Full content to be developed

• Bates was a farmer from Connecticut, joined the Loyalist cause as a teenager
• Subject to violence from Patriots
• Left from New York to Canada in the spring fleet of 1783
• An example of a white, working class Loyalist from near NYC who was unable or unwilling to return home at the end of the Revolution
• Posthumous memoir available: https://archive.org/details/cihm_03001/page/n11/mode/2up