Journal of Nicholas Cresswell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journal of Nicholas Cresswell write by Nicholas Cresswell. This book was released on 2007. Journal of Nicholas Cresswell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
Journal of Nicholas Cresswell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journal of Nicholas Cresswell write by Nicholas Cresswell. This book was released on 2007. Journal of Nicholas Cresswell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 write by Nicholas Cresswell. This book was released on 1924. The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 write by Nicholas Cresswell. This book was released on 2012-03-01. The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Man Apart
A Man Apart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Man Apart write by Harold B. Gill. This book was released on 2009-03-16. A Man Apart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
