PROVENANCE

prov·e·nance: the place of origin or earliest known history of something.

Welcome. For over 350 years, a direct line of my Hukill ancestors have lived between the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River. I am researching and writing about them. I invite you to share my adventures as I travel through history.​ My most recent work begins below. ​ For more about navigating this site, please click on the About button above.​

We spent much of May 2021 docked in Ft Myers, Florida. The temperatures were in the balmy 80’s and it hardly rained at all.  Back in 1875, there were only about 350 people living on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River. Air conditioning would not be invented for another quarter century.  This rare view of […]