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There’s adventure aplenty when an Anglican priest, Maynard Hyghcock, is forced to become a whiskey smuggler to support his church in 1680’s colonial Delaware. Partnered with his servant Kwami and helped by Native American warriors, Maynard becomes a smuggler while baffling the British Naval officer assigned to capture and hang him. Follow our good priest as he wins the love of the beautiful young widow who runs the local tavern, and thrill to this exciting cast of characters that includes pirates, smugglers, Indians, Africans, and colonists. |
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“Set in the 1680’s, The Hyghcock Chronicles by E. Michael Fisher and James C. Bird is a rollicking story of illicit trade and tax evasion in the newly formed colonies of New York. …Birds, boats, Swedes, Dutch, Finns, English, Native Indians, and the African, Kwami, a hurricane, all deliver an enthralling story of adventure… The characters of this story are strong and individual and the authors E. Michael Fisher and James C. Bird deliver a sense of reality from early settlement days. The Hyghcock Chronicles - Published by Whiskey Creek Press - is well worth the read!”
Reviewed By: Dakota Wind of Rolling Seas
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“This is weird.... I liked the Hyghcock Chronicles. My husband liked the Hyghcock Chronicles. My 17 year old son liked the Hyghcock Chronicles. So thank you thank you - I don't believe that's ever happened in my house before!”
...from our mailbox.
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The Hyghcock Chronicles -- fast paced adventure, wonderfully developed characters, gripping story Though a fast paced adventure, the reader is still on intimate terms with the characters and is immersed in a vibrant depiction of life in the mid-Atlantic colonies of the 1680's.
The Hyghcock Chronicles follow the rise and fall, and the subsequent rises and falls, of common born Maynard Hyghcock after he becomes the protege of the Duke of York, becomes an Anglican priest, immigrates to the Duke's holdings in present day Delaware, loses his livelihood, and turns to smuggling to continue his ministry.
His (sic) accomplices include a beautiful widow who owns a local tavern, a freed African bondsman, and a number of the area's native tribesmen whose adventures take them up and down both the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. Maynard is friends with the local constable and a Lt. of the Royal Navy who have been seeking to catch and hang the smuggling ring, but are unaware of the identity of the perpetrators.
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