Scott, this is an amusing article from the Chase Chronicle issue of Jan 1916. THREE BUBBLES TO BE PRICKED 1st. "There were three brothers that came over." 2d. "My ancestors came over in the May flower." 3d. "Some of my ancestors were in the Boston Tea Party." Anyone who has had much to do with genealogy has encountered some or all of the above claims and as a rule there is nothing to substantiate the story. The first claim is easily disposed of by facts. The second is true only in a few cases, for the lists of passengers in the Mayflower is published accurately. The trouble is that in the earlier vessels to this country many persons did come and very worthy people, too. But the Mayflower people can be distinguished with no difficulty. The writer has had people enough stated to him to have been on the Mayflower, to have filled the largest Cunarder, and if we should allow to these claimants the usual amount of baggage and effects, no steamer afloat could have sustained the load. The third statement, about the Boston Tea Party, is gaining ground, but not one in a hundred claims can be justified. We might as well look at our ancestors in the right light. Very few of them were eminent or wonderful men. They were honest, hard working, plain people, who did not come to this country as if they were going to a picnic. It was a serious affair to leave home, and all home ties, and as a rule these, both men and women, looked at life seriously, and fought a good fight for conscience sake. Many of them were narrow minded as we judge people today. We doubt very much if any of us now living would take up the burden and carry it as well as did the strong men who for a principle did what was necessary to establish a community and a government amid a life of daily privations. 60 THE CHASE CHRONICLE I have had to knock over many foolish assertions, but I try to Show that the realities and the truth of history are much grander than to try to make a family name and glory out of statements that will not bear investigation. Many of our published family histories are thus very defective. They either start wrong or run off into claims that cannot bear the light of patient investigation. Only a few months ago, a kinsman was very much vexed because I assured her that Aquila Chase did not come over in the Mayflower.