Explore Taylor Swift’s diverse ancestry, which includes connections to Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers and French Canadian pioneers.
Category: Colonial America
Discover the life of Edward Ketcham, a Puritan settler who lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony, Long Island and Connecticut during the 1600s.
John Cornwall was a Loyalist during the American Revolution who, following the war, settled in Essex County, where he became a politician
Thomas Rood, who arrived in the Connecticut Colony in the 1630s, is infamous for a scandalous family affair that shocked his community.
Robert Seeley, a Puritan who sailed with the Winthrop Fleet to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, was a pioneer in early American history.