Stephen Kimber

Selected website links for Loyalists and Layabouts

Loyalists

There is a new Loyalist Research Network for those interested in the subject:

http://www.loyalistresearchnet.org/

An extensive collection of genealogy resources on Loyalists

• http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/loyalist/resources/index.htm

Shelburne

The "Loyalist Loyalist Link: The Forest and The Sea" offers a virtual, visual tour of images from Shelburne’s history

• www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000170&rd=78895&hs=0

Benjamin Marston

One of the key figures in Loyalists and Layabouts, Marston left a marvelously detailed and often acerbic diary of his life before, during and after the founding of Shelburne.

• http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/marston/

Here is a link to one of a number of scholarly essays on Martson and his contribution to our knowledge of loyalist history.

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/y/Carl-W-Stymiest/FILE/0005page.html

Marston was related to the Winslow clan, one of the most important of the New England Loyalist families to emigrate to Nova Scotia after the revolution.

• http://www.lib.unb.ca/winslow/index.html

Black Loyalists

The story of the Black Loyalists is well told in this Canadian Digital Collection

• http://www.blackloyalist.com/canadiandigitalcollection/index.htm

Information on James Walker, the pre-eminent historian on Black Loyalists

• http://131.104.197.22/sites/triu2/?page_id=133

Gideon White

This brief biography is from blupete, an amateur historian’s very good collection of Nova Scotia history.

• http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/White.htm