The Wheelwright Family Story

Author : Steve J. Plummer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445278065
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheelwright Family Story written by Steve J. Plummer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated history of the extraordinary Anglo-American Wheelwright family.In 1636 an outspoken Puritan, Reverend John Wheelwright, left his native Lincolnshire and headed for the new Boston Bay Colony. His stay in Massachusetts would be short lived.Persecuted and banished, Reverend John went on to found two New England towns and a dynasty which now spans six continents.The Wheelwrights have produced explorers, engineers, clerics, consuls and a family of cannibals. There are philanthropists, philanderers, psychoanalysts, scientists, soldiers and sailors.A sea captain became a pirate. A lawyer became a gold-digging sportsman and a kidnapped child was transformed from Puritan to Catholic mother superior.The Wheelwright's story, complete with black sheep and skeletons a-plenty, spans four centuries. Hundreds of illustrations and family charts, drawn from years of research, bring 580 pages of this most remarkable family's history to life.

Author : Steve J Plummer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445731592
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheelwright Genealogy written by Steve J Plummer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A register report is one of the clearest and most comprehensive ways to record a family tree - and is certainly far easier to handle than acres of family charts! This is a clearly presented register report with a full alphabetical index for the Wheelwright family. A companion volume to 'The Wheelwright Family Story', it follows their history from Lincolnshire, England to The Americas and back to England, Africa, Australasia and beyond. Spanning 400 years, 13 generations and over 2,000 individuals it is an essential resource for anyone researching the history of New England's founding families.

Author : Ann M. Little
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218214
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright written by Ann M. Little and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.

Author : Jeff Wheelwright
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308342X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA written by Jeff Wheelwright and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and emotionally resonant exploration of science and family history. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The mutation most likely sprang from Sephardic Jews hounded by the Spanish Inquisition. The discovery of the gene leads to a fascinating investigation of cultural history and modern genetics by Dr. Harry Ostrer and other experts on the DNA of Jewish populations. Set in the isolated San Luis Valley of Colorado, this beautiful and harrowing book tells of the Medina family’s five-hundred-year passage from medieval Spain to the American Southwest and of their surprising conversion from Catholicism to the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 1980s. Rejecting conventional therapies in her struggle against cancer, Shonnie Medina died in 1999. Her life embodies a story that could change the way we think about race and faith.

Author : Leatrice A. Armstrong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997310900
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Wheelwright written by Leatrice A. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is based on more than fifteen years of oral history and archival research by author Leatrice A. Armstrong, formerly the assistant to the director at the Wheelwright Museum. On a trip to New Mexico around 1920, Wheelwright (1878–1958) met the influential Navajo ritual singer Hastiin Klah. From that moment forward she devoted her life to an understanding of Navajo spiritual life, as well as to the physical health of Native peoples of New Mexico and the stability of Native American and Spanish New Mexican arts. To further these interests she served as a trustee of numerous institutions and funded projects of museums and other organizations throughout New Mexico. She eventually created the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, now named the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. This biography examines Wheelwright’s upbringing in a wealthy Boston family, her “discovery” of the Southwest, her relationships with artists and activists in New Mexico and elsewhere, and her many achievements."--Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Author : Julie Wheelwright
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780002007238
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Esther written by Julie Wheelwright and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2011 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1703, a war party of French soldiers and Abenaki warriorsraided the village of seven-year-old Puritan girl EstherWheelwright, taking thirty-nine captives and killing a handfulof men, women and children. That Esther managed to survivethe 200-mile journey by foot through swamps and forests to aJesuit mission in New France is astonishing. That she was adopted,quite happily, into a family of her Abenaki captors, isequally amazing. But for the Wheelwright family, who waitedyears before they had word that Esther had even survived theraid, this was a tragedy. When Esther's release from her Abenaki family was finallynegotiated through a French Jesuit who took her to the city ofQuebec, it was too late. At the age of fourteen, Esther brokeher parents' hearts by refusing to go home; they never saw heragain. Instead, she remained in Quebec, the capital of NewFrance, where, against all odds, she rose through the ranks tobecome Mother Superior--and a pivotal figure after the siegeof Quebec in 1759. Written by Esther's descendant, Julie Wheelwright, Estheris a spiritual and an emotional journey of survival, and of thehuman capacity for transformation.

Author : George Sturt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521091954
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheelwright's Shop written by George Sturt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Sturt's account of his trade as a wheelwright offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of late nineteenth century craftsmen. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Wheelwright family
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wheelwright Family written by Wheelwright family and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains correspondence about the lives and activities of George William and William Bond Wheelwright from the 1800s to the 1950s. They describe family matters and relations, as well as the state of the papermaking and publishing family businesses. Most of the letters are in their original envelopes and others are bound in a book called "Geo. W. Wheelwright, Jr. Private Letters."

Author : Nathaniel T. Wheelwright
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612128890
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naturalist's Notebook written by Nathaniel T. Wheelwright and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a more attentive observer and deepen your appreciation for the natural world. The unique five-year calendar format of The Naturalist’s Notebook helps you create a long-term record and point of comparison for memorable events, such as the first songbird you hear in spring, your first monarch butterfly sighting of summer, or the appearance of the northern lights. Biologist Nathaniel T. Wheelwright and best-selling author Bernd Heinrich teach nature lovers of all ages what to look for outdoors no matter where you live, using Heinrich’s classic illustrations as inspiration. As you jot down one observation a day, year after year, your collected field notes will serve as a valuable record of your piece of the planet. This deluxe book, with a three-piece case, gilt edges, a burgundy ribbon bookmark, and a belly band with gold foil stamping, is a perfect gift for all nature lovers.

Author : John Wheelwright
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811208499
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems of John Wheelwright written by John Wheelwright and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: