This book is the first in a series about a fictional family that migrated to the new world in the 1700's. In telling their story I have included the family's earliest records, beginning in 1725, which is a journal written by their family's founder. I have tried to tell the story of this fictional family, its growth and its troubles as it searched for freedom and their effort to pay forward to the communities wherein they found themselves as they searched, to make the world around them a better place to live, love and grow.