Hidden in amongst the intertwined branches of my mother’s tree, back through a long meandering series of maternal lines, is one of my 9th great-grandfathers, Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell Jr. I was initially more interested in the woman he married, but then I started to realize who he was. He is considered by some literary historians to be one of the inspirations for the character of Natty Bumppo in James Fennimore Cooper’s series of novels called
Stories about my Mother 13
Stories about my Mother 13
Stories about my Mother 13
Hidden in amongst the intertwined branches of my mother’s tree, back through a long meandering series of maternal lines, is one of my 9th great-grandfathers, Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell Jr. I was initially more interested in the woman he married, but then I started to realize who he was. He is considered by some literary historians to be one of the inspirations for the character of Natty Bumppo in James Fennimore Cooper’s series of novels called