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It is fall 1759. The saga of Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick steps to Caxton, a small trading town on the York River in Virginia, some miles up the wide river from Yorktown. Jack Frake, after having served his eight-year indenture, is a successful cigarette planter, having inherited his property from his previous expert, with whom he developed a detailed father-son marriage. He committed the master's child, but she and her kid perished in childbirth. His close friend on the plantation is John Proudlocks, an Indian whom he trained to read. Other planters' properties lay down on the outskirts of Caxton, including Reese Vishonn's, the greatest planter. Hugh Kenrick gets there in Caxton on the Sparrowhawk on the day information arrives of Basic Wolfe's victory over Montcalm in Quebec. He has put in many years in Philadelphia, participating in an academy and learning the trade and business in the shop of Otis Talbot, a vendor he fulfilled years before in Great britain. After touring a bankrupt plantation, Brougham Hall, with Talbot, he determines to purchase it--and its slaves. He's asked to a victory ball at Reece Vishonn's great house at his plantation, Enderly. There he satisfies Étaín McRae, the child of a Scottish investor, and Jack Frake. As gossip and gossips fly around Caxton about Hugh Kenrick's position and his intentions, Hugh determines on a name for his new possession: Meum Hall--My Hall. Hugh is asked to call on Francis Fauquier, Esquire, lieutenant governor of Virginia, in Williamsburg. Within the governor's mansion, the lieutenant governor and Hugh have a frank exchange of views on the battle, on North America, on the Indians, and on Britain's mercantilist hang on the colonies.
