This is a study of the role Maine played in the fight for independence in America. The book covers the Stamp Act crisis, the onset of revolution, military activity, British occupation and efforts towards statehood. It deals with the social, political, cultural and military aspects of the War.

This book tells the story of the Reverend Jacob Bailey, a missionary preacher for the Church of England in the frontier town of Pownalborough (now Dresden), Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance to King George III during the American War of Independence. Relying largely on Baileys unpublished journals and voluminous correspondence, James S. Leamon traces Baileys evolution from his rustic background through his Harvard education and subsequent career as a teacher, Congregational minister, and missionary preacher for the Church of England. Along the way, Bailey absorbed many of the...