williamsburg (va.)

In 1771, Will befriends a slave who is held prisoner in his father's jail. Will must decide whether to inform his father about the slave's intention to escape.

In Williamsburg in 1775, as events threaten to plunge the colonies into war with Britain, eleven-year-old John feels caught between the revolutionary sentiments of his older brother and his father's insistence on a more temperate and patient course of action.

In 1765, twelve-year-old Nancy worries about effect of the British Stamp Act on her father's silversmith business in Williamsburg and about how to get along with her new stepmother.

Mary Geddy, a ten-year-old girl in Williamsburg in 1776, is excited about the colony of Virginia's vote for independence, but sad that her best friend, whose father is loyal to the crown, will be moving back to England, and worried that the vote will mean her father must fight in a war.

After having been a slave on Carter's Grove plantation near Williamsburg, Virginia, since childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future.

Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics.

Focuses on events in the household of a white family and its African-American slaves in colonial Williamsburg in the eighteenth century.

In volume two in a six-volume American Girl series, nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg is sent to Miss Manderly's to learn manners and etiquette and meets a young English girl, Elizabeth, but when the king's taxes forces a boycott on tea, Felicity's tea lessons may be in jeopardy.

In volume six in a six-volume American Girl series, nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg is worried that Jiffy Nye will make trouble again and her English friend, Elizabeth's, father is jailed for being a Loyalist.

In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper.