The Siverlys

Where have I been? I've been working day and night writing about the descendants of Nancy Tapscott and her husband William Siverly for my book Henry’s Children, the Tapscotts of the Wabash Valley.

Henry the Traveler, who populated the Wabash Valley with Tapscotts, had twelve children, and today I finished the history of child number five, Nancy. We are not even half way through. I’m eighty years old. I don’t have a whole lot of time left to finish this magnus opus.

But child five was an immense step. Nancy Tapscott and her spouse, William Siverly, had 160 descendants, stopping at the fourth generation (counting William and Nancy as generation one). This includes Alfred Siverly, whose existence is a little uncertain, but more about him later.

Of all Henry’s children, Nancy was by far the most prolific. So I feel I must say

Hooray!

Now back to work. Next in line is Nancy’s less fecund brother, Jacob.