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“It is said that sixty percent of Americans have roots in New York State.”

In 1654 the Dutch vessel Princess broached the shoreline supporting the tiny hamlet of New Amsterdam; the embryonic sprout that, within a short decade would become New York City.

On the ship stood forty year old Resolved Waldron alongside of his pregnant young wife, his one arm wrapped tight around the shoulder of his boy, William, while his two smaller daughters stood unusually quiet in front of them. Like all others fervent eyes were glued to the horizon. As the big man glanced down upon the smallest head he knew that it was for them, and the one soon to come, that he had accepted Peter Stuyvesant’s offer of a job. Had he been a man alone he would have burned Stuyvesant’s letter. The position that awaited him of night sheriff as offered by the Director General was a lowly one that he understood barely made it to the bottom step of any man’s stoop, but Waldron had sworn an oath before God that he would soon climb to the top of the best Manhattan Island had to offer.

This is the well-researched historical fiction of seventeenth century Manhattan as seen through the eyes of one family. It is a story of sins, hope and forgiveness that incorporates the history of some of the first Americans, European and African American who settled a paradise know by Native Americans as Mahikan which meant Island of the Rolling Hills.

Gloria Waldron Hukle is the author of three novels, Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple, Threads an American Tapestry and The Diary of a Northern Moon. She resides in New York State.

 "Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple" available hard and soft cover and as ebook.