This nonfiction portrait follows Gerret Van Sweringen, an early settler who sailed from Holland in the 1650s to the Delaware River region. The book compiles generations of Swearingen descendants, showing how a single immigrant ancestor sparked a wide family branch across several states.

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

This biography is illustrated with candid photos from archives.