Preservation of the Union: Then and Now - Hardcoverby Robert Tolbert (Author) Preservation of the Union Then and Now is a book written by Robert Tolbert, a ninth generation American and former sixth grade teacher and coach. The book discusses how his first ancestor came from Buckinghamshire, England, in 1696 and acquired a 1,034 acre parcel of land up the Chesapeake Bay on the Mattaponi River in Virginia, called Endfield. It would be on that parcel of land two generations later Kunte Kinte, in the