<span>About 100,000 Loyalists left the country, including William Franklin, the son of Benjamin, and John Singleton Copley, the greatest American painter of the period. Most settled in Canada. Some eventually returned, although several state governments excluded the Loyalists from holding public office. In the decades after the Revolution, Americans preferred to forget about the Loyalists. Apart from Copley, the Loyalists became nonpersons in American history.</span>
<span>The Paris Peace Treaty had brought the restoration of property to Loyalists as approved by Congress. For example, </span><span>heirs of William Penn in Pennsylvania and those of George Calvert in Maryland received good settlements. </span><span>In the Carolinas, where enmity between rebels and Loyalists was especially strong, few of the latter regained their property. </span>In New York and the Carolinas, the confiscations from Loyalists resulted in something of a social revolution as large estates were parceled out to yeoman farmers.
