Well I didn’t know until I researched dad’s side of the family that one of Sinclair’s descendants is related to Columbus by marriage. It’s been a while but it may have been that Columbus married one of Sinclairs granddaughters or g-grandaughters. It was fairly in close line to Sinclair. Some think that may have been where Columbus got the idea to head this way....I’d have to go look it up again to be precise...
...it’s fun to think about anyway...
That's interesting; afaik, Columbus' exact origin isn't ever quite certain. The Americas were known before Columbus, and he did research in Iceland regarding the lands to the west. Instead of concluding correctly that 'new' lands were involved, he decided that the fairly accurate figure for the circumference of the Earth estimated by Eratosthenes of Cyrene almost 1800 years before Columbus' time was wrong by more than half, and that China could be reached by sailing east. He didn't abandon that idea until well after most of the learned people of Europe as well as its politicians had concluded otherwise. His family then went to court (early in the 16th century) over compensation for the supposedly promised share of the New World loot, and that got settled for much less but a still decent haul.