The Poor Jamaica Man's Plague: Mary Butler and John Tipton, Colonials in Transition: 1747-1783

Have you ever wandered what life was like in the colonial era? Or how the American Revolution affected individuals and families? In this original history you will journey with Jamaica-born Jonathan Tipton I and his descendants,Jonathan Tipton II, and his grandson, John Tipton and wife Mary Butler, middling American colonialfarmers in the Shenandoah Valley. As John passes through space and time over a period of 36 years,he unpredictably rises to important positions in the established Anglican Church, the ShenandoahCounty Court and militia, and the initial revolutionary Virginia government. During these years, hisfamily endured violent death at the hands of warring Native Americans and the tragic demise of MaryButler in childbirth, the beloved mother of nine Tipton boys. The experiences of the Tiptons mirror those ofthousands of colonials and early revolutionaries of the flourishing Shenandoah Valley in the last halfof the eighteenth-century in Virginia. John Tipton was not held back by his successes in agriculture,the military, and politics in Virginia. After the Revolutionary War, in which he participatedwholeheartedly and experienced the killing of one son and the severe wounding of another, herelocated to a less developed section of the early United States in western North Carolina where hepursued his active life in new and developing circumstances. By reading this book you will sensethe struggle, the hardship, and the turmoil that forged late American colonials into citizens of a newcountry in uncertain times. Read more