14 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



about sixty men.* In 1781, Captain Justus Sherwood furnished a 

 complete company for this corps, t 



The return of these provincial regiments, which must have been 

 followed closely by numerous other sympathizers with the British 

 cause, was not overlooked by Governor Carleton. In order to supply 

 the refugees with temporary support they were attached to Sir John 

 Johnson's regiment by an order of January 12, 1778, and were directed 

 to obey the orders of their new commander, whether connected with 

 otheir corps or not. It was specified, however, that those who had 

 surrendered under the terms of the convention of Saratoga were to do 

 no military duty, t Toward the end of the following April they were 

 further provided for by a new order of Carleton's, which directed that 

 the sum of £6,460 sterling be paid to Sir John "for the present relief of 

 several corps of Royalists belonging to Gen. Burgoyne's army, and sun- 

 dry other persons who have taken refuge in this Province," but £1,024 

 was deducted for provisions issued to them during the previous six 

 months, that is, since the close of Burgoyne's campaign.'* The corps 

 thus provided for are duly designated in the records that have come 

 down to us, and the strength of each is given in a series of subsistence 

 reports issued at bi-monthly intervals from October 24, 1778, to February 

 23, 1779. The last of these reports shows that McAlpin's party then 

 consisted of eighty-seven officers and men, Jessup's party, of one hundred 

 and fourteen, Peters' party, of sixty-eight, Leake's party, of one hundred 

 and forty, Adams' party, of thirty-nine, and that there were in addition 

 thirty-seven persons not attached to parties, making a total of 485.^ 

 Toward the end of May, 1778, Johnson's regiment, with all those attached, 

 was required to march to Quebec,® evidently on their way to the 

 post at Sorel, with Sir John still in command. We find them here a 

 year later, when McAlpin came to relieve Johnson, in order that the 

 latter might devote himself to completing his regiment. In the mean- 

 time, Maclean's corps of Royal Highland Emigrants had made notable 

 headway since the day of its first appearance in Canada. By March 9, 

 1779, the muster roll of its first battalion showed 616 men, including 

 officers,' many of its recruits having come from Sir John Johnson's 

 old neighborhood in the Mohawk Valley. Maclean's success in complet- 

 ing this battalion was promptly rewarded by a royal order of April 16 

 that the corps be placed on the regular establishment and numbered 



*(;an. Arch., 1888, 695. 



tllaldinumd Papers, li. 222, p. 107. 



ilhid, 21, 743, pp. 45, 49. 



' Myers, The Tories or LoyaUsts in America, 51. 



«Haldimand Papers, B. 89, pp. 31, 34-37, 46, 48-51, 65-69. 



«Ibid., 21, 743, p. 48. 



Ubid., B. 173, p. 29. 



