CURRENT ARTIFACT
THE SEVENTH GENERATION
A bloodline is not a gift; it is a burden of gold and granite. In the silence of the highlands, the echoes of the ancestors still demand a reckoning.
The Seventh Generation: A Royal Bloodline, a Family’s Survival and the Making of America is a powerful story of ancestry, faith, sacrifice, and survival. In this deeply personal work, Hewett Hollinshead traces a family bloodline that stretches across thousands of years—from ancient Israel to the royal houses of Europe, from the fields of Somerset to the shores of colonial America, and finally to the wide-open land of Nevada.
At the heart of the book is the story of the Strode/Stroud family, whose loyalty during the Monmouth Rebellion came at a devastating cost.
When Bernard’s parents were executed for offering shelter and aid, young Bernard was hidden, renamed, and sent across the ocean to begin again in the New World. His survival became more than a family escape; it became the beginning of a legacy carried through generations.
Blending genealogy, history, faith, and personal reflection, The Seventh Generation explores what it means to know where you come from and why that knowledge matters. It is a book about kings and knights, martyrs and pioneers, hardship and endurance—but above all, it is about a family that refused to disappear.
DYNASTY
The High-Lords of Perthshire
TIMELINE
1745 — 1914