TY - BOOK AU - Wibberley,Leonard TI - John Treegate's musket U1 - FIC WIB PY - 1959/// CY - New York PB - Ariel Books KW - United States KW - Juvenile fiction KW - History KW - Revolution, 1775-1783 KW - Fiction N2 - In 1769, just after his pro-Royalist father has sailed for England on business, 11 year-old Peter Treegate of Boston unwittingly becomes involved in a dock murder. Fleeing arrest he takes refuge on an American cargo ship which is subsequently wrecked off the the South Carolina coast. Peter is rescued by a Scotsman who, in 1775, helps him rejoin his father, now an embattled American patriot, ready to fight at Bunker Hill. ER -