Notes on The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America, By Joy Day Buel & Richard Buel Jr. : In the Book the Way of Duty, the life and hardships of Mary Fish Silliman is described with remarkable detail and conveys an understanding of this woman, and other women, during the American Revolution. Many lives, not just those of women were immensely disturbed and changed during this period in time. Mary’s experience touches upon several of the issues the people of this time went through in an intimate and detailed way so that those of us unfamiliar with life during these