Quote Originally Posted by MacWage
Is that "Colonials" AKA "PATRIOTS" and "Whigs" (also a contemporary Brit political party)?

"American" can apply to loyalists and patriots alike.
Yes, I meant Patriots or Colonials. I just couldn't think of the word at the time.
I too, had read, in How Scots Invented the Modern World, that during the Revolution, Scots living in the colonies remain loyal to the king. But Scots/Irish sided with the Colonists.