Loyalists in the American Revolution

Richard Bayley (1745 – August 17, 1801) was a prominent New York City physician and the first chief health officer of the city.

Richard Clarke (May 1, 1711 – February 27, 1795), Boston merchant and Loyalist, was the son of William and Hannah (Appleton) Clarke of Boston, where he was born.

Captain Richard Lippincott, U.

Walter Dulany (died 1773) was a politician in Colonial Maryland, who served as Mayor of Annapolis from 1766 to 1767.

William Caldwell (c. 1750 – 20 February 1822), was a Scots-Irish immigrant to North America who became a soldier with the British Indian Department.

Myles Cooper (1735 – May 1, 1785) was a figure in colonial New York.

Michael MacNamara was an Irish-born politician in Colonial Maryland, who served 3 terms as Mayor of Annapolis.

Consider Tiffany (March 15, 1732 - June 19, 1796) was a British loyalist, storekeeper, and sergeant during the French and Indian War.

Augustus Jones (c. 1757 – November 16, 1836) was an American-born Upper Canadian farmer, land speculator, magistrate, militia captain and surveyor.

Azor Betts (September 13, 1740 – September 14, 1809) was an English doctor who began his practice in the Province of New York before the American Revolutionary War.

Rev. John Camm (1718–1778) served as the seventh (and last Tory) president of the College of William and Mary.

John Hamilton (died December 12, 1816) was a military officer in the British Army, and the commander of the Royal North Carolina Regiment of Loyalist militia during the American Revolutionary War from 1777 to 1783.

John Malcolm (died 1788) was a sea captain, army officer, and British customs official who was the victim of the most publicized tarring and feathering incident during the American Revolution.

John Randolph (1727 – January 31, 1784) was a lawyer from Williamsburg in the British colony of Virginia.

John Stuart (25 September 1718 – 21 March 1779) was a Scottish-born official of the British Empire in the colony of South Carolina, North America.

John Wickham (June 6, 1763 - January 22, 1839) was an American Loyalist and attorney.

Jonathan Sewall (August 24, 1729 – September 27, 1796) was the last British attorney general of Massachusetts.

Joseph Wanton (1705–1780) was a merchant and governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from 1769 to 1775.

Joseph Wanton, Jr.

Joshua Loring (3 August 1716 – 5 October 1781) was an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service.

Peggy Shippen or Margaret Shippen (also Peggy Shippen Arnold or just Peggy Arnold, June 11, 1760 – August 24, 1804) was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold.

Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland, 23rd Proprietary Governor of Maryland (c. 1741 – 2 September 1784) was a British colonial official and the last Royal Governor of Maryland.

Rev Jonathan Boucher FRSE FSA (12 May 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher and philologist.

William Ancrum (ca. 1722 – February 24, 1808) was a wealthy American merchant and indigo planter from Charleston, South Carolina who served in the Third General Assembly during the Revolutionary War (1779–1780).

Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was an American colonial frontiersman.

Beverley Robinson (11 January 1721 – 9 April 1792), a wealthy colonist from New York, was a son of the Hon.

Elizabeth Calvert (1731 – 1788) was the daughter of Maryland Governor Captain Charles Calvert and Rebecca Gerard, and a wealthy heiress in colonial Maryland.

Guy Johnson (c.1740 – 5 March 1788) was an Irish-born military officer and diplomat for the Crown during the American War of Independence.

Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution.

Joseph Galloway (1731 – 10 August 1803) was an American politician.

Jonathan Odell (25 September 1737 – 25 November 1818) was a Loyalist poet who lived during the American Revolution.

Peter Harrison (1716–1775) was a colonial American architect who was born in York, England and emigrated to Rhode Island in 1740.

Molly Brant (c.1736 – April 16, 1796), also known as Mary Brant, Konwatsi'tsiaienni, and Degonwadonti, was a Mohawk woman who was influential in the era of the American Revolution.

James Wright (May 8, 1716 – November 20, 1785) was an American colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia.

Andrew Allen (June 1740 – March 7, 1825) was a lawyer and official from the Province of Pennsylvania.

Christian Daniel Claus (1727–1787) was a Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a prominent Loyalist during the American Revolution.

Daniel Dulany the Younger (June 28, 1722 – March 17, 1797) was a Maryland Loyalist politician, Mayor of Annapolis, and an influential American lawyer in the period immediately before the American Revolution.

Daniel Leonard (18 May 1740 – 27 June 1829) was a lawyer from colonial Massachusetts and a Loyalist in the American Revolution.

George Hume Steuart, (1700–1784) was a Scottish physician, tobacco planter, and Loyalist politician in colonial Maryland.

Reverend John Joachim Zubly (August 27, 1724 – July 23, 1781), born Hans Joachim Züblin, was a Swiss-born American pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution.

John Fleeming or John Fleming was a printer, publisher and bookseller in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.

Peter Oliver (March 26, 1713 – October 12, 1791) was Chief Justice of the Superior Court (the highest court) of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1772–1775.

William Allen (August 5, 1704 – September 6, 1780) was a wealthy merchant, attorney and Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania, and mayor of Philadelphia during the colonial period.

William Jarvis (September 11, 1756 – August 13, 1817) was the American-born head of the famous Jarvis family of Toronto.

William Stark (April 1, 1724 – August 27, 1776) was a Revolutionary War era officer.

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.

William Franklin FRSE (c.1730 – November 1813) was an American-born attorney, a colonial administrator, and the acknowledged illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.

Benedict Swingate Calvert (January 27, 1722 – January 9, 1788) was a planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution.

Henry Harford (April 5, 1758 – April 1835), 5th Proprietor of Maryland, was the last proprietary owner of the British colony of Maryland.

Henry Pelham (February 14, 1748/49 – 1806), American painter, engraver, and cartographer, was born in Boston, where his father, Peter Pelham, limner, engraver, and schoolmaster, had married Mary (Singleton) Copley, widow of Richard Copley and mother of John Singleton Copley.

The New Jersey Volunteers also, known as Jersey Volunteers, Skinner's Corps, Skinner's Greens, and "Skinners" were a Loyalist, British provincial, military unit, raised for service, by Loyalist, Cortlandt Skinner, during the American Revolutionary War.

Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (October 22, 1693 – December 9, 1781) was the son of Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and of Catherine, daughter of Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper.

Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729 – February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut.

Colonel Tye, also known as Titus Cornelius (c. 1753 – 1780), was a slave of African descent in Province of New Jersey who achieved notability fighting as a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War; he was known for his leadership and fighting skills.

Margaret Green Draper (May 3, 1727 – circa 1804) was an American printer and journalist.

Flora MacDonald (Gaelic: Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill; 1722 – 4 March 1790), Jacobite heroine, was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of Angus MacDonald.

Charles Woodmason (c. 1720 – March 1789) was an author, poet, Anglican clergyman, American loyalist, and West Gallery psalmodist.

Cheney Clow (1734–1788) was a loyalist from Delaware during the American Revolution who staged a rebellion against the colonial government that was advocating separation from Great Britain.

Cortlandt Skinner (16 December 1727 – 15 March 1799) was the last Royal Attorney General of New Jersey and a Brigadier General, in the British, Loyalist force, the "New Jersey Volunteers" or "Skinner's Greens", during the American Revolutionary War.

David Farnsworth was a Colonial-era American Loyalist.

David Franks (born 23 September 1720 in New York – October 1794 in Isleworth, England) was a loyalist in the war of the American Revolution.

David Mathews (c. 1739 – July 28, 1800) was a lawyer and politician from New York City.

Edmund Fanning (April 24, 1739 – February 28, 1818) was a British North American colonial administrator and military leader.

Edward Jessup (December 24, 1735 – February 3, 1816) together with his brother Ebenezer Jessup (July 1739–1818), was a large landowner in present-day New York State before the American Revolution, and later a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada, now the present-day Canadian province of Ontario, Canada.

Harrison Gray (1711–1794) was a wealthy merchant, as well as Treasurer and Receiver-General for the Province of Massachusetts Bay, a position that he held from 1753 until the beginning of the Revolution.

Jacob Bailey (16 April 1731 – 26 July 1808) was an author and clergyman of the Church of England, active in New England and Nova Scotia.

Sir James Jay (1732–1815) was an American physician and politician.

James Rogers (c. 1726 – September 23, 1790) was an Irish-born soldier.

James Rivington (1724 – July 1802) was an English-born American journalist who published a loyalist newspaper in the American colonies called Rivington's Gazette.

Sampson Salter Blowers (March 10, 1742 – October 25, 1842) was a noted North American lawyer, Loyalist and jurist from Nova Scotia who, along with Chief Justice Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, waged "judicial war" in his efforts to free Black Nova Scotian slaves from their owners.

Dr. Samuel Adams (1730 – January, 1810) was a physician, surgeon, farmer, land owner, and loyalist soldier, from Arlington, Vermont.