Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Old-Time Refugees. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Refugees.

The last proceedings in the negotiation of a preliminary treaty of peace, in 1782, was in relation to the refugee American loyalists. The American commissioners consented to a compromise. They agreed that there should be no future confiscations or prosecutions of loyalists, that all pending prosecutions should be discontinued, and that congress should recommend to the several States and their legislatures, on behalf of the refugees, amnesty and the restitution of their confiscated property.