Building a nation from the frontier of a “Holy Experiment”…
Major Jasper Farmar embarked on a ten-week voyage to settle his family in a land once known as Umbilicamence — promised as more fertile than Ireland, with temperate weather, friendly Indians, religious freedom, and a democratic government.
He never arrived.
His orphaned son Edward — Indian interpreter, businessman, judge, politician, and philanthropist — will help fulfill the dream of William Penn’s “Holy Experiment.”
Soon, his children will build a new nation beyond Whitemarsh Township and discover the corruption, oppression, violence, drought, and war that Major Jasper had sought to escape…
Follows the descendants and relatives of Edward Farmer to include his son Samuel into Rowan County (North Carolina), his grandson William into Grayson County (Virginia), and his great grandson Stephen Farmer into Harlan County (Kentucky).
