"Historic Family Photo Album New London CT"

The item we're profiling this week is a bit on the pricier side (the starting bid is $99, with $13.90 shipping to boot), but it may well prove enticing to the history buffs or Scotsmen out there.

Kim Tucci is the seller of the "Antique Historic Family Photo Album." The leatherbound album contains 33 photos and "one tin" of the Douglas family, as well as a written summary of some of the family history. The Douglas clan, it says, was based in Scotland near the English-Welsh border and skirmished with the English so frequently that they earned the nickname "Black Douglas." Their members included Sir James Douglas, a more well-known crusader for Scottish independence; William Douglas, who settled in New London; and Henry Douglas, who led a Confederate brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg.

"No family among the early settlers of the town has sent more colonies to other parts of the Union," Francis Manwaring Caulkins says in the 1854 work History of New London. "The descendants of William, 1st, are widely dispersed through New York and states farther west, and also in some of the southern states. He and his immediate family wrote the name Douglas, with one s; Douglass is a variation of later times."

According to the William Richard Cutter's New England Families, a genealogical study, William Douglas first settled in Boston before later moving to New London. Cutter said he became "one of the most prominent citizens of New London," serving as a church deacon and deputy to the general court before dying in 1682. There are quite a few more notable members of the family, including one who compelled his horse to swim across the Thames during the Battle of Groton Heights, but I may have to leave a more complete investigation to .

Bidding on the album of the Douglas descendants in a more photographic age ends just before 6:10 p.m. on Thursday.