OK, I now know a lot more about Canada during the eighteenth century than I ever thought I would. The first chapter of my family history is in danger of becoming a treatise on the Seven Years War – a bad treatise as I don’t really “get” military history.
Some cool facts include that my ancestor who participated in the Revolutionary War out of New England did so in the 14th Regiment out of Albany. Also, that I’ve found a dissertation called The History of the Town of Schaghticoke, New York 1676-1855, which is where my family lived for a time and baptized at least two children circa 1781. Imagine, an entire dissertation written on a single little one-mule New England town. Ah, the joys of American history, scraping the bottom of that New England barrel.
Also, I’m looking forward with positive glee to getting my hands on
A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England
I spent 1 1/2 hours kicking back to Battlestar Gallactica this weekend and felt like I was cheating for not working.
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