| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.3

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British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775–1783: The Role of the "Middling-level" Activists. By Sheldon S. Cohen. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2004. xvi, 181 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $75.)

At the outbreak of the American Revolution, individuals throughout the British Empire were faced with an important, and often complicated, decision: what side would they take in that conflict and how would they act on that stance. Inspired by work such as Alfred Young's study of George Robert Twelve Hewes, Cohen profiles five middling British men who chose to overtly support the American cause during the war. In doing so he pays a long-overdue debt to his subjects: William Hodgson, a merchant; Thomas Wren, a Presbyterian minister; Reuben Harvey, an Irish, Quaker merchant; Robert Heath, an evangelical deacon and silversmith; and Griffith Williams, a Welsh apothecary.

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