First introduced in Gone For a Soldier and The Angel of 1776.
Fist appears in Gone For a Soldier
Historical figure. A physician and colonel in the Loyal New Jersey Militia. He was sentenced to hang after the War but pardoned by Washington and banished to Nova Scotia.
Jacob Van Buskirk is an historical figure.
The son of Abraham Van Buskirk and Sophia Van Dam, Jacob was a lieutenant in the loyalist New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution. He was sentenced to hang after the War but pardoned by Washington and banished to Nova Scotia.
First appears in Gone For a Soldier.
John Langdon served in the Continental Congress and was one of the first two United States senators from New Hampshire.
John Langdon
Appears in Gone For a Soldier
Dr. Joseph Warren is an historical figure who, with Samuel Adams, formed a Committee of Correspondence in Massachusetts to protest the British decisions that removed from the colony any means of controlling public officials. Warren was killed June 17, 1775 during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Appears in Gone For a Soldier
Samuel Adams is an historical figure considered to be one of the founding fathers of the United States.
He was a second cousin to President John Adams.
Major Thomas Van Buskirk in Gone For a Soldier is an historical character.
Sent to Von Ruthann’s Military Academy in New York at age 5, then to Woolwich in London at ten., commissioned as an ensign at 14. Veteran of the French and Indian War where he served with George Washington.
Appears in Gone For a Soldier
John Van Buskirk is a composite based upon several historical characters.
Appears in Gone For a Soldier
Anna Livingston Van Buskirk is a fictional character based upon a female spy code named Agent 355 who was part of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution. Agent 355′s real identity is unknown but it is believed that she was a member of a prominent Loyalist family who had social access to British commanders.