LOYALISTS QUARTERLY The Only U.S. Journal Devoted To Loyalist Studies Loyalist Landing at Nova Scotia, Canada, 1783 Editor Paul J. Bunnell, FACG, UE Membership/Enrollment Our newsletter is printed four times a year; January, April, July, September. Membership fees are $18 (US) per year. We also accept Canadian membership at $22 (Canadian). (International Membership $24 US). A real good buy. We accept PayPal (U.S Only), and Check, and Money Orders (U.S. & Canadian). Besides the benefit of a great journal, with membership, you will be eligible for a 10% discount on all our publications, research, and other items we sell on our website. There are loyalist indexes, histories, how-too help guides, flags, research, etc. offered. The “Quarterly” will have loyalist articles, genealogies, research ideas and problems solving. Historical notes, currant events as conferences and conventions. Listings of other organizations interested in loyalist studies, re-enactment events, and shared information. Queries, haunting stories, book reviews, and little known tidbits on historical figures from the Rebellion. The purpose of this newsletter is to help others in their search to establish the proper documentation on their loyalists, and to educate all on the lives and events of why our ancestors made those difficult choices before, during and after the American Revolution. Editor’s Contact Information Paul J. Bunnell, FACG, UE 100 Whitehall Rd. #15 Amesbury, Ma. 01913 USA 978-388-8801 Website: http://www.bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com Loyalty is Everything Copyright © 2004 Please pass a copy of this newsletter to your local library or historical or genealogical society. Also, we welcome new members at anytime through the year. Loyalist Flag (Queen Ann’s Flag) Cover Photo: From National Archives of Canada c-168 LOYALIST QUARTERLY Fall Vol. 1 Part 1 September 2004 Editor: Paul J. Bunnell, FACG, UE Quarterly Issue Email: [email protected] Web 100 Whitehall Rd. #15, Amesbury, Ma. Site: 01913 http//www.bunnellgenealogybooks.citym Phone – 978-388-8801 aker.com The Only U.S. Newsletter Devoted To The study of The American Loyalists WELCOME LOYALIST RESEARCHER’S ********************************************************************************************************** ********************* Sound familiar? The trials and tribulations of the Cape Hatteras people remind me of our loyalist ancestors, many who came from North Carolina. I hope to bring you a Loyalty Is Everything quarterly newsletter of loyalist history, genealogy and research tips. I invite Editor’s Comments you to pass on this newsletter to libraries, Welcome all you “Loyalist societies, institutions and Researcher’s”. I never all other interested parties thought the idea of this to encourage them to take newsletter would first come interest in a very important from the shores of Cape time in our American Hatteras, North Carolina. history. We encourage input But what better place! These of articles, ideals, photos, shores have withstood the and any other interesting test of time every year as antidote on our Loyalist hurricane’s batter it’s ancestors. What is donated people, homes and natural will become the property of setting for centuries. this publication. 2 copy of the title you want I will first send out this reviewed. edition to many libraries, There will be stories and historical and genealogical some genealogies on selected societies to invite you all loyalists in every issue, to share the in news about including religious and the American Loyalist who racial groups that were helped establish Canada and affected. other countries in the world. Look forward to We will advertise other finding where those areas events of related societies are. and help promote their projects and goals. Today, Our home base is Amesbury, There are no boarders to Massachusetts and as time loyalist research. goes by we encourage you to sign up for a very If you send in any articles reasonable membership of $18 or photos please make copies per year. Get 4 issues per of then because we cannot year for this low cost. return them unless you send I use font size 14 for easy us postage. It’s always save reading large print. (See to keep your originals. inside cover for more details) Please don’t forget to visit our website listing all our books, material and gifts. http://www.Bunnellgenealogyb ooks.City Maker.com We do accept checks, money orders and PayPal. You will also find promotional articles on Is This How You Feel After A other related Loyalist Bad Day of Loyalist organizations as “The United Research? Empire Loyalists Association of Canada;” “The Hereditary We plane to review books on Order of Descendants of The the Loyalists or similar Loyalist and Patriots of The works so please send us a American Revolution,” and 3 many Internet Loyalist sites continued with their that are excellent in activities. helping us find out more about our Loyalist Westford, Mass. Loyalists ancestors. Rev. Willard Hall (1703- This newsletter will lists 1779), was the first pastor in every issue, Loyalists of the First Parish Church, and their families, places serving from 1727 until his they lived and later settled death in 1779. He was born too, confiscations, land in Medford, Massachusetts, grants, etc. and any other and graduated from Harvard histories pertaining to College in 1722. He had a them. I have very large small farm situated to the resources of information to north and east of the church add in every issue, but we along Main Street, Westford, also need to hear from you Mass. His home is one of the regarding your own oldest in Westford Center, experiences and records. and is located near the site of the J. V. Fletcher American Loyalists Records Library. It is said that he was one of only three We start here with a few Loyalists in Westford. He loyalist that are remained loyal to the King technically not loyalists until he died in 1779. The because they never lost town “voted that the Rev. their property or were Mr. Willard Hall shall banished. But they did deliver up his arms to the support the British and Committee of Correspondence stayed loyal to King George of the town.” III through the war. I (Note: This is a very unusual case to let a loyalist stay) imagine they some point in time they had to support the Daniel Raymond, A similar rebel cause. This short list vote was passed in regard to was compiled by this editor Daniel Raymond; and he and for the 300 anniversary of his son, Daniel Raymond, Westford, Massachusetts in Jr., were forbidden to go July 2004 where it down out of town without a pass poured over all the re- from the Committee of enactors as they bravely Correspondence. Their 4 loyalism is questionable are numbered in the millions here because one of the and besides living in the Committee to hire soldiers, above countries, there are was Daniel Raymond. Both men many in the States, New appear to have remained in Zealand and Australia. town and Daniel, Jr. married and had children in Miscellaneous Historical Westford. Loyalist Notes (Source: Marilyn Day, Westford, Massachusetts Historical Society. Daniel Lacroix, Minuteman Website: Loyalist, Samuel Curwen, http://lacroixfam.home.comcast.net/wmm/ witnessed the arrival on 6 History of Westford, Massachusetts, by Hodgman, page May, 1775, at night, from 110, 122. London, at Boston of Benjamin Franklin. His Do You Know Where Loyalists arrival was greeted with joy Went? and great enthusiastic crowds by the ringing of After 1783, the American bells throughout the city. Loyalist had to leave their He would soon return to homes. The areas affected London on the insistence of were many; Massachusetts, Lord Chatham. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, (Maine), Vermont, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, On 12 May 1775, Samuel Virginia, Georgia, North and Curwen loaded his baggage on South Carolina, and Florida the ship, “Lively.” He was (St. Augustine). And even fleeing to London as a territories like Alabama, refugee. They arrived at Tennessee and Kentucky. Dover, England on 3 July 1775 at 11 AM. They took a The areas they fled too was: coach for London after Canada (Nova Scotia, PEI, visiting a Castle. They Quebec, Ontario-Upper carried several letters from Canada), England, Sierra others back in Boston to be Leone, Bahamas, Bermuda, and delivered in London. a few to other islands like Jamaica. (Source: From Journal and Letters of the Late Samuel Curwen, Loyalist Refugee in England during the American Where are they today? Well, Revolution. Second Edition by George our loyalists descendants Atkinson Ward, A.M., London, Published 5 by Wiley and Putnam, Paternoster-Row, WAR OF 1812 aired Sunday, New York, 1844 September 12 at 9pm ET/PT on UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE The History Channel. I’m sure it will be on again so Did You Know 11 Sept. 2001 an eye out for it. was not the only attack on Courtesy of the HistoryBuff.com the US with that same Date! Newsletter by Rick Brown, and forwarded to me from Sharon Sergeant An invasion on September 11 Ancestors and Ephemera at http://GenealogyFair.com First Invasion: UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE The War of 1812 UE UE World Premiere Special on Origin of the Loyalist The History Channel aired Sunday, September 12 at 9pm Flag ET/PT The Union Flag ordered by On September 11, the United King James 1 of Great States faced attack. Britain (formerly James V1 of Scotland), 1606, marked The invasion was launched the union of the two not by a group of thrones, England and international terrorists, Scotland. After leaving the but rather by the greatest Thirteen Colonies, following military power of the day, the American Revolution in the British.