The Tory's Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America

by Cynthia A. Kierner

The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways--and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer, esteemed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813949912
• ISBN13: 9780813949918
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"