Author’s Talk – The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
The Society of the Cincinnati Anderson House 2118 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC, DC, United StatesThe Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. Jane Welborn Spurgin was a patriot who welcomed Gen. Nathanael Greene to her home and aided the Continental forces. Her husband was a loyalist and an officer fighting for King George III in […]