the revolutionists that perverted this exasperating difference into another ‘intolerable wrong.’  Washington was above such meaner measures.  But when he said the Loyalists were only fit for suicide, and when Adams, another future president, said they ought to be hanged, it is little wonder that lesser men thought the time had come for legal looting.  Those Loyalists who best understood the temper of their late fellow-countrymen left at once.  They were right.  Even to be a woman was no protection against confiscation in the case of Mary Phillips, sister-in-law to Beverley Robinson, a well-known Loyalist who settled in New Brunswick after the Revolution.  Her case was not nearly so hard as many another.  But her historic love-affair makes it the most romantic.  Eight-and-twenty years before this General Braddock had marched to death and defeat beside the Monongahela with two handsome and gallant young aides-de-camp, Washington and Morris.  Both fell in love with bewitching Mary Phillips.  But, while Washington left her fancy-free, Morris won her heart and hand.  Now that the strife was no longer against a foreign foe but between two British parties, the former aides-de-camp found themselves rivals in arms as well as love; for Colonel Morris was Carleton’s right-hand man in all that concerned the Loyalists, being the official head of the department of Claims and Succour: 

Morris, Morgan, and Carleton were the three busiest men in New York.  Forty thick manuscript volumes still show Maurice Morgan’s assiduous work as Carleton’s confidential secretary.  But Morris had the more heart-breaking duty of the three, with no relief, day after sorrow-laden day, from the anguishing appeals of Loyalist widows, orphans, and other ruined refugees.  No sooner had the dire news arrived that peace had been made with the Congress, and that each of the thirteen United States was free to show uncovenanted mercies towards its own Loyalists, than the exodus began.  Five thousand five hundred and ninety-three Loyalists sailed for Halifax in the first convoy on the 17th of April with a strong recommendation from Carleton to Governor Parr of Nova Scotia.  ’Many of these are of the first families and born to the fairest possessions.  I therefore beg that you will have them properly considered.’  Shipping was scarce; for the hostility of the whole foreign naval world had made enormous demands on the British navy and mercantile marine.  So six thousand Loyalists had to march overland to join Carleton’s vessels at New York, some of them from as far south as Charlottesville, Virginia.  They were carefully shepherded by Colonel Alured Clarke, of whom we shall hear again.