Author: Lea Wait
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A young enslaved boy who dreams of sailing must choose whether to risk everything to fight for freedom in this historical middle grade novel. Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what’s right. Doing it is what makes him a man. Thirteen-year-old Michael knows he is lucky. Few enslaved people in 1805 Charleston are where they want to be. But Michael works on the docks and ships in Charleston Harbor, close to the seas he longs to sail. Life seems good. But when Michael’s protective mistress dies, everything changes, and Michael’s friend Jim encourages him to run away. Michael is torn. Should he risk everything for a chance at freedom in some unknown place? Is staying safe worth staying enslaved?
Seaward Born
Author: Lea Wait
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A young enslaved boy who dreams of sailing must choose whether to risk everything to fight for freedom in this historical middle grade novel. Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what’s right. Doing it is what makes him a man. Thirteen-year-old Michael knows he is lucky. Few enslaved people in 1805 Charleston are where they want to be. But Michael works on the docks and ships in Charleston Harbor, close to the seas he longs to sail. Life seems good. But when Michael’s protective mistress dies, everything changes, and Michael’s friend Jim encourages him to run away. Michael is torn. Should he risk everything for a chance at freedom in some unknown place? Is staying safe worth staying enslaved?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A young enslaved boy who dreams of sailing must choose whether to risk everything to fight for freedom in this historical middle grade novel. Sometimes a man has to risk everything to do what’s right. Doing it is what makes him a man. Thirteen-year-old Michael knows he is lucky. Few enslaved people in 1805 Charleston are where they want to be. But Michael works on the docks and ships in Charleston Harbor, close to the seas he longs to sail. Life seems good. But when Michael’s protective mistress dies, everything changes, and Michael’s friend Jim encourages him to run away. Michael is torn. Should he risk everything for a chance at freedom in some unknown place? Is staying safe worth staying enslaved?
A Genealogical History of the French and Allied Families
Author: Mary Elizabeth Queal Beyer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
William French (b.1603) and his family emigrated from England in 1624 on the ship "Defence" to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas French of Halstead, County Essex, England. William and his wife Elizabeth were married in about 1623. William is a descendant of "Thomas French the elder, of Weathersfield, County Essex, England, [who] died [in] 1599".--P. 21. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in England.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
William French (b.1603) and his family emigrated from England in 1624 on the ship "Defence" to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the son of Thomas French of Halstead, County Essex, England. William and his wife Elizabeth were married in about 1623. William is a descendant of "Thomas French the elder, of Weathersfield, County Essex, England, [who] died [in] 1599".--P. 21. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in England.
Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America
Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf Jordan
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of His Shipwreck, and Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea
Author: William Ogilvie Porter
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
History of Durham, Connecticut
Author: William Chauncey Fowler
Publisher:
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Category : Durham (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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Category : Durham (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Lineage Book
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
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ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of His Shipwreck ... [By W. O. Porter.] Edited by Miss Jane Porter
Author: William Ogilvie PORTER
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of His Shipwreck
Author: William Ogilvie Porter
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Descendants of Henry Travers of London, England and Newbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Author: Nathan Hagar Daniels
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description