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Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429005874 |
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Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429005866 |
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Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258266110 |
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Author | : Harold B. Gill |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461632838 |
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The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one. Arriving in Virginia during the momentous month of May 1774, Cresswell set out to seek his fortune as a farmer in the newer settlements in northwest Virginia. Soon the fortunes of Revolution overwhelmed him and his plans to begin a new life in America. For the next three years, Cresswell struggled to sustain his mission. Time was against him as his combatants on both sides, with increasingly ominous insistence, sought for and demanded his allegiance. This he never ceded. The very act of keeping a journal became dangerous. His written account of his attempt to sustain his liberty has long been a significant window into the turbulence of the Revolution. In offering this singular view of liberty during the Revolution, Nicholas Cresswell stood and still stands as a rebuke to subsequent historians of the Revolution, patriot leaning or loyalist leaning, who had difficulty in accommodating this journal into their generalized views of causation and justification. As a consequence, much of Cresswell's real perspectives were either lost or misinformed. In 1928, an edition of Cresswell's journal was published, but it was expurgated and not annotated. This edition of the Cresswell journal is the first unexpurgated and annotated edition ever published. As such, it offers new light for the better illumination of the turbulent world of revolutionary politics and personalities.
Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2021-01-17 |
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An Englishman in his early twenties, Nicholas Cresswell travelled widely in the colonies from 1774 to 1777. He kept a journal of his experiences, along with comments on political and social issues. He took notes on the places he visited and on the customs of their inhabitants. He also recorded the growth of the spirit of rebellion, which, in his view, was destroying America.
Author | : Nicholas CRESSWELL |
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Release | : 1925 |
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Download The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777. With a Foreword by Samuel Thornely. With Plates, Including a Portrait. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Justin Roberts |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107025850 |
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This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.
Author | : Frances Hunter |
Publisher | : Blind Rabbit Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Lewis and Clark Expedition |
ISBN | : 0977763609 |
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La Louisiane--a land of riches beyond imagining. Whoever controls the vast domain along the Mississippi River will decide the fate of the North American continent. When young French diplomat Citizen Genet arrives in America, he's determined to wrest Louisiana away from Spain and win it back for France--even if it means global war. Caught up this astonishing scheme are George Rogers Clark, the washed-up hero of the Revolution and unlikely commander of Genet's renegade force; his beautiful sister Fanny, who risks her own sanity to save her brother's soul; General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who never imagined he'd find the country's deadliest enemy inside his own army; and two young soldiers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who dream of claiming the Western territory in the name of the United States--only to become the pawns of those who seek to destroy it. From the frontier forts of Ohio to the elegant halls of Philadelphia, the virgin forests of Kentucky to the mansions of Natchez, Frances Hunter has written a page-turning tale of ambition, intrigue, and the birth of a legendary American friendship--in a time when America was fighting to survive.
Author | : Nicholas Cresswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780739128473 |
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From 1774 until mid-1777, Nicholas Cresswell, a young English farmer bent on starting a new life in northwestern Virginia, kept a journal that serves as a distinctive window into the turbulent politics of the American Revolution. This modern edition is unexpurgated and fully annotated with an introduction that provides a detailed historical context for the work.