Puritans, Patriots and Pioneers: An Elwell Family History

Puritans, Patriots and Pioneers follows the Elwell family over seven generations of history, from early colonial times and the Revolutionary War to migrating to the Midwest and fighting in the Civil War. Patriot Thomas Elwell left West Jersey to seek his fortune on the Allegheny frontier. After eight years of service in the Revolutionary War, he had traveled the colonies from New York to the Carolinas and was ready to raise a family on the Ohio frontier.. It’s an epic story of challenge and change, progress and peril, lived by everyday heroes struggling to make a better life for their children.