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"With codewords and secret signals perfected, best friends Rachel and Joon are ready to spend their summer practicing spycraft, especially if they can uncover secrets like the one Joon's parents have been keeping, that his family is about to move out of town. When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna "Nancy" Smith Strong, according to local Long Island legend, the only female member of George Washington's famed Culper Spy Ring, they think they've hit the jackpot. Then they discover Nancy left a coded message in the ring! Decoding her message leads to another cryptic clue, and then another, and soon Rachel and Joon are racing to decipher a series of puzzles that must surely lead to hidden treasure! But can they solve the final mystery before Joon's moving day? And just what did the centuries-old spy hide away, and why?"--

A revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father- the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.

New narratives on the lived experience of the Revolutionary War through five case studies exploring the spectrum of loyalist experiences in Revolutionary Philadelphia.

By: Sara Sullivan Ervin, Pub. 1949, reprinted 2023, 238 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-143-2.This work contains the names of the men and women who rendered Revolutionary service in South Carolina, with proof collected from various sources and brought together for the first time by a competent compiler. Heading the list of contents is the South Carolina Pension Roll. Also included are the following: Names of Officers, Continental Establishment; Medical Men of the American Revolution; Men of General Sumter's Brigade; Revolutionary Prisoners; South Carolina Women of the Revolution; Ancestral Roll of the S.C.D.A.R.; Additional Rolls of Military Companies; Soldiers of Other States; and Genealogies of Families Descended from S.C. Revolutionary Soldiers. The abstracts of Laurens County wills run forty pages, name thousands of persons, and are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the testator.

By: Katherine K. White, Pub. 1924, reprinted 2023, 272 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-131-9. This book is about the men who participated in the battle of King's Mountain. It was compiled from records of Southwest Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with letters, documents, and additional material taken from the Lyman Draper Collection. The first section of the book is a miscellany of court records of Watauga, Washington County, North Carolina (later Tennessee), 1778-1782, and contains, in addition, militia rosters for the years 1777 and 1779 and pension declarations filed by King's Mountain participants and their heirs. Section Two are biographical sketches of these soldiers, approximately 1,000 and arranged in alphabetical order.

By: Wilbur Henry Siebert, Pub. 1929, reprinted 2023, 436 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-130-2. At the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, Florida was ceded back to Spain for its involvement during American Independence. This volume (volume #2) represents the documents of those Loyalists who were seeking claims for lost lands and property of the East Florida Claimants that were filed for the years 1774-1785. In these records, the reader will find wealth of items concerning grants and transfers of land, the arrival of settlements with slaves, the clearing of plantations and building of settlements, the cultivation of various crops such as rice and Indian corn, the setting out of groves of fruit trees, the manufacture of indigo, turpentine, tar and pitch. The bulk of these claims were filed in London, England while others were filed from the Bahamas; Jamaica; the Dominica and Bermuda. This book covers the examination of these claims/rewards along with the memorials & schedules. The author has also included lists of Refugees located in the Bahamas, Jamaica and England along with biographical notices on numerous claimants.

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail--an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, and a chase like no other.'From what is it they flee?'He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, They killed the King.1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control.But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the fifty-nine men who signed the king's death warrant and participated in his execution have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. Some of the Roundheads, including Oliver Cromwell, are already dead. Others have been captured, hung, drawn, and quartered. A few are imprisoned for life. But two have escaped to America by boat.In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is charged with bringing the traitors to justice and he will stop at nothing to find them. A substantial bounty hangs over their heads for their capture--dead or alive. . . .Robert Harris's first historical novel set predominantly in America, Act of Oblivion is a novel with an urgent narrative, remarkable characters, and an epic true story to tell of religion, vengeance, and power--and the costs to those who wield it.