sentences:  During the American Revolutionary War, Charlottetown was raided in 1775 by a pair of US-employed privateers.Two armed pirate schooners, Franklin and Hancock, from Beverly, Massachusetts, made prisoner of the acting Governor Phillips Callbeck, and Justice of the Peace, and Surveyor-General Thomas Wright, at Charlottetown, on advice given them by some Pictou residents after they had taken eight fishing vessels in the Gut of Canso.During and after the war, the colony's efforts to attract exiled Loyalist refugees from the rebellious US colonies met with some success.