It was a felony for them to keep arms.
No Loyalist might hold office, or practice law or medicine, or
keep a school.
Some Loyalists were deported to the wilderness in the back
country. Many took refuge within the British lines, especially at
New York. Many Loyalists created homes elsewhere. Some went to
England only to find melancholy disillusion of hope that a
grateful motherland would understand and reward their sacrifices.
Large numbers found their way to Nova Scotia and to Canada, north
of the Great Lakes, and there played a part in laying the
foundation of the Dominion of today. The city of Toronto with a
population of half a million is rooted in the Loyalist traditions
of its Tory founders. Simcoe, the first Governor of Upper Canada,
who made Toronto his capital, was one of the most enterprising of
the officers who served with Cornwallis in the South and
surrendered with him at Yorktown.
The State of New York acquired from the forfeited lands of
Loyalists a sum approaching four million dollars, a great amount
in those days. Other States profited in a similar way. Every
Loyalist whose property was seized had a direct and personal
grievance. He could join the British army and fight against his
oppressors, and this he did: New York furnished about fifteen
thousand men to fight on the British side.
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