Thanks for sharing your family history with us. It’s always interesting to read new source material that hasn’t been previously known.
My family seems to have been dedicated writers all the way back.
Capt Martin Cregier’s Journal of the Esopus Wars - 1663
https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/journal-esopus-war-captain-martin-cregier
Rev John Livingstone - 1666
https://www.henrylivingston.com/bios/jl/jl-lifeofjohnlivingstone-p127-129.htm
Major Henry Livingston Jr’s War Journal - 1775
https://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/prose/revdiary.htm
Colonel Henry Bicker’s Valley Forge Order Book - 1778
https://iment.com/maida/familytree/gibson/orderbook2ndpa-1.htm
Even the book of my father’s poetry that I got into genealogy to find turned out to be in the Harvard special collection. His mother’s book was in the Brown University special collection. His father’s writing is scattered everywhere but I’ve been collecting it to eventually put out together.