Discoveries of America
Subtitle: Personal Accounts of British Emigrants to North America during the Revolutionary Era
Contributors: Bernard Bailyn (Foreword); Barbara DeWolfe (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521386944
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Immigration & emigration; United States; History - U.S.; Correspondence; United States - Revolutionary War; Social Science; History: American; USA; United States - Colonial Period; British Americans--Correspondence; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); British Americans; Emigration & Immigration; British; Immigrants; Nova Scotia
First sentence: ON May 21, 1772, the Dixon family "arrive'd before Fort Cumberland," Nova Scotia, where "things at first Glance wore a gloomy aspect."