Hello, Readers!

Hello, readers. I left you a long time ago and I need to pick up the slack. Thomas Prater (Prather) was traveling across the Atlantic Ocean in 1622. One can only imagine how horrific it had to be. One either had to be desperate, hungry, crazy or truly a pioneer keeping his eye on the prize...land. I prefer to think it was the latter.

Gratefully, there is a book with the Prather family wills. Imagine that. Susan Doliante took the time and compiled these wills. So you see, the people are real in this book. The places are real in this book. It is the stories connected with these people that are gently derived from the land, the times and our imagination.

I explained to my sisters, we are these people. We have their emotions. We have their looks. We have their perception of life. Thanks to our father the line did get a little mingled with 19th century Irish and a tinge of German. But the better part of us is our English heritage. It runs deep.

So, Thomas was in search of land and estates. Family. He wanted family.
He crossed the great ocean with anticipation and the hope of a new beginning. He did it.

Sincerely, Sally