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THE INNOCENCE PROTOCOLFICTION BY ROBERT WESCOTT

The family history behind the fiction

Out of the
Wilderness

A family’s journey. A lifetime of remembering.

From County Derry to Pennsylvania and western New York, follow the families whose stories Coral M. Wescott Swartz Sobczak gathered for the generations to come.

Begin the family story Browse the chapters ↓

Free to read · 24 chapters · Historical text and research

01 · Read

Start with the family

Thomas and Mary Frame, a new home, and the generations that followed.

Begin reading →02 · Investigate

Follow the evidence

Later discoveries, documentary sources, and the questions still open.

Explore the research →03 · Discover

From history to fiction

How Robert expanded Coral’s work into What the Records Left Out.

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Coral’s work, carried forward

The records are a beginning.

Coral brought together family memories, county histories, deeds, and genealogies. This public reading edition carries that work forward with historical passages, clearly labeled summaries, and later research. It follows the Frame, McMichael, Ralston, Wescott, Angevine, and Witter branches.

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The public reading edition

Explore the chapters

Read in sequence, or follow a place, a person, or a story. Each chapter identifies its editorial treatment.

I · Origins & the homestead

  1. 1. Northern IrelandEditorial summary
  2. 2. PrefaceHistorical text
  3. 3. Crawford County, PennsylvaniaHistorical text
  4. 4. Chief CornplanterHistorical text
  5. 5. Red JacketHistorical text
  6. 6. Finding a HomesteadHistorical text
  7. 7. Home on Four Hundred AcresHistorical text
  8. 8. The Frame Cemetery in East FallowfieldEditorial summary

II · The family branches

  1. 9. The Frame ChildrenSelected historical text
  2. 10. The McMichaelsSelected historical text
  3. 11. The Saga Continues: The RalstonsSelected historical text
  4. 12. The GrinnellsEditorial summary
  5. 13. Leeda Grace RalstonEditorial summary
  6. 14. The WescottsHistorical text
  7. 15. The Wescott FiddleHistorical text
  8. 16. Abram Westcott and LucyEditorial summary
  9. 17. Alvie Frank WescottEditorial summary
  10. 18. Frank SchruisEditorial summary
  11. 19. My Recollections of AlvieEditorial summary

III · Earlier roots & acknowledgements

  1. 20. The Angevin DynastyHistorical text
  2. 21. The AngevinesEditorial summary
  3. 22. Hachischan and KatrinaEditorial summary
  4. 23. The WittersEditorial summary
  5. 24. AcknowledgementsSelected historical text
What the Records Left Out, a novel by Robert Wescott

The story continues in fiction

What the Records Left Out

A homestead, a messenger story, a family fiddle. Coral’s research offered starting points for a separate novel—and for imagining the lives a record cannot fully hold.

The novel is fiction, not a continuation of the genealogical record.

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