Fruit of the Fig Tree

My Grandpa, James Foster Sargeant was born in Nevis on May 5, 1884 and arrived in New Haven Connecticut at the age of thirty in 1914.
He was a boatright by vocation, but eventually became proficient in all of the mechanical trades. He was a multi-talented man and was self taught in electronics, music and photography (the latter discipline having been passed down through three successive generations as of this writing). A tinkerer at heart, he would craft a living repairing the radios that had come to be such a vital part of life in the early part of the century.
A youthful relationship produced his first and only daughter Maxine, but he eventually married Olive Amory a teacher ,also from Nevis at the Fig Tree Church . His relationship with Olive would last a lifetime and produced three sons, Lloyd, Louis, and Bertram. A small, but thriving community of immigrants from the eastern caribbean was developing in New Haven that included the Bakers, the Hanleys, the Huggins the Gilfilans, the Pembertons and the Tysons. The would include the legendary jurist Constance Baker Motley, bass player Bill Pemberton. Also among them were the Sargeant and the Amory families.

Years later, they would leave New Haven, first for the Bronx, and ultimately settling at 48 macon street in Brooklyn. Legend has it that their stubborn island self reliance extended beyond their complete mastery over household maintenence; they would also entertain themselves and their neighbors, with a trio consisting of Grandpa on his beloved Gibson Harp Guitar, Uncle LLoyd on a Gibson mandolin and my dad, Louis on a traditional acoustic guitar. Uncle Bert, who was not yet old enough to play and had the unenviable task of carrying the instruments from house to house.

The "boys" were eventually conscripted into a Jim Crow army and served their time before assuming careers in law enforcement, and facilities management at the newly built Lenox Terrace complex in Harlem.
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