Thank you!!! Accessed your generous free Kindle version and have been reading away about your family genealogy. Skimming that part now to get to the “good stuff.” ;-)
I’ve never been interested in genealogy as dates. My interest is bringing the dead back to life by letting them shine as people one more time. These people were fascinating to me because they were right in the center of history.
Henry’s brother John brought the Dutch Reform Church together as it was about to schism. Henry’s brother Gilbert, according to The What Ifs of History, might have been responsible for the adoption of the US Constitution when he voted for NY’s acceptance of it. And his cousins were the signers and the forefathers. Henry, himself, marched to invade Canada in 1775, after Bunker Hill.
I love genealogy’s little stories. Watts Sherman acting as constable and climbing down the chimney to take back a stolen silk dress. The future wife of the originator of the anti-slavery society being taken in for years by Alexander Hamilton after her mother’s death, and being driven to dancing lessons by the lady across the street, Martha Washington. These stories turn these people real for me.
Jump to near the very end for the statistics.