The American Loyalists in the Eastern Seigniories and Townships of the Province of Quebec (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The American Loyalists in the Eastern Seigniories and Townships of the Province of Quebec On the heels of the Jessups, a party of loyalists was brought in by Dr. Samuel Adams, of Albany, whose arrival is recorded in a letter of December 2, 1776. Several years later Adams declared that he had raised these men to serve with Burgoyne and had come into Canada with a hundred of them, together with some volunteers who had escaped through the woods. Whether the number mentioned was an exag geration, or we are to suppose that most of the men joined other corps after their arrival in Canada, is not clear. At any rate, it appears from the muster roll that Captain Samuel Adams' company of Rangers was raised (which I take to mean commissioned) by order of General Burgoyne, August 9, 1777, and that it comprised at the time four officers and twenty-six effective privates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.