| A delightful story of an old Southern Maryland family as they lived American History, with personal glimpses you would never find in your history books. James Somerville, twelfth Lord Somerville of Scotland, who came into Annapolis in chains in 1715 as a prisoner of the English, is probably the story of all Scottish ancestors who came to the colonies prior to 1745, and they were also of noble birth. Photographs of John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, and John Suratt found in a great-grandmothers album along with a treatise, “A Bible View of Slavery” - 1863 by the Bishop of Vermont justifying slavery, found in a great-grandfathers treasure box weave a tale of a family up to its neck in confederate intrigue. - United States - Maryland - |
