The United States of America began in a savage wilderness, by scattered groups of English families, whose later migration - augmented by newer arrivals from Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and from many other parts of the world - absorbed not a little of the territory, the blood, and the culture of the Dutch, the French, and the Spanish, which they met in their paths towards the establishment of a great nation. The story which follows, is a personal narrative of one such family through those three centuries: the life, environment and activities in peace and in war, of ten consecutive generations, father to son - which entirely constitute a continuous thread in that allimportant background, without which, the greater personages in our nation's history could not have played their glorious parts. BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN Table of Contents PE TER AND HIS COMPANY ----------- 14 An early 'Western' migration: The Dutch: |