""He was a man of fair learning, and more than average
accomplishment; not at all intolerant of opinions at issue with his
own; in religion a Dissenter of the class still prevalent in New
England: in his tastes scholarly and refined, not ill read in
general literature, prone to social enjoyments, a reasonably good
critic of what he saw, altogether an excellent example of the class
of men out of whom the fathers and founders of that great republic
sprang..."" -Charles Dickens, in summing up the character of Samuel
Curwen
This unabridged two-volume edition of Samuel Curwen's journal
supersedes the only version previously available to historians: a
fragmentary and inaccurate mid-nineteenth-century work published by
George Atkinson Ward, which nevertheless was celebrated by Charles
Dickens.
Andrew Oliver, combining painstaking documentation with an
abundance of illustrations, provides a colorful, complete work
which ranks as a valuable source of English social history from
1775 to 1784. It was during these years that Curwen, a Salem
merchant, after fleeing from the harassment incurred by his
loyalist activities, migrated to England and kept this journal. A
man small in size, physically timid, mentally brave, and remarkably
injudicious, Curwen felt that he was "unhappily though unjustly
ranked" as a tory. Thus his observations and thoughts are useful in
understanding the attitudes and experiences of the loyalist
exiles.
Set primarily in England and sparked throughout with engaging
reports on personalities, places, and even the weather, the journal
traces Curwen's nine years of exile. It also briefly details his
departure from Salem, his short and alarming sojourn inPhiladelphia
where he found the political climate no less unfavorable, and his
subsequent sea voyage to England.
"The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist" is the first in a
series of Loyalist Papers, a long-term program to be undertaken
independently by a number of publishers in Britain, Canada, and the
United States. The program will locate, gather, and make available
documents that place in perspective those Americans who, at the
time of the Revolution, remained loyal to the Crown.
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