Betsey Shelton's Sampler: A Loyalist's Daughter and the Intimate Legacies of the American Revolution

Abstract Beginning with a sampler she stitched as a young girl, this essay investigates the life of Betsey Shelton, the daughter of a Connecticut loyalist. It follows the Sheltons well beyond the immediate postwar years, to ponder how the mark of loyalism may have lingered—perhaps even affecting the lives of loyalists’ children.

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The New England Quarterly
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2025-09-01
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https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.a.4
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American Constitutional Law and Politics
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Betsey Shelton's Sampler: A Loyalist's Daughter and the Intimate Legacies of the American Revolution

Katherine Grandjean
The New England Quarterly
American Constitutional Law and Politics
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Betsey Shelton's Sampler: A Loyalist's Daughter and the Intimate Legacies of the American Revolution

Katherine Grandjean
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Abstract Beginning with a sampler she stitched as a young girl, this essay investigates the life of Betsey Shelton, the daughter of a Connecticut loyalist. It follows the Sheltons well beyond the immediate postwar years, to ponder how the mark of loyalism may have lingered—perhaps even affecting the lives of loyalists’ children.

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