The Family & Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College, Hanceville, has become one of the few libraries in the world to have microfilm of the claims of Americans who sided with the British during the American Revolution.
Some one third of the new nation’s population, about the same number who became Patriots, were Loyalists and many of them gave their lives fighting for their country—Colonial America. Many of the king’s men returned to the United States and their millions of descendents have played major roles in the building of this country.
Their thousands of claims, the originals of which are today in the National Archives of Great Britain in London, also contain information on tens of thousands of other people who lived in the Thirteen Colonies before 1776, many of whom would join the American cause or never left the country.
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