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  • "The Immigrant"
    • Author's Interview
    • Published Reviews of The Immigrant
    • Resources for The Immigrant
    • 3 September 1650 Dunbar Scotland
    • November 1650 On the North Atlantic
    • Early Winter 1650 - 1651 Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
    • 22 April 1676 Concord, Massachusetts
    • August 12, 1676 Miery Swamp Bristol, Rhode Island
  • "The Believers"
    • Published Reviews of The Believers In The Crucible Nauvoo
    • 29 June 1844 Nauvoo, Illinois
    • July 1844 Peterborough, New Hampshire
  • Other Timelines
    • 19 April 1775 Concord, Mass
    • 11 July 1863 The First Assault on Morris Island
    • January 2009 Acton, Massachusetts
    • September 2009 Sharon, New Hampshire
  • Alfred's Four Legged Stool
    • Eleven Generations of John Law Descendants
    • John Law of Acton, Massachusetts
    • Reuben Law of Acton, Massachusetts and Sharon, New Hampshire
    • Re-dedication of Woollacott Square, 26 May 2015
    • John Woollacott of Atherington, Devon, England, patriarch of the Fitchburg Woollacotts
    • The Woollacotts of North Devon
    • Early Woollacotts and Variations thereon
    • Élisabeth Isabelle Salé, Les Fille du Roi
  • Jill's four legged stool
    • Russell Clark Germond and two generations of Ancestors
    • Some Chandler's of Androscoggin and Oxford Counties, Maine
    • Thrice-related, only a genealogist could be impressed by it
Timelines will have dates in history and events that possibly had a dramatic effect on some of my or Jill's ancestors. Much of what is under this section is and will be extracted from my writings, "The Immigrant", "The Patriot" and "The Believers" - ones from my four legged stool. These writings are anchored in history, tempered with plausibility with doses of imagination from a  writer with a few drops of his ancestors' blood in his veins. I do not let my imagination roam too far past what I know is true, it too has conscience and respect for the past. 

As James Alexander Thom stressed in his book, The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction, 

"Verisimilitude? You might want to print it out in bold Magic Marker and put it right on the wall above your desk where you'll see it every time you look up from the keyboard:VERISIMILITUDE: The appearance or semblance of truth.". 
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