While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario PDF
Preview While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario
While the Women Only Wept This page intentionally left blank While the Women Only Wept Loyalist Refugee Women JANICE POTTER-MaCKINNON McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Buffalo ccMcGill-queen'sUniversitypress1993 ISBN 0-7735-0962-3 Legal deposit first quarter 1993 Bibliothèque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Social Science Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Publication has also been supported by the Canada Council through its block grant program. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Potter-MacKinnon, Janice, 1947- While the women only wept : Loyalist refugee women Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7735-0962-3 1. United Empire loyalists—Ontario—History. 2. Women refugees—Ontario—History. 3. Canada- History—1763-1791. 4. United States—History— Revolution, 1775-1783. I. Title. FC3070.L6P68 1993 971.3'01 C92-090730-X F1058.P68 1993 To my sons, Alan and William my parents, Bill and Linda and my mentor, George Rawlyk This page intentionally left blank Contents Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii 1 Eastern Ontario Loyalist Women 3 2 Fighting the War and Facing Harassment 31 3 Leaving Home 63 4 Exile 94 5 Resettlement and Redemption 128 Notes 161 Index 195 This page intentionally left blank Tables 1 Familial Composition of Loyalist Settlements in Eastern Ontario, 1784 11 2 Ethnic Composition of Eastern Ontario Loyalists 16 3 The Loyalist Settlement at Machiche 115 4 Loyalist Provisioning 117 5 Return of Loyalists Struck off the Provision List, 1 August 1781 120 6 Cataraqui and Associated Loyalists, 10 July 1784: A Sociological Comparison 135 7 Loyalist Women: The Case of the Mohawk 139
The list of books you might like
