Historical Biographies by Susan Moore Teller

Books by Susan Moore Teller

Susan Moore Teller is the author of several books whose subject is American history and some of the people who founded the USA. She retired from the Alameda Newspaper Group (now Bay Area Newspaper Group) where she was a National Advertising Executive, using newspaper skills as a former reporter, columnist and publishing rep to produce books now in fifteen major libraries. A 30 year plus member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she has filed on seven patriots who are her direct ancestors, two of them never before successfully documented. Married (second) over 40 years to James Teller, former publisher of N.C.E.N. of Palo Alto, later Tech Support Manager of UMAX, they left the San Francisco Bay Area to retire in Arizona. Ask for current prices and postage correct for your zip code-e-mail smt100@cox.net or call (623)875-0613.

BOOKS

Just published: The Welsh in Colonial America - The Maddux - Maddox from ancient wales to Jamestown, Virgin and across the nation.
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The Welsh in Colonial America follows the Welsh from the Celtic immigration from Europe to what is now Wales 6,000 years ago, and tells the story of Bluestones which later were taken to Stonehenge. The Bluestones were mined in the Preseli Mountains in Wales and carried later to what is now England and used to create Stonehenge, along with the circle of much larger stones so well known. There, near Stonehenge, the bones of many ancient people are buried. The rise of the rulers of southern Wales carries the Madog family to the mid 1500’s where they are conquered by England, and some Welsh migrate to London. Two members of the Madog Clan, Thomas Maddoch/Maddux born in 1590 in Saint Mary Magdalene, Bermondsly, a Welsh community in London, England and Samuel Maddox born in1638 in Scethrog, Breconshire, Wales journey to America. Thomas Madoch becomes an “Adventurer” to Jamestowne in 1620, an investor in the London Company and settled in what is now Isle of Wight, in Virginia and was then a community named for the Warrosquoake Indians in Jamestown. He ordered saplings to plant an apple orchard, but died in the Powhatan attack of Jamestown of 1622 before they arrived. His son, Alexander, who remained in England, came to Virginia in 1635 to claim his inheritance of his father, and lived in the colonies to his death in 1659 in Northhampton, Virginia. His descendant, another Alexander Maddux, born in 1757 was with General George Washington at Valley Forge, among other battles he fought in the American Revolutionary War. His descendants are traced to modern times and include folks who went by horseback on the southern route to California in the era of the Gold Rush, and some in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. Samuel came from Scethrog, Breconshire, Wales, emigrating to St. Mary’s County, Maryland shortly after the fall of Chrles I of England in 1645, according to the “History of Brechronshire” by Maud Maddox Jones, Genealogical Magazine, vol (1907) H.R. 929, p 44. Alexander and Samuel were third cousins, according to records. Samuel’s descendant Mathew Maddox fought in many battles during the American Revolution, the last the Battle of Camden where he was severely wounded. He is buried in Parkersburg, West Virginia where a monument attests to his service. The Welsh are a fascinating people, who have received too little notice for their contribution to the founding of the United States of America. This book tells their story.

Books available by Susan Moore Teller autographed by the author, call (623)875-0613 or write smt100@cox.net for details:
The Peck Clan in America (Revolutionary War, Kings Mountain, Battle of New Orleans); Adam the Younger and the War of 1812 (more about Adam Peck Jr, and the first generation of Americans); Eliza, A Blue-blooded Southern Belle Who Became a Pioneer Woman, (The life of Elizabeth Gayle, granddaughter of Josiah Gayle, the signer of the Revolutionary Papers of South Carolina in July, 1775, and direct descendant of two Colonial Virginia Governors whose names are posted today on the wall of the Episcopalian Chapel in Jamestown); Obadiah Moore, Revolutionary Patriot, POW, Battle of Charleston, (Born Obediah More II in the Chesapeake Bay of an English father and mother from Kent, England, he grew to manhood in the west of the day, Pitt County, North Carolina where he joined the fight with other patriots to fight in the American Revolution. The More/Moore, Willoughby, Ventis, Hines, Goodman families as they pioneered "west" from Virginia to Texas). The Saxons, (The Summerour and Wininger Families, from Germany through early North Carolina, Georgia and Texas.)

The Welsh in Colonial America - The Maddux - Maddox from ancient wales to Jamestown, Virgin and across the nation.  Hardback, four color, 8 1/2 by 11, many old documents. Traced from Wales, England to Jamestown Virginia. email sm0634@gmail.com for details, all books purchased from author are autographed personally by the author. List price: $44.14 plus postage. Authors promotion price $35.00 plus postage. Be sure to state which book you are inquiring about in email message.