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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The loyalists of Medford. (search)
d and two; of clergymen, eighteen; of merchants and other persons who resided in Boston, two hundred and thirteen; of farmers, mechanics and traders, three hundred and eighty-two. Most of these found new homes in Halifax; some few went to England or to colonies belonging to Great Britain, but all had to commence life anew, exiled from their native land, and many of them stripped of the greater part of their property. The Americans now found time to formulate laws against the loyalists. Van Tyne says In Massachusetts a very perfect piece of machinery was at once invented for weeding out the Tories. The selectmen of each town were to warn a meeting of the inhabitants. Some person firmly attached to the American cause was to be chosen by ballot. The person thus elected was charged with the duty of laying before the courts evidence to prove the inimical character of any inhabitant whom the freeholders charged with favoring the British cause. The Selectmen were to make a list of me