James chalmers loyalist biography of william hill
James chalmers loyalist biography of william hill
James chalmers plain truth...
James Chalmers (loyalist)
Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution
James Chalmers was a Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution.
Born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, Chalmers was an ambitious military strategist after the War of Independence, who immigrated to America in "with several black slaves and 10, British pounds in his pocket,"[citation needed] settling in Kent County and becoming "one of the Eastern Shore's most prominent landowners."[1]
American Revolution
In he authored a pamphlet entitled Plain Truth, a rebuke of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, going under the pen name "Candidus."[2][3]
After conditions grew intolerable in his home in Chestertown, Maryland, with a mob chasing him after publishing Plain Truth, Chalmers accompanied the British Army under General Sir William Howe up the Chesapeake Bay as it made its way to Philadelphia in August [4][5]
After the