Anthropology

that detailed the purchase of white captives from a local tribe, but within two years, nearly all the captives had returned to the tribe. So it was complicated.

Something tells me those thieves created their story out of whole cloth, that was known to happen, also. They'd likely just failed to make it to an ale house where they weren'y known.

I had read of the captain and his wife punished for kissing each other in public on his return.

The one end of my family that was here early was Dutch, arrivals in New Amsterdam when the Dutch crown was giving native land away to lesser nobility they wanted to get rid of. They settled around Guilderland, an optimistic name for an area so ill suited to farming.

(I just looked, million dollar monstrosity houses on multi acre "horse properties." They should have hung onto it)