John Treegate's Musket / Leonard

First title in the acclaimed Treegate Series set in colonial America. It is 1769, ten years since America's colonial militia had joined with the British regular army and defeated the French fo domination of Canada. The curret of feeling about what it means to be loyal to the King has changed, While many colonists are angry about England's unjust taxation, wealthy merchant John Treegate remains fiercely loyal and ceetain that an agreement can be reached between the colonies and their mother country. Decising to travel to England to appeal to the government there, means leaving his motherless, eleven-year-old son Peter on his own, apprenticed to one of Treegate's friends, a manufacturer of barrel staves. Peter's new master is not severe, byt the senior apprentice is a vicious bully and worse. A chain of events leads to trouble for Pete involving murder, shipwreck, loss of memory and adoption by a strange and bitter Scotsman. Will Peter finally be reunited with his father on the eve of America's battle for independance?

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