Most of what we read would tend to indicate there were a few families in Sussex County during the Revolution who were Loyalists and a few of these left for Canada. However, in my research over the years it would appear that this number was perhaps much higher and in the 1780's and 1790's hundreds of families left Sussex County for Ontario. Who actively participated as Loyalists and who went for land claims and family reasons is probably not fully known. Recent correspondence with a person in Canada references forty six families leaving for Canada in 1787. Among these families were John Smith and Ann Roy, previously of which little was known, and a whole branch of the Roy family previously not researched by earlier Roy researchers. Ann Roy's brother Hooks Roy and his family also removed to Canada. These were cousins to the Roy brothers John, Stephen, and Insley who settled in the Fredon area and their sisters Rachel Roy Goble and Ann Roy Goble. Members of my Beemer family also removed to Canada and my own ancestors Silas Hopkins and Mary Swayze removed to Ontario in Canada, eldest daughter Mehitable DeWitt who had married, remained in Frankford, Sussex County. To my knowledge there has been no scholary research on the numbers of families who left Sussex but it would appear to be much larger than most people realize. Is anyone compiling any data on these families as to names and numbers? J. Kelsey Jones