Historians since 1776 have searched in vain for reasons to explain why one colonist would chose the Patriots’ cause and another the Loyalists’ cause. The choice was not due to “a person’s ...

REBELLION 1776, by Laurie Halse Anderson Writers of ... the Long Wharf and she’s employed as a live-in kitchen maid to a Loyalist judge. On the day of the British evacuation Elsbeth’s father ...

Loyalist neighbors confiscated his property ... Phillip Livingston of New York: One of the wealthiest men in American in 1776, Livingston lost every bit of his wealth as a result of signing ...