Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Mary Geddy, a ten-year-old girl in Williamsburg in 1776, is excited about the colony of Virginia's vote for independence, but sad that her best friend, whose father is loyal to the crown, will be moving back to England, and worried that the vote will mean her father must fight in a war.

Through a question-and-answer format and illustrations, readers go back to the early 1770s and learn what life in the busy colonial outpost was like.

Gives a close-up look at how the war for independence played out for ordinary citizens such as women, blacksmiths, and enslaved people in colonial Williamsburg.