Book Review
Captain Hale’s Covenant: The Saga of an American Merchant Prince
By Thomas E. Crocker Published by McBooks Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot 429 pages $29.95 The years known as the Federal Period (1783-1822) were a time of unprecedented expansion for the fledgling United States of America, on both the largely unexplored continent and the Atlantic Ocean. As the closest American port to Europe, Portland, Maine prospered greatly from sea trade. Adam Hale, an industrious and self-made captain, had been a blockade runner during the Revolutionary War….