Publisher's Synopsis
The Colonial Chronicles is an epic multi-series set of English, Colonial, historical novels offering a panorama of characters and events of the North American Colonial Period chronicling the establishment of the Thirteen Original Colonies. Across a century and a half, the series opens with the loss of the Roanoke Colony in 1590, and concludes shortly after the establishment of the Georgia Colony in 1732. Part Seven opens with Kellen Plascomb preparing to take delivery of his family's newest vessel, a yacht built in Boston by the Marshall-Fauseth Shipwrights. Quaker oppression in Massachusetts and other New England colonies continues, led by Puritan Governor John Endecott. Meanwhile, the death of Oliver Cromwell plunges England into political chaos as members of the Parliament, including Puritans, suddenly losing their powerbase, clash with the military and intriguing government officials, all clamoring to gain political control. Simultaneously, General George Monck, Governor of all Scotland, plans a march on London to establish order and the Restoration of Charles Stuart as King Charles II to the English throne as the rightful King of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the English monarchy returns. Slavery begins it dawn in the colonies as colonial assemblies begin to address various legal cases pushing the slowly evolving question of slavery to the legal and social forefront, and Peter Stuyvesant continues to lead the Dutch New Netherland Colony through several Indian Wars and the settling of new towns and villages in the colony. Witch trials cast Hartford into a panic, while four Quakers surrender their lives for their indomitable faith. All the while, the Plascomb family continues to expand its business empire, but soon must address the question of slavery as it begins to take hold in Virginia, potentially putting them out of business if they continue to hire indentured servants because they refuse to have slaves on their plantations. And with the English Restoration, new colonies begin forming in North America through vast land grants made to those loyal to King Charles II.
