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Of Life and the American Revolution – The Journals of Joseph Knap of Stratford, Connecticut, 1761 - 1808
by Patricia Q. Wall
From the mundane to the frightening, such small mentions and business jots in the journals and papers of Stratford mariner, storekeeper, and farmer, Joseph Knap, offer a fresh view of western Connecticut's coastal life just prior to, during, and shortly after the American Revolution. Drawn into narrative, they reveal not only the life of a remarkable man and his community's ongoing scene, but also a long-needed coherency regarding Connecticut's struggling and sometimes politically estranged Fairfield County during eight years of wartime turmoil and anxiety.
