The majority of Loyalists fought in the southern and middle colonies and few were from the north.

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware formed the middle colonies.

Starting in about 1680, when Pennsylvania was founded, many more settlers arrived in the middle colonies.

Thus, by mid-century, most colonial farming was a commercial venture, although subsistence agriculture continued to exist in New England and the middle colonies.

Like the other middle colonies, the Lower Counties on the Delaware initially showed little enthusiasm for a break with Britain.

Tory resistance was intensified in the middle colonies and New England, even as the chances of British victory ebbed away.

This happened especially in New England and the southern colonies, which unlike the middle colonies, were frequently at war.

In colonial times its culture became concentrated in the middle colonies, which became known as the "bread colonies."

Those who have wanted to defend the use of bills of credit in the colonies have focused on the middle colonies, where inflation was practically nonexistent.