New England Life in the 18th Century
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Shipton, Clifford K., PUBLISHER: Belknap Press, In John Langdon Sibley projected and began a series of biographical sketches of all Harvard graduates; at his death in he had published three volumes, covering the Classes from through . In the work was resumed by Clifford Shipton, who carried the series through Volume XII and the Class of . This book offers a representative selection from the nine volumes of Shipton's biographies. In these sketches there appear royal governors, counterfeiters, college presidents, bootleggers, Indian fighters, Revolutionary leaders, Loyalists, mariners, lawyers, drunkards, and clergymen of four persuasions. Together they form a cross section of Colonial life in which the Harvard tie is often only incidental.