or other British Colonies. My thought is the Bushong's in Nova Scotia and other eastern parts of Canada may of been Colonial Loyalists that started their lives here as Colonists. Only if we could have a few to join our DNA program, along with their history in North America. ------------- Wikipedia: Nova Scotia The American Revolution (1775–1783) had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia. At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia, "the 14th American Colony" as some called it, over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain and rebellion flared at the Battle of Fort Cumberland and the Siege of Saint John (1777). Throughout the war, American privateers devastated the maritime economy by capturing ships and looting almost every community outside of Halifax. These American raids alienated many sympathetic or neutral Nova Scotians into supporting the British. By the end of the war a number of Nova Scotian privateers were outfitted to attack American shipping.[30] British military forces based at Halifax were successful in preventing American support for rebels in Nova Scotia and deterred any invasion of Nova Scotia. However the British navy was unable to establish naval supremacy. While many American privateers were captured in battles such as the Naval battle off Halifax, many more continued attacks on shipping and settlements until the final months of the war. The Royal Navy struggled to maintain British supply lines, defending convoys from American and French attacks such as the fiercely fought convoy battle, the Naval battle off Cape Breton. After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30,000 United Empire Loyalists (American Tories), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses. (Nova Scotia was divided and the present-day province of New Brunswick created). The Loyalist exodus created new communities across Nova Scotia, including Shelburne, which was briefly one of the larger British settlements in North America, and infused the province with additional capital and skills. However the migration also caused political tensions between Loyalist leaders and the leaders of the existing New England Planters settlement. The Loyalist influx also pushed Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq People to the margins as Loyalist land grants encroached on ill-defined native lands. Approximately 3,000 members of the Loyalist migration were Black Loyalists who founded the largest free Black settlement in North America at Birchtown, near Shelburne. However unfair treatment and harsh conditions caused about one-third of the Black Loyalists to resettle in Sierra Leone in 1792 where they founded Freetown and became known in Africa as the Nova Scotian Settlers.