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Westward to Destiny A Denison Family Saga

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The great-great-grandson of Captain George Denison returns from the Revolutionary War to the reality that he must move west for fertile soil and his family's future. With 40 of his kin (Gallup, Thompson, Chesebrough and Gardiner descendants), Robert Denison leaves Stonington, Connecticut to settle near Albany, New York and suffer years of turmoil, which ultimately culminate in murder. Rebelling from the repression, the family disperses westward and settles in Canada. Four generations later, after 100 years as farmers in Ontario, the Denisons move to the United States.

William Brewster: The Making of a Pilgrim

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Author and historian Sue Allan has extensively researched Brewster’s early years in Scrooby and elsewhere in England, and here presents an original and insightful view of how he developed into the man who would spiritually lead and nurture the congregation at Plymouth Colony.

In order to understand Brewster, the man, it is necessary to study the life and times within which he developed as a youth. A study of his family – his father, mother, grandparents, and siblings – provides the foundation.

The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families of the Mayflower

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The Mayflower 500 outlines the Mayflower descents of 585 figures in American history or contemporary life. Included are political, literary, or artistic figures; actors, actresses, or musicians; inventors; military officers; explorers; business leaders; scientists; social scientists; college presidents and religious notables; athletes; and even two circus performers. A first appendix covers 50 more figures descended from brothers of John Howland or Gov.

Pilgrim Edward Winslow: New England’s First International Diplomat — A Documentary Biography

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Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs’s biography of Edward Winslow is now back in print as our first publication bearing the American Ancestors 2020 logo! Dr. Bangs, director of the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, uses fascinating primary source documents to examine Winslow’s long career of public service as a leader and representative of Plymouth Colony’s Pilgrims. This important work provides a detailed study of colony finances and political relations, placing Plymouth Colony in the midst of a lively Atlantic world of commerce and migration.

By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs

The Pierponts of Roxbury Massachusetts

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Author: Helen Schatvet Ullmann, FASG
Published: 2008

 The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts, are a particularly interesting family of ship’s captains, millers, town selectmen, merchants, builders, ministers and a very few farmers. Ullmann brings her thorough research skills to this family, focusing on descendants through John Pierpont’s son Ebenezer and Robert Pierpont’s sons, Jonathan and James.

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