Posted by amy at March 16th, 2007

The History Carnival is up at Early Modern Notes and includes a entry from Walking the Berkshires on “”I am wronged. It is a shameful thing that you should mind these folks that are out of their wits.”: Ancestors in the Witch Hysteria”.

I spent an evening this week pouring over a long lost family genology file, marveling several strains of my father’s family can trace their roots back to the 1620s and it appears as if the generational timing was off just enough that no one fought in any major conflict, not the Revolution, the War of 1812, The Civil War, WW1 or WWII or Korea/Vietnam. There was one family that fled Salem, Massachusetts in the late 1600s because of religious persecution, and another who went to Lawrence, Kansas in 1856 - we have no evidence that they were abolishionists (and even less that they were pro-slavery southernerns), but the timing and the journey itself, from Lowell, Massachusetts, leads me to believe they were some how involved in what has become known as “Bleeding Kansas.”

Must stop procrastinating, back to the 1960s.