Thanksgiving

We should not love our kindred alone for their genius and glory, but also for their homely virtues and domestic affections that expanded and flourish unobserved save by the little world in which they moved.

The Descendants of Captain Thomas Carter

From the preface to “The Descendants of Captain Thomas Carter”, a book tracing (some of) my lineage back to the son of a “London merchant of good family.”

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