Status Updates From Celia Garth

“(T)he redcoats - stole the bells of St. Michael’s…

“Their ships had been so crowded that there had nit been much room for loot. But they had taken all they could… fine furniture, silver… public property. And the bells.”

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“Godfrey told about the deserters, hundreds of them… They liked America and wanted to stay here.”

“First the king’s friends went aboard the ships: Tory families and their… servants, nine thousand men and women and children. They went under the protection of the king’s guns…”

“(A)t last, in December, 1782, a year and two months after Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, they left.”

“A month later, in September, three hundred British shops sailed into Charleston harbor. They had come to take the redcoats home.
“Not only redcoats, but as many Tories as wanted to go with them.”