Preface
The 1760s were a time of seismic shifts on the North American continent. The mantle of the Old World that America had worn for a century and a half was becoming tattered and ill-fitting. If, as I have suggested in the prior chronicles of Duncan McCallum, the seeds of the American Revolution were planted during the French and Indian War, then this was the decade during which those seeds germinated. Great Britain, basking in the victory over France which made it the first global superpower, was blinded to the currents that were stirring the population of its most important colonies. For generations it had dumped onto American shores scores of thousands of emigrants with complaints about religious and political intolerance, people being marginalized for opposing the government, inclu
