by Shar_Lamagne » Thu 17 Jun 2010, 02:55:23
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'O')h, yeah, Shar said:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')rue wealth, and thus true power, has very deep roots.
I would think that would be pretty obvious. My own family traces back to the 1500's with 4 of them on the Mayflower. If not for a rope trailing behind the Mayflower during a storm at sea, John Howland would have been lost and I would not exist. Nor any of the following notables.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ohn and Elizabeth Howland's direct descendants include notable figures such as U.S. presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush; U.S. first ladies Edith Roosevelt and Barbara Bush; poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Mormon prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr. and his wife Emma Hale; Mormon leader Brigham Young; Continental Congress president Nathaniel Gorham; former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin; former Florida governor Jeb Bush; and actors/actresses Humphrey Bogart, Maude Adams, Lillian Russell, Chevy Chase and Anthony Perkins. U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and British prime minister Winston Churchill are descendants of John Howland's brothers Arthur (Nixon and Ford) and Henry (Churchill).
If not for that rope trailing behind the Mayflower on that stormy night, the history of the United States would have been very different.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;In sundrie of these storms the winds were so feirce. & ye seas so high, as they could not heare a knote of saile, but were forced to hull, for diverce days togither. And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull, in a mighty storme, a lusty yonge man (called John Howland) coming upon some occasion above ye grattings, was, with a seele of ye shipe throwne into (ye) sea; but it pleased God yet he caught hold of ye top-saile halliards, which hung over board, & rane out at length; yet he held his hould (though he was sundrie fadomes under water) till he was hald up by ye same rope to ye brime of ye water, and then with a boat hooke & other means got into ye shipe againe. & his life saved; and though he was something ill with it, yet he lived many years after, and became a profitable member both in church and common wealthe."