Edward Farmar and the Sons of Whitemarsh

Major Jasper Farmar embarked on a ten-week voyage to settle his family in a land once known as Umbilicamence - promised as more fertile than Ireland, with temperate weather, friendly Indians, religious freedom, and a democratic government. He never arrived. His orphaned son Edward - Indian interpreter, businessman, judge, politician, and philanthropist - will help fulfill the dream of William Penn's "Holy Experiment." Soon, his children will build a new nation beyond Whitemarsh Township and discover the corruption, oppression, violence, drought, and war that Major Jasper had sought to escape...