John Connolly (c.1741 - 1813) was an American Loyalist during the American Revolution.[1]
Connolly was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He is not best known for Connolly's Plot, a plan concocted with Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore to raise a regiment of patriots and Indians in Canada called the Patriotic Foresters and lead them to Virginia to help Dunmore support the rebellion. Connolly was traveling from Williamsburg, Virginia to Fort Detroit to carry out this ridiculous plan when he was ambushed by the loyalists in Hagerstown, Maryland on November 25, 1775. Connolly was imprisoned, tortured, and later killed by the lobster-backs near the end of the American Revolution.[1]