reality a loyal subject
whose reputation pays the penalty of a losing cause. The others are
all well-known loyalists of Detroit.

Mrs. La Force's Petition to Haldimand is still extant. _Canadian
Archives_, B. 217, p. 116. Her name is included in the list of women
and children remaining at Montreal, the list being dated Quebec,
September 11, 1782, and she being given as of Virginia and taken June
26, 1780.

[22] The correspondence, &c., is in the _Canadian Archives_, B. 129,
p. 221, 225; B. 159, p. 152; B. 183, p. 284. A Negro taken "horse
hunting" by a party of Puttewatamies in the West is mentioned August
16, 1782, in B. 123, p. 290. He belonged to Epharaim Hart from whom he
deserted and was taken about 20 miles up Cross Creek. I copy from a
Manuscript of Powell's in my possession which I have compared with a
photostate copy of a manuscript in the _Canadian Archives_.

[23] The western part of Pennsylvania is meant. This region was
seething with conflicts on a small scale between the Loyalists and the
Republicans. The Indians for the most part took the side of the
former.

[24] In what is now the Province of Quebec.

[25] In 1780 Germain instructed Haldimand that "all prisoners from
revolted Provinces are committed as guilty of high treason not as
prisoners of war" (_Canadian Archives_, B. 59, p. 54) but a change
soon took place and after some intermediate stages, Shelburne, the
Home Secretary, in April, 1782, instructed Haldimand that all American
prisoners were to be held for exchange. _Canadian Archives_, B. 50, p.
164.

[26] By the Ordinance of March 29, 1777, 17 George III, c. 9, the
guinea was declared equivalent to L1.3.4, Quebec Currency: this would
make the price of the girl, $42.60. See note 30 post. It is to be
presumed that Powell was repaid. He nowhere complains that he was not
as he certainly would have done if he had cause to do so.

Negroes were frequently arriving in the colony and seeking aid and
subsistence. For example, we find Thomas Scott, J. P., reporting
Thursday, May 17, 1781: "The Bearer John Jacob a Negro man just
arrived from Montreal has applied to me for relief in his case as set
forth in the Annexed Paper. But as I apprehend that can only be given
him by His Excellency the Governor I respectfully recommend him to His
Excellency's notice." _Canadian Archives_, B. 100, p. 72.

[27] See _Canadian Archives_, B. 130, pp. 33, 34.

[28] It is more than doubtful that the prohibition