Geoff Baggett

• Aug-2023
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Esther Billups was a girl of the Virginia frontier. She was an able pioneer, farmer, and hunter. Thanks to the influence of her soldier father, she learned at a young age how to play the drum. She could drum military tunes and cadences with great ski...

• Jul-2023
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Jonas and Justus Avery are on the run for their lives. At a young age they were kidnapped from their father and sold into indentured servitude on a large Virginia plantation. Now, five years later, the two brave lads have fled the horrible plantation...

• Feb-2022
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William Newman was the son of a dedicated British Loyalist. Growing up in the South Carolina backcountry, he had never questioned his father's loyalty to England or to King George III. He, too, had always considered himself a loyal subject to King an...

• Sep-2020
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Shortly after the French and Indian War, best friends Bartholomew Austin and William Newman settled their families in the backcountry south of Camden, along the waters of Jackson's Creek. Both were avid Tories, staunchly loyal to England and her King...

• Jun-2020
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Almost all of the men of the Boone family were well-known early American adventurers and frontiersmen. Squire Boone was no different. He accompanied his brother, Daniel, on several expeditions and treks into the wild, untamed Kentucky country. Then, ...

• Apr-2020
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Elizabeth Yeisley was mature beyond her years. As the oldest of five daughters in a fatherless home, she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her father, Michael Yeisley, was a soldier in the German Regiment of the Continental Army. He was deployed on ...

• Nov-2019
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There were some very unusual jobs in Colonial America. One of the strangest jobs of all was catching rats. Towns and villages all over the early Colonies had professional rat catchers ... men who hunted rats and removed them from homes, shops, and st...

• Apr-2019
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A great multitude of Germans departed Europe in the mid-1700's to pursue new lives in America. Most settled in Pennsylvania, where their native German culture thrived. These new citizens of the New World gladly swore their oaths to Great Britain's ki...

• Sep-2018
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Basil was the youngest child of James and Elizabeth Billingsley. Throughout his entire life, all of his older siblings had called him, Little Brother. He lived comfortably with his parents in a stately home in the quiet frontier town of Guilford Cour...

• Jan-2018
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Walter Billingsley's entire life changed on a dark, violent night in the spring of 1776. At the tender age of fifteen, he witnessed and experienced unspeakable acts of terror against his family, perpetrated by militants loyal to the British Crown. Th...

• Jun-2017
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Betsy Johnson was only eight years old when she traveled with her family to reach the rugged, untamed Kentucky frontier. The Johnson family found a home at a place called Bryan Station, a remote fort in the dense Kentucky forest. She worked with her ...

• Mar-2017
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Pierre Grimard's dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America. He longed to begin a new life, business, and family in the French settlements of the faraway frontier in the Illinois country. Ten years later it seemed that Pierre...

• Mar-2017
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Pierre Grimard was a courageous little boy who lived with his parents on the Northwest Frontier in Colonial America. His home was in Vincennes, a tiny, peaceful French settlement on the banks of the majestic Wabash River. In his humble village there ...

• Oct-2016
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Lewis Hammock was only nine years old when his parents took his family on a great trek from their Virginia homelands to settle in the untamed forests of the faraway colony of Georgia. As a boy he helped his family build a new cabin home and begin an ...

• Sep-2016
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Robert Hammock had a restless spirit. He grew weary of the quiet life of Colonial Virginia and left his ancestral lands in 1774 in search of a new life on the edge of civilization. He and his wife, Milly, guided their family on a adventurous overland...

• Apr-2016
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The British have invaded Charlestown and the Revolutionary War has descended with a vengeance upon the sleepy southern frontier. Oppression, privation, and fear overwhelm the villages and homesteads of North and South Carolina. The Patriot cause seem...

• Apr-2016
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**Free teaching guide resource available for teachers and parents on the author's web site. geoffbaggett.com�The British have invaded Charlestown and the Revolutionary War has descended with a vengeance upon the sleepy southern frontier. Oppression,...