Publisher's Synopsis
The narrative follows one line of descendants of Michael Bacon, the Puritan, for eight generations in America. Here are the stories of the thirty-eight families they married into, including Chamberlain, Fairbanks and Dudley. Facinating fellows, all. Their daily lives wrote our American history. Their exertions built our unique country. They wrote the first laws, fought the indians, lived in garrisons, suffered the epidemic small pox, raised the orphans on new lands always farther west, fought the French and dragged cannon through the Alleghenies. They trained on the green and marched to Bunker Hill. One rang the bells for his own classes to pay his way through Harvard. They carved out a settlement in wild Maine and accompaied "freed people of colour" to the coast of Africa. They taught, they wrote, and, at last, cleared away a homestead's part of the massive forest in Indiana in time to send Socrates Bacon's sons to the Civil War. You'll never forget the Bacons.
