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About Edmund Edward Tompkins

Canterbury Parish, York County, New Brunswick


Capt Randle's co Loyal American Regement

During the American Revolution, a significant proportion of the population of New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, East Florida, West Florida and other colonies was determined to remain loyal to the crown and desired to remain within the British Empire. The reasons were as varied as the people themselves, but the overriding principle was loyalty to the King.

Loyalists began leaving at the end of the war whenever transport was available. An estimated 70,000 Loyalists, approximately 62,000 white and 8,000 blacks (representing about 3% of the total American population of which 20-30% supported the Crown during the American War for Independence), left the thirteen newly independent states: 46,000 to Canada; 7,000 to Britain and 17,000 to the Caribbean. Beginning in the mid-1780s and lasting until the end of the century, however, a small percentage chose to return from the Caribbean and Nova Scotia.

Following the end of the Revolution and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Loyalist soldiers and civilians were evacuated from New York and resettled in other colonies of the British Empire, most notably in the future Canada. The two colonies of Nova Scotia (including modern-day New Brunswick), received about 34,000 Loyalist refugees, Prince Edward Island 2,000 and Quebec (including the Eastern Townships and modern-day Ontario) received some 10,000 refugees.


GEDCOM Source

@R-2146013911@ U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,4282::0 1,4282::382486

GEDCOM Source

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Edmund Edward Tompkins's Timeline

1756
1756
Westchester County, New York, United States
1775
July 21, 1775
Westchester, New York, United States
1781
1781
Bishopsgate, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1783
1783
U.S.A.
1783
Age 27
1785
1785
London, England (United Kingdom)
1786
1786
Canterbury, New Brunswick, Canada
1790
April 16, 1790
New Brunswick, Canada
1792
August 19, 1792
Chr. Prince William Parish on Carlet, New Brunswick, Canada