Information on the Loyalists

Click here for the List of Loyalists, or Directory.

See also:

• Names to which Information has been added
• Additional Data Sources to Check

Perhaps as many as 50 000 or more individuals were Loyalists - estimates range from 30,000 to over 100,000. To be a Loyalist, one had to have been:

• Either male or female, as of 19 April 1775, a resident of the American colonies, and joined the Royal Standard prior to the Treaty of Separation of 1783, or otherwise demonstrated loyalty to the Crown, and settled in territory remaining under the rule of the Crown; or
• a soldier who served in an American Loyalist Regiment and was disbanded in Canada; or
• a member of the Six Nations of either the Grand River or the Bay of Quinte Reserve who is descended from one whose migration was similar to that of other Loyalists.

However, there were others who qualified too -- for example, if a Loyalist was killed in action, and his family then moved to Canada and settled around the time of the Treaty of Separation in 1783, they might qualify.

An objective of the UELAC is to develop a directory of people of the Loyalist era, and to categorize them, especially those who met the qualifications as a United Empire Loyalist and who earned the right, along with his heirs forever to the designation or post-nominal U.E., standing for Unity of the Empire.

In 2004 a project was begun by a few UELAC volunteers brought together into a Committee to organize and present Infomation on Individual Loyalists. The following list of about 3,000 names is the first phase of the development of such a directory, which will never be complete given the poor records from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Canada. These initial names have been gathered from the UEL Executive List which was created by the government of Upper Canada in the late 1700's. There is very little information for each individual. The intent of the UELAC is to add more names to the list and to add more data for individuals when and where possible.

First, the names are presented in smaller groups, by the letter of the alphabet and the person's surname. This table contains a few pieces of data about each person. A link from this table takes you to a table about only that person where additional pieces of information are listed. Where there is yet more information, links from that personal table will take you to web pages about that person and his or her family.

Click here for list of Loyalist by surname from our ongoing directory development project.

Names in the Directory which have Added Information

• Allen, Weston
• Anderson, Samuel - from George Anderson
• Atkinson, William - from Joan Lucas
• Barnum, Nathan Bunnell - from Patrick Barnum
• Bell Sr., William - from Joan Lucas
• Booth, Joshua - from Philip Smart
• Buck, Philip - from Beth Humphrey
• Bulyea, Henry - from Elizabeth Crouch
• Bunnell (Bonnell), Benjamin - from Paul J. Bunnell UE
• Burwell, James - from Bev Craig
• Burwell, Samuel - from Bev Craig
• Cameron, John - from Duff Mitchell
• Campbell, Robert - from Margaret and Fred Hayward
• Carscallen, John - from Philip Smart
• Carson, William (British Regular) - from Larry McGrath
• Cartwright, Richard - from Globe & Mail "Died this Day"
• Chester, John - from Jim May, updated by Michael Hereford
• Chipman, Ward - from Library and Archives Canada, noted by Bill Smy
• Chisholm, Alexander (of Thurlow)
• Chisholm, Alexander (Suttler for Burgoyne)
• Chisholm, Alexander (Sr.)
• Chisholm, George - from George Chisholm
• Clement, James - from Lee Harris
• Clement, John - from Lee Harris
• Clement, Joseph - from Lee Harris
• Cole, Daniel - from Kimberly Hurst
• Collard, John - from Kimberly Hurst
• Cosby, George - from Wilfred Cosby
• Cooke, Samuel - from Bev Craig
• Crysler, Geronimous - from Betty (Chrysler) Fladager
• Crysler, Philip - from Betty (Chrysler) Fladager
• Current, William - from Marilyn Current
• Cutler, Thomas - from Dorothy Meyerhof
• Dafoe, Abraham - from Joan Lucas
• Darby, Benjamin - from Elizabeth Crouch
• Davis, Thomas - from Clifford Barnett
• Dease, John - from Glen Slater
• Defoe, Johannes Ernst "John" - from Joan Lucas
• Dennis, John - from Patrick Adams
• Dibblee, Fyler - from biography of Polly Jarvis, wife of Fyler - from Stephen Davidson; updated by Audrey Fox
• Drummond, Peter - from Richard Dorrough
• Dulmage, John - from William Hurlburt, Dennis Jones & Clarke Raymond
• Edy/Eady, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman
• Eamer, Peter - from Michael Eamer
• Ellerbeck, Emmanuel - from George Ellerbeck
• Elliott, Matthew - from Kimberly Hurst
• Everson, John
• Ferguson, Richard
• Ferguson, Richard Jr
• Fitzpatrick, Patrick - from Jon Fox
• Fitzpatrick, Peter - from Jon Fox
• Flewelling, Enos - from Eric Langley
• Flewelling, Thomas - from Audrey Fox
• Flewwelling, Abel - from Eric Langley
• Franks, Frederick - from Helen Frank Aukerman
• Franks, William John - from Helen Frank Aukerman
• Fraser, Daniel - from Philip Smart
• Fraser, Jeremiah - from Sandy Wunder
• Fratts, Henry - from Jon Fox
• Frederick, Coonrad - from Peter Bolton
• Frelick, Benjamin - from Kimberly Hurst
• French, Jeremiah - from George Anderson
• Frymire, Nicholas
• Gaffield, Nathaniel A. - from Roger Reid
• Green, Charles Sr. - from Diane Wixted
• Griffen (Griffin), Charles - from Marilyn Sapienza [NEW - May 7]
• Haines, Charlotte - from Fran Rose
• Haines, John - from Fran Rose
• Haviland, Stephen - from Fran Rose
• Hierlihy, Philip
• Hurlburt, Moses - from Bill Hurlburt
• Jarvis, Samuel - from Alex Lawrence and Bob Jarvis [Updated - May 6]
• Jarvis, Stephen - from Bob Jarvis
• Jones, James - from Faye West
• Kendrick, Duke William - from Terrilee Craig UE
• Knapp, Benjamin - from Kimberly Hurst
• Lloyd, George Henry - from Paul Caverly
• Landen (Landon), Asa Jr. - from Sandy Wunder
• Lee Sr., Daniel - from Cal Craig UE
• London, Bartholomew - from Kimberly Hurst
• Longstreet, John (aka Langestraad Jan) - from Howard Ray Lawrence
• Losee, William - from Bill Lamb
• Lottridge, Robert - from Jill Sybalsky
• Low, John of NB - from Doreen Houston [NEW - March 29]
• Lyon, John - from Stephen Davidson
• Macdonell, Miles - from Charles Thompson
• Markle (Maracle), Frederick - from Kirsten Bowman
• Marsh, William - from Peter Johnson
• McAlpin, Daniel - from Richard Dorrough
• McGillivray, Archibald - from Brian Stanger
• McIntosh, Peter - from Grant McIntosh
• McKay, Hugh (a British Regular) - from Peter Scarlett
• Morrell, John - from James Fosdyck [NEW - April 5]
• Mount, Moses - from "Families" article by Brenda Dougall Merriman
• Parish, Ezekiel - from Sandy Wunder
• Parke, Cyrenius - from Karen Borden
• Parke, James - from Karen Borden
• Peters, Samuel - from Fran Rose
• Peters, Thomas - from Fran Rose
• Phair, Andrew - from Fred Bradley
• Pugsley, Gilbert - from Fran Rose
• Pickard, Benjamin - from Michelle Walczak
• Read, Moses - from Muriel Weadick
• Read, William - from Donna Magee
• Rush, Martin Sr. - from Peter Bolton
• Rusk, Andrew - from Donald Rusk
• Saunders, John
• Scoles, William - from Kimberly Hurst
• Sealey (Seeley), Justus - Seeley's Bay - from Philip Smart
• Sealey (Seeley), Justus - Lillies - from Philip Smart
• Sears, Thatcher - from Ray Sears
• Secord, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman
• Shaw, Aeneas - from Richard Shaw
• Showers, Michael Sr. - from Jill Sybalsky
• Skene, Philip - from Bill Glidden
• Smith, Frederick - from Margaret Hayward
• Stone, Joel - from Tim Compeau
• Stymiest II, Benjamin - from Carl Stymiest
• Thomson, Archibald - from Peter Scarlett, supplemented by Donald Flowers
• Totten, Daniel - from James Peter Totten UE
• Turner, Holden
• Welling, John
• Weston (Western) Allan (Allen) - from William Hurlburt
• Whittle, Richard - from descendant Adam Gaines, UE [NEW - April 27]
• Wightman, George - from Barb Craig [NEW - May 4]
• Wightman, John - from Barb Craig [NEW - May 4]
• Williams, Frederick
• Wright Sr., Simeon - from Joan Lucas
• Wright, Wait(e) - from Kimberly Hurst
• Young, Alexander - from Bev. Loomis
• Young, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman

Additional Data Sources to Check

There are many sources of data through which one can search for more information about families of the Loyalist times. These families may or may not be UE Loyalist. Some may have arrived before the American Revolution and others following it. Nonetheless these data sources can provide valuable ancillary or contextual information for those researching the Loyalist people and Loyalist era. Look at the sections in the navigation bar to the left side of this and every page, especially those under Resources and Military.