Patience Rose, teen loyalist: a not-forgotten heroine of
Saratoga.What was your female Loyalist loyalist American
colonist loyal to Britain in the American Revolution. About one-
third of American colonists were loyalists, including
officeholders who served the British crown, large landholders,
wealthy merchants, Anglican clergy and their parishioners, and
Quakers. ancestor doing during the American Revolution American
Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on
the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from
Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called
the American War of Independence. ? It could be an adult of any
age who did something to aid the troops, but what about one who
was yet in her teens? Patience Rose, daughter of Mathias Rose
Sr. of Saratoga, is an example of one who showed her loyalty
before being forced to leave America for good. She was about age
fifteen when Rebel forces confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v.
con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·c