In History, we drank. Tea, that is. Mr. Wilkins had us drink tea with sugar (loyalist) and without sugar (Patriot). Then we had to write a diary entry from the point of view of either a loyalist or a Patriot. I wrote as a loyalist who is a tax collector at Boston harbor in 1764. I chose to do this because I liked the loyalist tea better. I named my character James Dalton because my dad told me a story about our ancestors in the colonies with the last name Dalton, but his father and brother changed their last name to Daulton because the son was a loyalist. I had to write a reaction to the releasing of the Sugar Act.
Moses Dalton was a man in the colonies. He had two sons. When the Revolutionary War started, Moses' oldest son sided with the Tories. To differentiate himself from his son, he added a 'u' to his last name. The name is still in our family as Daulton. It is no longer our last name but my grandfather's, my father's, and now my brother's middle name.