Crevecoeur's American
Beginning the World Anew
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3220260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman S Grabo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2938066 |
| OpenAlex | W2323639898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
I N I779, Mr. James Hector St. John-a French-born New York farmer of loyalist sympathies, but suspected of being a Revolutionary spy-lay sick, hungry, impoverished, and terrified in the New York City prison. Born in Caen, Normandy, in I7 3 5, the forty-four-year-old St. John found himself thrust by circumstances into one of the many bizarre corners of his remarkable career. Educated at the fine Jesuit College du Mont, he had spent a year or so with relatives in Salisbury, England, before emigrating to Canada in I 7 5 5. There he served with the French army until wounded at Quebec in I759. Oddly, he cast his lot with the British Americans later that year and, after several years of traveling the frontier as a surveyor and trader (during which period he was formally adopted into the Oneida), married an American woman and purchased I20 acres of farmland in Orange County, New York. The farm-called Pine Hillthrived, as did his family of three children. But as hostilities between Revolutionaries and loyalists intensified, St. John, perhaps fearing for his continued control over his American property, decided to return to France to lay good legal claim to his patrimony there (not least for the sake of ensuring that his Normandy properties would pass to his elder son). In New York, awaiting passage, he suddenly found himself a victim of the times, separated from his family, and enjoying only sporadic control over the trunkload of essays and sketches he had been scribbling at over the years
Ancient history · Archaeology · Frontier · Political science · Prison · American History and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2009 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |