Loyalist (American Revolution) - Notable Loyalists

Notable Loyalists

• Andrew Allen (1740–1825), Pennsylvanian Delegate to the Second Continental Congress
• William Allen (1704–1780), Chief Justice of the Province of Pennsylvania and former mayor of Philadelphia
• Samuel Aikens, Land grant dated 2 June 1785 Guysborough, Nova Scotia Canada
• Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, (Jan. 14, 1741 –June 14, 1801) commissioned about close of 1780, originally a Revolutionary general
• John Askin (1739–1815), trader and land speculator at Detroit

• Jonathan Boucher (1738–1804) Church of England minister in Maryland and Virginia and tutor to John Parke Custis, the stepson of George Washington
• William Augustus Bowles (1763–1805), also known as Estajoca, served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion and was a Maryland-born English adventurer and organizer of Native American attempts to create their own state outside of Euro-American control.
• Joseph Brant Thayendenegea (1743-1807), Mohawk war leader
• Thomas Brown (1750–1825), LTC commanding King's Rangers in Georgia
• Brigadier General Montfort Browne (fl. 1760–1780), commanding Prince of Wales American Regiment, 1777
• Colonel John Butler (1728-1796), commanding Butler's Rangers in the Mohawk Valley)
• Walter Butler (1752-1781), (Capt. in Butler's Rangers and son of John Butler)

• Benedict Swingate Calvert (ca. 1730 to 1732–1788), Judge of the Land Office, Maryland.
• Lt. Col. James Chalmers (d. 1806), Commander, First Battalion of Maryland Loyalists and author of anti-"Common Sense" pamphlet "Plain Truth" in 1776
• Col. Daniel Clary's Reg. Dutch Fork Militia, 96 Brigade, South Carolina 1773-1783
• Cheney Clow (1734-1788), a Delaware Plantation owner who had served earlier as a British Officer. He was involved in an act of hostility on the morning of April 18, 1778 which is known today as Cheney Clow's Rebellion.
• Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet (1759–1839), Royal Navy officer and member of a prominent Massachusetts Loyalist family
• Nathaniel Coffin, Receiver-General of HM Customs of Boston at the time of the Boston Tea Party
• Myles Cooper (1735–1785), Church of England clergyman President of King's College in New York City
• Brigadier General Robert Cunningham, in 1780 in command of a garrison in South Carolina

• Brigadier General Oliver DeLancey, commanding Delancey's Brigade 1776
• Abraham DePeyster, Officer of King's American Regiment
• Colonel Arent DePeyster (1736-1822), Officer of the 8th Regiment of Foot
• Colonel Andrew Deveaux (1758–1812), Colonel in South Carolina Loyalist militia.
• Doan Outlaws, fallen Pennsylvania Quaker family of British spies and bandits

• Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland (ca. 1741–1784), Provincial Governor of Maryland and last Royal Governor of Maryland.

• Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1693–1781), the only British peer resident in America
• William Franklin (ca. 1730–1813), Governor of New Jersey, son of Benjamin Franklin
• Rebecca Franks (1760-1823), prominent member of loyalist society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

• Joseph Galloway (1731–1803), Member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
• Micajah Ganey (1756-1830), Loyalist leader of the Pee Dee defeated by Francis Marion
• Simon Girty (1741-1818), British liaison with the Indians

• Reuben Hankinson, Ensign, First New Jersey Volunteers, September 1780
• Harpe brothers, North Carolina bandits and allegedly America's first serial killers
• John Howe (1754–1835), Printer of the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter
• Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), Last royal Governor of Massachusetts

• Edward Jessup (1735-1816), Colonel of Jessup's Loyal Rangers near Albany, New York and his two brothers Ebenezer and Joseph.
• Sir John Johnson (1741–1820), commander of the King's Royal Regiment of New York)
• Thomas Jones, historian

• Elisha Leavitt (1714-1790), Hingham, Massachusetts merchant and landowner
• Daniel Leonard
• John Lovell, Headmaster of the Boston Latin School
• Isaac Low (1735–1791), Delegate for New York to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and to New York Provincial Congress and first President of the New York Chamber of Commerce
• Gabriel Ludlow, New York merchant
• George Ludlow, New York judge

• William McCormick (businessman) (1742–1815), North Carolina merchant
• Colonel Alexander McKee (ca. 1735-1799), liaison between the British and the Shawnees
• James Moody, Lieutenant, First New Jersey Volunteers, March 1781

• John Randolph (1727–1784), King's Attorney for the Province of Virginia
• Colonel Beverley Robinson (1723-1792), Loyal American Regiment
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Rogers (1731–1795), commander of Rogers' Rangers/Queen's Rangers to 1777 (now The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)), innovator of ranging tactics

• Peggy Shippen (1760–1804), Philadelphia socialite and second wife of Benedict Arnold
• John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), commander of Queen's Rangers from 1777 (now The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)), and founding Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (today: The Province of Ontario, Canada)
• Brigadier Cortlandt Skinner (1727–1799), commanding New Jersey Volunteers, Sept. 4, 1776
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Stark (1724–1776), brother of John Stark, a major general in the Continental Army
• George H. Steuart (1700–1784), Planter, Judge of the Land Office, Maryland.

• John Taylor, Captain, First New Jersey Volunteers, January 1781
• Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814), royal official and scientist,

• Charles Woodmason (ca. 1720-1789) Church of England missionary in South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, diarist, poet, and corresponding member of the Royal Society of Arts, London.