Did Loyalists ever tar and feather patriots?

Factual Questions
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Hi
Did Loyalists ever tar and feather patriots? I haven’t read of any cases of it. If the loyalists never engaged in it, why not?
I look forward to your feedback.

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While not answering your question

may have some information worth following in the footnotes. I am not aware of a specific case but I do believe some of the Loyalist centers/towns in New England to have “heavily oppressed” anyone thought to have Patriot leanings.

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I think it’s reasonable to say people on both sides of the early revolution got attacked by various methods.

This article mentions several attacks. I’ll quote just one of them.

Interesting that so many people assume roofing tar is the stuff they used to tar & feather. Pouring that on somebody would give potentially lethal burns. Roofing tar is hotter than boiling water.

This article claims pine tar is what they used and it wasn’t lethally hot. Tar & feathering was uncomfortable and humiliating but it didn’t kill anybody.

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Is this scene a bit exaggerated ? It does seem to be painful. I’ve read that lard and vegetable oil could remove it. How was it usually removed in those days?
John Adams tarred and feathered scene

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I remember that scene well from the miniseries.

It seems pretty realistic to me. The real incident may have been even more violent. The crowd probably beat up the guy first.

Angry crowds are notoriously unpredictable and violent. Once they get started anything can happen. A person can easily be beat and stomped to death.

The tar & feathering gave the crowd something else to do and ended the beating . It might have saved lives.

Stoning is even worse and often lethal.

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Realistic for an event that never happened. There is no record of Adams and Hancock witnessing a tar and feathering (which were rare to begin with) and both were opposed to mob violence.