Our Extraordinary Ancestors: The Ancestors of Clinton Wilbur Pearson and Bessie Adelaide White - 4366

The author compiled this family history using her own research and that of many near and distant cousins who shared their findings. The ancestors of Clinton Pearson were participants in the founding of what would one day be these United States. Most of them came from England, and were the settlers and founders of Rhode Island Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Nantucket Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. They arrived between 1620 and 1640 for the most part, and included Quaker ministers, and people who were jailed, fined, beaten, whipped and persecuted simply because of their religious beliefs. The Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whitter wrote a poem expressing the experience of one young relative sitting in prison, waiting to be put on the slave auction block. Other ancestors were veterans of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. One was a Member of Parliament in England and three arrived on the Mayflower. One man was banished from town because he kissed his wife on the Sabbath. The Pellett family was able to keep their heads but had associates who did not, being executed for High Treason. The Campbell family was blamed for a massacre. Some family lines are traced back up to 20 generations.The 65 surnames found in Clinton’s extensive family trees include Allen, Bird, Bourne, Brinsmade, Brownell, Campbell, Carr, Coffin, Cooke, Cowper, Hathaway, Holloway, Howland, Ironside, Kellogg, Kirby, Mahieu, McTeer, Mosher, Mott, Parsons, Pellett, Perpoynt, Pierson, Sherman, Sloan, Slocum, Southwick, Starbuck, Tripp, Warde, Wheeler, Wilbur, Wooster and more. Included among some of the cousins who show up in these pages are U.S. Presidents, vice presidents, a British Prime Minister, a few famous Generals, notable abolitionists, writers, poets, philosophers, abolitionists, actors and actresses, singers, an aviatrix, and the Duchess of Sussex Bessie White’s ancestors primarily came from England and Belgium, and the book reveals new information that takes the reader back to the 16th century, long before there was a Kingdom of Belgium. Some of the 28 surnames covered are Braconnier, De Meyer, De Vos, Dhaenens, Goddaert, Gorez, Haley, Huysmans, Lourette, Maujour, Rimeur, Schollaert, Van Landuyt, White and others. The ten page chapter on The Genetic Evidence explains the results obtained via Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-DNA testing at Family Tree DNA and Ancestry. Indexed and illustrated, with a 38 page Bibliography, the book should be useful to family researchers and genealogists who are related to these and allied families.
ASIN: 0999652605
VSKU: BVV.0999652605.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Salsbery, Janice Pearson
Binding: Paperback