Past Discovered

My grandmother Edna Alberta Colburn was the daughter of Canadian immigrants. It was when digging into my grandmother’s family in Nova Scotia that I fell into a deep, hidden well of early New England history. It turns out a significant number of her ancestors were settlers of white America—living there for generations—before moving or escaping

Shaped by War

The tale of William Eager, an 8x great-grandfather of mine, is almost too exotic to be true. He was brought to America on the “Unity”— a ship full of Scottish prisoners of war. These men were captured in the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 and sent abroad by Oliver Cromwell, sold off as indentured servants.