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Article: The lost loyalists: The family of Dr. James Macnab.
- Article from:
- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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The Loyalist traditions of the Macnab family have had their place in the historical records of Upper Canada for over two hundred years. It was with dismay, therefore, that when I began to research this family, I learned that the Macnab's claim to Loyalist status had been unequivocally rejected in the histories of two writers, Jane Bennett Goddard and Mary Beacock Fryer. Over time, their version has been accepted as an integral part of the history of Belleville. (1) Their repudiation ignored all the readily available information in government archives, church records and early histories. Both writers dismissed the existence of Dr. James Macnab, his wife and two eldest sons, ...