Disease and Death at Plymouth and in the New World

It is at least a popular belief that English fishermen, who had been fishing the waters off the coast of Atlantic North America for over 100 years before the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth, brought with them a disease or diseases that so effected the pre-existing inhabitants of the New England coast that it …

Our First Steps: From the Sea Venture to the Mayflower

As far as my European ancestors are concerned, Stephen Hopkins was the first to touch ground in North America. I am his descendant via my father's paternal grandmother Eva Maude Lott, who was the great granddaughter of William Wood, who was himself the son of the Patriot Captain John Wood and the Loyalist Rebecca Cain. …

Welcome to the Ethnic American

In this blog I am going to explore American history and other related issues, not through the lens of the state and/or one of its accompanying political activist groups or another, but through the lens of my ancestors, their neighbours, and relations. By "American" I by no means refer to either the indigenous peoples of …