. John, New Brunswick. =W= Attacks
Wilmot and Fisher, 74-75; libel case arising out of, 75.

=Loyalist Corps.= =Hd= Formed, 253. =Dr= Practice of purchase of
commissions prevented in, 217; six disbanded and settled in Nova Scotia,
218.

=Loyalists, United Empire=. Name applied to the inhabitants of the
Thirteen Colonies who remained loyal to Great Britain, and rather than
submit to the new republic, migrated to Canada, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. No adequate provision having been made
for them by the mother country, in the treaty of Paris (1783), the
Loyalists were compelled in most cases to abandon all their worldly
possessions, and start life anew in the pioneer settlements of the
north. May 18, 1783, one great section of the refugees landed at the
mouth of the St. John River, and built a town, first named Parrtown,
later St. John. Other settlements were made, about the same time, at
various points on the coasts of Nova Scotia, as well as on St. John's
Island (Prince Edward Island). The bulk of the migration to what was
then Quebec (now Ontario and Quebec) took place in 1784, the eastern
Loyalists going north by way of Lake Champlain and the Richelieu, and
settling in the Eastern Townships; those of the West crossing the
boundary at Niagara and other points, and spreading throughout the
backbone of the future province of Upper Canada. =Index=: =B= Land
grants to their children fall into hands of speculators, 53. =S=
Settlement of Upper Canada by, 1; Carleton's interest in, 51; their
sufferings, 52, 54; claims for losses paid to, 55; settlements of,
during and after war, 56; pretenders among, 57; those from England not
generally good settlers, 58; assisted by government, 60; their
hardships, 61; their mode of life, 62-69; names of those who had joined
British side before treaty of 1783, registered, 70; clauses of treaty of
Paris respecting, not carried out by United States, 118; consequently
further emigration of to Canada, 119. =Sy= Constitutional Act an attempt
to placate, 68. =Bk= Rations issued to, from Fort Niagara, 58; Brock
(1804) observes and reports on comfortable condition of many of them,
65. =Dr= Emigration of, 64; commended to Carleton's special care, 194;
their pitiable condition, 196; twenty regiments of, in Carleton's
command, 202; their consternation on learning of proposed terms of
peace, 206; left unprotected by treaty of peace, 213; large number of,
embark for Nova Scotia