Author: Howe BancroftPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Recording his attempts, while in England, to locate information on the British members of the Bancroft family.
Some Notes on the Bancrofts in England
Author: Howe BancroftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Recording his attempts, while in England, to locate information on the British members of the Bancroft family.
The Bancroft Family in England
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Written in longhand on onionskin by an unknown family member, this is a family history and genealogy concerning descendants of Ambrose Bancroft of Ruck's County, Pennsylvania.
The Bancroft Family
Author: John M. BancroftPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Typescript genealogy concerning descendants of Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass.
Genealogy of the Bancroft Family
Author: George Gilbert BancroftPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Bancroft. Charles Bancroft of Montreal
Author: George Abbott-SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780832873669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Bancroft Family
The Bancroft Family, Circular.
Author: John M. BancroftEdward Bancroft
Author: Thomas J. SchaeperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Looks at the life of the American scientist and man of letters who led a secret life in Great Britain as British agent working against both the American colonies and the French during the Revolutionary War.
Bancroft Family Genealogy
Author: Margaret Josephine BancroftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Notes on the Bancroft Family of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont
Author: Corrine BancroftPublisher:
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Category : Bancroft family
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Edward Bancroft
Author: Thomas J. SchaeperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300171714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests. In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain.