"In the last quarter of the sixteenth century, there was living in England a family of title and large estates known as the House of Dunham."
So begins the most extraordinary immigrant's tale ever told. A story of faith and survival. A story of a father denied the right to acknowledge his son and heir. Blending fact and fiction, this volume explains the US Singletary family origins legend - that may actually be true.
The story is retold here in context to reveal that this unusually detailed immigrant's tale is supported by the historical record. These facts, enhanced with fictional narrative, explain what it may have been like as a "Lost" Colonist living peacefully among the natives for 20 years and escaping massacre just before the Jamestown colony came to find them.
The fate of the Booth lords of Dunham Massey was changed forever when the family heirloom signet ring went missing, presumably with the nursemaid and infant heir of Dunham. For fifty years their disappearance went unreported and unexplained until the nursemaid confessed on her deathbed that she was hired to kill the heir.
A portrait of Sir George at Dunham Massey shows an unidentified ring noticeably tied to his collar strings as if telling us something about the missing Dunham heirloom and heir.