Black Loyalist

The first page of this tithable list is missing, but it is assumed to relate to the South Side of Tanners Creek in 1757.

• John Murray, Lord Dunmore -

  John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1732 – 25 February 1809), was the  colonial governor of Virginia at the outbreak of the American Revolution.

• The campaign for Philadelphia -

  On July 23 1777 the British fleet left from Sandy Hook, New York carrying more than 15,000 soldiers and headed into the Atlantic before turning south to enter the Chesapeake in August and sail up the bay to its northern extremity to set the troops ashore at the head of the Elk River on August 25.

• Treaty of Paris -

  In November 1782 a provisional peace treaty was hammered out between the British and the Americans in Paris.

• Evacuation of New York -

  In April 1783 the first evacuation fleet left for Nova Scotia. A week later  the British Commander, Sir Guy Carleton, sailed up the Hudson River to Orangetown for a conference with General Washington to discuss the evacuation. As the victorious commander, Washington opened the meeting by reiterating the resolution of Congress regarding “the delivery of all Negroes and other property.”