How fantastic to have letters of one’s history during the Revolution!
If R2 were forced upon us, I would suspect the “loyalists” could expect the same treatment.
Absolutely, and now knowing my family "tradition" (we were completely unaware of it until quite recently when a distant female cousin, whom we do not know, got married and received as a wedding gift from her new father-in-law family trees done on both families by a really good genealogist), I'd do everything I possibly could to make sure I served in one of the units charged with hunting them down and apprehending them -- or bringing them to justice, as the case may be! I'd look at it as a great honor.