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American Revolution (the British side)

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  • https://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/andrews_john.html
    Rev. John Andrews (1746 - 1813)
    ~• a descendant of the famoius family of Maryland > direct to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore Rev. John Andrews, D.D. (1746–1813): Colonial/American clergyman; 4th Provost (1810–13), 3rd Vice Prov...
  • first name unknown Jouett (deceased)
    Xenophon's father fought with the New Jersey Volunteers and came to Canada as a loyalist, settling in St. Mary's Parish. ~• surname seems to have been rendered as Jewett as well
  • Capt. Stair Agnew (1757 - 1821)
    research... we might think, from his given name that he is obliquely related to: Sir Stair Agnew, 6th Baronet of Lochnaw This realtionship may help explain how his father secured his position in the Ch...
  • Daniel Claus (1727 - 1787)
    Christian Daniel Claus (1727 - 1787, Britain) was a Superintendent of Indian affairs and a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution.He was born September 13, 1727 at Bönnigheim, Württemberg th...
  • Col. James Delancey (1746 - 1804)
    James DeLancey, Loyalist in wikipedia "he raised a loyalist unit known as "De Lancey’s Cowboys" and "De Lancey's refugees". De Lancey himself was called the "Outlaw of the Bronx". He married Martha Ti...

Scope of Project

A list of participants (on both sides) is included in the linked document:

Military leadership in the American Revolutionary War

Most of us think of the American Revolution just concentrated on what became the continental U.S., but the Caribbean-West Indies plays a major part! At the end of the war, quite a few Blacks who fought with the British were transferred to Caribbean islands.

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Commanders

Military and Militia Units

• The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley ~ The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground - Adrien C. Leiby (1962) (1980) (1992) ISBN: 0-8135-0898-3

• Father Knickerbocker Rebels ~ New York City During the Revolution - Thomas Jefferson Wertenbacker (1948)

Confiscation of Property in Pennsylvania