The name Moses Kirkland means little today, except to a handful of people with extensive knowledge of the American Revolution. A militia leader turned Loyalist, like many of his Tory peers, Kirkland appears in the record not as an individual who supported a cause he deemed worthy, but as a caricature—a villain whose lack of scruples easily slid into immorality and evil. But as Jim Piecuch reveals in The Revolutionary War Odyssey of Moses Kirkland, the lives of others are far more complex than they seem.
