James Robert Flannery
@scatoma.bsky.social
Posting lost Revolutionary War history from the New York area. I’m particularly focused on uncovering espionage stories, such as those related to what I term the Mathews Brothers Loyalist Spy Network.
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Scroll down to find second edition of the essay including these important additions to the prompt:
April 2, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Scroll down to find second edition of the essay including these important additions to the prompt:
Chevignard, Bernard. “St. John de Crèvecoeur in the Looking Glass: ‘Letters from an American Farmer’ and the Making of a Man of Letters.” Early American Literature 19, no. 2 (1984): 173–90. www.jstor.org/stable/25056....
St. John de Crèvecoeur in the Looking Glass: "Letters from an American Farmer" and the Making of a Man of Letters on JSTOR
Bernard Chevignard, St. John de Crèvecoeur in the Looking Glass: "Letters from an American Farmer" and the Making of a Man of Letters, Early American Literature, Vol. 19, No. 2, Special European Issue (Fall, 1984), pp. 173-190
www.jstor.org
March 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Chevignard, Bernard. “St. John de Crèvecoeur in the Looking Glass: ‘Letters from an American Farmer’ and the Making of a Man of Letters.” Early American Literature 19, no. 2 (1984): 173–90. www.jstor.org/stable/25056....
This is absent from the local record of course. There is so little awareness of de Crevecouer left here the mystery which side was responsible his wife’s killing doesn’t register as a story, but for me it’s huge. He was a French spy converted to an American double agent I believe.
March 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is absent from the local record of course. There is so little awareness of de Crevecouer left here the mystery which side was responsible his wife’s killing doesn’t register as a story, but for me it’s huge. He was a French spy converted to an American double agent I believe.
Not only was Rev. Inglis attained (and therefore subject to capital punishment if caught) his wife was as well. The case for this seems incompletely preserved. I think of Rev. Inglis’s case as one of the main reasons the founders wanted separation of church and state enshrined.
February 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Not only was Rev. Inglis attained (and therefore subject to capital punishment if caught) his wife was as well. The case for this seems incompletely preserved. I think of Rev. Inglis’s case as one of the main reasons the founders wanted separation of church and state enshrined.
I’m intrigued by Inglis’s alias “New York Farmer” in 1774 as the parsonage that Rev. Sayre was using at “Bellomont” (I theorize the Back Lot dwelling on Shea Farm) would have been vacant. Combine this with info above about Inglis spending time here coaxing loyalty to crown.
February 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’m intrigued by Inglis’s alias “New York Farmer” in 1774 as the parsonage that Rev. Sayre was using at “Bellomont” (I theorize the Back Lot dwelling on Shea Farm) would have been vacant. Combine this with info above about Inglis spending time here coaxing loyalty to crown.
“Inglis visited extensively in Dutchess and Ulster counties ‘to warn his friends in the country as well as in the city of the evils that were approaching... and he could name many whom he confirmed in Loyalty when wavering or whom he prevented from joining in the rebellion.’”
February 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“Inglis visited extensively in Dutchess and Ulster counties ‘to warn his friends in the country as well as in the city of the evils that were approaching... and he could name many whom he confirmed in Loyalty when wavering or whom he prevented from joining in the rebellion.’”