John Robert Shaw
Teagarden, Oressa M. / Crabtree, Jeanne L.![John Robert Shaw](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/927/9278982/CHSBZCOP039278982.jpg)
In the summer of 1807 more than a thousand subscribers from New England to Tennessee paid for the initial printing of The Life and Travels of John Robert Shaw: A Narrative of the Life and Travels of the Well-Digger, now resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Written by Himself. Shaw had come to Rhode Island as a British redcoat to put down the colonial rebellion. Through various quirks of fate, including being taken a prisoner of war, he ended up fi...