{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Moby and Herman: Part Three - The Chase","description":"We bring our investigation to a close, tracing Moby's tree back to Scotland and talk through all of Herman Melville's own family's ancestral hopes.&amp;nbsp;    Gregor Ehrlich   Background on Herman Melville\u2019s genealogy and Thomas and Allan Melvill\u2019s attempt to prove their relation to General Robert Melvill comes several sources, including:&amp;nbsp;    \u201cData on the Melvill Family,\u201d the research put together by Allan Melvill, courtesy of the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts   Herman Melville's Malcom Letter, (Hennig Cohen and Donald Yannella, 1992)   \u201cHudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Melville,\u201d (ed. Cuyler Reynolds, 1911)   Jean F. Melvill, \u201cMelvill Genealogy,\u201d Melville Society Extracts Number 95, December 1993   Merton Sealts Jr., \u201cThe Melvill Heritage,\u201d Harvard Library Bulletin XXXIV (4), Fall 1986   Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1), 1996    John Bryant\u2019s biography of Herman Melville is Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life (2021)   Melville lineage back to 13th century from Sir Robert Douglas\u2019  The Baronage of Scotland (1798)   Letters between Allan and Thomas Melvill about their ancestry and heritage are collected in \u201cData on the Melvill Family\u201d (Berkshire Athenaeum)    Descendants of David Melvill of Boston, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island, Helen S. Ullmann, 2021   David Melville\u2019s (1776-1793) pewter porringer and  plate are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City   Wikipedia page for David Melville (1773-1856), inventor of the first gas street lighting. For more information see Daniel W. Mattausch, \u201cDavid Melville And The First American Gas Light Patents,\u201d Rushlight Journal, December 1998   Herman Melville, Redburn (1849)   For more about Herman Melville\u2019s choice of names for his children, and particularly Malcolm, see  Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: Man's Final Love, by Hennig Cohen and Donald Yanella (1993)   Moby discussing Moby-Dick from a video made for LA Library Foundation   Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Breakmaster Cylinder. Special thanks to John Bryant, Hap Hall, Elizabeth Doss and Gregor Ehrlich.&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"The Genealogy Detective","author_url":"http:\/\/genealogydetective.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/28005141\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/28005141"}