Much of the information we have on Massachusetts' Loyalists comes from claims that they filed in London for compensation for their losses, writes Wallace Brown in The King's Friends. Seventy-three per cent of these claimants were born in the American colony. One hundred and six of a known 302 were merchants. Sixty-four were royal officials, mostly customs men. Seventeen per cent were professional men; doctors, lawyers, Anglican clergy. Eleven per cent were farmers or landowners. One hundred fifty three served in the armed forces; mostly in the King's American Dragoons under Brigidier General Timothy Ruggles, and the Loyal North British Volunteers under Master-Muster General Edward Winslow. Fifty-nine of the claimants were Harvard graduates. One-fifth were college graduates; some from Yale, some from England, the others from Harvard. Two were schoolteachers. Forty-six---including nine clergy---were members of the Church of England. Six---including one minister, Mather Byles, Sr.---were Congregationalists. Five were Sandemanians. Most Tories had rebel relatives. "Nothing stands out so strongly and so poignantly in Loyalist writings as the author's affection for their native land, an affection often sharpened by galling English superciliousness," writes Wallace Brown. Genealogical evidence supports this. Scorned by the "real" British in Canada, many Massachusetts Loyalists, even after they had been granted land, and had established homes, churches, and schools there, quietly slipped back across the border into the newly-established independant country of the United States. Not to go home to Massachusetts because that would have been too risky. But, instead, settled in towns along the Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire borders.