Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England clergyman and writer.
Fast-forward to the present, where the descendants of the colonists live in ignorance of their past, existing in a perpetual pre-industrial state.
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Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family) by his wife Barbara Patricia (daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin).
The narrator speculates that he is a lineal descendant of Doctor Slop from the novel Tristram Shandy.
Brightwell was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, on 27 February 1811, the eldest child of Thomas Brightwell (Ipswich 1787 – Norwich 1868), and his first wife, Mary Snell (1788 – 1815), daughter of William Wilkin Wilkin, of Costessey, near Norwich, and Cecilia Lucy (Jacomb), a lineal descendant of Thomas Jacomb.
He was a lineal descendant of Daniel Carroll and studied at St. Mary's College of Baltimore.
William Livingston, 4th Lord Livingston (d. 1518) {a lineal descendant was Rev. John Livingston, father of Robert Livingston the Elder of New York.