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I would like to add to your "small world". My husband John was born in California, I was born in Florida, we met and married in Texas. I found this story while in Salt Lake City researching the Roosa and the Dubois family. It is one of my favorites.
From NY Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, Vol. 90, pp 94-102
1665 Captain Brodhead tended to embroil himself with the Dutch/French settlers, even with his neighbors at the New Dorp (Hurley), where he had rented a farm. One day he had arrived at the store of Louis Dubois while a fight between the feisty Albert Hymanse Roosa and 5 English soldiers was going on. Roosa had entered the store in search of a man to repair his plough-colter and, being badgered by the soldiers, who were in there drinking brandy, he had thrown the colter at one who was drawing his sword, scoring a near miss. Three of the soldiers had chased him outside. Brodhead's presence ended the outside engagement but Brodhead didn't go inside to stop the beating the other two soldiers were giving the storekeeper, DuBois, and his wife. It was the English soldiers that preferred charges and the Wiltwyck magistrates, with Brodhead sitting as observer, held Roosa for further examination. (Louis Dubois is Donna's 8th ggrandfather through two family lines. Albert Heymans Roosa is John's 9th ggrandfather.)
I love to remind my husband which ancestor started this fight.
Donna Hoffman Schultheiss
Victoria, TX
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