. Tales of Silver Creek 77 popular belief that the DeWolfs were descended from a race ofpirates. The existence of the legend is some indication of char-acter. The Nova Scotia branch of the DeWolf family tell andtransmit a story equally characteristic that when Noah landed onArarat he was surprised to meet a party of DeWolf ancestors,who, being questioned, calmly explained: Did you ever knowa DeWolf to lack ships? We had just launched one in time toride the flood. Captain James DeWolf began to win fortune asan old-time sea captain su
. Tales of Silver Creek 77 popular belief that the DeWolfs were descended from a race ofpirates. The existence of the legend is some indication of char-acter. The Nova Scotia branch of the DeWolf family tell andtransmit a story equally characteristic that when Noah landed onArarat he was surprised to meet a party of DeWolf ancestors,who, being questioned, calmly explained: Did you ever knowa DeWolf to lack ships? We had just launched one in time toride the flood. Captain James DeWolf began to win fortune asan old-time sea captain such as his father was before him. Thefather had in his youth served under his brother-in-law. CaptainPotter, in a privateer, the Prince Charles of Lorraine in the warbetween Great Britain and France. James DeWolf had seen serv-ice in the Revolutionary War and was twice taken prisoner. Hiswife, Nancy Bradford, was of no less sturdy stock. She was thegreat-great-great-granddaughter of the old Colonial Plymouthgovernor, and each intervening ancestor had seen mili
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