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. h Smith, 24 July 1834, by license.
d r Grant and Sai a
Alexan e . h 'd Grant. .
. Daniel Cameron, Atc h 12th August 1834, by llc. NOTES ON SOME LOYALISTS
w. . d Easter Mc Cac an,
Robert Hlll an OF SUSSEX COUNTY, NEW J ERSEY

. J hn vance, James Hill. h o January 1835. The
w. o d Sarah Jo nson, 1
Robert Johnstone an pescod.
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f s J ohnson George
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witnesses were: u u . h' t e 10 January 1835, y lC. Thomas B. Wilson
John Woo d an d Cathar me Jo ns on '
w: Daniel Clarke, David Clarke .
The minutes of the Sussex County Court in the Hall of Records
at Newton, New Jersey, con tain the names of those who were

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. . P trick of Presco ' and Abigail Anne Brouse, of attainted of treason by that court for having joined the army of
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\Vllllam a ' . 1834 by license, by Rev. ex- the King of Great Britain or for having gone within the British
ld Were marrled 29 May ' 'lt Th
J\lati a. th d' st Minis ter of Hamt on. e lines. A corn paris on of these names with those contained in The
1\I N b Wesleyan Me o 1
ander .n c a · d Nich's Brouse Sr. Loyalists of New Jersey by E. Alfred Jones, the standard work
witnesses were Michael Brouse an
on the subject, revealed four or five men who did not appear in
h d Alnuia wart, of Matilda, that work. In addition, there were several others mentioned in
Ephraim Lake. of Edwardsburg ' an . Rev William
. d 27 September 1834 by llcense, by . the records who were named in Jones but whose place of origin
were marne ' · kv'll The wit- in New Jersey was not stated. Sorne details regarding the loyalist
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Patnck, Wes eyan Methodist Minister of MerrlC 1 e.
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nesses were William Baldwin and Davtd Carman. activities of these and a few other men were ferreted out and
are presented here.
Researchers are sometimes at a disadvantage, or become

disapointed, when they commence searching out materials re-
Marriages by Rev. Joseph Sawyer,
lating to a "loyalist" ancestor, and this can be attributed in part
Methodist Minis ter:
to the indiscriminate use of that term. Almost every American
who settled in Canada before 1800 has been called a Loyalis t,
Simon Wilson and Sarah Roger s of Matilda, 12 January 1835 ·
and this, of course, is not remotely the case. Assuming for the
w: Isaac Keelar, Alexander McDonald.
moment that the settler in Canada was pro-British or at least
Hiram Reed and Julia Shaver of Matilda, 29 March 1835. w·
was unsympathetic to the thought of the Colonies being indepen-
Lucas V ader, Nelson V ader .
dent, he more usefully might be described as a tory. The term

"loyalist" would be reserved, then, for those who actively par-
ticipated in the struggle that raged in the Colonies by serving
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in one of the regiments, or by going within the British lines in
other capacities, and who, at the conclusion of that conflict, had
to leave their country. This is not to say that the tory. as the

term is used here, did not suffer in any way. l\lany were fined
and imprisoned if they were too outspoken in their views. if
they refused to take the oath of abjuration and allegiance. if
they refused militia duty or for other offenses. For offenses

such as these, however, they were not attainted of treason and
their property was not confiscated - at least not in New Jersey.