My Maternal 5th Great Grandfather, married Margaret Ann Daughtery

Surveyor & Frontiersman, his Daughter’s Carnton Plantation was Chosen for a NY Times Best Selling Novel

My 7th Paternal Great Grandfather, married Dorothy Bond Blunt

Lived the Good Life on Two Inheritances.

My Paternal 7th Great Grandfather, married Deliverance Alger

Mayflower Descendent, settled in the Plymouth Colony in Bridgewater

My Paternal 6th Great Grandfather, wife unknown

Lived Life in Wild and Crazy Bertie County

My Paternal 6th, 5th and 4th Great Grandfathers, married Patience Healty, Priscilla Williams & Unknown

FIve Sons Fought in the Revolutionary War, One Without a Weapon Paid a Terrible Price

My Maternal 6th, 5th & 4th Great Grandfathers, married May Ruth Fenford, Elizabeth Cooper, & Margaret C Williams

The Dismal Swamp, Historic Culong Plantation, Father & Three Sons Fought in the Revolutionary War

My Maternal 6th Great Grandfather, married Margaret Caldwell

Building a Settlement, Small Pox and Mohawk Adoption

My Maternal 4th Great Grandfather, married Elizabeth “Betsy” Rutter

Capt. in the Cornstalk Militia, Helped Secure Frontier Borders against Native Attacks, Donated Land for the City of Salem, Divorced his Wife for “Leaving his House and Board”.

My Paternal 5th Great Grandfather, wife unknown

Tar and Turpentine & the Shadow of War

My Paternal 5th Great Grandfather, Married Penelope Coffield

Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Great Grandfather to the The Unstoppable Major General Bryan Grimes Jr

My Maternal 5th Great Grandfather, wife unknown

Owned Four Schooners, Sailed Treacherous Pirate Ridden Seas

Five generations from Capt. Christopher Marchant to Gideon Marchant III - a legacy at Sea, French Huguenot Immigrant, Privateers, Sea Captains

My Maternal 5th Great Grandfather & 4th Great Grandmother, married Lettice & William Phillips

Massacre, Mayhem, Murder and Epigenetics

My Maternal 5th Great Grandmother, married William Kelley, II

Accused of Being Insane.

My Maternal 4th Great Grandfather, married Dolly Baum

Wealthy Sea Captain, his Son was Embalmed in a Rum Barrel at Sea

My Maternal 4th Great Grandfather, married Elizabeth Melle Burrows

Tumultuous Childhood followed by a Life behind the Pulpit

My Maternal 4th Great Grandmother, married James Wilbourne Kelley

Matriarch of a Very Prolific family. One of her Grandsons was Murdered for Money, Another Made a Fortune in the Grocery Store Business