The Dordrecht Family
1758
It’s
quite remarkable how addicted one can become to creating a fictional family
tree! The graphic results are so
uncannily convincing, one almost forgets one is merely playing God,
giving birth to one child here, doing in another there….
Reminder—and warning: this “family” is purely fictional!
Not
listed: children lost in infancy; three
children of Sarah Van Dienst Jones adopted by Thomas’ uncle Frederik upon his
marriage to her in 1746.
Emke
Scheldt Dordrecht is Thomas Dordrecht’s senile Grootmoeder. As Dutch legal tradition still obtains in New
Utrecht, it is she—not Thomas’ father—who actually owns the farm and the
inn.
Thomas Dordrecht also has a maternal family, of course—he is, in fact, named for his English uncle, Thomas Pennyman—but he and his siblings are aware of their existence only through correspondence.
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