James Chalmers was a Loyalist officer and pamphleteer in the American Revolution.
Born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland, Chalmers was an ambitious military strategist after the War of Independence, who immigrated to America in 1760 "with several black slaves and 10,000 British pounds in his pocket,"[citation needed] settling in Kent County and becoming "one of the Eastern Shore's most prominent landowners."[1]