TOMPKINS in Laurel/Rockcastle Counties
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Eli Tompkins, Laurel Co., KY, born July 4, 1803
 jimdrew
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Posted: 6 Nov 2009 10:01PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Tompkins, Winthrop, Fones, Feake, Hallett
Thanks LaVerne, for giving me a chance to reply with some dates.
If you like to read romantic novels you'll find this novel a fun read.
"The Winthrop Woman" by Anya Seton (It's about our Eli Tompkins' ancestor Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett)
THE PURITAN LEGACY IN AMERICA...,
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) -
This review is from: The Winthrop Woman
This is a dazzling work of historical fiction that I first read as a young adult. Now, over thirty years after first reading it, I find that time has not diminished the power and passion of this exquisitely written work of historical fiction. At the heart of this fine novel, is Elizabeth Fones, an Englishwoman who would marry her first cousin, Harry Winthrop, and would go on to lead a life of which few of us would dream.
As a member of the austerely Puritan Winthrop family, Elizabeth would chafe under its restrictive influences. When the family fortunes abated in England due to the religious beliefs of the family patriarch, John Winthrop, Elizabeth's uncle and father-in-law, the entire family sets off for the New World to become founding members of the Massachusetts Bay colony, a theocracy under which Elizabeth was to know much heartache.
A passionate and vibrant woman, Elizabeth would have a number of personal situations that would cause her to become notorious amongst the Puritan colonists. She would be both reviled and admired for her actions, which were singular for those times. This is an absorbing, page turner of a book that takes a look at sixteenth century England during the tumultuous time that preceded the civil war that would see an act of regicide and the rise of Puritan Oliver Cromwell. It also relates the turmoil that underlay the government of the nascent Massachusetts Bay colony with all its factionalism, restrictive practices, and bigotry.
The novel, set against a historical backdrop filled with well known personages of the time, both English and Dutch, lovingly chronicles and explores Elizabeth's passage in life as a member of the illustrious Winthrop family, her troubled marriages, her relationship with the Siwanot Indians, and the trials and tribulations that she underwent as a compassionate, independent woman in a time when to be such was to destine oneself to become a pariah within the larger community.
This is a historical novel that is epic in its telling, beautifully written, and one to be savored until the very last page is turned. Bravo!
http://otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/htmfile/1182.htm
Another book but a true story is about Eli's Cornell ancestors "Killed Strangely (The Death of Rebecca Cornell) by Elaine Forman Crane.
See Ken Hinds Genealogy to get your lineage back to Rebecca Cornell. http://hindskw.cts.com/KennethHinds/2742.html
Jim (drew2020@aol.com)
If you like to read romantic novels you'll find this novel a fun read.
"The Winthrop Woman" by Anya Seton (It's about our Eli Tompkins' ancestor Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett)
THE PURITAN LEGACY IN AMERICA...,
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) -
This review is from: The Winthrop Woman
This is a dazzling work of historical fiction that I first read as a young adult. Now, over thirty years after first reading it, I find that time has not diminished the power and passion of this exquisitely written work of historical fiction. At the heart of this fine novel, is Elizabeth Fones, an Englishwoman who would marry her first cousin, Harry Winthrop, and would go on to lead a life of which few of us would dream.
As a member of the austerely Puritan Winthrop family, Elizabeth would chafe under its restrictive influences. When the family fortunes abated in England due to the religious beliefs of the family patriarch, John Winthrop, Elizabeth's uncle and father-in-law, the entire family sets off for the New World to become founding members of the Massachusetts Bay colony, a theocracy under which Elizabeth was to know much heartache.
A passionate and vibrant woman, Elizabeth would have a number of personal situations that would cause her to become notorious amongst the Puritan colonists. She would be both reviled and admired for her actions, which were singular for those times. This is an absorbing, page turner of a book that takes a look at sixteenth century England during the tumultuous time that preceded the civil war that would see an act of regicide and the rise of Puritan Oliver Cromwell. It also relates the turmoil that underlay the government of the nascent Massachusetts Bay colony with all its factionalism, restrictive practices, and bigotry.
The novel, set against a historical backdrop filled with well known personages of the time, both English and Dutch, lovingly chronicles and explores Elizabeth's passage in life as a member of the illustrious Winthrop family, her troubled marriages, her relationship with the Siwanot Indians, and the trials and tribulations that she underwent as a compassionate, independent woman in a time when to be such was to destine oneself to become a pariah within the larger community.
This is a historical novel that is epic in its telling, beautifully written, and one to be savored until the very last page is turned. Bravo!
http://otal.umd.edu/~walt/gen/htmfile/1182.htm
Another book but a true story is about Eli's Cornell ancestors "Killed Strangely (The Death of Rebecca Cornell) by Elaine Forman Crane.
See Ken Hinds Genealogy to get your lineage back to Rebecca Cornell. http://hindskw.cts.com/KennethHinds/2742.html
Jim (drew2020@aol.com)