One of the oldest unsolved mysteries in our Drake family history concerns Sarah A. Brown Drake, wife of Samuel C. Drake and mother of a large branch of Drake descendants living today. Despite years of research by several family historians, including recent DNA analysis, we still do not know who Sarah’s parents were. Yet over…
Keep readingFamily history often uncovers people who lived through extraordinary events. Occasionally, it reveals someone whose quiet decisions placed them on the wrong side of those in power—but on the right side of history. One such ancestor is Étienne Parant (1708–1782), a respected surveyor and militia captain in colonial Québec who found himself accused of aiding…
Keep readingOn May 25, 1797, an elderly Revolutionary-era veteran named Thomas Dockery sat down in his home in Richmond County, North Carolina, to write what was likely the most important letter of his life. Nearly eighty years old and with trembling hands, he addressed the recently retired President George Washington—not to ask for a favor or…
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