{"product_id":"generations-of-endurance-james-d-hamilton-9798994186756","title":"Generations of Endurance: A New England Family Chronicle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGenerations of Endurance: A New England Family Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a companion to \u003cem\u003eGenerations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e. This novel continues the theme-one shaped not by inevitability, but by convictions lived through the family connections of endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough much of this narrative unfolds in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England, its origins lie earlier. The moral architecture that governed colonial towns did not rise spontaneously in the New World. It was carried across the Atlantic from England and Ireland, shaped by the upheavals of the Reformation, refined in Geneva, and contested through competing visions of authority and conscience. Figures such as \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Calvin \u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e William Whittingham, chief editor of the Geneva Bible, \u003c\/strong\u003ebelong to this deeper background-not as protagonists, but as formative influences whose ideas traveled with family who later crossed the ocean to America. Calvinism being the core and foundation of Puritanism. The influence of the Whittingham family flowed through the early ancestors of this narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamilies such as the\u003cstrong\u003e Holyokes, Keyser's, Stocktons, Pynchons, and Putnams arrived in New England, \u003c\/strong\u003e formed by this inheritance. They entered a society where faith and public life were inseparable, where education carried moral obligation, and where conscience demanded visible consequences. Churches governed communities, courts enforced orthodoxy, and dissent-whether theological or civic-was rarely neutral. Endurance was tested through scrutiny, judgment, and sacrifice. This carried through to the family witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis family story moves through colonial settlement, through national institutions and the founding history of this country. Along the way, documented threads of family appear, including \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Calvert\/Lord Baltimore.\u003c\/strong\u003e The family path intersects with early Quaker life, the abolitionist writings of \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier, \u003c\/strong\u003ethe presidential leadership of\u003cstrong\u003e Harvard College\u003c\/strong\u003e, the American Revolution, Major General Israel Putnam and \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Hancock\u003c\/strong\u003e, and ultimately reaches \u003cstrong\u003eNorthwest Ohio \u003c\/strong\u003eand intersects with the Keezer (Keyser) family and \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Howard Taft\u003c\/strong\u003e. The common ancestor is the Keyser and Holyokes. What endures is not uniformity, but the careful transmission of belief, learning, and responsibility across generations and the merging of family from the \u003cem\u003eGenerations of Endurance: An American Family Chronicle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James D. Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994186756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamilton Heritage Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d","brand":"James D. Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48152943886591,"sku":"9798994186756","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1442701-26dc-48a7-bb07-c195caefe667.jpg?v=1770780243","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/generations-of-endurance-james-d-hamilton-9798994186756","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}