Coming soon from author Robert James
Robert James is currently writing his second historical fiction novel. This story concentrates on the Bishop family that settled in Nova Scotia in 1760.
Bishop family tradition has it that in 1692, because of his devotion to his dog, Eleazar Bishop found himself aboard a ship sailing from the Channel Islands to the colony of Connecticut in the New World. 
The first part of this book describes how, separated from his family, he must deal with new friends and hated enemies and the surprise that awaits him at his destination.
The second part, seventy years later, chronicles the decision of Eleazar’s son, John, and his four sons to answer the call for free land in Nova Scotia. The book portrays the circumstances that face each of the men, as individually they must decide to remain in Connecticut or to leave home as New England Planters.
Ship Most of the Bishops in Atlantic Canada descend from four brothers, John, William, Peter and Timothy, who emigrated from Connecticut to Nova Scotia in 1760. Known as New England Planters, they farmed the land left vacant by the expulsion of the Acadians. Former premier Dr. Henry Hicks, Alfred Fuller, the brush man, industrialist Cyrus Eaton and Sir Robert Laid Borden, Prime Minister of Canada count themselves in the thousands of descendants who have spread across North America. 

 

 

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The author can be contacted by email and welcomes your queries or comments. He will be attending the Yorkshire 2000 gathering and the Fawcett Reunion, August 3-10, 2000. As well, he will be conducting book signings for his novel "Reader Be Thou Also Ready", in the Wasaga Beach, Mississauga, and Kingston areas during June and July, 2000.

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