As the following snippet will show us, my 4X great grandfather Lodewick Sypher, the Loyalist, was treated badly! He spent 4 months confined to a jail and somehow managed to escape. We also learned that the Rebels confiscated &785.00 and his home all because Lodewick wouldn’t back the rebel principles.
In spite of losing his land and such a sum of money, Lodewick persevered and made considerable wealth for himself and his family in his new life in New Brunswick. So large were his holdings that he had over 2,000 acres on the northwest shore of Grand Lake, New Brunswick.
