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Lecture – “Cleave America, Patriot Flames 1774”: The Fate of the Brigantine Peggy Stewart and Those Whose Lives She Touched

William Paca House and Garden 186 Prince George Street , Annapolis

The ship, the brigantine Peggy Stewart, sailed into infamy in 1774, a year when a sea of turbulence was in the colony of Maryland and especially here in Annapolis. Learn about this infamous Brigantine with author Dan E. Hobbs. His research and narrative of pre-Revolutionary history shares the turmoil found up and down the Atlantic Coast preceding and following the Tea Party in Boston. His novel seeks to share the American story when our political cleave, or division, led to dreadful violence, but ultimately to a cleave, a clinging together,...