ABSTRACT
The Scots Magazine for the years 1771–1775 contains a number of references to the emigration of these early times. The cause of this emigration they assign to be want of the means of livelihood at home through the opulent grasiers ingrossing the farms and turning them into pasture.” The Loyalists were drawn from almost all the original states, but Virginia and New York, the stronghold, provided the main body; Connecticut also furnished an important element; whilst Pennsylvania sent a slightly lesser number than Connecticut. The actual settlement of the Loyalists forms in itself an important chapter of colonial history, but the welcoming of the refugees from the south to the sparsely populated lands of Canada is to be remembering most for its effect on succeeding generations of emigrants. The majority of the settlers within that area were drawn from the Highlands of Scotland and from Ireland generally.
