To secure a certificate the holder must forswear allegiance to the King and promise support to the State at war with him.

An unguarded word even about the value in gold of the continental dollar might lead to the adding of the speaker's name to the list of the proscribed.

Legislatures passed bills denouncing Loyalists.

The names in Massachusetts read like a list of the leading families of New England.

The "Black List" of Pennsylvania contained four hundred and ninety names of Loyalists charged with treason, and Philadelphia had the grim experience of seeing two Loyalists led to the scaffold with ropes around their necks and hanged.
Most of the persecuted Loyalists lost all their property and remained exiles from their former homes.