Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 of 2
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 of 2 By:Lorenzo Sabine Published on 2015-07-08 by Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Historical Essay Of the reasons which influenced, of the hopes and fears which agitated, and of the miseries and rewards which awaited the Loyalists - or, as they were called in the politics of the time, the |Tories| - of the American Revolution, but little is known. The most intelligent, the best informed among us, confess the deficiency of their knowledge. The reason is obvious. Men who, like the Loyalists, separate themselves from their friends and kindred, who are driven from their homes, who surrender the hopes and expectations of life, and who become outlaws, wanderers, and exiles, - such men leave few memorials behind them. Their papers are scattered and lost, and their very names pass from human recollection. Hence the most thorough and painstaking inquirers into t...