Country Harbour Loyalist Society
Directors

Links to Relevant Websites

A United Empire Loyalist's Bibliography...
    http://www.uelac.org/bibcon.htm

The Black Loyalists Commander-in-Chief Sir Guy Carleton upheld British honour by
insisting that the runaways were not, in fact, American property at the time of the
Provincial Peace Agreement (1782) and that they must be allowed to evacuate with
other Loyalists.  The evacuees were carried to Bermuda, the West Indies, London,
and other British territories, but the largest group, all told about 3,500, located in
Nova Scotia in 1782-83.  They confidently expected a just reward for their loyalty
to the Crown... From the outset of their history in Canada, the free Blacks were locked
in poverty and economic dependence that could have been avoided had they received
the farms to which they were entitled as Loyalists...
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume6/248-251.htm

Dunmore's Proclamation

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation by Industry Canada
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/story/revolution/dunmore.htm

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, official text
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/documents/official/dunmore.htm

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation. 5 May 1774 West Virginia Division of Culture and History
    http://www.wvculture.org/history/dunmore/dunmoreproclamation.html

Text of Dunmore's Proclamation by the Tidewater Labor Support Committee
    http://www.wm.edu/so/tlsc/resources/sourcebook/dunmore.htm

Response of the Colony of Virginia "...this unlawful and wicked step..."
    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/blackloyalists/documents/official/virginia_response.htm

Virginia was England's oldest, wealthiest, and most populous North American colony.

Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore by WGBH Boston PBS
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h42.html

Image of contemporary printing of Dunmore's Proclamation by WGBH Boston PBS
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h42b.html

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore by Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Dunmore

Black Loyalist by Wikipedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Loyalist