As I had begun to expand my Brown Sherwood Ford Shove private research family tree in Ancestry.com, to learn of my America heritage, it emerged that the ancestry of Reuben Brown/Charles Adams extended back into the earliest days of Colonial America to 1623 in the New England and possibly to 1611 in Virginia. It was indeed a rich history with many pioneers, plus connections in the Salem witch trials and the American Revolutionary War.
Activities of our American ancestors and relatives so far identified these include:
- Academia Education and Philosophy
- Agriculture – many of our ancestors who were in America in the 17th and 18th Centuries were Farmers, with some lines continuing into the 19th Century
- Civic and Activism
- Entertainment
- Founders of Settlements & Towns
- Government Administration
- Legal
- Medical
- Merchants, Business and Commerce
- Military
- Politics
- Religious
- Transport
- Witch Trials
- Writers and Artists