This is memoir of the first twenty-five years of long life, blending a picture of a time long ago with the story of a thoughtful child growing up to face adulthood in a very different world.
Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line. An English Quaker from County Durham, in 1763 Jeremiah Dixon became the joint architect of one of the most important boundaries in history: the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, ...
This is a fascinating record of a small community living out its distinctive religious witness in the everyday, navigating internal and external pressures in a rapidly changing context.
The book is about a Scottish couple, James Finlayson (1770-1852) and Margaret Wilkie (1776?-1855) who navigated their lives through the upheavals of 18th and 19th century wars, revolutions and presbyterian schisms.