The Genealogical research of Allen Wilson Walker and his Ancestors, going back 35 generations.

Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.

Captain William Toogood was born in Somerset, England ca. 1748. He may originally have come to America as a British soldier, but, during the Revolution, he served in the American army. He married a widow, Mary Oakes Bras, sometime after 1770. She had five children from her previous marriage. She and William Toogood had one child, William Oakes Toogood, born in 1780 in Westfield, Mass. The family lived in Chester, Mass. Captian Toogood died in January 1818 at age 70.

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In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?