[171] Wilmot’s account of the claimants and of the money awarded is most confusing. The figures are taken from the last Appendix, No. IX, which says the ‘claims including those in Nova Scotia and Canada’ were 5,072. It is difficult to reconcile these figures with those given on pp. 90-1 of the book, unless in the latter case the claims made in Canada are omitted.
[172] See the Annual Register for 1783, p. 262.
[173] Printed in Mr. Brymner’s Report on the Archives of Canada for the year 1884, Note C, pp. xl, xli.
[174] See The American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine. Boston, 1847, Historical Essay, p. 62, note.
[175] See Shortt and Doughty, p. 495, note.
[176] Shortt and Doughty, pp. 494-5.
[177] In the volume for 1891 of Mr. Brymner’s Report on Canadian Archives, p. 17, the ‘Return of Disbanded Troops and Loyalists settled upon the King’s Lands in the Province of Quebec in the year 1784’ is given as 5,628, including women, children, and servants. The province of Quebec at this time included both Lower and Upper Canada.
[178] Census of Canada for 1871, vol. iv; Censuses of Canada, pp. xxxviii-xlii. See also p. 238, note below.
[179] vol. vii, p. 223.
[180] Mr. Van Tyne, The Loyalists in the American Revolution, p. 299.