
The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution
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The standard work on Massachusetts Loyalists, this book was originally published as a corrective to the then ubiquitous notion that Massachusetts had been a homogeneous bastion of Patriot activity during the Revolution. Mr. Stark dispels this preconception by documenting the trials of Loyalists at various levels of Massachusetts society, such as those of native-born Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Singleton Copley, the greatest of all 18th-century American painters--both of whom abandoned Massachusetts to live out the balance of their years in exile in Great Britain. While the book's first...
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- THE LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- JAMES H. STARK
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- THE LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS
- AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER I.
- THE FIRST CHARTER.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE SECOND CHARTER.
- CHAPTER III.
- CAUSES THAT LED TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER IV.
- BOSTON MOBS AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE REVOLUTIONIST.
- CHAPTER VII.
- INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE EXPULSION OF THE LOYALISTS AND THE SETTLEMENT OF CANADA.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE WAR OF 1812 AND THE ATTEMPTED CONQUEST OF CANADA.
- CHAPTER X.
- THE CIVIL WAR AND THE PART TAKEN BY GREAT BRITAIN IN SAME.
- CHAPTER XI.
- RECONCILIATION. THE DISMEMBERED EMPIRE RE-UNITED IN BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP. "BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER."
- PART II.
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
- LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS
- The Loyalists of Massachusetts
- WHO WERE THE INHABITANTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION?
- ADDRESS OF THE MERCHANTS AND OTHERS OF BOSTON TO GOV. HUTCHINSON.
- ADDRESS OF THE BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEYS OF MASSACHUSETTS TO GOV. HUTCHINSON, MAY, 30, 1774.
- ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF MARBLEHEAD TO GOV. HUTCHINSON.
- ADDRESS TO GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON FROM HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN IN THE TOWN OF MILTON.
- BANISHMENT ACT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
- WORCESTER RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO THE ABSENTEES AND REFUGEES.
- CONFISCATION ACT.
- BIOGRAPHIES OF THE LOYALISTS of MASSACHUSETTS
- THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
- Governor of Massachusetts 1771-4.
- THOMAS HUTCHINSON.
- ELISHA HUTCHINSON.
- FOSTER HUTCHINSON.
- ELIAKIM HUTCHINSON.
- ANDREW OLIVER.
- Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1770-1774.
- THOMAS OLIVER.
- Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 1774-1775.
- PETER OLIVER.
- Chief Justice of Massachusetts.
- SIR FRANCIS BERNARD.
- Governor of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769.
- SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL.
- Baronet of Kittery, Maine.
- JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY
- AND HIS SON Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor of England.
- KING HOOPER OF MARBLEHEAD.
- WILLIAM BOWES.
- GENERAL TIMOTHY RUGGLES.
- THE FANEUIL FAMILY OF BOSTON.
- THE COFFIN FAMILY OF BOSTON.
- Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Sir Thomas Aston Coffin, Admiral Froman H. Coffin, General John Coffin.
- JUDGE SAMUEL CURWEN.
- JAMES MURRAY.
- SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON.
- COLONEL RICHARD SALTONSTALL.
- REV. MATHER BYLES.
- THE HALLOWELL FAMILY OF BOSTON.
- THE VASSALLS.
- GENERAL ISAAC ROYALL.
- GENERAL WILLIAM BRATTLE.
- JOSEPH THOMPSON.
- COLONEL JOHN ERVING.
- MAJOR GENERAL SIR DAVID OCHTERLONY.
- JUDGE AUCHMUTY'S FAMILY.
- COLONEL ADINO PADDOCK.
- THEOPHILUS LILLIE.
- DR. SYLVESTER GARDINER.
- RICHARD KING.
- CHARLES PAXTON.
- COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.
- JOSEPH HARRISON.
- COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS.
- CAPTAIN MARTIN GAY.
- DANIEL LEONARD.
- JUDGE GEORGE LEONARD.
- COLONEL GEORGE LEONARD.
- HARRISON GRAY.
- Receiver General of Massachusetts.
- REV. WILLIAM WALTER.
- Rector of Trinity Church, Boston.
- THOMAS AMORY.
- REV. HENRY CANER.
- RECTOR OF KING'S CHAPEL.
- FREDERICK WILLIAM GEYER.
- THE APTHORP FAMILY OF BOSTON.
- THE GOLDTHWAITE FAMILY OF BOSTON.
- JOHN HOWE.
- SAMUEL QUINCY.
- Solicitor-General.
- COLONEL JOHN MURRAY.
- JUDGE JAMES PUTNAM.
- Attorney-general of Massachusetts Bay.
- JUDGE TIMOTHY PAINE.
- DR. WILLIAM PAINE.
- JOHN CHANDLER.
- JOHN GORE.
- JOHN JEFFRIES.
- THOMAS BRINLEY.
- REV. JOHN WISWELL.
- HENRY BARNES.
- THOMAS FLUCKER.
- Secretary of Massachusetts Bay.
- MARGARET DRAPER.
- RICHARD CLARKE.
- PETER JOHONNOT.
- JOHN JOY.
- RICHARD LECHMERE.
- EZEKIEL LEWIS.
- BENJAMIN CLARK.
- AGNES, LADY FRANKLAND.
- COLONEL DAVID PHIPS.
- THE DUNBAR FAMILY OF HINGHAM.
- EBENEZER RICHARDSON.
- COMMODORE JOSHUA LORING.[251]
- ROBERT WINTHROP.
- NATHANIEL HATCH.
- CHRISTOPHER HATCH.
- WARD CHIPMAN.
- GOVERNOR EDWARD WINSLOW.
- SIR ROGER HALE SHEAFFE, BARONET.
- JONATHAN SAYWARD.
- DEBLOIS FAMILY.
- LYDE FAMILY.
- JAMES BOUTINEAU.
- COLONEL WILLIAM BROWNE.
- ARCHIBALD CUNNINGHAM.
- CAPTAIN JOHN MALCOMB.
- THE RUSSELL FAMILY OF CHARLESTOWN.
- EZEKIEL RUSSELL
- JONATHAN SEWALL.
- Attorney General Of Massachusetts.
- THOMAS ROBIE.
- BENJAMIN MARSTON.
- HON. BENJAMIN LYNDE CHIEF JUSTICE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
- PAGAN FAMILY.
- THE WYER FAMILY OF CHARLESTOWN.
- JEREMIAH POTE.
- EBENEZER CUTLER.
- APPENDIX.
- INDEX.
- List of Loyalists of Massachusetts whose names or Biographies are not found in this work.
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
- STARK'S ANTIQUE VIEWS
- TOWN OF BOSTON
- JAMES H. STARK
- 17 MILK ST., BOSTON MASS.
- W. B. CLARKE CO.
- 26-28 TREMONT ST., BOSTON, MASS.
- Stark's Guides to the West Indies.
- Stark's History and Guide to Trinidad
- Stark's History and Guide to Jamaica
- Stark's Guide and History of British Guiana
- Stark's Illustrated Histories
- Guides to the West Indies
- STARK'S ILLUSTRATED BERMUDA GUIDE
- STARK'S HISTORY AND GUIDE TO THE BAHAMA ISLANDS
- STARK'S HISTORY AND GUIDE TO BARBADOS AND THE CARIBEE ISLANDS
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