My family has followed the “Ham” ancestry diligently over the last 4 centuries and the stories of my great grandfather have always been consistent with my analysis. John Ham left Liverpool on the private contract ship the Warwick prior to 1620 and passed on to his family the quest for a better way of life. The idea of hard work, compensation, representation and the ideology of personal and religious freedom are consistently present in the diaries of Mary Ham and several children and grand children through the 1700’s. My great-grand father’s and grand father’s message to me was that our revolution occurred the day people boarded a vessel away from the Empire and to the New World. France’s revolution began the day Louis XIV philosophy that “I am the master; one must expect favors only from me and I am the only and absolute receiver of royal patronage”. America and France both had moments of wars present during the revolution but the ideologies behind the revolutions were vastly
My family has followed the “Ham” ancestry diligently over the last 4 centuries and the stories of my great grandfather have always been consistent with my analysis. John Ham left Liverpool on the private contract ship the Warwick prior to 1620 and passed on to his family the quest for a better way of life. The idea of hard work, compensation, representation and the ideology of personal and religious freedom are consistently present in the diaries of Mary Ham and several children and grand children through the 1700’s. My great-grand father’s and grand father’s message to me was that our revolution occurred the day people boarded a vessel away from the Empire and to the New World. France’s revolution began the day Louis XIV philosophy that “I am the master; one must expect favors only from me and I am the only and absolute receiver of royal patronage”. America and France both had moments of wars present during the revolution but the ideologies behind the revolutions were vastly