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A brief history of the Finch family Pages 3-5 in TKAM

“If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek” (paragraph 3, p. 3)

“Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.” (paragraph4, p. 3)

“All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall…” (paragraph 4, p. 3)

“he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens [river]” (paragraph 1, p. 4)

“bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some 40 miles above St. Stephens” (paragraph 1, p. 4)

“Atticus’s office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard, and an unsullied Code of Alabama” (paragraph 4, p. 4)

Briefly… Simon FinchCame over from England & settled in Alabama on Finch’s Landing Descendents of Simon FinchAtticus Finch & Jack Finch Alexandra Finch Atticus FinchLives close to Finch’s Landing in Maycomb County; he’s a lawyer Jack FinchAtticus’s brother who is a doctor Alexandra FinchAlso known as “Aunt Alexandra” – she is Atticus’s sister & she still lives at Finch’s Landing