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Pilgrim Edward Winslow: New England’s First International Diplomat — A Documentary Biography

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Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs’s biography of Edward Winslow is now back in print as our first publication bearing the American Ancestors 2020 logo! Dr. Bangs, director of the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, uses fascinating primary source documents to examine Winslow’s long career of public service as a leader and representative of Plymouth Colony’s Pilgrims. This important work provides a detailed study of colony finances and political relations, placing Plymouth Colony in the midst of a lively Atlantic world of commerce and migration.

By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs

The Descendants of Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, Massachusetts

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From the co-author of the award-winning Descendants of Judge John Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts, comes the first full account of the Saltonstall family in more than a century. Famous in America for almost four hundred years, it is easy to forget that members of three successive generations in the 17th century spent time in (or were threatened with) prison.