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records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions.
For your convenience, a name index spans all three
volumes.
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Loyalists in the
American Revolution
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7144; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397115. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7144.html.
The term “Loyalist” is generally applied to those
colonists who sided with the British during the
Revolutionary War. Also called “Tories,” Loyalists
came from all social classes and occupations and
by some estimates made up as much as one-third
of the colonial population. The Loyalist cause was
strongest in the southern colonies, in Georgia and
the Carolinas, especially, and in the mid-Atlantic
colonies, particularly New York and Pennsylvania.
Sentiment against the Loyalists led to various
proscriptions and restrictions, but it was the confiscation
of their land and property that led to the
creation—unintentionally, of course—of some of
the most useful Revolutionary War-era genealogical
records available today.
The 13 volumes of records produced in this Family
Archive CD contain some of the most useful
works ever published on Revolutionary War Loyalists.
Originally published or reprinted by the
Genealogical Publishing Company, they cover a
broad spectrum of information pertaining to the
identification of individual Loyalists. From land
records to pension records, from orderly books to
diaries, from recruitment lists, muster rolls, and
pay lists to biographies and lists of United Empire
Loyalists, these volumes variously provide the
following information: name, country or place of
origin, occupation, names of family members and
friends, location and value of confiscated property,
civilian service rendered during the war, military
service (rank, company, regiment, place of service,
dates of enlistment and discharge, etc.), date of migration,
place of settlement, certificates, petitions,
and claims for compensation, evidence of character,
statements of witnesses, and a host of other details
that could lead the researcher to his Loyalist
ancestor.
In both narratives and records, there is a profusion
of genealogical detail, which is here presented
in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an
electronic name index. Listed below are the books
included on this CD:
1. Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, by
Marion Gilroy
2. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution,
by Robert DeMond
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American
Revolution (2 vols.), by Lorenzo Sabine
4. Orderly Book of the “Maryland Loyalists Regiment,”
by Caleb Jones
5. Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists Commanded
by Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey
6. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary
War (3 vols.), by Murtie June Clark
7. United Empire Loyalists. Enquiry into the Losses and
Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty (2 vols.),
by Alexander Fraser
8. The Old United Empire Loyalists List
9. The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials,
Petitions, and Claims, by Edward Jones
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
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