Walter, I was wondering which John Stilwell you are referring to in the title of the book? (Of course, there were many John Stilwells in the Stil(l)well family.) The title is interesting to me, though. My great-grandmother's maiden name was Stilwell. One of her great-grandfathers, John Daniel Stilwell (1737-1823), left America during the Revolution and settled in Canada, where he died. (New Brunswick, I believe.) He did this for numerous reasons: 1. He was loyalist who supported Britain during the war. 2. He was a Quaker and, therefore, a pacifist. He refused to fight. We believe that some of his children and other American Stilwell relatives might have crossed over into Canada in the 1770s with him to avoid the Revolution, so it's possible that some Stilwells in Canada are related to the American branch of the family.