anyway over father's initial resistance elizabeth mary's william johnston in 1779. now, they don't have much of a honeymoon because against the backdrop -- there early and married -- their early years of married life unfolds against the backdrop of britain's losing campaigns to route the south. and so elizabeth in sub following william johnston threw one city after another as the british pull out. they evacuate from savannah in july of 1782. she has at this time and newborn son, and she is also -- well, he's not that newborn because she is also seven months pregnant at the time. she follows william to charleston where they have to pack up and go. she stays just long enough to give birth to a second child. they again move. she goes on her on with these two very small to children heading off again into the unknown, this time to st. augustine in florida. now, they expect to stay in florida. florida at that time remains loyal. it was not part of the revolution. it was still a british territory, and something like 12,000 loyalists ended up going to florida at this time e

now, william johnston is a doctor, so this is a useful place for him to be.but very soon the diseases of the islands will turn fatally inward on the family as well. so a toddler called jane die of scarlet fever, a baby, then they have a new baby, they name the baby jane -- this is a common practice in the 18th century -- and that baby also dies of smallpox the you would son dies of yellow fever. it's a fatal place for the johnston family. and elizabeth falls into a deep depression. she's as much exhausted in mind and body having no female relation to be with me only black servant t. it's too much for her to bear. she decides to go again. if you think that you've heard a lot about the different places she's going, i mean, just imagine what it's like for her to live through all of this. so she decides to leave this dangerous island behind. and this time they go to nova scotia. the very idea of which horrifies her. william finds this place, he says hey, i've booked you a passage to nova scotia. and she says, what? to be frozen to death? why, better to send us to