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OM69-22 John Albert Turner Papers
Papers of John Albert Turner.
John Albert Turner Papers
Papers of John Albert Turner.
John Turner Collection
Five letters from Turner to his wife, Polly; 4 business letters; and bills of lading, insurance policies, cargo manifests, orders, personal accounts, convoy instructions, and customs documentation, including enrollments, receipts, and clearance papers. Subjects include his activities as master of the sloop Fair American and schooners Fanny, Polly, and Sally, carrying livestock and provisions from New London to the West Indies returning with molasses, port, and rum.
They Knew They Were Pilgrims
An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
The Washingtons. Volume 1
This is the initial volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume continues the story of John and Anne’s family for a total of seven generations, collecting over 5,000 direct descendants. Future volumes will trace eight more generations with a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. T...
Turner the Artist
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The London Gazette
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