In a message dated 2/20/03 11:33:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I am particularly interested in the Loyalists’ dilemma and probable > migrations. Thanks. > > > > ----- Dolores in Delaware > > Hi Dolores -- it's me again! I believe most Rev. War Loyalists from the Eastern states moved north into Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. These places were under the control of the British crown and the King and they would be safe there. Migrating to other new states or future American territories was not really feasible as they would be arrested or hung if found once the war was over. Here is an excerpt from an online mention of a book called "True Blue" by Walter Stewart, published in Toronto, Canada, 1985. Joan > > >> True Blue -- Author: Walter Stewart> Illustrator: None, Publisher: >> Toronto, Canada, 1985. "They poured across the border. They walked, they rowed, they sailed. They came > >> on horseback, in carriages, in small boats and large ships. They came up >> the eastern seaboard, and along the rivers and through the wilderness. >> Many of them died along the way -- of disease or despair, or as the >> victims of bullet and bayonet, tomahawk or bare fists. Some were rich, >> many were poor. A good many of them were soldiers or the families of >> military men, but there were also farmers, artisans, merchants, mariners, >> teachers, preachers, slaves and bums. They were the Loyalists - tens of >> thousands of North Americans who were driven from their homes during the >> American Revolutionary War, because they would not embrace independence >> and republicanism. The coming of the Loyalist was the pivotal event in >> Canadian history -- the end of childhood, the commencement of building a >> nation. It was the equivalent of the Norman invasion of England in 1066, >> but even more potent, because in much of the country, the invaders were >> the majority. Today some 3.5 million Canadians are descendants of the >> original Loyalists. In this book the author challenges the traditional >> vision, absorbed in history classes, of Loyalists as tea-drinking, >> God-fearing, king-supporting, tree-hacking pioneers. While the author does >> introduce Loyalists, who, in part, fit that vision, you will also meet far >> more who do not; Loyalists who were rogues, thieves, snobs, savages, >> slaves, proud warriors and pompous asses, as well as Loyalists who would >> not have known King George, if they had met him at a garden party." > >