I may be dum as a bocks of rox compaired to a smart gai like you, but I’ll warrant my ancestor who showed up in 1776 took a particular glee in making sure Tories left home and never came back, given what I read of his behavior after the war. Master ironmonger, county champion brawler, purveyor of fine oak-aged whiskey, and a hobby of beating men down in the street for insults. Not a nice guy at all. But the kind of guy you want when you want to purge a region of tyrant filth. Kinda like my Dad’s uncle who nuked Japan twice, and Dad obliterating a Vietnamese city. We’ve long since gotten out of the business of moonshining, and I don’t make a habit of beating a$$holes down, but I have inherited the family ability to hate the enemies of this country with an implacable desire to erase them from existence.
I don’t doubt that your ancestors did unpleasant things to Tories, the Delaware Indians, and a@@holes in the street. What I object to is characterizing the Tories as enthusiastic tyrant-lovers. It’s a classic mistake that leftards make, too, believing that anyone who fought for the Confederacy was doing it because they liked slavery, including Robert E. Lee, who was opposed to it, or anyone who fought in Vietnam took pleasure in napalming villages and bayonetting babies, etc. History’s not that simple.
King George was also known as “Farmer George,” and in addition to trying to increase the power of the Crown also tried to institute agricultural reforms, hence the name. He did not get the Colonies, and totally destroyed the good will of his subjects there, but the Tories outnumbered the rebels two to one, but the rebels out-pashioned the Tories despite their lesser numbers.
Furthermore, those who chose to rebel had among them “transports” from England, Ireland, Scotland, Corning and Wales for criminal activities and acts of rebellion, so they were inclined to object to anything the British Empire did to them.
The issues of taxation were over the debt left over from fighting the French and Indian War, much of which was owed to the Colonials, so they were all for paying off the debt, but objected to the manner of raising the money and their lack of say in it.
The Tories who were driven out went to Canada to escape persecution. I hope you don’t hold a grudge against Canadians, all of whom remained loyal subjects of King George. Did Shepherd and his pals annihilate the Delawares because they were Tories? They were also devout Christians and pacifists, which is why it was so easy to kill them off.