Daniel McAlpin was a retired, elderly British army captain of the 60th Royal American Regiment who had become a major landholder, in Stillwater, Province of New York.

The corps numbered some 184 men and officers and was engaged largely in the "batteau service" and defending supply lines, during the Saratoga Campaign.

Following the Battle of Freeman's Farm, a portion of Daniel McAlpin's men were drafted into British regiments to help offset heavy casualties.

[1] McAlpin was replaced by Major John Nairne,[4] of the 84th Regiment of Foot or "Royal Highland Emigrants", who was ordered to form the rather loose collection of men into formal companies.

Following the war the Loyal Rangers, including former American Volunteers, were settled in the South East of what is now the Province of Ontario, in Ernestown, Edwardsburgh, Augusta, and Elizabethtown townships.