Seven Patriots: The Corson Legacy: Five Stories of an American Family Across 250 Years

Seven Patriots. One family. Two hundred and fifty years of documents, pension files, wills, family Bibles, and a carpenter's square stamped "M. PAUL" — assembled into the story of how a New England family now rooted in Ohio traces its American beginnings.Bruce Corson spent years wondering about his descent from Zebulon and Aaron Corson of Lebanon, Maine. When he retired, he pulled together what he had and dug deeper. He was soon accepted into the Sons of the American Revolution on the strength of Aaron Corson alone. Along the way he found Christopher Miner of Stonington, Connecticut; Benjamin Cram of Brentwood, New Hampshire; and Josiah Paul, Daniel Fox, and Jonathan Thompson of the New Hampshire–Maine frontier.What emerged was more than a lineage. It was five stories — from the Association Test signers and the sixteen-year-old private who stood his ground at the Battle of Rhode Island, to George Monroe Corson's rescinded Civil War Medal of Honor, to the teamsters who cut ice on Milton's Three Ponds and shipped it by the trainload to Boston.Seven Patriots: The Corson Legacy is written for descendants, for genealogists, and for readers who want to see the Revolution — and the two centuries after it — from the level of ordinary families. Includes lineage charts and selected sources.The grandfathers of America were not the men in the history books. They were men like these. Read more