Subjects covered
- 1485–1625·both
Three kingdoms
England, France, and the Dutch — three reasons to cross the Atlantic.
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Two branches
Edith Powers from England; Mary Ann Goodwater from Québec — one tree, two doorways.
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Powers branch
George Alcock in Cambridge, 1581 — the English doorway to Massachusetts Bay.
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Goodwater branch
Hébert, Bonneau, and a French name that became Goodwater.
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1853 merge
Joseph Warren Coss marries Mary Ann Goodwater — the two branches join in Iowa.
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Reformation
Henry VIII, Luther, and the faith wars that pushed people toward the sea.
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Winthrop Fleet
1630 — two thousand souls, eleven ships, Massachusetts Bay from Boston mud.
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New France
Champlain, Hébert, and a Catholic colony on a frozen river.
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King's Daughters
Filles du roi, founding families, and the island in the middle of the river.
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Colonial wars
Pequot, King Philip's, and the Beaver Wars — frontier fire on both rivers.
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Salem witch panic
Martha Barrett Sparks in a Boston jail — a direct Powers-branch tie.
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Empires at war
King William's through the French & Indian War — Québec becomes British.
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West to Iowa
Vermont to Wisconsin to Winneshiek — the long walk before the wedding.
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Dakota years
Grand Forks hotel, frontier towns, and Mary Ann's death in 1878.
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Depression & Dust
Crowded households, roomers, and farms that would not yield.
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Winifred
The paper is written for her — Winifred Eloise Coss, 1922–2000s.
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