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 Because my mother was a Williams, I tended to hear more about Williams family matters of her generation rather than that of the Sullivans. Writers draw on the sources available to them, regretting that so much detail is lost with the demise of each succeeding generation.

The way our ancestors adapted to a new and often hostile physical environment provides a history which, while it may not loom large at a macro level, at a community level resulted in the development of a unique pioneering and egalitarian ethos, the like of which we will never see again.