Description: An American judge turned reluctant exile, Samuel Curwen watched the American Revolution unfold not from Boston's wharves but from the parlours and coffee-houses of England. The emotions feel startlingly modern. This American Revolution journal and eighteenth century letters collection follows Curwen from 1775 to 1784, as he records daily life, shifting loyalties, and sharp observations on colonial America and Britain, alongside portraits of the prominent men and measures reshaping the Atlantic world. Edited from the Samuel Curwen journal collection, the volume brings together revealing correspondence, candid reflections on fellow refugees, and extended biographical notices of many American loyalists and other eminent persons. Offering a rare American loyalist perspective, it stands as a rich revolutionary war primary source: part travelogue, part political commentary, part intimate diary. For revolutionary war researchers and as a reference for history students, it illuminates loyalist memoirs of revolution and varied American loyalist biographies with nuance rather than caricature. First published in the nineteenth century, this exile in England memoir opens a window onto the lived experience of displaced colonists during the American Revolution 1775-1784, bridging the worlds of scholarship and narrative non-fiction for general readers and classic-literature collectors alike. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
