This may be of interest to someone on the list. Off a cd I just aquired. Szucs and Luebking, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, p.262 The British government made a commendable effort to compensate Loyalist losses, and Loyalists had to list their lost property to claim that compensation. One of the best sources is Alexander Fraser, ed., United Empire Loyalists Inquiry into the Losses of Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty. Evidence in the Canadian Claims, 2 vols. (Toronto: The King’s Printer, 1905), Second Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario. From this excellent source book comes the example of John Fowler. The claim (p. 293) of Fowler, formerly of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, indicates he was a native of Guilford, Connecticut, lived in Stockbridge, fled to New York during the war and hired a farm on Long Island, was carried a prisoner to Stamford, Connecticut, and ultimately settled in Kingston, Ontario. “Produces deed dated 19th July, 1770, whereby Mark Hopkins in considn. of £30 lawful Conveys to Claimt. forty acres in Stockbridge. Says he purchased 35 acres adjoining, from his Br., in 1770 for about £25,” and so on. “Produces a letter from his Father in Law saying that his Personal Property had been sold to the amount of £100 Lawful.” Aside from separating the various John Fowlers, this record helps fill a page in the Fowler family genealogy.