Jonathan Sewall; Odyssey of an American Loyalist

by Carol Berkin

Book Overview

This study of Jonathan Sewall, an aristocratic Boston Loyalist, tells the compelling story of the passions and paradoxes of a country in the throes of the Revolution. Born into a bankrupt branch of a prominent Massachusetts family in 1728, Sewall was educated at Harvard and, after a brief stint teaching school, went into law. He developed a friendship with John Adams that survived the Revolutionary War personally but not politically. He thrived in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231038518
• ISBN13: 9780231038515
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.