John Connolly, a Tory of the Revolution.

The article presents a biography of John Connolly, a British Loyalist during the U.S. Revolutionary War. Focus is given to his military career in the British Army leading up to and during the Revolution. Details are given describing Connolly's involvements with land ownership and border disputes between Virginia and Pennsylvania, his imprisonment by the Colonial government during the war, and his eventual migration into the western frontier of Kentucky afterward.