Note 178 — IV. THE LOYALISTS.

Hawkins, Missions, 371–3. Ryerson, ii. 206. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Oct., 1886, p. 95. For the treatment of the loyalists in the United States after the treaty of peace, see especially Jones, Hist. New York, vol. ii. Roberts, Hist. of New York, ii. 449 ff. Lecky (Hist. England in the Eighteenth Century, iv. 267) remarks rather sharply: “The loyalists to a great extent sprung from and represented the old gentry of the country. The prospect of seizing their property had been one great motive which induced many to enter the war. The owners of the confiscated property now grasped the helm. New men exercised the social influence of the old families, and they naturally dreaded the restoration of those whom they had displaced.”