Title: The Tories of the upper Ohio
Description: This is a short paper, published as a booklet. Other writers have noted that the Revolution was different in the west in that there was not a civil war there between patriots and loyalists. There were too few loyalists. This paper is about specific prominent loyalists in the west, their efforts to influence events on behalf of the British, and how they were generally forced to flee American towns early in the war.
Subjects: American loyalists, History, Revolutionary War
Places: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Old Northwest
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783