Miss Whittier Makes a List (Paperback)
In the early s,seventeen-year-old Hannah Whittier is traveling by ship down the coast from her Quaker home in Massachusetts to her brother's house in Charleston,South Carolina. To while away the dull hours,Hannah composes a list of qualities she wants in a husband. Boredom will soon be the least of her worries. First the Molly Claridge is boarded by the British frigate,H.M.S. Dissuade,and forced to turn over any supposed Englishmen. Later the American vessel is blown out of the water by a French m