Peggy Owen at Yorktown

A young Quaker girl, Peggy Owen, negotiates the moral tensions of pacifist faith and patriotic sympathy during the American Revolution as she aids soldiers, tends family obligations and endures wartime dangers. The narrative follows her winter near Washington’s encampment, her capture and involuntary stay in occupied New York, and a daring escape from British custody in the southern colonies, often accompanied by her pony Star. Threads include domestic efforts to supply shirts and comforts to troops, friendships strained by illness and suspicion, and the choices that test courage, loyalty, and compassion amid military occupation and divided loyalties.