| Many people think there are only two
possibilities concerning ancestors who played a
part in the American Revolution. Either you had
one, or you had none. And the odds of having one
are not very good. Fortunately, that is not
the case. There is a very colorful past behind
each of us, and it is full of numerous exciting
possibilities when looking back more than two
hundred years.
For instance, one of the people I recently
entered into the Founders & Patriots Family
Forest is now lineage-linked to twelve
S.A.R.-qualified Patriot ancestors (6 from NY and
6 from MA). He was born in the middle of the last
century. If he (or any of his siblings, children,
or grandchildren) married someone with a similar
amount of Patriot ancestry, it means there can be
people today with dozens of Patriot ancestors
(even without counting the spouses, who also
played an important part in the birth of our
nation).
I can't help but wonder how many of his
Patriot ancestors might have known one or more of
the other eleven Patriot forefathers. Might some
of them have sat around the same campfires? What
if one of those soldiers could have known then
that a century into the future, one of his
great-granddaughters was going to marry the
great-grandson of the guy sitting next to him on
the log by the campfire (or crouched next to him
behind the log, dodging musket balls)?
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