A lot of people don’t know this but many loyalists were so butthurt about America gaining independence from Britain that they moved to British occupied regions of Canada and then reluctantly back to America when they realized Canada was cold and and vast and scary or the American economy seemed to be doing okay. This complicates a lot of New England genealogy in particular. They were like “WE’RE BRITISH! We are going to occupy indigenous land ELSEWHERE!” “…fuck, never mind, guess not.”
















