Progenitors
Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
| Added inline | purple with double underline |
| Uncertain | gray with wavy underline |
| Supplied from another source | turquoise with brackets |
| Metamark | |
| Long deletion | gray background with top and bottom border |
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Progenitors in the little house on the hill, Cold Spring
Capt. John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother
Progenitors in the little house on the hill, Cold Spring
Capt. John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother
They (Capt. John & Mary) had 8 daughters and two sons—the men ^father & sons all followed the water—were expert sailors—Capt. John was a wonderful man for ^his friends amiableness hospitality good living &c.—MaryAmy, (mother's mother) when he came in from a voyage, would take one child in her arms and another by the hand, and go over the hills afoot to see her father.—He died aboard his vessel in N.Y. Mary ^(mother's grandmother) was washing—the ^when a vessel came up the Harbor with the flag at half-mast.—It brought the corpse;—a neighbor heard the news, came up to the little house on the hill—took the tub and set it away and told the death—Mary had been looking at the vessel with the spy glass.
