That’s pretty neat that you have those kind of stories about your family. I can’t say that I have any 150 year old silverware from my family or any letters from Valley Forge, but I am descended from Revolutionary war Patriots and have copies of some of their Revolutionary War pension applications. It’s pretty neat to get to hear about what they went through and be proud of what kind of people they were. The principles that they fought for in the Revolution need to be protected and preserved, especially in our time when they are so strongly being attacked. By the way, I have a lot of ancestors in the US in the 1600s. Maybe we are distant cousins. ;-)
I’ll bet we are. I think when you go back far enough in a fairly sparsely populated area, you’ll find a lot of links!