1777 - Danbury on Fire!
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              Thirteen-year-old Joe Hamilton's grandfather was just an old farmer when Joe was younger. Now Captain Silas Hamilton is the enforcer for the Danbury, Connecticut Committee of Inspection, buying animals  and equipment for the Danbury militia.
                   Even if the sellers don't want to sell. 
                                      He recruits, too. 
                                                       Even if the men don't want to enlist.
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           Joe's father despises a  revolution that could destroy the prosperous America that Britain  rescued from the French. Pacifism puts Joe and his parents on the wrong side of everyone in town. 

       Joe's Patriot friend Lambert Lockwood accidentally reveals Patriot weaknesses that convince Joe  his father might be right to oppose the revolution. 

              Left on his own  amid British  generals and red-coated troopers, Joe just wants to see the parade as  King George's army pays a Danbury a visit. Are the British invaders a danger?
                                            They're all nice to Joe...
​                                                                                          maybe too nice....
                                                                                                          
​                                                                                                              especially one.
                                                                                    

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Association for Gravestone Studies
Danbury Historical Society
Wilton Historical Society
Redding Historical Society
Sullivan County NY Historical Society
Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators (SCBWI)
Penn Writers
Round Hill Writers

About the Author

Millicent Haight Bell Hughes grew up knowing she had relatives in the Colonial Wars.
All details had disappeared from family lore, although the long generations in her family mean that her own father was born in the century before last.
​A deep desire for detail and connection produced 1777 - Danbury on Fire!

Let's Talk History

Contact me at Millicent_Hughes@ yahoo.com

Available for personal appearances to chat about genealogy, historical fiction or self-publishing.

Would love to do school visits.
 I'm happy to travel!
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Eighteenth Century Real Estate Roundup

You'll be welcome to enter at the Danbury home of one of the characters. (If you dare.)
Here he is outside the door of his newly remodeled home ("newly" meaning within the last two centuries) on the corner of South Street and Coalpit Hill Road.
Free book if you can identify this homeowner!
​(Photo taken 2 days after Hallowe'en 2018 - some ghosts don't know when to disappear!)

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