U.E. Loyalist History

As a young boy I was familiar with the story told by my mom of our ancestor James Humphrey who served as a Private with Jessup's Rangers in the American Revolution. However, that was in the distant past.  My dad's parents and his relatives in Canada came from Ireland and they were people I had met.   Consequently, this had a greater impact on me and how I thought of myself.   I learned I had grandparents called Ulster - Scots.  This referred to the fact they were born in Ulster, one of the four provinces of Ireland, along with Connacht, Leinster, and Munster, and were descended from persons who originally lived in Scotland.      My second book which I authored, entitled   Canada's Ulster - Scots  , includes a chapter on well known United Empire Loyalist, Bishop   Charles Inglis  (1734 - 1816).   He was born in County Donegal in Ulster and an Ulster - Scot.  As explained by James Barclay Woodburn in...

How is the Honourable Kody Blois, Member of Parliament for Kings - Hants, Nova Scotia connected to  Nova Scotia's first multi-racial refugees  ? He is descended from Abraham Blois who appears in the  Loyalist Directory  and has been proved as a United Empire Loyalist (U.E.L.) four times by members of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada.. For those who believe they have Loyalist ancestry, after joining a branch of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada (UELAC), they can work with a branch genealogist to prove that ancestry and obtain a  Loyalist Certificate  . Abraham Blois, born in the Parish of St. Lawrence, Essex, England in 1747 took passage to America in 1774 and during the American Revolution in 1777 enlisted in the 4th Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army.  However, he deserted and was officially discharged in 1779.  Afterward he joined a Loyalist Provincial Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the 84th Regiment, fo...