Kim,Nancy Riley Clark Salt wrote about 1840 of her memories in NC 1780'S 1ST,Nancy Riley's Dad Rev Garrard Riley moved,1806,east of Mac's store,Salt Air, and she soon married English born Houghton Clark,who had an inn where the Grant Memorial Is,Bethel [RTS 133 +125] ,and she married 2nd John Salt,and lived where Jack Page lives on RT 222,S OF RT 232. .She wrote of Surrey Co,NC Nancy wrote of her grandfather ,Capt Wright,,of Va [Washington kinsman] having a NC Whig militia company,to which her father belonged. And of that company trying to hunt down the Loyalist husband of a second Wright dau,and tracking him thru a swamp, and actually stepping on him below water. Nancy wrote of her early school days,after the war, and of the Whig kids getting to sit,and the children ofv Loyalists being forced to stand. Prof O'dell, who had Capt Wright, and who ,like Bob Hannah,had Bethel's Ellsberry's [Bethel Hotel and my Dad's house] wrote of his Surrey Co Loyalists moving to Canada well after the war. Morgan Iler, we have been writing on a neighborhood north of Gettysburg,Pa with an old Episcopal and a Quaker church, that must have been part Loyalist,and part Whig, in Sept,1777, when the British were marching on Philadelphia via it's back door. The Episcopalian minister witnessed OUR Edward Hatton's JULY 5,1777 WILL, AND WAS JAILED 5 MONTHS,[Oct-feb 1777-78,and deported for "conspiring "[with someone] to destroy Pa's munitions. " Some portion of this colony lter lived near Jacob Iler's ferry. Anyway,Morgan,old York Co,Pa Loyalists data,and 1778,Capt Francis Boner's company, which needed new privats after the Paoli massacre the night of Sept 21,1777. On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:49:41 EST KDMS@aol.com writes: > > In a message dated 12/9/00 1:43:35 AM, hermfagley@juno.com writes: > > << Little bits of proof here and there seperated by educated > guesses. Feel > free, one and > all, to debate my thoughts. What would James Burke Simmons have > said? > Raised > Hell WITH ME,I suppose. >> > > Herman, Just a wild guess, but it could be as simple as Adam and > Edward, > posing as Torys to stay close to a stronghold of Torys. If you > recall > history, many Torys had to flee the country and moved up to Canada > or back to > England. Most were not tolerated by the Colonists. > This theory is not totally without merit, a soldier or soldiers > assignment could have been to stay and fight behind the lines. > Remember this > was one of the first wars where different kinds of fighting did take > place. > One of the reasons Adam did leave Pa could have been to leave behind > that > many thought he was a Tory even though he only poised as one. That > could > explain it as well as why no written record of it would exist, > except that he > was elected a vestrman, which if he was a Tory they would not have > elected > him as. Like I said just a theory. > > Kim Simmons