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Loyalist spy : the experiences of Captain John Walden Meyers during the American Revolution / by Mary Beacock Fryer.
- Title
- Loyalist spy : the experiences of Captain John Walden Meyers during the American Revolution / by Mary Beacock Fryer.
- Author
- Fryer, Mary Beacock.
- Publication
- Brockville, Ont. : Besancourt Publishers, c1974.
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- Description
- 254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Meyers, born in New York, served as a Loyalist spy, operating under the British Northern Department headquartered in Canada. Meyers' service was as a courier for the British between Canada and New York City. Meyers achieved fame for his attempt to kidnap the American General Philip Schuyler.
- Subject
- Meyers, John Walden, 1745-1821
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [252]-254.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Waltermyer opts for the king -- With Jessup's battalion -- On Secret Service -- Recruiting agent -- A personal war -- A very special assignment -- The special assignment continues -- A summer of frustration -- The almost captain -- A manhunt, and a raid -- Enter Hudibras -- The great kidnap caper -- Disunited loyalists -- Captain Sherwood's conspiracy -- The last of the fighting -- Captain John Walden Meyers of Jessup's corps -- The 'settlement' at Mississquoi Bay -- Starting from scratch -- Epilogue : October, 1821 : a satisfied man.
- LCCN
- ^^^75319858^//r77
- OCLC
- 1493569
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library