Families

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Our Dutch Ancestors
in New Amsterdam

Purcell and Van Woggelum

Universally acclaimed as the greatest city in the Western Hemisphere, founded in 1624 as New Amsterdam capital of New Neitherlands its diversity marks it as the source for any sense of freedom and tolerance that still remains in America today.

Our Earliest American Ancestors
At Jamestown, Virginia

Slavery in the Family

The liberal concept of freedom explicated by Milton and John Stewart Mill emphasizes small government staying out of our lives. Government should not block people from doing what they want to do. This is negative freedom -- no law preventing you from acting.

The positive concept of freedom appears in the preamble to the Constitution: one of the purposes of government is to promote the general welfare, i.e., to help people establish a better way of life, to support such things as science, education, health and the environment making it more probable that more people would be able to live fuller lives.

Our Southern Ancestors

Chart: Ancestors
In Maryland and Virginia

Thomas Family From Wales

Pattens in Virginia and Georgia

Slavery in Our Families

Our Massachusetts
Puritan Ancestors:

The Lippincott Family

and

The Wooley Family

Foxwell 1634 Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Bacon Family

The Puritans were self-important and self-righteous zealots imposing their theocratic form of government rooted in hatred and rejection of the religious beliefs of others. One Puritan president of Harvard University said that tolerance was the "first born of all abominations" "Tis Satan's policy to plead for an indefinite and boundless toleration."

Thee Island at the Center of the World, pp. 300-301

Irish Ancestors

Steer

McBride

Grace Varman

Patten

Authors

Margaret Hope Borchardt Bacon

Mary C. Test: On Sitting Still
Mary C. Brantingham Test 1869–1961