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Author Johnson, Richard R., 1942-

Title John Nelson, merchant adventurer : a life between empires / Richard R. Johnson.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.
Contents I. Acadian Beginnings; II. Trader to the Eastward; III. Seeking "to Live Indifferent"; IV. Revolution and Rejection; V. From Quebec to the Bastille; VI. At King William's Whitehall; VII. "Your Very Loving Father"; VIII. "Crusht Between the Two Crownes"; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.
Summary John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came," who "responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures." For Nelson, this meant trading out of Boston to the French and Indians of Canada, pursuing his family's dreams of the proprietorship of Nova Scotia, and promoting schemes of espionage and military conquest on both sides of the Atlantic. In the course of a long and adventurous life, Nelson served as middleman bet.
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Subject Nelson, John, -1734.
Nelson, John, -1734.
Nelson, John, approximately 1654-1734.
Nelson, John, m. 1734.
Adventure and adventurers -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.
Merchants.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
Chronological Term 1600-1775
Indexed Term Colonisation
United States
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Johnson, Richard R., 1942- John Nelson, merchant adventurer. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (DLC) 90033286
ISBN 1423736982 (electronic book)
9781423736981 (electronic book)
1601297785
9781601297785
9780195065053
0195065050
128052510X
9781280525100
0195065050