1769. While many American colonists are angry at royal taxes, loyal merchant John Treegate sails to London and appeals to the government there. Alone, son Peter 11 is apprenticed to a maker of barrel staves, but his senior is vicious, leading to murder, shipwreck, amnesia, and adoption by a Scot, until the climax at the battle for American independence.

The story picks up where the first Treegate series book ended, at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill. Peter and the Maclaren are captured by the British and placed on a prison ship in Boston Harbor. They escape with the help of Peace of God Manly, a New England sea captain, and the three become part of the crew of a ship carrying gunpowder to the Colonial army in Boston. The story takes them from Boston to New York to the crossing of the Delaware and back to the mountains of South Carolina.

\\\ An American Library Association Notable Children's Book \\\ The year is 1777, and America is in danger of losing the Revolutionary War because of the British blockade... Benjamin Franklin is sent to Paris to seek an alliance with France, but how will he ever be able to convince the French that the American battle is worth joining—especially when the French are still licking their wounds from their own loss to the mighty British Navy? Franklin's only chance to prove the British Navy is not invincible—and that the American colonists are determined to fight to the end—is to put one unlikely fisherman from Massachusetts named Peace of God Manly (whom we met in Peter Treegate's War ) in command of the sloop of war Hornet with orders to attack British ships in their own waters. In this third book in the Treegate Series, Leonard Wibberley paints an exciting and authentic picture of this neglected but critical chapter in the Revolutionary War, mixing real historical figures such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the Earl of Sandwich with the fiery, cunning, and devout sea captain from Salem. Readers will learn about the Revolutionary War from the American, British and French points of view. Sea Captain from Salem is the third in a seven-book series, which makes a great companion to study the Revolutionary War era. Recommended by the Seton Home Study Grade 8. THE TREEGATE BOOK Book 1: John Treegate's Musket Book 2: Peter Treegate's War Book 3: Sea Captain from Salem Book 4: Treegate's Raiders Book 5: Leopard's Prey Book 6: Manly Treegate Frontiersman (formerly titled Red Pawns) Book 7: The Last Battle Each book in the series is complete to itself and can be enjoyed if read in any order. However, for greatest reading pleasure, it's recommended that the books be read in sequence. The acclaimed seven-book series chronicling the adventures of the generations of the Treegate family from the birth of the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812, ending at the Battle of New Orleans is also available in a 7-Book Bundle exclusively on Kindle.

The fourth and final book in the Peter Treegate series follows Peter through the final years of the Revolutionary War. Peter leads a band of Carolina mountain men in a series brutal engagements fought in the southern colonies from 1780 to the final surrender of the British at Yorktown in August 1781.

In this first of a trilogy we see the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it through the eyes of twelve year old Manly Treegate, an orphan growing up in the home of his uncle Peter Treegate in Salem, Massachusetts. Manly, an American citizen, is impressed against his will to serve on the British frigate Leopard in 1807. He experiences the cruelties of life in the British navy and sees action in several battles as a powder boy before falling overboard during a battle against a French warship off the coast of Haiti. Peter is rescued by Haitian pirates and finally finds his way home to Boston.

Manly and Peter Treegate find themselves aboard the same ship off the West Indies as captain and midshipman respectively during the War of 1812.