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Description
In the 1660s, three fugitives from justice came to New England to
escape being drawn and quartered in London. They had been among the 59
judges in the trial of England's King Charles the First who found him
guilty of betraying his own people and sentenced him to death by
beheading. For the next 11 years, England was governed by men trying to
create a different kind of government, one led not by a monarch with
divine rights, but by the people. Their ideas helped the founding
fathers of the United States, a century later, come up with our Bill of
Rights. In 1660, the king's son, Charles the Second, was restored to the
throne and began avenging his father. One of the three regicides who
fled to North America was John Dixwell, my seven greats grandfather. My
book tells the story of how being given Dixwell as a middle name and
then given his key to Dover Castle (where he was governor of that
military fortification) led me to spend decades digging up every
possible scrap of information about his life and his decision to judge a
king. The book details my discoveries in New England, England, and my
family tree, where I figured out not only who had the key in each of the
eight generations that preceded mine, but also how each key keeper
likely felt about the man who consigned a king to death. Sarah Dixwell
Brown taught writing at Stanford University, Santa Clara University,
Mount Holyoke College and the Commonwealth Honors College at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published numerous
personal essays in national and local publications. This is her first
book. It was prompted by her receiving a family heirloom, a key to Dover
Castle that once belonged to her direct ancestor, John Dixwell, a
regicide of Charles I who escaped to New England in the 1660s. She lives
in Western Massachusetts.