They were barred from holding office or voting in several states until (*) 1814, though laws confiscating their property were abrogated by the Treaty of Paris.
A prominent leader of these people was Thomas Fletchall, who attacked the town of Ninety-Six. A law regarding these people was at the start of the Supreme Court case Martin v. Hunter's Lessee. The center of this group was in New York, though they also were prominent in the South. Anglican clergymen and members of pacifist sects were frequently found among their ranks. They were barred from holding office or voting in several states until (*) 1814, though laws confiscating their property were abrogated by the Treaty of Paris. These people were given compensation when they arrived in Canada, after about a hundred thousand of them went into exile from March of 1776 onward. For 10 points, name these colonists who sided with the British during the American Revolution.
A prominent leader of these people was Thomas Fletchall, who attacked the town of Ninety-Six.
Loyalists [or Tories]