David Fanning (c. 1755 – March 14, 1825) was a Loyalist leader in the American Revolutionary War in North and South Carolina. Fanning participated in approximately 36 minor…
Simon Girty (1741 – February 18, 1818) was an American colonial of Scots-Irish ancestry who served as a liaison between the British and their Native American allies during…
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…
Captain Peter Hare (11 May 1748 — 6 April 1834) was a company officer in Butler’s Rangers, a militia unit during the American Revolutionary War, and British Loyalist.…
Johan Jost Herkimer was born in 1732, the second of five sons of Johan Host Herkimer and Catherine Herkimer of German Flatts, New York. He was the younger…
Philip Barton Key (April 12, 1757 – July 28, 1815) was a Representative from the third district of Maryland, and later a United States federal judge. Unusually for…
Dr. Samuel Adams (1730 – January 1810) was a physician and surgeon, farmer, and loyalist soldier from Arlington, Vermont.Adams was born in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1730. In 1764,…
Elisha Lawrence (1740 – 1811) was a political figure in New Jersey and Nova Scotia. He represented King’s County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1785…
Gideon Adams (February 11, 1755 – June 20, 1834) was a farmer, soldier and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Connecticut in 1755 and moved with…