Loyalist Books & Book Reviews

Loyalist heritage exists in some of the land we live on, in some of the houses we live in or have made into museums or other heritage properties, in museums, in historical records, family histories and genealogies. Books, however, are one of the leading ways that others learn about the Loyalist heritage.

Each year numerous books are written and published on a variety of topics related to the American Revolutionary War period, including the Loyalists. In this section of our UELAC website, a few reviews of some of those books, and occasionally the book itself.

• Polly [Johnson], by Murray Killman U.E.

• Simon Girty, Turncoat Hero: The Most Hated Man On The Early American Frontier, by Phillip Hoffman
• The Way Lies North, by Jean Rae Baxter
• United Empire Loyalists: A Guide to Tracing Loyalist Ancestors in Upper Canada, by Brenda Dougall Merriman
• Sites of Power, by Peter A. Baskerville
• Burdens of Loyalty, by Stephen Davidson
• Letters for Elly, by Stephen Davidson
• A Pioneer ABC, by Mary Alice Downie
• Farmers and Honest Men, by Horst Dresler
• The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill
• Tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, by Michael Johnson
• The Last Highland Charge, by Peter R. Johnston
• Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, NS, 1783-1792, by Stephen Kimber
• The Founders, by J. William Lamb
• Charlotte, by Janet Lunn
• Great Battles, by the editors of Military History and MHQ
• An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler’s Rangers, by William A. Smy
• Loyalism in the Hoosick Valley , by Bernard C. Young !NEW!