{"product_id":"2940148720393","title":"The Loyalists of America and Their Times, From 1620 to 1816, Volumes I-II, Complete","description":"This edition features \u003cbr\u003e • two complete books\u003cbr\u003e • a linked Table of Contents and  Footnotes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003eAs no Indian pen has ever traced the history of the aborigines of America, or recorded the deeds of their chieftains, their \"prowess and their wrongs\"—their enemies and spoilers being their historians; so the history of the Loyalists of America has never been written except by their enemies and spoilers, and those English historians who have not troubled themselves with examining original authorities, but have adopted the authorities, and in some instances imbibed the spirit, of American historians, who have never tired in eulogizing Americans and everything American, and deprecating everything English, and all who have loyally adhered to the unity of the British Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have thought that the other side of the story should be written; or, in other words, the true history of the relations, disputes, and contests between Great Britain and her American colonies and the United States of America...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS (abridged list)\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e    Introduction.—Two Classes of Emigrants—Two Governments for seventy years—The Pilgrim Fathers, their Pilgrimages and Settlement.\u003cbr\u003e    The writer a native Colonist \u003cbr\u003e    Massachusetts the seed-plot of the American Revolution \u003cbr\u003e    Two distinct emigrations to New England—the \"Pilgrim Fathers\" in 1620, the \"Puritan Fathers\" in 1629; two separate governments for seventy years; characteristics of each \u003cbr\u003e    Objects and documentary character of the history, which is not a popular narrative, but a historical discussion (in a note) \u003cbr\u003e    The \"Pilgrim Fathers;\" their pilgrimages and settlement in New England \u003cbr\u003e    Origin of Independents \u003cbr\u003e    Flight to Holland, and twelve years' pilgrimage; trades and wearisome life there \u003cbr\u003e    Long to be under English rule and protection \u003cbr\u003e    Determine and arrange to emigrate to America \u003cbr\u003e    Voyage, and intended place of settlement \u003cbr\u003e    Landing at Cape Cod; constitution of government; Messrs. Bancroft and Young's remarks upon it \u003cbr\u003e    Settlement of \"New Plymouth\" \u003cbr\u003e    What known of the harbour and coast before the landing of the Pilgrims \u003cbr\u003e    Inflated and extravagant accounts of the character and voyage of the Pilgrims (in a note) \u003cbr\u003e    Results of the first year's experience and labours; a week's celebration of the first \"harvest home\"—such a first harvest home as no United Empire Loyalists were ever able to celebrate in Canada \u003cbr\u003e...\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER LIX.\u003cbr\u003e    Miscellaneous Documents and Papers extracted from United Empire Loyalist\u003cbr\u003e    Manuscripts in the Dominion Library at Ottawa\u003cbr\u003e    Character of the Canadian Militia\u003cbr\u003e    American invasions of Canada and their military forces\u003cbr\u003e    Notice of Colonel John Clarke and his manuscript contributions\u003cbr\u003e    The treatment of Canadians by the American invaders\u003cbr\u003e    The Royal Patriotic Society of Upper Canada and its doings in raising and distributing upwards of £20,000\u003cbr\u003e    to relieve Canadian sufferers by the war\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER LX.\u003cbr\u003e    State of Canada after the Close of the War; Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\"Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803 – 1882) was a Methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario, Canada.\" --Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108956193008,"sku":"2940148720393","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148720393_p0.jpg?v=1763707475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148720393","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}