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October 2016

Loyalist Trails 2016-40

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:26:12-05:00October 2nd, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-40: October 2, 2016

In this issue:
– Unpacking a Family Bible’s Inscription: Part One, by Stephen Davidson
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in August
– The Loyalist Collection: Loyalists in the Classroom
– Borealia: Skills for Historians of the Future – Palaeography
– JAR: Why was the Revolutionary War in the south lost by the British?
– New Brunswick Loyalist Resource
– War Office Records Can Help Your Research
– New York Public Library: Dispossessing Loyalists
– Pacific Loyalist Library Collection
– Digital Gazette: Fall 2015 Publicly Available; Order Fall 2016 Now
– Where in the World?
– Region […]

September 2016

Loyalist Trails 2016-39

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:26:51-05:00September 25th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-39: September 25, 2016

In this issue:
– An Epitaph in Ink: Part Two, by Stephen Davidson
– Digital Gazette: Fall 2016 Issue is Being Developed
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond

Articles

An Epitaph in Ink: Part Two

© Stephen Davidson, UE

Polly Jarvis grew up in a middle class home in Stamford, Connecticut, where she had the opportunity to learn how to read and write. She married a man of letters, Fyler Dibblee, who eventually accumulated a library valued at over £500. In addition to having a lawyer as a husband, Polly had […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-38

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:27:53-05:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-38: September 22, 2016

In this issue:
– An Epitaph in Ink: Part One, by Stephen Davidson
– Editor’s Note

Articles

An Epitaph in Ink: Part One

© Stephen Davidson, UE

Polly Jarvis Dibblee had to flee for safety to her father-in-law’s Connecticut home when her husband declared himself a loyalist. After moving to Long Island, she watched helplessly as rebels dragged her husband off to jail. Pregnant with her last child, Polly was robbed by patriots who took the family’s clothes and effects while holding them at bayonet point. Reunited, the Dibblees were on the first evacuation ship to […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-37

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:28:43-05:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-37: September 11, 2016

In this issue:
– Browsing through an Orderly Book: Getting Along with the Locals, by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Captain John Peck Rathbun – As Audacious as John Paul Jones
– Digital Gazette: Help Save Costs; Sign up by April 14
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: Albert Edward Preece, UE

Articles

Browsing through an Orderly Book: Getting Along with the Locals

© Stephen Davidson, UE

The American Revolution was a different type of war for the British army. Their troops were not in enemy territory where […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-36

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:29:50-05:00September 4th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-36: September 4, 2016

In this issue:
– Browsing Through an Orderly Book: Life in a Loyalist Corps, by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Sir John Johnson, The Hard Luck Baronet, by Gavin Watt
– RevWarTalk: Joseph Brant
– Loyalists And Old Hay Bay Church: A Diverse Group
– A Successful “Roots 2016” Celebration
– Borealia: New Books in Early Canadian History, 2016
– The Challenges of Preserving Our Loyalist Built Heritage
– Digital Gazette: Fall 2015 Issue Publicly Available
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: Donald Arthur […]

August 2016

Loyalist Trails 2016-35

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:30:38-05:00August 28th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-35: August 28, 2016

In this issue:
– Carleton’s Book of Negroes: A Ledger’s Legacy (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Stern Measures – Thomas Jefferson Confronts the “Hair Buyer”
– JAR: Daniel McGirth, Banditti on the Southern Frontier
– Tarleton’s Legion
– Teaching the African Diaspora with a Trip to Canada
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: James Arthur (Art) Keller, UE
– Memorial Service For Lois Dickinson, UE

Articles

Carleton’s Book of Negroes: A Ledger’s Legacy (Part 2)

© Stephen Davidson, UE

More than just a ledger that recorded […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-34

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:31:20-05:00August 21st, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-34: August 21, 2016

In this issue:
– Carleton’s Book of Negroes: A Ledger’s Legacy (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– The Memorial of Sir John Johnson Baronet of Johnson Hall
– The Butler Papers Online at Brock U. Special Collections
– JAR: Top 10 Banastre Tarleton Myths
– Borealia: How the Quebec Act enhanced, not weakened, the British Empire
– America in Class: Experiences of the War
– Ben Franklin’s World: Taylor Stoermer, Harvard U. & Colonial North America
– Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin & Women’s Experiences in Revolutionary America
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-33

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:46:07-05:00August 14th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-33: August 14, 2016

In this issue:
– If Loyalist Furniture Could Talk (Part 2 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– JAR: Revolutionary War Olympics – The Games Our Founders Played
– Ben Franklin’s World: Founding Friendships Between Men and Women
– Myths of the American Revolution: The Smithsonian
– Book: Valiant Ambition – A Piece of the Back Story
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in July
– War of 1812: Lemuel Scott, Prisoner of War
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: Hazel “Eleanor” Philip (Brown), UE
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2016-32

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:48:26-05:00August 7th, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-32: August 7, 2016

In this issue:
– Conference 2016
– If Loyalist Furniture Could Talk (Part 1 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Borealia: Bear Years, Squirrel Years, and Environmental Politics
– JAR: How Article 7 Freed 3000 Slaves
– How to Research History Online
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in June
– Book review: Abductions in the American Revolution
– The Big Chill: 1816, the Year Without a Summer
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Queries
+ Response re David Redding
+ […]

July 2016

Loyalist Trails 2016-31

Corcoran2021-12-03T18:49:28-05:00July 31st, 2016|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-31: July 31, 2016

In this issue:
– Conference 2016
– Heroes in the Loyalist Hall of Fame, by Stephen Davidson
– Data Correction: Revised Article “A Favour of the Queen”
– Joseph Brant, the Mohawk Warrior, Tribal Leader & Diplomat
– Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, 1762-1850
– Historicist: Elizabeth Simcoe, A Toronto Pioneer
– JAR: War on the Middleline: The October 1780 British Raid on Ballston
– Home Makeover: Loyalist Estate Turned Patriot Headquarters
– 2016 UELAC Conference donates to Scholarship
– Reminder: Your Loyalist History in the Loyalist Gazette
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and […]