American Loyalists

American Loyalists (United Empire Loyalists or UEL) are those residents of the British North American Colonies who did not join the American Revolution between 1775 and 1783 but remained loyal to the king of England. In the strictest sense, Loyalists are only those who served in a Loyalist military unit in the Thirteen Colonies. The American Loyalists who actually served the Crown must be distinguished from the more numerous "late Loyalists" who came from the United States beginning in about 1790 for land or other economic opportunities. During the war and especially at its close, some Loyalists went to Britain, Jamaica, or other colonies, but many fled to Canada. There is no master list of all the names of American Loyalists who came to Canada.

• Paul J. Bunnell, Research guide to Loyalist ancestors : a directory to archives, manuscripts, and published sources Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., c1990 FS Library 970 D23b

FamilySearch Catalog

• Great Britain. Exchequer and Audit Department, A.O. 13 American loyalist claims, 1730-1835 Public Records Office, London, England. FS Library 201 rolls
• Peter Wilson Coldham; editor, Sally Lou (Mick) Haigh, American loyalist claims : abstracted from the Public Record Office, Audit Office series 13, bundles 1-35 & 37Washington, D.C. : National Genealogical Society Bookstore, 1980- FS Library 973 R2cp v. 1
• American Loyalist claims, AO 12Contains original handwritten claims submitted to the British government by citizens in America and Canada for losses sustained during the American Revolution who had remained loyal to the Crown.
• Ray Jones by Clifford S. Dwyer, trans., Index to Series I of American Loyalist Claims DeFuniak Springs, Florida : Ram Publishing, 1985 FS Library 973 R2d index Digital
• {transcribed for Ray Jones by Clifford S. Dwyer, Index to series II of American loyalist claims DeFuniak Springs, Florida : Ram Publishing, 1985 FS Library 973 R2da index Digital
• Hugh Edward Egerton, edited, The Royal commission on the losses and services of American loyalists, 1783 to 1785 : being the notes of Mr. Daniel Parker Coke, M.P., one of the commissioners during that period Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : s.n., 1915. New York, New York : Lenox Hill Pub., 1971
• Lorenzo Sabine, The American loyalist, or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution Boston : C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847 FS Library Digital
• Paul J. Bunnell, The new Loyalist index 7 volumes Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., c1989-c1998; Milford, New Hampshire: P.J. Bunnell, 2005-2008 FS Library 973 M2bun

State Sources

• W.H. Siebert, The refugee loyalists of Connecticut Pawtucket, Rhode Island : Quintin Publications, 199-? FS Library 974.6 H2sw
• Howard Bell Hancock, The Delaware loyalists Wilmington, Delaware : Delaware Historical Society, 1940 FS Library Digital Images
• Wilbur Henry Siebert, edited with an accompanying narrative, Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785 : the most important documents pertaining thereto 2 volumes. DeLand, Florida : Florida State Historical Society, 1929 FS Library Digital Images
• Robert Gary Mitchell, Loyalist Georgia Ann Arbor, Michigan : University Microfilms International, 1985, c1965 FS Library 975.8 H2mL
• Richard Arthur Overfield,The Loyalists of Maryland during the American Revolution [College Park, Md}} : Author, 1968 {{FSC|493943|item|disp=FS Library DGS 9077453]
• M. Christopher New, Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution Centreville, Maryland : Tidewater, c1996 FS Library 975.2 H2ne
• David E. Maas, comp. and ed., Divided hearts, Massachusetts loyalists, 1765-1790 : a biographical directory Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, c1980 FS Library 974.4 F2m
• Wilbur Henry Siebert, The Loyalist refugees of New Hampshire Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 1916 FS Library Digital Images
• Alexander Clarence Flick, Loyalism in New York during the American revolution New York : Columbia University Press, 1901 FS Catalog Collection
• Harry Beller Yoshpe, The Disposition of loyalist estates in the southern district of the state of New York New York, New York : Columbia University, 1939 FS Library 974.7 R2y
• Robert O. DeMond, The loyalists in North Carolina during the Revolution Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979 FS Library 975.6 M2dr
• Wilbur H. Siebert, The loyalists of Pennsylvania Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 1920 FamilySearch Digital Library
• Rhode Island Historical Society Loyalists and persons named in the Act of July 1780
• Robert Stansbury Lambert, South Carolina loyalists in the American Revolution Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, c1987 FS Library 975.7 H2Lr
• Mary Greene Nye, edited, Sequestration, confiscation and sale of estates State papers of Vermont; v. 6 Montpelier, Vermont : Secretary of State, 1941 FamilySearch Digital Library

See Also:

• E. Alfred Jones, ed. The journal of Alexander Chesney, a South Carolina Loyalist in the Revolution and after FamilySearch Digital Library

Loyalists Regiments

• Walter T. Dornfest, Military loyalists of the American Revolution : officers and regiments, 1775-1783 Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Co., c2011 FS Library 973 M2dwt
• George H. Hayward Loyalist officers, 1782/83, Fredericton, New Brunswick : G.H. Hayward, 1993 FS Library 971 M29h
• W. O. Raymond, Loyalists in arms 1775-1783 : a short history of the British American regiments with the roll of officers Cambellville, Ontario : Global Heritage Press, c2005 FS Library 973 M2rwo
• Clifford Neal Smith, Deserters and disbanded soldiers from British, German and Loyalist military units in the South, 1782 McNeal, Arizona: Westland Publications, 1991 FS Library 973 W2scd

For more information also see:

• Loyalist Ancestors in the U.S. Revolutionary War
• Revolutionary War Loyalist Records
• Canada Military Records
• Canada Land and Property
• British Military Records
• United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
• The Loyalist Collection
• Loyalists in the Maritimes - Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office, 1777-1785
• Loyalists (Library and Archives Canada)

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