[siebert] the AMERICAN LOYALISTS 7 



For UvS the plan of campaign of the summer of 1777, in which 

 Burgoyne, St. Léger, and Sir William Howe participated, is of in- 

 terest only in relation to the loyalists. The valley of the Hudson, by 

 which Burgoyne was to descend upon Albany, while Howe ascended 

 the river to the same point, was full of loyalists; and so also was the 

 valley of the Mohawk, by which St. Léger, marching from Oswego, 

 was expected to reach Albany at the right juncture. Burgoyne's 

 advance guard, sailing from Cumberland Bay on June 19, comprised 

 his loyalist or provincial troops. Among the troops that joined St. 

 Léger at Oswego were Sir John Johnson and one hundred and thirty- 

 three men of his corps from La Chine* and Colonel John Butler's 

 Tory Rangers from Fort Niagara.! Burgoyne, Johnson, and Sir Guy 

 Carleton all expected other bands of loyalists to rally to the support 

 of the advancing forces. Indeed, Carleton furnished General Bur- 

 goyne with blank commissions for the enlistment of two or more corps 

 of rangers, in addition to those already under his command; while 

 the latter sought to assure himself of these accessions, which he hoped 

 to gather in "from Hampshire, Skenesborough and Albany," by send- 

 ing emissaries into the colonies for the purpose. X Partly, no doubt, 

 as a result of these precautions, and partly of their own volition, numer- 

 ous provincials joined the British on their lines of march: we learn 

 of their attaching themselves to Burgoyne at Crown Point, Ticon- 

 deroga, Skenesborough, Ft. Edward, Ft. Miller, Saratoga, and other 

 places, and to Johnson's corps under St. Léger at Oswego and Ft. 

 Stanwix.* The testimony of these volunteers shows that while many 

 of them came in singly, others came in in larger or smaller groups. 

 Thus, Dr. James Stuart, of Ulster County, New York, joined St. Léger 

 at Oswego with fifty-two men,^ and Jacob Miller enlisted with fifty 

 under the same command at Ft. Stanwix.® Paul Heck of Camden, 

 Charlotte County, attached himself to Burgoyne at Crown Point 

 with a company of " thirty-nine farmers " ; ' Samuel Perry, of Saratoga, 

 appeared at Ticonderoga with forty-seven recruits;* and, at the same 

 point, Isaac Man, Jr., of Still Water, came in with fifty-seven;^ Daniel 

 Jones, of Charlotte County, presented himself at Skenesborough with 



*Johnson's Orderly Book, 10, n., 4, n., 82, n. 

 tibid., 2, n. 

 |Can. Arch., 1890, 86. 



^Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Ft. II., 923; Pt. I., 398, 462, 422, 

 409, 439, 444, 414, etc.; 400, 419, 440, etc. 



'Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I., 303. 



«Haldimand Papers, B. 214, p. 123. 



^Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I., 401. 



«Ibid., Pt. I., 45. 



«Ibid., 335. 



