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The six-book Chronicler series is a novelized retelling of one family’s history from the Saxon settlement of Roman Britannia to America’s Great Depression ("Roots").
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Publié par	AuthorHouse
Date de parution	13 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781665556644
Langue	English
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THE CHRONICLER

Broad New Horizons
Book Five

Edwin L. Woolsey

AuthorHouse™
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Bloomington, IN 47403
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Phone: 833-262-8899

© 2022 Edwin L. Woolsey. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/26/2022

ISBN: 978-1-6655-5665-1 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-5664-4 (e)

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CONTENTS
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 1 Rotterdam
Chapter 2 Plymouth
Chapter 3 The Santa Ana
Chapter 4 Isaac Allerton
Chapter 5 New Amsterdam
Chapter 6 The Wilds of Long Island
Chapter 7 Upheaval
Chapter 8 Revolution
Chapter 9 Kings Mountain
Chapter 10 Statehood on the Banks of the Nolichucky
Chapter 11 The Battle of Franklin
Chapter 12 The Wilderness Road
Chapter 13 Killers on Copper Creek
Chapter 14 The Cane Ridge Revival
Chapter 15 Louisiana
Chapter 16 Enigma
Chapter 17 New Madrid
Chapter 18 Moving On
Chapter 19 The Bluegrass and Beyond

About the Author
DEDICATION
I humbly dedicate this book to all my teachers, naming five unique individuals who bolstered my self-confidence; Mrs. Irene Garoutte, Mrs. Sadann Riley, Mrs. Lovie Guffey, Mrs. Carolyn Dowler, Mr. Jerry Kinder.
Without knowing whether my small achievements have matched either their expectation or their investment, yet I genuinely appreciate each beloved instructor for touching my heart and shaping my life.
PREFACE
Henry VIII became King of England at seventeen years old. In less than two months, he married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. The only child born to Henry and Catherine was Mary in February 1516.
During his twenty-three-year marriage, Henry took Elizabeth “Bessie” Blount as a mistress. Together, they sired a bastard named Henry Fitzroy. Later, the King wanted Anne Boleyn and determined to divorce Catherine with the help of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
When Pope Clement VII refused the annulment, Henry punished Wolsey for the failure. On his way to London for trial, the shunned Cardinal died and was buried at Leicester Abbey.
The King divorced his first wife and broke with Catholicism. Seizing the monasteries, Henry joined the Reformation by claiming oversight of the English Church. He married Anne Boleyn, and she gave him a daughter named Elizabeth. But Anne could not give her husband a living son.
Frustrated with his wife, Henry had affairs with other women. Anne and her sister-in-law Lady Rochford undermined one of the King’s mistresses and suffered his wrath. Lady Rochford was banished from court, and Anne was accused of adultery and treason. Henry divorced his wife and beheaded her.
Shortly after the execution, the King married Jane Seymour, a second cousin to Anne Boleyn. Jane birthed a son, Edward VI, on October 12, 1537. The child’s mother died a few weeks later and was entombed at St. George’s Chapel where her husband would later rest.
After two years, the royal widower prearranged a marriage with Anne, the daughter of Germany’s Duke of Cleves. When Henry finally met the homely woman, he tried to end the engagement but was too late. The couple married January 6, 1540. Six months later, he divorced his ugly wife and gave her a large alimony.
In July 1540, the fat King wed Catherine Howard, a lady-in-waiting for Anne of Cleves. Henry adored the lovely teenager. He called her his “Rose without a Thorn.” But feisty Catherine must not have enjoyed her blubbery husband and began frolicking with other men. Hardly a year passed before the King accused his young wife of adultery and beheaded her on February 13, 1542.
By July 1543, Henry VIII married a widow named Catherine Parr. Later, the King ordered his wife’s arrest for religious reasons but did not execute her. She nurtured her royal husband’s children and convinced him to place Mary and Elizabeth in succession for England’s throne. The King died on January 28, 1547, and Catherine died the following year on September 5, 1548.
Edward VI ascended to England’s throne after the death of his father King Henry VIII. Son of Jane Seymour, the boy was sick from tuberculosis. Only nine years old, he took the crown on February 20, 1547. Unable to rule alone, Edward depended on a Council of Regency and his uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The King strengthened the Protestant nation until his early death on July 6, 1553. Immediately, the throne was contested.
The Lady Jane Grey, great-granddaughter of Henry VII, was proclaimed Protestant Queen on July 10, 1553. But since she was fifth in line for succession, Mary marched into London to claim the crown on July 19, 1553. Mary was the Catholic daughter of Catherine of Aragon. Seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was eventually executed on February 12, 1554.
Mary I wed Philip II of Spain and began brutally returning England to Catholicism. She burned many Protestant bishops at the stake. Two martyrs were Latimer Ridley and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer. At the end of her bloody reign, Mary I suffered from the flu and uterine or ovarian cancer. She died in St. James’ Palace on November 17, 1558. Afterwards, Mary’s half-sister Elizabeth succeeded her to England’s throne. Elizabeth was the daughter of Anne Boleyn.
Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Sunday, January 15, 1559. Her ascension was a cunning compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism. The Virgin Queen ruled her kingdom wisely for forty-four years, dying March 24, 1603. Queen Elizabeth’s successor was her cousin James I of Scotland.
James I was the son of Mary Queen of Scots who Queen Elizabeth executed. James was the first Stuart King to rule both Scotland and England. During James’ twenty-two-year reign, George “Joris” Wolsey was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
CHAPTER ONE Rotterdam
“Goede dag, jong Joris Wolsey,” the old woman smiled.
“Good day…” George switched from native English to his family’s adopted Dutch, “Goede dag, Vrouw Van Duiver.”
He nodded, allowing the neighbor to pass. The Van Duivers were natives of Duiven in Gelderland but migrated west from Arnhem to the coast.
The boy resumed the clip-clop rhythm of his muddy wooden klompen. While Joris had fine leather slippers at home, he wore everyday clogs for menial work in Rotterdam’s colorful tulip fields.
Since the 1550s, Europeans were caught in a tulip craze following the demise of Christian Byzantium. Besieged for fifty-three-days, Constantinople surrendered to the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453. Afterwards, Asia Minor (Anatolia) became Muslim Turkey. Within one hundred years, the colorful flowers were exported to Europe from the new Islamic Kingdom.
The wide variety of exquisitely-shaped brilliant blooms created a large consumer demand. A burgeoning business developed in northern Europe for the costly plants. New rare varieties were very expensive. In 1610, one flower bulb of the Tulipe Brasserie was a bride’s dowry or payment for a profitable French brewery.
George dreamed of going into business for himself someday to become rich in the tulip trade. The boy’s quest would not be easy since his employer frisked the laborers for pilfered bulbs as the workers went home nightly from the fields.
Young Wolsey trudged home after inspecting the new spring growth for twisted foliage on blighted bulbs. He hardly noticed the incessant chatter from clouds of flitting gulls that swooped above his head. Gazing at the ground, he saw gobs of pigeon poop along the way and avoided the milky excrement. Preoccupied, the youth did not notice the snowy white stork nesting against a chimney’s high nook atop a nearby row house. Instead, he fretted while elegant swans and quacking ducks swam among the boats.
Earlier in the fall, George spaded and fertilized the outlying fields. Then, other experienced employees planted extra flower beds. Although a reliable worker, the teenager only managed to earn three guilders a week in the autumn of 1627, half an adult’s wage. The meager money still added to the family’s revenue while his ailing father recovered. Hopefully, the man’s nagging illness would end by summer. If not, the boy would supplement his poor mother’s income by “dead heading” or removing the blossoms after the tulips bloomed. The son would also earn money pruning the foliage when the flowers’ dying leaves discolored. For as long as necessary, the devoted child would help his kin because jobs were always available. Professionals handled the bulbs to protect the expensive roots from theft. But unskilled gardeners plowed the old beds every four years for replanting.
Worrying about his beleaguered mother, George walked the neat cobbled street in silence. The