Author: Hale, Thomas, foreword by Walter Cronkite,
Title: The Ghost of the Grasshopper: the seagirt sage of two families.
Description: Edgartown, MA, Martha's Vineyard Hist Soc, (1999). VG lg sz PB ex-library. Inscribed by author. Laid in map of the Grasshopper's path with genealogy on back. Inspired by the actual diary of an. ancestor of the author who, as a Loyalist, was living in Newport, RI, occupied by the British in 1778. Story of the intertwining of two families, one American, one British, who came together first in time of war, the Revolution, and then over the next 220 years. meet again and part in a series of coincidences in the maritime history of the times. Edge wear.

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