Zebulon Heston I (ca.1670-1720) immigrated in 1684 from England to Cape Code, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He moved to Newtown, Long Island, New York, and by 1697 to Burlington, New Jersey. He married Dorothy Storr, a Quaker, in 1698. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan and elsewhere. Includes Heston and various other ancestral families in England.
On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crowds had very mixed feelings about this regicide, but Oliver Cromwell’s troops kept order, and eventually the crowd dispersed, stunned by this momentous event in English history, which left the country in turmoil. Amongst the crowd that day were a father of fifty-nine years and his three sons. This moment in history was to change their lives. Who were this family? Where had they come from? What would become of them? The answer to these questions would lead us back to King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, forward to our own Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, and would also greatly influence much of American history.
"He climbed up on the wing of a 1941 Waco bi-plane and seated himself in the cockpit. He had never sat in one of these models before and he loved the feel it gave him. With a sudden rush he realized that he knew everything about this airplane. He reached underneath the seat, without looking, knowing the fuel-cock would be there ... and it was. He even recited in his mind the piston size and the complete mechanical workings of the interior of the engine. He climbed out of the plane and walked around it several times. Something drew him to this plane -- something deep inside himself." Déjà vu experiences startle Jason Conrad, as does the name "Monica" sounding in his head. Sometimes his dreams show him how to fly maneuvers he has no training for, and sometimes his visions insist he has a soulmate somewhere whom he has known for a very long time. A bygone, tragic news story posted on an airport wall; a crashed plane in the Amazon Rain Forest; a girl in a yellow blouse; the rescue of a boy's life which leads to a drug cartel in Colombia all contribute to the unveiling of Jason's previous life and the soulmate whose love he's yearned for. While Jason's sense of adventure carries him geographically far and wide, it also fuels his discovery that he is traveling from one lifetime to another in a compelling, ongoing saga of love.
Ancestry of Jack Heston, grandson of Charleton and Lydia Clarke Heston, traced through several lines. Ancestry includes: Bartholomew de Boynton who lived in Yorkshire, England in 1067; John S. Norris, who was born in Corinth, Vermont and married Lydia George in 1806; Simon Huntington (1583?-1633) who married Margaret Barrett and immigrated to America in 1633; Johann Herman Schaper of Stemmen, Germany who married Anna Maria Weber, with some descendants immigrating to Wisconsin; as well as several other ancestral lines.
