Family History
My grandfather’s side of the family are from England. In grade school, I was asked to do a project on my family history, and I chose to write about the German side of my family, thinking my English history couldn’t be at all interesting. I was very wrong. My great great great great grandfather was an Englishman named Peter Hales. Every day he went to work in the mines. Back then, working in mines was even more dangerous than it is today what with noxious gases and collapsing ceilings. Despite this, men would line up for the near-deadly job of drilling into the ceiling for the extra 5 cents a day. Peter’s goal was to get his family to the New World. Although he was unable to do this in his lifetime, his savings allowed his son, also named Peter, to travel to New England with his wife and infant son, who was, get this, also named Peter. When Peter II arrived in America, the revolutionary war was just starting to brew. He fought in the American Revolutionary War and was blown to bits