[siebert] the AMERICAN LOYALISTS 15 



the Eighty-fourth Regiment. At the same time, the King directed 

 that each of the ten companies be augmented from fifty privates to 

 seventy, the augmentation to be levied in America.* Nine months 

 later, however, Governor Haldimand wrote to Germaine that he de- 

 spaired of Maclean's being able to accomplish this increase, and declared 

 that even Sir John Johnson, with all his endeavors, had not succeeded 

 in completing his first battalion.! 



Despite this discouraging repo^-t, the depleted ranks of the various 

 loyalist corps that had been in active service now began to fill with 

 the numbers of Tories arriving in Canada. The largest additions 

 appear to have been made by Johnson's Royal Greens t and Jessup's 

 Royal Americans,* but Maclean's first battalion of the Eighty-fourth 

 Regiment,^ McAlpin's American Volunteers,*^ Peters' Queen's Loyal 

 Rangers,' and doubtless other corps received accessions. But the 

 corps were not left to be augmented merely by volunteer enlistment. 

 Their commanding officers were soon given permission to send recruiting 

 parties to the colonies, and this method was constantly employed 

 during the remainder of the war. Its success will be sufficiently illus- 

 trated in connection with Jessup's corps. In July, 1780, according to 

 report, several loyalists were collecting men beyond the borders of 

 Canada.^ In the following December, Colonel Ebenezer Jessup, who 

 had already secured a considerable enrolment for his new regiment, 

 was authorized to complete it, and a month later to send men into the 

 colonies for that purpose.^ Major Edward Jessup, the brother of 

 Ebenezer, was urging a continuation of the practice in January, 1782, 

 and in the following May was able to report a complement of seven 

 companies of "more than 66 complete" (in each company, I suppose 

 he means), at the same time asking permission to form another with 

 John Waltermire as captain, John Ruiter as lieutenant, and Hermanus 

 Best as ensign.^" But evidently the organization of new companies 

 did not stop here, for in June the Major sent a letter to Quebec contain- 

 ing a list of proposed officers for two other companies. These were 

 filled during the next four months, a fact evidenced by another letter, 



*Haldimand Papers, B. 50, p. 80. 

 flbid., B. 54, pp. 281-28.3. 



^Second Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., Pt. I., 352, 357, 369, 370, 386, 419, 

 428, 439, 449, 459, 479, 575; Pt. IL, 940, 942, 1268. 



* Ibid., Pt. I, 329, 330, 337, 338, 383, 423, 451, 467; Pt. II, 923, 1002, 1006, 1091. 



«Ibid., Pt. I, 371; Pt. II, 953. 



«Ibid., Pt. 1,414,457. 



^Ibid., Pt. I, 328;Pt. II, 1268. 



«Can. Arch., 1888, 649. 



"Ibid., 692; 1887, 376. 



"Tbid., 1888, 699, 701. 



