Family History
In early September a comment arrived on one of this blog's Facebook posts, from a descendant of a Louisiana blacksmith's line, asking a question this project hears in many forms: can my Culvers be traced to yours? The family had done its work — they had a
Family History
Run a finger down the records asking what they did for a living: bread, beer, wheels, shoes, land, flour, cheese, shirts, and the telephone — three centuries of the licensed trade a town cannot do without.
genealogy
In March of 1676 — March 1675/6 by the reckoning then in use, when the year turned in late March and a winter month carried two dates — the Council of Connecticut sat at Hartford answering letters from a colony on fire. King Philip's War had burned through the
genealogy
Last week I told the story of Sarah Culver, who stood up in the county court at New London in November of 1719 and told four magistrates that they were an adulterous generation and that God would find them out, and was sentenced to fifteen stripes upon the naked body
Family History
Seventeen words to four magistrates of Connecticut, and a sentence of fifteen stripes on the naked body — the woman the family forgot while it chased a governor.