An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times

An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times

A Look at the Beebe/Bebee Family History 1535-2015

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Publisher Description

Bound for the New World, an English father of seven dies at sea in 1650. Only the children fulfill their fathers dream in the beginning of the New London colonial settlement. While one descendant
goes west to a settlement in Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War further divides the family. One frontiersman becomes a Loyalist serving with the Butlers Rangers while most cousins fight for the
Patriot cause. This narrative follows the Beebe family who survive the vortex of the Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania) and its aftermath at the cost of the breadwinners own life. Mary Secord Beebe, mother of seven, escapes the oncoming reprisals of the Continental forces by fleeing to Fort Niagara, NY, British Headquarters. Starting over in a remote village within the Province of Quebec, Canada, one descendant returns to Pennsylvania and eventually homesteads in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Follow this intriguing story of an ordinary family living in extra-ordinary times.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
March 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Xlibris US
SELLER
AuthorHouse
SIZE
9.4
MB