The Glorious Generation
1648–1673
“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.”
William Penn, 1682
The Glorious Generation was born just after the worst convulsions of the English Civil War. Its members grew up under renewed concern for order, schooling, and discipline, then came of age amid colonial war, imperial consolidation, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89, when James II was displaced by William and Mary. It afforded my family my earliest patrilineal ancestors in the New World with the landing of Amor Via (born c. 1660) in Virginia in 1677.