Information on the Loyalists

Information on Individual Loyalists

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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 Information on Individual Loyalists. The first phase entailed transcribing the UEL Executive List which was created by the government of Upper Canada in the late 1700's. That list has about 3,000 names but there is very little information for each individual.

Since then names have been added from several sources - the Loyalist certificates issued since 1971 by UELAC, a historic list of Loyalists of New Brunswick, a ship's passenger list, and data from loyalist descendants. Without counting, the list is probably about 7,000 names now.

The directory will never be complete given the poor records from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Canada. The intent of the UELAC is to add more names to the list and to add more data for individuals when and where possible.

In the directory, the names are presented in smaller groups organized by the letter of the alphabet. Each group contains a few pieces of data about each person whose surname begins with the same letter. A link from each individual entry takes you to a record about only that person where any additional pieces of information are listed. Where there is yet more information, links from that personal record will take you to web pages about that person and his or her family.

We encourage poeple to provide information about their Loyalist ancestors, or other Loyalists. If you would like to contribute, please contact Doug Grant.


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


Names in the Directory which have Added Information

  • Adams, Isaac - from Ray Adams
  • Adams, Samuel - from Ian T. Fraser
  • Ainsley, Ozias - from Diane Faris with certificate application
  • Allaby (Aliby),Isaac - from Darrell Little
  • Allen, Weston
  • Anderson, Samuel - from George Anderson
  • Archibald, John - from Susan Feindell
  • Ashley, William (British soldier) - from Brenda Anderson
  • Atkinson, William - from Joan Lucas
  • Barnhart, George - from Richard Ripley
  • Barnum, Nathan Bunnell - from Patrick Barnum
  • Bartley, Isaiah - from Gerry Adair with certificate application
  • Bates, William - from David Clark
  • Beardsley, Rev. John - from Ian T. Fraser
  • Bell Sr., William - from Joan Lucas
  • Bell, William McCorquadale - from Gerry Adair with certificate application
  • Boon(e), William - from Alex Lawrence
  • Boon(e), William - from Charlotte Frances Ayers
  • Booth, Joshua - from Philip Smart
  • Bowman, Jacob (and sons Abraham, Adam and Peter) - from Bill Bowman, and Rod MacDonald
  • Boyce, Jehoida - from Carrie C. Mackenzie
  • Breakenridge, David by Diane Brown
  • Buchner, Henry Sgt - from Phyllis Cosby and Diane Faris with certificate application
  • Buchner, Henry Sr. - from Debra Honor
  • Buck, George Sr. of Kingston - from Beth Humphrey
  • Buck, George of Elizabethtown - from Delphine Large
  • Buck, Philip - from Beth Humphrey
  • Bulyea, Henry - from Elizabeth Crouch
  • Bunnell (Bonnell), Benjamin - from Paul J. Bunnell UE
  • Burt(t), Joseph - from Charlotte Frances Ayers
  • Burwell, James - from Bev Craig
  • Burwell, Samuel - from Bev Craig
  • Butler, Andrew - from Carolyn Cragun
  • Butler, Col. John - from Carolyn Cragun
  • Butler, Ephraim - from Tom Moffatt
  • Caldwell, William - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Cameron, John - from Duff Mitchell
  • Campbell, Robert - from Margaret and Fred Hayward
  • Carns, Jacob - from Mahlon Cook with certificate application
  • Carscallen, Edward - from Gerry Adair with certificate application
  • Carscallen, John - from Philip Smart
  • Carson, William (British Regular) - from Larry McGrath
  • Cartwright, Richard - from Globe & Mail "Died this Day"
  • Chatterton, John
  • Chester, John - from Jim May, updated by Michael Hereford
  • Chipman, Ward - from Library and Archives Canada, noted by Bill Smy
  • Chisholm, Alexander (Sr.)
  • Chisholm, Alexander (Suttler for Burgoyne)
  • Chisholm, Alexander (of Thurlow)
  • Chisholm, George - from George Chisholm
  • Clark, John - from Ivy Stevens
  • Clement, James - from Lee Harris
  • Clement, John - from Lee Harris
  • Clement, Joseph - from Lee Harris
  • Clement, Ludovicus (Lewis) - from Lenore Harris
  • Clendenning, James and son Abraham - from John Haynes
  • Cline (Clyne), Elizabeth - from Don Brearley [updated December 3]
  • Clock, Jacob Conrad - from Sylvia Vanhaverbeke [NEW - December 3]
  • Clyne (Cline), Mary - from Don Brearley [updated December 3]
  • Cole, Daniel - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Collard, John - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Comfort, John - from Wendy Cosby
  • Cook, John - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Cook, Philip Jr. - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Cooke, Samuel - from Bev Craig
  • Cosby, George - from Wilfred Cosby
  • Craig, John - from Cal Craig
  • Cronkhite, Henry - from Ruth Cleghorn Ker
  • Cryderman, Catherine, Michael, Joseph, Hermanus, and John. - from Doris Goheen
  • Crysler, Adam - from Lenore Harris
  • 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, John and William - from Paul Bingle
  • Davis, Thaddeus - from Paul Bingle
  • Davis, Thomas - from Clifford Barnett and Paul Bingle
  • Day, Barnabas - from Amanda Cliff
  • DeLong, Simon - from Rosann Fleischauer
  • Dease, John - from Glen Slater
  • Defoe, Johannes Ernst "John" - from Joan Lucas
  • Dell, Adoram - from Harry Dell
  • Dennis, Henry - from Holly Adams
  • Dennis, John and Martha (Brown) - from Patrick and Holly Adams
  • Dibblee, Fyler - from biography of Polly Jarvis, wife of Fyler - from Stephen Davidson; updated by Audrey Fox
  • Dibblee, Polly - from Stephen Davidson; updated by Audrey Fox
  • Dickie Sr, Hector - from Alex Lawrence
  • Dickinson, Amos - from R. Wallace Hale
  • Dingman, Gerardus (Gerhard) - from John W. Kelly Sr.
  • Drummond, Peter - from Richard Dorrough, Don Galna, and Gavin Watt
  • Dulmage, David - from Greg Piasetzki
  • Dulmage, John - from William Hurlburt, Dennis Jones & Clarke Raymond
  • Eamer, Peter - from Michael Eamer
  • Edy/Eady, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman
  • Ellerbeck, Emmanuel - from George Ellerbeck
  • Elliott, Matthew - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Empey, Philip - from George Anderson
  • Everitts, Sylvanus - from John W. Kelly Sr.
  • Everson, John
  • Everts, Roswell Sr. - from John W. Kelly Sr.
  • Eyres, Ephraim - from Marilyn Sapienza and Richard & Cora Ayers
  • Ferguson, Richard Jr
  • Ferguson, Richard
  • Fike, Daniel - from Doreen Dimitroff
  • 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
  • For(e)man, James - from Alex Lawrence
  • Franks, Frederick - from Helen Frank Aukerman
  • Franks, William John - from Helen Frank Aukerman
  • Fraser, Daniel - from Philip Smart
  • Fraser, Jeremiah - from Sandy Wunder
  • Fraser, Simon - from Vancouver Branch
  • Fratts, Henry - from Jon Fox
  • Frederick, Coonrad - from Peter Bolton
  • Frelick, Benjamin - from Kimberly Hurst
  • French, Jeremiah - from George Anderson
  • Frymire, Nicholas
  • Fulford, Abel - from Pat Elkins
  • Fulford, Jonathan Jr. - from Pat Elkins
  • Fulford, Jonathan Sr. - from Pat Elkins
  • Gaffield, Nathaniel A. - from Roger Reid
  • Girty, Simon - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Goheen, Thomas Sr. - from Doris Goheen
  • Gorham (Gorum), Nathaniel - from Eric Langley
  • Grant, Isabella - from Vancouver Branch
  • Green, Adam - from David Clark
  • Green, Charles Sr. - from Diane Wixted
  • Green, Daniel - from David Clark
  • Green, George - from David Clarke
  • Green, John - from David Clark
  • Green, William - from David Clark
  • Griffen (Griffin), Charles - from Marilyn Sapienza
  • Hainer, Henry and sons - from John C. Haynes
  • Haines, Adam - from John C Haynes [Updated Nov. 7]
  • Haines, Charlotte - from Fran Rose
  • Haines, John - from Fran Rose
  • Haines, Joseph - from Rod MacDonald
  • Harns, Gilbert - from Gerry Adair with certificate application
  • Haviland, Stephen - from Fran Rose
  • Hawley, Ichabod - from Norman Hawley
  • Hawley, Matthew - from Brenda Harrison
  • Hayman, William - from Claire Hayman Lincoln
  • Hector, Dickie - from Alex Lawrence
  • Hierlihy, Philip
  • Hilliker, Abraham - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Hilliker, Jeremiah - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Hilliker, John - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Hogle, Francis, Sr. & Jr. - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Hogle, John - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Holland, William - from Tom Moffatt
  • Hoople, John - from Holly Adams
  • Hover, Caspar - from Lois Davis O’Hara
  • Hover, Henry - from Lois Davis O’Hara
  • Huffman, Christopher - from Ted Huffman
  • Hunt, Cosby (Casby, Crosby) - from Wendy Cosby [New - January 10]
  • Hurlburt, Moses - from Bill Hurlburt
  • Jarvis, Samuel - from Alex Lawrence and Bob Jarvis
  • Jarvis, Stephen - from Bob Jarvis
  • Jones, James - from Faye West
  • Keller, Frederick - from Gloria Howard and Jim Keller with certificate application
  • Kelly, Martin - from John W. Kelly Sr.
  • Kendrick, Duke William - from Terrilee Craig UE
  • Kerr, Dr Robert - from Joan Lucas & Phyllis White
  • Kilbourn, Benjamin - from Rod MacDonald
  • Knapp, Benjamin - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Knapp, Joseph - from Tim Fenton
  • Knight, Joshua - from Kathleen Smith
  • Lake, Nicholas - from Marg Hall
  • Lampman, Abraham - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Lampman, Peter Sr. - from John C. Haynes [updated December 3]
  • Landen (Landon), Asa Jr. - from Sandy Wunder
  • Lane (Lean), John - from Marilyn Astle
  • Leake, Robert - from Bill Glidden
  • Lee Sr., Daniel - from Cal Craig UE
  • Leech, Catharine Reid Munro - Widow - from Jo Ann Tuskin
  • Lindsey (Lindsay), James - from Peter Rogers
  • Lloyd, George Henry - from Paul Caverly
  • Loede, John Gottlieb - from Don Brearley [updated December 3]
  • Loede, John Gottlieb
  • 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
  • Lyon, John - from Stephen Davidson
  • Macdonell, Miles - from Charles Thompson
  • Markle (Maracle), Frederick - from Kirsten Bowman
  • Markle, Henry - from Kirsten Bowman
  • Marsh, William - from Peter Johnson
  • Mattice, Adam - from Don Matthias, with certificate application
  • Mattice, Nicholas II - from Don Matthias, with certificate application
  • McAlpin, Daniel - from Richard Dorrough
  • McDonald, Allan - from Wendy Cosby
  • McDonell (McDonald, McDonel), Randel (Randy) - from Jim Willis UE
  • McGillivray, Archibald - from Brian Stanger
  • McGinnis, Sarah Kast - from Marvin W. Millis
  • McIlroy, John - from R. Wallace Hale
  • McIntosh, Peter - from Grant McIntosh
  • McKay, Hugh (a British Regular) - from Peter Scarlett
  • McLamey, John - from Holly Adams
  • McMillan, Donald - from Brian Stanger
  • McNabb (Macnab), James - from Joan Lucas & Phyllis White
  • Merkley, Henrich (Henry) - from Betty and Earle Fladager
  • Merritt, Joseph - from Marilyn Ann (Jones) Whatley
  • Miller, Andrew - from Catherine Fryer
  • Miller, Andrew Sr. - from Marguerite (Miller) Hanratty, Marian Miller, Ann (Brown) Ritchie and John Charters
  • Milliken, Benjamin - from Robert Hurrie
  • Mitts (Mitz), John - from David Turnbull
  • Moore, John - from Eleanor Watson, submitted by Dave Clark
  • Mordoff (Murdoff), George - from Marg Hall
  • Morrell, John - from James Fosdyck
  • Mount, Moses - from "Families" article by Brenda Dougall Merriman
  • Munro, Daniel - from Jo Ann Tuskin
  • Munro, Hon'l Captain John - from Jo Ann Tuskin
  • Munro, John Reid - from Jo Ann Tuskin
  • Munro, Samuel - from Jo Ann Tuskin
  • Murdoff, George Sr. - from Jacqueline Murdoch
  • Nettleton, Amos - from Tim Fenton
  • Nettleton, Daniel - from Tim Fenton
  • Nichols, John - from Carrie Mackenzie
  • Nichols, William - from Charlotte Vardy
  • Parish, Ezekiel - from Sandy Wunder
  • Parke, Cyrenius - from Karen Borden
  • Parke, James - from Karen Borden
  • Pastorius, Abraham - from Bonnie Schepers
  • Peters, Samuel - from Fran Rose
  • Peters, Thomas - from Fran (Peters) Rose, UE [updated December 3]
  • Phair, Andrew - from Fred Bradley
  • Phillips, John - from Richard Ripley
  • Pickard, Benjamin - from Michelle Walczak
  • Pugsley, Gilbert - from Fran Rose
  • Putman (Putnam), Francis
  • Read, Moses - from Muriel Weadick
  • Read, William - from Donna Magee
  • Redmond, Nicholas - from Sheila Beatty
  • Rees, David - from Marshaleigh Bahan
  • Robins, John - from Lynne Charles
  • Robins, Richard - from Lynne Charles, with certificate application
  • Rose, Mathias Sr. - from Marvin Millis, UE [updated December 3]
  • Rose, Patience - from Marvin Millis, UE [updated December 3]
  • Rush, Martin Sr. - from Peter Bolton
  • Rusk, Andrew - from Donald Rusk
  • Saunders, John
  • Savage, Cpt. John (and his associates) - from Jaime Hayes
  • Scoles, William - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Scott, Daniel - from Clinton Shirley Clark
  • Sealey (Seeley), Justus - Lillies - from Philip Smart
  • Sealey (Seeley), Justus - Seeley's Bay - from Philip Smart
  • Sears, Thatcher - from Ray Sears
  • Secord, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman
  • Sharp, Alexander - from R. Wallace Hale
  • Shaw, Aeneas - from Richard Shaw
  • Showers, Michael Sr. - from Jill Sybalsky
  • Shreve, Thomas - from Dorothy Meyerhof
  • Sills, Conrad and sons George, John and Lawrence - from William H. Sills III and Kelsey Jones.
  • Skene, Philip - from Bill Glidden
  • Smith, Elias Sr. (Esq.) - from Phyllis White
  • Smith, Frederick - from Margaret Hayward
  • Smith, Lieut. Michael - from R. Wallace Hale
  • Stone, Joel - from Tim Compeau
  • Stuart, Dr. James - from Elizabeth Stuart
  • Stymiest II, Benjamin - from Carl Stymiest
  • Switzer, Philip - from Marvin Millis, UE [updated December 3]
  • Thomson, Archibald - from Peter Scarlett, supplemented by Donald Flowers
  • Tidd (Teed), Samuel - from John Rudzik
  • Tompkins, Edmund - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, Elijah - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, John - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, John Roger - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, Joseph - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, Obadiah - from Debra R. Mann
  • Tompkins, Roger - from Debra R. Mann
  • Totten, Daniel - from James Peter Totten UE
  • Traviss (Travis), Jeremiah - from Judith Mothersell
  • Tripp, Robert - from Lani Mitchell
  • Turner, Holden
  • Van Koughnet (Vankoughnet), Michael - from George Anderson
  • Vankleek, Simeon - from Sue Fleck with certificate application
  • Weitzel, John Nicholas - from Don Brearley [updated December 3]
  • Weitzel, John Nicholas
  • Welling, John
  • Weston (Western) Allan (Allen) - from William Hurlburt
  • White, Gideon - from Eleanor Robertson Smith
  • White, Joseph Jr. - from Rod MacDonald
  • Whittle, Richard - from descendant Adam Gaines, UE
  • Wightman, George - from Barb Craig
  • Wightman, John - from Barb Craig
  • Wigle, John Wendel - from Julie Wigle
  • Williams, Abraham - from Jack Havrilchak[added January 31]
  • Williams, Frederick
  • Wright Sr., Simeon - from Joan Lucas
  • Wright, Asahel - from Rod MacDonald
  • Wright, Ebenezer - from Rod MacDonald
  • Wright, Wait(e) - from Kimberly Hurst
  • Wylly, Cpt. Alexander
  • York, Lewis (bugler/drummer)
  • York, Pvt. Christian
  • York, Pvt. George
  • Young, Alexander - from Bev. Loomis
  • Young, Daniel - from Pat Kelderman
  • Yurex, Isaac - from Patrick Hartnett
  • Zimmerman, Friedrich Wilhelm and son Henry - from Chuck Timmerman

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.