New England Citizen Soldiers of the Revolutionary War
9781467142601
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Death in Early New England
9781467154789
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Death in early New England came early and often during those harsh first decades of settlement.
Epidemics, hunger, accidents and childbirth contributed to a heavy toll in New England. Disease in some cases erased entire families, and almost always affected the majority of individuals in the communities. For most families, death was still a private affair. Traditions brought over with European customs and others that were strictly American were eventually interwoven, and these ceremonies, tokens and portraits of remembrance became part of these rites and rituals of mourning. Other forms of remembrance were carved into stone with heart-wrung epitaphs, the cause of death and brief biographies. Burial sites themselves evolved from family plots and church graveyards to public, garden-like cemeteries.
Historian Robert A. Geake explores the development of rites and rituals of death in this New World.
Spies in Revolutionary Rhode Island
9781626197244
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Burning the Gaspee:
9781609494780
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%This book chronicles the history of the HMS Gaspee, a sloop in the British Royal Navy that was sent to patrol the waters of Narragansett Bay in 1772.
The Gaspee cracked down on smugglers and enforced British customs regulation, particularly the Stamp Act. The ship and her captain, William Duddington, were quickly hated by colonists for their campaign of brutality, harassment, and arbitrary enforcement. When the Gaspee ran around in shallow waters, while in pursuit of a colonist merchant ship, they took immediate action. The colonists, led by John Brown and other local notables, burned Gaspee and wounded her captain. This act of revolt preceded the Boston Tea Party by 18 months.