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Long Island Loyalists with Brendon Burns

January 19, 2024
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18th century wooden ships in New York harbor.
Disembarkation of the Troops at Gravesend Bay under the Command of General Collier, R.N. (August 22, 1776). Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924

No one sheds a tear for the British Loyalists of Long Island, those inhabitants who remained loyal to the crown during the American Revolution. But genealogist Brendon Burns has spent […]