Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
Essay Four: A Letter to Mr. Joseph
To complete this assignment:
1. Create a document entitled, “Essay Four: Letter to Mister Joseph.”
2. Working within “Essay Four: Letter to Mr. Joseph.” Write an MLA Style essay that quotes from and provides examples from the documents at the bottom of this assignment. In your essay, explain why your character has decided to join Washington’s Army.
* Here is the perspective and persona from which you will write:
1. It is the Spring of 1777. You are a wheelwright who has recently set up his shop at what is today Fincastle, VA. You have set up a shop here to service the wagons along the Great Valley Road (a trading road in the Shenandoah Valley that led down into the Carolinas) and the families who are beginning to travel what will become the Wilderness Road going through the Roanoke Gap or through to the Cumberland Gap. You are writing your old master–a wheelwright in Philadelphia. He is a loyalist and Tory. You have become a Revolutionary but at one point agreed with your old master. However, you have been much moved by Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech,” Tom Jefferson’s Summary View of the Rights of British America, and–most important–Thomas Paine’s arguments in Common Sense and the “The American Crisis.” You are writing to summarize the particular arguments which have moved you to join Washington’s Army and to explain your decision.
3. Use the following introduction as the beginning of your essay cum letter:
Master Joseph,
I write in response to your favour of January 20th 1777, and I hope my letter finds you, Mistress Joseph, and the business in Philadelphia well and prospering. You were correct. As predicted, I have needed to take on an apprentice and two workers to keep up with those trading along the Valley, planters moving tobacco to the river, and some families who defy the Cherokee and Sioux to go even further into the backcountry by way of Martin’s Station. While the Indians are of much concern westward, they are little concern here at the ford of the Roanoke. As the business prospers, so does Sallay, and she and my health are robust, and she tells me we will soon be adding to the family again. So, it may surprise you to hear I have joined the local militia and will be departing with the Spring thaw to join the Continental Army.
I know from our previous correspondence Joseph Galloway’s speech much moved you in September of 1774 to the first Continental Congress, and Galloway galvanized your decision to remain loyal to the Crown. Master Joseph, I owe you my craft, the advice which allows my business and family to prosper, and my friendship. Knowing you the staunch Tory, my respect for you remains such that I do not wish you to think less of me for joining the cause of the Rebellion, so I write to explain my decision, and I do not wish for you to think I am merely caught up in the moment or come to my decision lightly. So near to the Wilderness, I thought this revolution would be of little consequence to me. Still, I have found myself much moved by the writings of my fellow Virginians, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, and the Pennsylvanian writer, Thomas Paine– particularly his Common Sense and his recent “The American Crisis.” These, combined with General Washington’s success in Trenton have convinced me each of us has a stake in this rebellion and its success.
4. Conclude the letter by summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting particular arguments and quotes from Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Common Sense, and “The American Crisis” which you find convincing and which provide convincing counter-arguments to the points raised by Galloway in his speech. You are aiming to convince Master Joseph you have firm and honorable reasons to join the revolutionary cause and to respond to the arguments raised by Galloway, which you believe have helped convince Master Joseph to remain loyal.
5. After documenting your sources, revising, and proofreading your essay, submit your “Essay 4: Letter to Mr. Joseph” for credit for this assignment.
Texts to Use in Your Essay:
Joseph Galloway
* Speech to the Continental Congress, 28 September 1774
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0004-0006#:~:text=Mr.%20Galloway.%20The,to%20inforce%20his%20Measures.
Thomas Jefferson
* Summary View of the Rights of British America:
https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-summary-view-of-the-rights-of-british-america-2/#:~:text=Source%3A%20%5BThomas%20Jefferson%2C%5D%20A%20Summary%20View%20of%20the%20Rights%20of%20British%20America%3A%20Set%20Forth%20in%20Some%20Resolutions%20Intended%20for%20the%20Inspection%20of%20the%20Present%20Delegates%20of%20the%20People%20of%20Virginia%2C%20Now%20in%20Convention%20(Williamsburg%2C%20Va.%3A%20Clementina%20Rind%2C%201774).%20https%3A//www.wdl.org/en/item/117/
* with the Committee of Five–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman– Declaration of Independence
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Patrick Henry,
* “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/
Tom Paine
* Common Sense, (January 1776)
* Chapter One, “Of the Origin and Design of Government in General”
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/168/common-sense/2961/part-1/
* From The American Crisis, chapter I, 23 December 1776
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf