Loyalists—called Tories by contemptuous patriots—wore long red ribbons as a token of fidelity to the Crown; some of the enslaved even bedecked their caps with scarlet rags. Refugees and returning residents were advised to formally record their allegiance on the rolls kept at Scott’s Tavern, near city hall, where they might find propaganda pamphlets like The Duty of Honoring the King. Engravers, clockmakers, cobblers, and blacksmiths set up their shops, happy to be paid in British pounds rather than chaffy Continental dollars. Milliners, glovers, perukers, and silversmiths were again swamped
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