EATON, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

The Famous Mather Byles. TheNoted Boston Tory, Preacher, Poet, and Wit, 1707-1788.

Boston. W.A.Butterfield. 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. 21cm, 258p., frontis portrait, 18 plates,notes, index, maroon cloth, gilt titles, bookplate, wanting the frontfree fly else very good to fine (clhmds). ~ The biography of aprominent Bostonian who remained a Loyalist throughout the Revolution.Although his son, Mather junior, left for Halifax, Nova Scotia, MatherByles remained in Boston for the rest of his life, regarded as a traitor.A genealogical chapter on the Byles family is included. Item #35869

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