Loyalists leaving New York for Nova Scotia
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Title
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Loyalists leaving New York for Nova Scotia
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Description
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Account from a Philadelphia newspaper regarding loyalists fleeing New York and heading to Nova Scotia, Canada, after the American victory in the Revolutionary War. Discriminated against and persecuted for their loyalty to the Crown, many New York loyalists chose to leave the newly established United States and create new lives for themselves in a British controlled area, rather than remain in a country hostile to them.
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Creator
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Freeman's Journal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Date
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January 29, 1783
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Type
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Newspaper
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Format
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PNG
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Subject
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New York, loyalism, tories, evacuation
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Temporal Coverage
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18th century
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Rights Holder
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NewsBank and/or American Antiquarian Society.
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Rights
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Fair Use
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transcription
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FISH-KILL, January 25,
We learn that an embarkation has lately taken place at New-York, part of which is said consist of loyalists, who are destined for the frozen desarts (deserts) of Nova Scotia, there to drag out the residue of a life more intolerable than death.
It is said, that many of the most noted and zealous tories in New-York, have packed up their effects, in order to be ready, at the shortest notice, to flee the justly incensed vengeance of those who have forsaken their habitations, and have espoused and supported the caule (call) of freedom, in defiance of the most strenuous-efforts of the tyrant of Britain and his lawless, hostile bands.
