The Travels of Elkanah Watson

An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Business & Finance, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs ISBN: 9781476623368
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: July 25, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
ISBN: 9781476623368
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: July 25, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American revolutionaries. At 19, he smuggled funds for the Revolution from Rhode Island to South Carolina in the midst of the war, while starting diaries he would keep throughout his life. Returning, he moved from New England to France, carrying letters from Congress to Benjamin Franklin in Paris before setting himself up as a merchant supplying arms to America. As the Revolutionary War came to a close, he delivered the United States’ final messages to British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne. His tour of England impressed upon him the value of canals, new industries and enlightened agriculture, which he championed upon returning to America. Watson’s travels in the U.S., Europe and Canada come to life in this illustrated biography based on his diaries and notes, and his vast collection of unpublished documents.

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Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American revolutionaries. At 19, he smuggled funds for the Revolution from Rhode Island to South Carolina in the midst of the war, while starting diaries he would keep throughout his life. Returning, he moved from New England to France, carrying letters from Congress to Benjamin Franklin in Paris before setting himself up as a merchant supplying arms to America. As the Revolutionary War came to a close, he delivered the United States’ final messages to British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne. His tour of England impressed upon him the value of canals, new industries and enlightened agriculture, which he championed upon returning to America. Watson’s travels in the U.S., Europe and Canada come to life in this illustrated biography based on his diaries and notes, and his vast collection of unpublished documents.

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