The Wealth of Jamestown - Softcover

McLennan, Barbara N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998087300 ISBN 13: 9780998087306

Publisher: Barbara McLennan, 2017

Synopsis

The Wealth of Jamestown follows the development of a new people and the birth of a nation. William Roscoe, a young Virginia planter and sheriff of Yorktown and Gloucester, and Sarah Harrison, seventeen-year-old daughter of one of Virginia’s wealthiest planters, are in love and engaged to be married. But Sarah’s father, Benjamin Harrison II, forces Sarah to break the engagement and marry James Blair, lobbyist, church bureaucrat and Commissary of the Church of England, with connections to the Board of Trade in England. Sarah retains her dowry and wealth, and while Blair goes to England to lobby for a college of which he’d be President, she continues her relationship with William. Sarah and William buy two sailing ships, and William begins trade with pirates in the new city of Charles Towne. With King William’s War with France finished, commerce and trade open up and Virginia planters become very wealthy---William becomes a member of the House of Burgesses. But Blair returns, reclaiming his status and seeking power over all of Virginia.

 

About this title

From the Author

Barbara McLennan has published eight books and numerous  articles on various political, economic, and historical subjects. For two years she contributed columns and articles on local customs and local history to NorthernNeck.com, a local online newspaper serving the Rappahannock region of Virginia. Holding both Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and J.D. (Georgetown) degrees, Barbara McLennan is a former professor, association executive and high level official in the United States Departments of Commerce and Treasury. Over the last several years, she has served as docent at Jamestown Settlement, and at Historic Jamestown. She also has assisted the historian in preparation for exhibits at the new museum of the American Revolution at Yorktown. Dr. McLennan has taught in the Thomas Jefferson School of Public Policy, The College of William and Mary. She also has been a Visiting Scholar at William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business, in the MBA program. She has held a commission as member of the Governor of Virginia’s Asian Advisory Board on trade and investment and is a Board Member of the Chesapeake Bay Writers Organization.

From the Inside Flap

"Everyone loves a great read. And this is a great read! It's got everything a reader
craves: intrigue, suspense, power struggles of the mighty and the commoner, and the tantalizing clashes of love and money. It's the inside story not taught in the schools -- one of the most tumultuous and exciting periods in history. Louis XIV is on the throne of France, England has just fired a king and hired William and Mary as new monarchs, and Virginia simply wants to sell its tobacco, while pirates threaten commerce on the seas. And the reader is on the inside of the entire theater of action on both sides of the Atlantic!"

 
Dr. Richard Oliver, founder and CEO of American Sentinel University, former business
executive and college professor, and author of a number of bestselling books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barbara McLennan
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998087300
• ISBN 13: 9780998087306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238