tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1851560056585662692..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: A Look at Loyalist Ladies from Common-placeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-22681110843449306822013-08-21T22:28:38.262-05:002013-08-21T22:28:38.262-05:00I think the best surviving sources about Loyalists...I think the best surviving sources about Loyalists' wives are letters that those women sent to their relatives, thus keeping their feelings within the family. For example, Esther Sewall, wife of Massachusetts Attorney General Jonathan Sewall, didn’t want to leave America but felt she had to follow her husband and sons. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-31203005581125417132013-08-20T22:55:34.937-05:002013-08-20T22:55:34.937-05:00Thanks for the link.
Those Winslow women appear t...Thanks for <a href="http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/" rel="nofollow">the link</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/context/biographies/" rel="nofollow">Those Winslow women</a> appear to be from the generation after Sarah (Winslow) Deming—contemporaries of pre-war letter-writer Anna Green Winslow. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-67820080487508698472013-08-20T20:19:17.921-05:002013-08-20T20:19:17.921-05:00http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwome...http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/loyalistwomen/en/Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-30610722715272080282013-08-20T15:56:25.934-05:002013-08-20T15:56:25.934-05:00Sadly the voices of middle and lower class women o...Sadly the voices of middle and lower class women of the era are mostly silent, and would be even more likely to be so if their opinions differed from that of their Loyalist spouses. Do any survive? Possibly later memoirs?G. Lovelynoreply@blogger.com