Loyalists were American colonists who retained
allegiance to the British Crown. Also known as "Tories,"
Loyalists were estimated to have made up one-third of
colonial America's population. The thirteen volumes of
records produced in this database, originally published
by the Genealogical Publishing Company, comprise
some of the most useful works ever published on
Revolutionary War Loyalists.
Through both narratives and records, the volumes refer
to more than 87,000 individuals in the United States and
Canada. While the majority of records reference the
Southern and Mid-Atlantic colonies where the Loyalist
cause was the strongest (Georgia, the Carolinas, New
York, and Pennsylvania), this Family Archive includes
individuals from Florida, Great Britain, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New Brunswick,
New Jersey, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Virginia.
This wide variety of records might provide you with the following details:
- Biographies
- Compensation applications
- Land records
- Military diaries
- Muster rolls
- Orderly books
- Pension applications
