Recent Revolution Research

This reminds me a bit of John Wentworth vs. Peter Livius, in pre-Revolution New Hampshire. Wentworth, the only former governor to survive the Revolution, ending up the Governor of Nova Scotia, and Livius who was appointed one of the first Supreme Court justices of Canada to stop his apparent attack as "Americus" in the London press on Wentworth, while awaiting the hearing on the accused nepotism of the Wentworth family in allotting privilege, property and rights in New Hampshire, which at the time included parts of today's Vermont. An excellent recent historical study was done of it and one wonders how much of it was part of the American cause of jurisprudence, perhaps now overlooked ("Governor John Wentworth & the American Revolution: The English Connection" by Paul W. Wilderson, c) 1994, The University Press of New England). My friend has a cabin on Tuftonboro Neck outside Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, the neck which Livius once owned and the family he represented by marriage, and nearby Governor Wentworth's place, the "oldest summer resort" in America because of it, the former Governor's site is on Lake Wentworth near the big Lake Winnepeasauki where Bob and Libby Dole bought a judge's place, a friend of theirs.