Hello! Welcome to William’s World. My name is William Honoway and I am thirty five years old. I just learned about this whole blogging thing and wanted to share my life with everyone because I have had quite a crazy experience. My father had traveled from Europe to the New World seventy years ago. He was an indentured servant for three years before acquiring his own land and meeting my mother. As a young boy, my family and I lived in the South and owned a tobacco plantation. When my father and mother had passed, my eldest brother, Andrew, took over the estate. With the quick spread of diseases and looming poverty, I set out to find a better life for myself. I decided to move up North to the New England Colonies in search of the land that Reverend John White described. He stated that, “No country yields a more propitious air for our temper than New England.” I mean who wouldn’t want to go to a place so wonderful? I landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony a few weeks later.
Moving to the Massachusetts Bay Colony changed my life forever. When I first arrived I started working as a ship builder. I found it quite fascinating. The transition at first was difficult. My whole life all I knew was how to run and maintain a tobacco plantation. In the North, tobacco was not a popular crop, due to the sterile soil. I had to learn how to adapt. A while passed before I got the hang of things. When I was finally financially stable, I found my wife, Anna Louise. She is the daughter of a proprietor. We are currently living on an estate that her father granted us when we got married. We started our family a few years ago. Now we are up to three children. If my wife keeps having children at this rate, we are going to need a bigger estate! Follow me on this journey and I will keep you updated on all aspects of my life!
Till next time,
William Honoway
