Pauline: If you're a descendant of Colonel Thomas Edghill, your Tory credentials are impeccable. Colonel Edghill, you know, was one of the most vocal of the Backcountry Tories, refugeed to Charleston, and was one of the three Tory Colonels placed in charge of King's Loyal Militia refugees pending their disposition. After the British left Charleston in December 1782, some of the Loyalists went back home and subjected themselves to the retribution of the victorious Patriots, and soon received a State Degree of Amnesty which excused them from War guilt--but not from being shunned by Patriot zealots. Some followed the British Army to its initial evacuation base at St. Augustine, East Florida, and then remained there as Spanish subjects. The most diehard Royalists went on to Nova Scotia, where they began all over again, but still subjects of King George III. I've wondered what happened to Colonel Edghill. Which of the three options did he take? John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ