Loyalists were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies of British America who remained loyal to the British crown. The term was initially coined in 1774 when political tensions rose before the outbreak of
Copy of Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783 by Benjamin West, depicting Britannia taking in exiled Loyalists
A jury finding from Kentucky County, Virginia, in July 1780, confiscating lands of two men adjudged to be British subjects. Daniel Boone was listed as a member of the jury.