If he meant real Americans. there were none of them fighting in the Continental Army. They were in the employ of the British Army. receiving rewards for the use of the tomahawk and the scalplug knife in trying to suppress the patriotic aspirations of an outraged people. If you mean by the American of thatperiod the immigrant of English ancestry. the record shows that fourfifths of all the inhabitants of America during the Continental period boasting English ancestry remained loyalists. and were the Tories of that period. Mr. President. in the third year of the War of Independence a parliamentary inquiry was -instituted by the Government of Great Britain. and among the witnesses called on the 16th of June. 1779. before.this committee sitting In London was Joseph Galloway. who was a native of thls country. and who stated: I have lived in America from my nativity to the month of October last. about 48 years. * * " I have lived in the Province of Maryland.
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Generalization about English immigrants being loyalists during the American Revolution.