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loyalists" were still residing in Vermont, and it was said that no objection 

 was made to their presence there.* 



As for Sir John Johnson's "Royal Greens/' they had no recourse 

 but flight after St. Leger's disastrous attack on Ft. Stanwix on August 

 3 and 4, 1777. Contrary to the confident expectations of Sir John, 

 the Mohawk Valley loyalists did not flock to his standards to any great 

 extent, and when consternation struck St. Leger's camp, Johnston's 

 corps fled with the rest. Such part of it as was left intact after the 

 precipitate retreat accompanied their leaders back to Oswego and thence 

 to Montreal. Doubtless, the others took their course through the woods 

 to the same point, or to La Chine, whence they had started on the 

 expedition.! 



Not only Johnson's and Mackay's corps, but also Peters', Jessup's, 

 McAlpin's, Leake's, and Adams' companies made their way to Canada 

 in greater or less numbers. By December 1, 1777, Captain Mackay 

 was at Montreal, whence he made a return of the loyalists there, explain- 

 ing that they were "divided into four corps." j Four and a half months 

 later, he was at Chateauguay in the angle between the St. Lawrence and 

 the northern boundary of New York with more than seventy of his 

 men.^ At the close of January, 1778, Lieutenant Colonel Peters was 

 at La Chine with ninety-four of the Queen's Loyal Rangers.'^ Captain 

 McAlpin's force in Canada at this time was seventy-eight.^ With 

 forty of these he was sent to Sorel in May, 1779, to succeed Sir John 

 Johnson in the command of several corps of loyalists at that post. 

 Thence he wrote to Haldimand that he was forming a company for 

 Captain Robert Leake, and that one of the Jessups had just left for the 

 River St. Francis with thirty men. According to orders, Leake's new 

 company was to consist of eighty men, but by June 3 it had an enrol- 

 ment of one hundred and forty-six.'' Toward the close of August, 

 1778, Captain William Fraser and his company of forty rangers were at 

 the Isle aux Noix. In the following October a blockhouse was estab- 

 lished at Yamaska, a few miles east of Sorel. Here Fraser and his 

 men were placed as a garrison.^ Early in September, 1780, Ebenezer 

 Jessup was at Quebec prosecuting a plan to raise a new regiment — the 

 King's Royal Americans — which by the following December numbered 



*.-'ec nd Report, Bureau oi Archives, Ont., Ft. I, 3SS, 89. 



fStone, Burgoyne's Campaign, 219; Sir John Johnson's Orderly Book, 

 97, 98, n. 



$Can. Arch., 1886, 528. 



^Haldimand Papers, B. 167, pp. 172, 173. 



^Ibid., 159. 



"Ibid., 107. 



^Can. Arch., 1888, 661, 684; 1887, 442. 



* Haldimand Papers, B. 214, p. 55. 



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