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Bit with two references removed from United Empire Loyalists Reasons for their movement north included loyalty to King George III and the British Empire, a rejection of the republican ideals of the American Revolution, an offer of free land grants, plus food and building materials, in British North America. Many were prominent Americans whose ancestors had originally settled in the early 17th century, while a portion were recent settlers in the Thirteen Colonies with few economic or social ties. Many had their property confiscated by the revolutionaries.