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Selected Ancestors of Nelson McMahon and Louise Rathbun

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When Nelson McMahon married Louise Rathbun, they forever linked his ancestral families from the Middle Atlantic with hers harkening back to New England. After the American Revolutionary War, his ancestors moved south into Virginia, while hers moved west across New York state. Both sides of the family made their way into the Midwest before the Civil War would have placed them on opposite sides.

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.

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 Descendants of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, Massachusetts

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From the co-author of the award-winning Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts, comes the first full account of the Saltonstall family in more than a century. Famous in America for almost four hundred years, it is easy to forget that members of three successive generations in the 17th century spent time in (or were threatened with) prison.

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