Reply #35: My Wasp ancestors are hardly boring. [View All]

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I have plenty of interesting Anglo-American ancestors. John Rogers who decided to challenge the church in his town, and found the Rogerenes Quakers, is so fascinating I haven't stopped thinking about his story for months after I read about him. Then there is the Weston ancestor who drug his wife and children into the wilderness of Maine, then a couple of years later, he lead the British army through Maine to attack at Quebec and froze to death in the process. So this leaves his wife with a bunch of kids in the wilderness of Maine. Unfortunately most of the stories are about him, but the real hero is his wife. She lived to be an old woman with over 200 descendants at the time of her death. There were other women like her in her day, but so much of the information is about the men they were married to.

Of course, two of my favorite ancestors is the Aztec woman, Pascula Bernal and her husband, a Greek Jew, named Juan de Griego (John the Greek). A county and a town are named after Pascula here in New Mexico. Pascula was one tough women, and women from the 1600 and 1700s in New Mexico were on a more equal footing with the men than their sisters in New England.