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These Lords’ DescendantsEntry/Object ID
2026.42.1Description
In the seventeenth century England Gregory Featherstone, Eighth Earl of Tynemouth, and his three sons were of a divided opinion upon politics. Young Gregory, his eldest son and heir, was, like his father, royalist to the core. Granatt Featherstone affected a severe and somber garb and sympathized with Cromwell. Geoffrey Featherstone, sick of the eternal disputes into which England had fallen, was disgusted alike with the Royalists and the Roundheads. Granatt married Mercy Beard, the daughter of a Puritan, and sailed for New England in 1640, there to acquire land and goods, to govern cities, and to raise his children in the strict traditions of Puritanism. Geoffrey married a relative of Lord Baltimore and obtained a land grant in Maryland, to live with his retainers the life of a lordly planter on Featherstone Hundred.
What happened to the descendants of Granatt and Geoffrey, how they lived well and daringly, how they created a new world out of the wilderness, is the story of "These Lords' Descendants." - The New York TimesCollection
BooksCreate Date
February 18, 2026
