by Taylor, Alan
Once again, I thoroughly enjoyed my research at the Library Archives Canada in Ottawa, thanks to the extraordinary friendship and generosity of Sheila McIntyre, Michael Von Herff, and their children Lucy, Silas, and Will—although they continued their threats to take me to the “Experimental Farm.”
My study of the Colonial Marines benefited enormously from my fellow travelers Thomas Malcomson and John Weiss, who generously shared research leads, their own intriguing work, and helpful comments on drafts of my chapters. Tom has taught me much about the Royal Navy in the past and Thai restaurants in the present. John and Althea McNish Weiss illuminated the past and present of Trinidad and led me to the best West Indian and Chinese restaurants in London. During my visit to Oxford University, Peter Thompson proved the finest of hosts and provided an opportunity for me to present this project to the American history seminar. I am also grateful to Richard Carwadine and Jay Sexton for helping to arrange my visit. My visit to the University of Edinburgh proved memorable thanks to the generosity and friendship of Frank Cogliano and Mimi Kalman. I benefited both from Frank’s exemplary work on Thomas Jefferson and from the opportunity to present this project to his seminar.
Mark McGarvie, Peter Onuf, Annette Gordon Reed, Brian Schoene, Clarence Walker, and Harvey Amani Whitfield generously improved several draft chapters with their close readings and insightful advice. John Smolenski provided helpful advice. Ari Kelman reviewed the entire draft with an extraordinary attention to both detail and the bigger picture, and this book is far the better for his generosity. Critical support for my research came from my friend and department chair, David Biale, and from the dean of social sciences at the University of California, Davis, Ron Mangun. I reaped spiritual guidance on bicycling, pool, and life from Pablo Ortiz (as corrected by Ana Peluffo and Isa and Cami Ortiz). Sam Warren manifested his passion for Canadian history hidden deep beneath a cover of classicism. That passion owes much to nurturing by his talented parents, Louis and Spring Warren. And as always, I am grateful to Kevin Convey for sharing his expertise on pirate culture, to the study of which he has devoted his life. And Carole and Marty Goldberg have enriched my life.
I completed this study at the Huntington Library, thanks to a fellowship arranged by Steve Hindle and in honor of my longtime friend and mentor, Robert C. “Roy” Ritchie. One of the greatest honors and pleasures of my career has been to hold the Ritchie Distinguished Fellowship with Roy as my office neighbor. For assistance at the Huntington, I also thank Molly Gipson, Juan Gomez, Carolyn Powell, Jason Sharples, Jaeda Snow, and Olga Tsapina. And I’m grateful to Steve Aron, Amy Green, Carla Pestana, Craig Yirush, Michael Meranze, Peter Mancall, Lisa Bitel, Bill Deverell, and Jennie Watts for their friendship during my sojourn in southern California.
At the Wylie Agency, I again benefited from representation by Andrew Wylie and his assistants. Shepherding this book to publication depended on my editor at W. W. Norton & Company, Steve Forman, who carefully nurtured the project with enthusiasm and professionalism. His assistant, Justin Cahill, helped with innumerable details, especially in sorting out the illustrations. Mary Babcock expertly and carefully copyedited the manuscript.
I have dedicated this book to my dear and talented friends Alessa Johns and Chris Reynolds and their son (and my godson) Gabriel, who has shared many journeys on two continents with us. My work and morale have often benefited from Alessa’s infectious energy and enthusiasm. Chris’s keen wit is exceeded only by his generosity. He also earned this dedication by his insistent devotion to “states rights,” which strangely comes out when playing pool. And Gabriel has kept me honest at both chess and table tennis. Completing this group is Gabriel’s godmother, Emily Albu, who remains the kindest and most lovely and interesting person on this or any other planet. She made this book possible in too many ways to list.
I have also dedicated the book to the memory of Emory Evans: an exceptionally gracious and encouraging scholar. My encounters with him were relatively few but always extraordinarily helpful, for Emory was a true gentleman of the old school in the very best sense. To my great regret, he died just as this project began and before I could again seek out his expertise on the eighteenth-century Chesapeake. Including him in the dedication also seems fitting because he had his ashes interred at Christ Church in Irvington, Virginia: the parish church for Corotoman Plantation, which looms so large in this book.
INDEX
Accomack Co., Va.
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Addison, Kendall
African colonization
African-Americans
culture of
families of
free
as soldiers and marines
see also “Colonial Marines”
agriculture and agricultural reform
Alabama
Albemarle Co., Va.
Albion, HMS
Alexander I, Czar
Alexandria, Va.
Allen, James
Amelia Co., Va.
American Revolution
Ambrister, Robert
Amherst Co., Va.
Anacostia River
Anglicans
Annapolis, Md.
Anne Arundel Co., Md.
Anti-Federalists
antislavery
Apalachicola River
Appomattox River
Arbuthnot, Alexander
Archer, Col. S. B.
Archer, Thomas
Armistead, Lucy Baylor
Armstrong, John
Asbury, Francis
Badger, Thomas
Bahamas
Baker, Anthony St. John
Ball, Charles
Ball, Spencer
Ballard, Elizabeth
Baltimore, Md.
Bannister, Rachael
Baptists
Barbados
Barbour, James
Barney, Joshua
Barraud, Dr. Philip
Barrie, Capt. Robert
Barron, James
Barrow, David
Bathurst, Earl
Baton, Canada
see also “Beaton, Kennedy”
Bayly, Thomas M.
Beanes, Dr. William
Beaton, Kennedy
see also “Baton, Canada”
Beckwith, Sir Sidney
Bedford Co., Va.
Beech Hill, N.S.
Bendall, James
Benedict, Md.
Beresford, Sir John
Berkeley, Sir George Cranfield
Bermuda
Berry, William
Billups, John
Birkbeck, Morris
Bizarre Plantation
Blackburn, Thomas
Blackshear, Gen. David
Blackstone, Sir William
Bladensburg, Md., battle at
Blow, Richard
Bolivar, Simon
Boush, William
Boxley, George
Boyers, William
Brand, Captain Benjamin
Bremo Plantation
Brent, James
Brewer, Holly
British Empire
abolishes the slave trade and ameliorates slavery
diplomacy with the United States
Orders in Council of
see also “Royal Navy” and “War of 1812”
Broadnax, Lydia
Brooke, Col. Arthur
Brooke, John J.
Brougham, Henry
Brown, Jacob
Brown, Joe
Brown, John
Brown, John Thompson
Brown, Michael
Brown, Sukey Saunders
Brown, Lt. Col. Thomas
Bruce, Jim
Buckingham Co., Va.
Burwell, Nathaniel
Bush, Betsy
Butler, Harry
Butler, Pierce
Byrd, Richard W.
Cabell, Joseph C.
Cabell, William H.
Cadin, Minty
Calvert Co., Md.
Campbell, David
Campbell, John
Campbell Co., Va.
Canada, American invasions of
Canning, George
Cape Henry
Carleton, Sir Guy
Caroline Co., Va.
Carr, Dabney
Carroll, Charles
Carter, Charles
Carter, Charles B.
Carter, Dick
Carter, George
Carter, James
Carter, Landon
Carter, Rebecca Parke Farley
Carter, Robert, of Nominee Hall
Carter, Robert “King”
Carter, Sukey Saunders
Carter’s Creek
Castlereagh, Viscount
Caulk’s Field, battle of
Chamberlain, Theophilus
Chambers, Ezekiel,
Champ, Anthony
Chaptico, Md.
Charles Co., Md.
Charles, Peter
Charlestown, Md.
Charlotte Co., Va.
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Claimants
Chesconessex Creek
Chesterfield Co., Va.
Chestertown, Md.
Cheves, Langdon
Chrystie, Thomas
Chub, John
Civil War
Claiborne, Nathaniel H.
Clark, Archibald
Clavell, Capt. John
Clay, Henry
Clinch, Col. Duncan
Clinton, DeWitt
Coalter, John
Cochrane, Sir Alexander
proclamation by
Cockburn, Sir George
Cockburn, James
Cocke, John Hartwell
Codrington, Edward
Coleman, Seth
Coles, Isaac A.
College of William and Mary
Collins, Peggy
Colonial Marines
non-commissioned officers among
communication
Company Towns, Trinidad
Connecticut
conspiracy theories
Cook, Betty Saunders
Cook, Jim Bully
Cooper, Rebecca
Corbin, Henry
Corbin, Richard
Cornick, Jeremiah
Cornwallis, Lord Charles
Corotoman Plantation
slave community at
Cowper, John
Cox, Franky
Cox, Hostler Joe
Craney Island, battle at
credit and debt
Creeks
Cross, Oliver
Croxton, Philip
Cuba
Culpeper Co., Va.
Cumberland Island
Currie, Ellison
Dalhousie, Lord
Dallas, Alexander J.
Daniel, Peter V.
Dare, William
Davenport, David P.
Deadman’s Bones
Denmark
Devastation, HMS
Dick, Alexander
disease, and disease environments
Ditcher, Jack
Dixon, William
Dorsey, Clement
Douglas, Capt. John Erskine
Douglass, Frederick
Downman, Raleigh W.
Dragon, HMS
Duane, William
Dungeness Plantation
Dunmore, Lord
Dunn, Robert
Early, Peter
Easter Rebellion
Eastern Shore
of Maryland
of Virginia
Easton, Md.
Eddins, Langley B.
Edgewood Plantation
Edinburgh, University of
Edmondson, Henry
Edwards, Jesse
Eglinton, Lord
Elizabeth City County
Elizabeth River
embargo
England
entail and primogeniture
environment
Essex Co., Va.
Eustis, William
Evans, Andrew Fitzherbert
Evans, Robert J.
Eyre, John
Fall Line
Fairbanks, Rufus
Farnham Church, Va.
Faulcon, John
Faulcon, Nicholas
Fauquier County, Va.
Fay, Lt. H. A.
Federalists
Fedric, Francis
Fincastle Co., Va.
Fithian, Philip Vickers
Florida
Floyd, John
Floyd, John K.
Fluvanna Co., Va.
Forbes, Francis
Forbes, John
Forester, Robert
Forester, Toby
Fort Albion
Fort Bowyer
Fort McHenry
Fort Powhatan
Fort Washington
Fossett, Peter
Francisco, Peter
Fraser, Lt. John
Frederick Co., Md.
Frederick Co., Va.
Fredericksburg, Va
Fredericktown, Md.
freedom
French Empire
French Revolution
Fuller, Maria
Gabriel’s revolt
Gales, Joseph
Gayle, Col. Leaven
gender relations
George, Ben
Georgetown, Md.
Georgia
Ghent, Treaty of
Giles, William Branch
Gillett, Sci
Gilmer, Francis Walker
Gleig, Lt. G. R.
Gloucester Co., Va.
Gooch, Claiborne W.
Goode, William
Goodchild, Billy
Goosley, James
Gordon, Capt. James
Goulburn, Henry
Grammar, Frederick
Granger, Gideon
Great Dismal Swamp
Great Jenny
Grecian, the
Greenhow, Robert
Grenville, Lord
Grenville, Thomas
Gresham, George
Griffin, Robert
Griffin, Major Thomas
Grimes, William
Gumby, Dadda Thomas
Gwynn Island, Va.
Haggeman, Mary Ann
Haiti
see also Saint-Domingue
Halifax Co., Va.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Hall, Addison
Hall, Gabriel
Hall, John
Hall, Mary K.
Hall, Thomas L.
Hallidan, Patrick
Hamilton, John
Hammond, Capt. William
Hammonds Plains, N.S.
Hampton, Va.
Hanover Co., Va.
Hanson, Alexander Contee
Harding, Michael
Hardy, Capt. Thomas M.
Harper, Robert Goodloe
Harris, Thomas M.
Hartford Convention
Havannah, HMS
Havre de Grace, Md.
Haynes, Lemuel
Hemings, Sally
Henderson, Capt. William
Henrico Co., Va.
Henry, Patrick
Henson, Josiah
Hillhouse, William
Honor
Hooe, Abraham
Hopkins, Samuel
Hudgins, Houlder
Wrights v. Hudgins
Hull, Gen. William
Humphreys, Salusbury
Hungerford, Gen. John P.
Hunt, Gilbert
Illinois
impressment
Indiana
Indians, American
Ireland and Irish-Americans
Ireland Island, Bermuda
Ironmonger, Edward
Isle of Wight Co., Va.
Israel Hill, Va.
Jaboe, Capt. James
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson
, Henry
Jackson, Lewis
Jackson, Samuel
Jacob, Arthur
Jamaica
James, Charles
James City Co., Va.
James River
Jamestown, Va.
Jasseur, HMS
Jefferson, Thomas
and the Declaration of Independence
and his plan for gradual emancipation
as president and presidential candidate
Jeter, Jeremiah Bell
Johnson, Harriot
Johnson, Sergeant
Jones, Caleb
Jones, Walter
Joynes, John G.
Kelley, James
Kemp, Sarah
Kempt, Gov. James
Kennon, Elizabeth
Kent Co., Md.
Kent Island, Md.
Kentucky
Key, Francis Scott
Kilgour, William
Kindelan, Sebastian
King, Miles
King, Roswell
King, Thomas B.
King and Queen Co., Va.
King George Co., Va.
Kinsale, Va.
Kinsman, Maj. Andrew
Laidloe’s Ferry, Md.
Lake Porter, N.S.
Lancaster County, Va.
Lane, Joe
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry
law
Lee, Henry
Lee, Ludwell
Lee, Richard E.
Lee, Richard Henry
Leopard v. Chesapeake
Liberia
liberty, see freedom
Lingan, James
Lipscomb, Benjamin
Liverpool, Lord
Loker, George
Lomax, John Taylor
Loney, Ezekiel
Loney, Gabriel
Loney, Nancy
Loney, Nelly Marx
Loney, Sam
Louisa Co., Va.
Louisiana
Lovell, Capt. William Stanhope
Lynchburg, Va.
Lynnhaven Bay
Madison Co., Va.
Madison, James
as president
Magruder, Eli
Maid of the Isles
Maine, the great state of
malaria
Malcolm, Sir Pulteney
Malcomson, Thomas
Mansfield, Lord
Marshall, John
Maryland
War of 1812 in
masculinity
Mason, Benjamin
Mason, George
Massachusetts
Massey, John
Mathews, John
Mathews, Thomas
Mathews Co., Va.
Matoax Plantation
Maud, James
McCarty, Bartholomew
McCroskey, Widow
McNamara, Timothy
Melville Island
Memory Spirituals
Menelaus, HMS
Mercer, Charles Fenton
Merikens
Methodists
Middle Atlantic states
Middlesex Co., Va.
Midway Plantation
migration
Minor, John
Mississippi River
Missouri Crisis and Compromise
