Blue Meadow
Wallace, Mary
The Staffords, lately come from England, are wealthy farmers in the valley of the Brandywine, not far from Philadelphia. The American Revolution in its early stages does not touch their lives. Massachusetts is far away, and they are preoccupied with their own affairs, and in any case they have no quarrel with either the Patriots or the Crown. But then the war comes closer: to New York, to New Jersey, and eventually to southeastern Pennsylvania. They find themselves caught in its cross currents, their goods and livestock subject to seizure by both armies, their own lives no longer safe.