Descendants
During the American Revolution, a descendant of Ludlow, Gabriel Ludlow, was made a Colonel of the King's army. After the loss of the American colonies, Ludlow became the first mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick, the first city in what would become Canada.
2012; William, David, Lulu, Peter, Edmund, Mark, Sarah, Molly, Ted, Grace, Alfie, Oliver, Katie, Lauren and other members of the Watts family are directly descended from Edmund Ludlow. Living in England, the Watts's have accomplished great feats that their ancestors would have only been able to dream of. Especially William Webb Watts, who was a visionary and a great man, one of England's finest.
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“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)