U.E. Loyalist History

Delancey Town  is an old neighborhood in Nassau , Bahamas, named after  Stephen DeLancey , a prominent United Empire Loyalist and former Chief Justice of the Bahamas (1790–1797). After the American Revolution, he left New York and first settled in Nova Scotia. Delancey Town (photo about 1890) It is located near the western cemetery and a street in the area, Delancey Street,  retains the name. There is also a community called Delancey  Town on the island of South Eleuthora in the Bahamas.  After the American Revolution,  Loyalists,  both black and white,  arriving in the Bahamas massively boosted the population.  Between 1783 and 1788, it  is estimated 5,000 to 7,000 came. This  doubled the white population and tripled the black. When Stephen DeLancey moved to the Bahamas in 1790 to become Chief Justice, he also managed a 900 acre cotton  plantation on North Caicos and had 18  black slaves.  The plantation was known ...

The Mohawks, under leaders like  Joseph Brant   were a significant group of indigenous people who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolution. Many lost their lands in the Mohawk Valley of New York and moved to Canada as refugees.  At  Annapolis Royal  , Nova Scotia is a monument that demonstrates this connection to the British had gone on for many years prior to that time.     Annapolis Royal Monument with Plaque Some Mohawk served with the British at Annapolis Royal against the French and their allies between 1712 and 1713.    The plaque on the Monument states:  Iroquois at Annapolis Royal In 1712, two years after the British captured the Acadian capital, Colonel John Livingston returned to New York with about 50 men recruited among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the League of Five Nations. During the last months of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702- 1713) these men carried out scouting duties...

The first Masonic lodge in what is now Canada was established in    Annapolis Royal  , Nova Scotia in 1738 by Major Erasmus James Philipps. He was the father - in - law of   Major General Horatio Gates, commander of the Northern Continental Army ,  to whom Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne surrendered on October 17, 1777 at the    Battle of Saratoga .                                                                        Masonic Monument beside Annapolis Royal Town Hall Gates was born in Maldon, England in 1727. He became an Officer in the British Army and arrived in Halifax around 1749 as an aide to Governor Edward Cornwallis. He served in  the French Indian War in North America before selling his commission and starting a plantation in Virginia. During the Americ...