Luminaries of Early West Barnstable: The Stories of a Cape Cod Village

by James H. Ellis

Book Overview

West Barnstable is unique among historic colonial Cape Cod hamlets. A quartet born in the little village in a fifty-six-year span in the eighteenth century marked this village on the map forever. James Otis Jr., the Patriot," led the intellectual revolution and helped shape American independence. His sister, Mercy Otis Warren, broke free of the defined roles for women of her time to become a significant political activist, dramatist, poet and historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540222845
• ISBN13: 9781540222848
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: History Press Library Editions
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"