This Day in Goodlove History, August 12

• This Day in Goodlove History, August 12

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.



“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Birthdays on this date; Ann M. Perius, Charles N. McCormick, John H. Marugg, John M. Goodlove, Sarah Aylesworth

Weddings on this date; Peggy J. Sadler and Richard C. Marugg, Ida L. Chapin and Earl W. Hannah



This Day…

August 1213 B.C.: The Israelites first appear in the historical record in an inscription dating from the thirteenth century BCE commemorating a victory of the Egyptian pharoah Merneptah. “Carved off is Ashqelon, seized upon is Gezer,” reads the stela, an inscribed pillar. “Israel is laid waste, his seed is no more.” [1]

Merneptah was the fourth ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled Egypt for almost ten years between late July or early August 1213 to May 2, 1203 BC, according to contemporary historical records. He was gthe thirteenth son of Ramesses II, and only came to power because all hisw older brothers, including his full brother Khaemwaset, had predeceased him, by which time he was almost sixty years old. [2]

The ABCs have come a long way since they were invented more than 3,500 years ago. The workmen of Sarabit adapted most of the original Proto-Sinaitic letters from pictographs fouind in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs. This easily learned alphabetic script survived relatively unchanged for hundreds of years until, around 1200 B.C.EE., a more linear, abstracted script developed among the cities and kingdoms of Iron Age Syuria and Palestine. As the alphabet was adopted for Phoenician, Greek and then Latin, the letters became ever more abstracted, and in the end, no longer bore any resemblance to thje original pictorial chacters invented by the Serabit miners. Modern Hebreew letters developed through the Aramaic alphabetic tradition, although they retain the names of many of the original Proto-Sinaitic letters. [3]

1220 BC: People from the Aegean will soon settle on the western coast of Canaan, where they will be known as the Philistines. [4]

1220 BC: Pharaoh Merneptah claims victory over several sites and peoples in Canaan, including the territory of Israel. This is the earliest contemporary notice of Israel.[5]

1220 BC: The Stela of Merneptah, in which the Egyptian king claims to have destroyed many peoples and places in the land of Canaan, including “Israel.” The claims are surely exaggerated, but the mention of Israel indicates that a people of that name is located in Canaan at about 1230 BCE.[6]

1220 BC: According to tradition, the Hebrews, based at Kadesh on the Sinai-Negev border, meet resistance in trying to enter Canaan, so they circle the Dead Sea and encamp in Moab.[7]

1220 BC: The city of Jericho, which according to the book of Joshua was destroyed by the Israelites, show no archaeological signs of ruin. Nearby Ha-Ai, whose destruction is likewise attributed to the Israelites, was ruined no later than 2500 BCE. Other sites, such as Hazor, Devir, and Lachish evidence destruction, but it is not clear at whose hands- Egypt’s, the Philistines’, other Canaanite states’ or Israel’s Other sites said to fall to Israel, such as Gebeon and Hebron, do not yet exist.[8]

1220 BCE: In the course of the next two centuries, Israel comprises a somewhat loose confederation of 12 tribes, though the identity of these tribes shifts. One gathers from the Book of Judges that in wartime Israel is united and led by a man or woman endowed with a devine charisma. In fact, the unity imputed to Israel in this period may be exaggerated; virtually every leader, or “judge,” operates in the confines of one’s own tribe.[9]

1220 BCE: The destruction of the Tower of Babel, (Genesis 11) may recall the triumph of Tukulti-Ninurta I, who may himself be recalled (in Genesis 10:8-10) as the legendary Nimrod.

1220-1200 BCE: Joshua and the Israelites invade Canaan.[10]

1208 BC: Merneptah Stele 1208 BC

Most of the hyroglyphic inscription celebrates Merneptah’s victory over Libia, his enemy to the west, but almost as an after thought he mentions his conquest of people to the east, in just two lines.[11]

1208 BC: The text reads, “Ashcelon has been brought captive, Gezer has been taken captive, Jenoham (in the north Jordan valley) has been seized. Israel has been shorn, Its seed no longer exists. [12]

1200 B.C.: The Jews first appear in the historical record as a group of tribes living in the hills around the Dead Sea about 1200 B.C. [13] The League of the 12 Tribes was formed (Amphictyony: the political and cultural union of the inhabitants of the region for the protection of a centrally located shrine). The league was founded on the common origins and religious worship of the tribes. The Judges (tribal leaders) watched over the religious worship and the observation of God’s law (1200-1000).[14]

1200 BCE “Sea Peoples” from Aegean invade the eastern Mediterranean. [15] The Bible says the Philistines show up about 1200 B.C.. The Aegean are from Modern day Greece. When an archaeological site becomes Philistine, there is a change in diet from where sheep and goats provide the source of meat to pigs and beef becoming much more common. The Philistines are eating pork. A catastophy happened. There are many explanations for that. Cities like Micene and Tearigns were destroyed. Something dramatic happened. No one knows if it was an earthquake, plague, or what.[16]

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The Philistines arrived by sea from the area of modern-day Greece around 1200 B.C. They went on to rule major ports at Ashkelon and Ashdod, now cities in Israel, and at Gaza, now part of the Palestinian territory known as the Gaza Strip.

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At Gath, they settled on a site that had been inhabited since prehistoric times. Digs like this one have shown that though they adopted aspects of local culture, they did not forget their roots. Even five centuries after their arrival, for example, they were still worshipping gods with Greek names.

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Archaeologists have found that the Philistine diet leaned heavily on grass pea lentils, an Aegean staple. Ancient bones discarded at the site show that they also ate pigs and dogs, unlike the neighboring Israelites, who deemed those animals unclean – restrictions that still exist in Jewish dietary law. [20]

1200 B.C.: The beginning of the Iron Age.[21] The Philistines knew how to make iron and were mighty enemies. The Israelites didn’t. They were still in the Bronze age. [22]

1200-1025: The period of the Judges and the confederation of the tribes of Israel in Canaan.[23]

1200 to 975 B.C.

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The First Israelites, Iron Age I: 1200-975 BC

New groups grew in importance after the collapse of the Late Bronze age.

Megiddo passed from Egypt’s control at the close of the Late Bronze Age as the great powers of Egypt, Mycenae, Syro-Anatolia experienced a widespread collapse. The Israelites and other local populations in the Southern Levant began to emerge and evolve.

At this time Canaanites lived in the southern Levant and around Megiddo. They had been there during the Bronze age and had characteristic pottery, religious practices, and housing.

At the same time a small number of villages sprouted up in the highlands. Many scholars believe that these were the earliest villages of the Israelites.

Various groups of Sea Peoples settled along the eastern Mediterranean coast following the collapse of the Mycenean world in the Aegean. In the southern Levant they are known as the Philistines.

Artifacts from the stratum at Megiddo (Strattum VI) include bowls of jars typical of local populations; scarabs and amulets crafted by Egyptians, and painted pottery brought by Sea Peoples colonizing the coast. The dynamic and fluid interactions by these cultured during the transitional age are reflected by the diverse remains at Megiddo. [25]



1200-900 B.C.

The second millennium ends in a period of decline

A period of political, economic, and possibly climatic crisis throughout the Near East began around 1,200 B.C. and lasted until roughly 900 B.C. Most cities in the south were again abandoned. There is little historical evidence from this second period of decline and therefore scant information for studying the last period of Kassite rule and the years that followed.

What is clear is that both Babylonia and Assyria experienced severe upheavals. The Kassite dynasty collapsed with the death of the last king in 1,155 B.C. Royal power was next claimed by a dynasty based in Isin and known as the Second Dynasty of Isin (1,157-1,026 B.C.). It, in turn, was succeeded by three very short lived dynasties. [26]

1200 B.C.

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Where did the Israelites come from? Perhaps no question has perplexed scholars of early Israel more than this one. We first began to hear of a people called Israel living in the southern Levant somethime around the beginning of the Iron age (1200 B.C.).

A literal reading of the Bible tells of an exodus by the Israelites frfom Egypt and the conquest of the Promised Land under Joshua. However, Egyptian official records provide no clear evidence of a Hebrew enslavement in Egypt. Nor do all of the key archaeological sites in Israel support a wholesale conquest by Joshua’s armies. The Bible no doubt preseres part of what was a very complex story. So where did the Israelites come from? Local city dwellers moving into the highlands of the Southern Levant probably blended with the groups that had been living on the margins of the region as pastoral nomads. Over time these people came to share a common identity as Israelites. By roughly 975 B.C. the Israelites had taken control of the southern Levante as a dominant political force. [28]





1197-1165 Ramses III. Repeated attacks by the “Sea Peoples” and Libyans were repulsed; prisoners taken in the battle were settled in the Delta. Under Ramses successors internal unreat set in. Palestine and Nubia were lost and the land was impoverished; however, a concentration of economic power formed around the large temples.[29] From 1200 the coast of Palestine was settled by the Philistines (part of the stormy aggackes of the “Sea Peoples”)., and a league of city-states established (Ashdad, Ascalon, Ekron, Gasa, Gath). During the 11th century there was strong opressure by the Philistines and the Ammonites (Eastern Jordan; the dingdom of Israel was established as a defensive measure. [30]

1150 BCE: Israel begins to emerge as a network of settlements in the Galilean and central hill country. Details of Israel’s origins and early development are obscure. [31]

1150 BCE: Tribes form east of the Jordan River and join with Israel; the Bible reports Israelite victories against Transjordanian Kings.[32]

1150 BCE: The tribes of Israel would seem to have mixed ethnic and geographical origins. They comprise substantial native Canaanite elements.[33]

1150 BCE Olmecs construct the first stone structures in Mexico.[34]

1125: Deborah and Barak rally a number of Israelite tribes to defeat Canaanite forces at Mt. Tabor. Other stories about judges celebrate Israelite conquests of territory from Philistines (Shamgar, Samson), Ammonites (Jephthah), Moabites (Ehud), Midianites (Gideon), and others. [35]

ca. 1105 B.C. Samuel’s birth.[36]

1100 BCE : YHWH is worshiped as Israel’s national Gop, but Canaanite fertility rites are practiced, too. Figurines of goddesses are widespread, and Israel’s prophets will repeatly inveigh against the cult of the local rain god, Baal. [37]

1100 BCE: The tribes worship at a variety of shrines, each headed by a priestly family. It is possible that on the pilgrimage festivals, Pesah or Matsot (Passover); Shavuot (Weeks); and Harvest, or Sukkot (Booths), members of all tribes join to celebrate at a central shrine, such as Shechem, Gilgal, Bethel, or Shiloh. The ark of the covenant would be located at that shrine, removed only to accompany the Israelites in battle. Some attribute the Bible’s earliest law code (Exodus 21-23) to the period of the tribal covenant.[38]

1100 BCE: The formation of the Israelite nation is recounted as the outcome as the outcome of a holy war waged against Canaan by Israel’s God, YHWH.[39]

1100 BCE: It may be the idea of being covenanted to God that confirms Israel’s identity as a people. Law codes in the Pentateuch display a structure similar to Hittite and Assyrian treaties between overlord kings and their vassals. It would seem that Israel sees itself as the grateful vassal of YHWH, the God who liberated them from bondage. YHWH would then be perceived as Israel’s king, enthroned between the cherubim on the ark containing the tablets of the covenant.[40]

1100 BCE: The earliest surviving Hebrew literature is, according to some, composed; it includes the “Song at the Sea” (Exodus 15), the “Song of Deborah” (Judges 5), and the testament of Jacob (Genesis 49). The archaic Psalm 29 depicts Israel’s God as the power of a storm. The “Song at the Sea” seems to transform the pagan myth in which the storm god splits and subdues the sea god(dess); here. YHWH defeats the evil pharaoh of Egypt by splitting the sea and passing the Israelites through, moving from a struggle in nature to a conflict in history.[41]

1100 BCE 22 letter Phoenician alphabet, forerunner of Hebrew developed in Canaan.[42]

1100 BCE Eurasian horsemen develop the mouth bit aiding the control of horses.[43]

1100 BCE Spinning wheel invented in China.[44]

12th Century B.C.E., the dominant civilizations that had cultivated the complex hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts in Egypt and Mesopotamia fell out of power. New peoples, Israelites, Phoenicians, Moabites and Arameans, appeared in Canaan and the Levant. For thess new people, emerging on the periphery of the old greatr cultures, it was only natural to write in the fring born system of writing that traveled in their own milieu. It suited their languages, their social needs and their newly established identities.

Sometime during this period of change, the new script must have become institutionaloized, maybe egven promulgated in schools. As a result, the script quickly underwent a process of linearization and abstraction. More experienced writers could relinquish the pictorial link between the letter and its name. At this stage, the “script of the caravans” lost one of its greater assets: its mnemonuic power.[45]

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ca. 1075 B.C. Sampson becomes Israel’s judge. [48] Judges are primarily military leaders. Ocasionally a Judge will lead more than one tribe.[49]

1075 BCE possibly the Phoenicians develop a true alphabet script.[50]

1050 B.C. Israel Asks for a King, 1 Samuel 8:1-9:27

The period of the judges came to a close when Saul became king around 1050 B.C.[51]

1050 B.C.E. Philistines expand east and the Philistines, the Bible recounts(1st Samuel 4:1), inflict a severe military blow against Israelite forces at Aphek, capturing the ark of YHWH and destroying the shrine at Shiloh. The Philistines seem to have been seeking to control overland trade. [52] The ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months. Then the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord: Tell us what we should send with it to its place.” They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and will be ransomed.”[53]

…they took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the gold mice and images of their tumors.

1050 B.C.E.: Somewhere around 1050 B.C.E., the twelve tribes coalesced to form the Israelite Kingdom (United Monarchy”) under Saul. According to the traditional view, his successor and son in law, David further conbsolidated the tribes with rhe monarchy slew various enemies, and grew the kingdom into an empire extending from modern Lebanon/Syria in the north to the Sinai desert in the south, and from the Mediterranean coast in the west to the edge3 of the Arabian Desert in the east .[54]



1030-1010: Saul rules the Israelite confederation.[55] The Bible says that the judge Samuel anoints Saul from the tiny tribe of Benjamin as the first king. [56] During the reign of King Saul, a young shepherd from the tribe of Judah named David of Bethlehem helped repulse the threatening Philistines led by the giant warrior Goliath. [57]

1022 to 1000 B.C.E.: Saul was anointed the first king of Israel; he ruled from about 1022 to 1000 BCE.[58]

1020 BCE: Saul leads Israelite forces in wresting Jabesh-Gilead from Ammonite hands; he is acclaimed king and anointed by the prophet Samuel. He builds a fortified palace on top of a formerly Philistine structure.[59]

Around 1015 B.C.

The legendary David and Goliath duel takes place around 1015 B.C.. A time when the Israelites are in the middle of a bloody war with a vicious enemy, the Philistines. It’s been 200 years since the great military commander, Moses, first led the twelve Israelite tribes out of Egypt during the Exodus. [60]

c. 1010 B.C. Saul, the leader in the struggle against the Ammonites, was proclaimed king. After a brief reign he was defeated by the Philistines on the plain of Jezreel. Saul’s son Ishbaal ruled briefly in the north.[61] David affiliates with Saul and attacks Philistine settlements. The Bible recounts that he later allies with the Philistine king of Gath, who grants him the town of Ziklag.[62]

1010-970 BCE: David Rules the United Kingdom of Israel.[1][63]

c. 1006 B.C.

In the south in c. 1006-926 the son-in-law of a Pharaoh, Solomon was a great diplomat. But he lost the Aramaic provinces despite his capabilities. The Edomite kingdom was reestablished. Great building projects were carried out at Jerusalem (the palace, the Temple of Jehovah), financed by the wealth obtained in trade with Arabia in cooperation n with Hiram of Tyre (p. 39). A centralized state was created with a system of taxation and labour services. The land was divided into 12 provinces, each of which had to assume the expenses of the court one month in the year. A fleet of chariots was maintained.[64]

1005 BCE: Saul and his son Jonathan fall in battle against the Philistines at Mt. Gilbah.[65] The Bible ascribes to David a lament in which he lyrically curses Mt. Gilboa on which “the mighty have fallen.”[66]



August 12, 1121 A.D.

• 1121: At the Battle of Didgori the Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi. Georgian-speaking Jewry is one of the oldest surviving Diaspora Jewish communities. The origin of Georgian Jews, also known as Gurjim or Ebraeli, is debated, but some claim they are descendants of the ten tribes exiled by Shalmaneser. Others say the first Jews made their way to southern Georgia after Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. after first fleeing to Babylonia.
The first Jews in Western Georgia arrived in the 6th century when the region was ruled by the Byzantine Empire. Approximately 3,000 of these Jews then fled to Eastern Georgia, controlled by the Persians, to escape severe persecution by the Byzantines. The existence of the Jews in these regions during this period is supported by archaeological evidence showing that Jews lived in Mtzheta, the ancient capital of the East Georgian state of Kartli.
The Ebraeli spoke Georgian and Jewish traders developed a dialect called Qivruli, or Judeo-Georgian, which included a number of Hebrew words. In the second half of the 7th century, the Muslim Empire conquered extensive Georgian territory, which became an Arab caliph province. Arab emirs ruled the majority of the region until 1122. Under the Arabs, in the late 9th century, Abu-Imran Musa al-Za'farani (later known as Abu-Imran al-Tiflisi) founded a Jewish sect called the Tiflis Sect which lasted for more than 300 years. The sect deviated from halakhah in its marriage and kashrut customs. [67]

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• August 1270: In 1270 (Eleanor of Castile) accompanied Edward on the Seventh Crusade.[68]

• Edward left England in August 1270 to join the highly respected French king Louis IX on Crusade.

At a time when Popes were using the crusading ideal to further their own political ends in Italy and elsewhere, Edward and King Louis were the last crusaders in the medieval tradition of aiming to recover the Holy Lands.

Louis died of the plague in Tunis before Edward's arrival, and the French forces were bought off from pursuing their campaign. Edward decided to continue regardless: 'by the blood of God, though all my fellow soldiers and countrymen desert me, I will enter ... and I will keep my word and my oath to the death'.[69]

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• August 1274: In Edward's absence, a proclamation in his name delcared that he had succeeded by hereditary right, and the barons swore allegeiance to him. Edward finally arrived in London in August 1274 and was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Aged 35, he was a veteran warrior ('the best lance in all the world', according to contemporaries), a leader with energy and vision, and with a formidable temper.

• Edward was determined to enforce English kings' claims to primacy in the British Isles. The first part of his reign was dominated by Wales. At that time, Wales consisted of a number of disunited small Welsh princedoms; the South Welsh princes were in uneasy alliance with the Marcher lords (feudal earldoms and baronies set up by the Norman kings to protect the English border against Welsh raids) against the Northern Welsh based in the rocky wilds of Gwynedd, under the strong leadership of Llywelyn ap Gruffyd, Prince of Gwynedd. [70]



August 1297: With regard to the matter (of marrying a younger squire in her fathers household), Joan famously said, “It is not considered ignominious, nor disgraceful for a great earl to take a poor and mean woman to wife; neither, on the other hand, is it worthy of blame, or too difficult a thing for a countess to promote to honor a gallant youth.”[23] Joan's statement in addition to a possibly obvious pregnancy seemed to soften Edward’s attitude towards the situation.[22] Joan's first child by Monthermer was born in October 1297; by the summer of 1297, when the marriage was revealed to Edward I, Joan's condition would certainly have been apparent, and would have convinced Edward that he had no choice but to recognize his daughter's marriage. Edward I eventually relented for the sake of his daughter and released Monthermer from prison in August 1297.[17] Monthermer paid homage August 2, and being granted the titles of Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Hertford, he rose to favor with the King during Joan's lifetime.[24]

August 12, 1676

Wampanoag Indian leader, King Philip, is shot, ending King Philip’s War.[71]

Sunday August 12, 1754

Washington was attempting to rebuild the Virginia Regiment after the Great Meadows campaign for renewed operations. Unfortunately, disease and a lack of wagons hampered his effort. Washington notes in a letter to Colonel James Innes, commander of the Regiment: "that Waggon cou'd not be hired for 5 times the Value." [72]

August 12, 1760: from page 165 of "Christopher Gist of Maryland and some of his Descendants, 1679-1957," by Jean Muir Dorsey and Maxwell Jay Dorsey (Urbana, Ill), 1958 (John S. Swift Company, Inc., Chicago, Ill): "On 18 June 18, 1745, John Gist of Truro Parish, Fairfax Co., VA, planter, and Mary, his wife, leased from Sampson Darrell, Gent. [1712-1777] of the same parish, 106 acres of land for and during the space of their natural lives. The land was bounded by the kine of William Spencer and Doeg Run (Fairfax Co DB A, No. 1 Part 2, Page 404)... George Washington bought this land from Sampson Darrell on August 12, 1760. At this time, John Gist of Fairfax County for 30 pounds released any claim to the land to George Washington...(Fairfax Co DB D, No. 1 Part 2, Pages 757-759)...John Gist was living in Cameron Parish, Loudoun Co., VA., in 1762..." [end of Christopher Gist material].[73]



August 12, 1776: The following is a newspaper [name not given] account of it, printed August 12, 1776 : Congress have struck a number of silver and copper medals which are distributed among the officers of the Army, who wear them constantly.

On one side are two vases swimming on the water, with the motto

Frangimur si Collidemur ; on the other is an emblematical device, four

hands clinched together and a dove over them ; beneath them is a ser-

pent cut to pieces. These medals were designed or executed by P. E.

Dusimitie're.'[74]





FROM THE COUNT DE ROCHAMBEAU TO M. DE LAFAYETTE.



Newport, August 12th, 1780.



I received, my dear marquis, the letter you did me the honour of

writing the 9th of August; permit me to send you, in reply, the one I

had the honour of addressing to our general on the 10th of this month,

to express to him the opinion you asked for by his desire. I am only

now, therefore, waiting for his last orders, and I have earnestly

requested him to grant me the favour of an interview, that the admiral

and I may receive from his own lips the last plan he has decided upon;

we should do more in a quarter of an hour's conversation than we could

do by multiplied despatches. I am as thoroughly convinced as any person

can be of the truth of what your letters mentioned, that it was his

marching which had detained Clinton, who intended to come and attack

us; but I must observe to you also, at the same time, that there was

much reason to hope that he would have been well beaten here, and

during that time our general would have taken New York. As to your

observation, my dear marquis, that the position of the French at Rhode

Island is of no use to the Americans, I reply:--



First, That I never heard it had been injurious to any one of them.



Second, That it would be well to reflect that the position of the

French corps may have had something to do with Clinton's evacuation of

the continent, when he has been obliged to confine himself to Long

Island and New York; that, in short, while the French fleet is guarded

here by an assembled and a superior naval force, your American shores

are undisturbed, your privateers are making considerable prizes, and

your maritime commerce enjoys perfect liberty. It appears to me, that,

in so comfortable a situation, it is easy to wait patiently the naval

and land forces that the king assured me should, be sent; that, in

short, as I have received no letter from France since my departure; I

can only flatter myself that the second division is already on the

road, and is bringing me despatches, since, if it had been blockaded by

superior forces, some sort of advice would have been sent me from the

shores of France. I fear those savannahs and other events of the kind,

of which I have seen so many during the course of my life. There exists

a principle in war, as in geometry, _vis unita fortior_. I am, however,

awaiting orders from our generalissimo, and I entreat him to grant the

admiral and myself an interview. I will join the latter's despatch to

this packet as soon as I receive it.



I beg you to accept, my dear marquis, the assurance of my sincerest

affection.[75]



August 12, 1806: Henry Keck the eldest son was born near Allentown, Pa.,

3 January 17, 1770, and died February 1, 18 13 on the home-

stead. He married Catharine Gottleab in Westmoreland

county. Pa., in 1798. She was born in 1784, and died Dec.

12, 1863. She was but 14 years of age when she married. To

them were born five sons and two daughters, namely : Esther

Keck, born Jan. 31, 1799, died February 16, 1859; John, born

May 4, 1801, died July 31, 1880; Henry, born April 14, 1804, died June 10, 1863; Samuel, born August 12, 1806, died December

19, 1881? ; Peter, born September 10, 1808, died July 1, 1832 ; George

born June 9, 1810, died December 14, 1864; Elizabeth, born November

15. 1812, died February 4, 1833.



The children were all born in Hempfield township.



Samuel Keck, the third son of Henry Keck the Second,

was born August 12, 1806. We have no knowledge that he

was put out to learn a trade, or where he spent his younger

days. After his father's death, the first account we have of

him is when he went with his brother John to Greenville, Mer-

cer county, at the age of sixteen, and do not know how long

he remained there. After his brother Henry married, he made

his home with him. Brother Henry remembers sleeping with

him.



He was married to Ann Lenhart, Jan. 29, 1829. The

Lenhart farm joined the Keck farm on the north. She was

born Oct. 13, 1807 and went to housekeeping on the Keck

homestead where there were two dwelling houses. He and

his brother Henry, farmed the place for three years, when his

brother left and he continued to live there until April, 1855,

when he sold out and removed to Ohio, where he bought a

farm near Daartown some eight miles from Hamilton, Ohio.

He remained here until his death Dec. 19, 1881. His wife

died in Washington, D. C, in 1896, and the remains were taken

back to Daartown and laid to rest beside those of her husband.



There was a still house on the Keck farm and Samuel op-

erated it for a number of years. There was a large apple orch-

ard on the place together with pears and cherries in abundance.

He made whiskey, apple and peach brandy, and fed the slops

to cattle and hogs. He was a genial, jolly good fellow, of

even temperament, but during his later years he was a great

sufferer from rheumatism.



Unto them were born eight children as follows : Lebbeus,

Josiah, Ellen, Sarah C, Henry R., Maria, David W., and

•George. Josiah married Ellen Lamb and had eight children,

postoffice Daartown, Ohio; Ellen married W. Kendall, post-

office Washington, D. C. ; Henry R., killed in the civil war in

1864; Sarah married A. Taylor, died in 1882; David married

Mary Morton, clerk at Washington, D. C. ; Maria, single,

Washington, D. C. [76]



August 12[77][78], 1864

In camp more men coming in[79]

August 12, 1906: Mr and Mrs. Earl Goodlove have the sympathy of many friends in the death of their baby daughter, Verlan Floy, born April 2, died August 12, 1906.[80]

August 12, 1942

In the margin of a telex to Berlin the previous day, asking whether deportations of Jewish children can begin and in what numbers, Horst Ahnert, of the Gestpo’s Paris office, notes that “the RSHA has already confirmed in their telex of August 7 that the children of stateless Jews can be deportecd in adequate proportions.” But again, the August 7 telex did not fix a date for the start of the children’s deportations.[81]

August 12, 1945: Off the coast of Korea in the sea of Japan a robot boat was lanched and beached itself inland. Its passenger was the Japanese atomic bomb. The observers were 20 miles away. The light blinded those who wore welders glasses. It mushroomed into the stratosphere. [82]

But now Japanese was dealing with not only America but a declaration of war by the Soviet Union. Whatever the facts of the Korean test, it was already too late.



August 12, 2010

Sherry, Thank you for responding to my email. Your boyfriend Mike Pomerantz has been reported to us through FTDNA to be a 12 marker match to Gary Goodlove, my father. This means that we have a common ancestor at some point who also shares the unique Cohen Modal Haplotype. Our ancestor was named Conrad Goodlove/Godlove/Gotlop and born in 1793 reported to be from Germany. I have contacted quite a few of the matches and many have a similar story as yours. I do have a family tree but no connection to the Pomerantz family as of yet. Just curious, what is the translation of Pomerantz? Also have you been to the website http://www.pomerantz.org/ ? It is the Pomerantz family website and maybe there is a connection. I saw where you can list people that you are looking to connect or find in the family also. Through writing "This Day in Goodlove history" I have found that there was a window of opportunity to leave Austria prior to WW2 and it is possible that Hermann Hyman Pomerantz was able to get away then. Perhaps there are records of a passenger ship, and entry into the United States. Also, since last names for Jews were only used beginning in the later 1700's everyone took different last names depending on their occupation, or affiliation ect. Hence the name Cohen and its derivitives is prevalent in our DNA matches. Our name translates to "Praises God" from German which makes sense. Not all matches have corresponding names to the Cohens but their names give us a clue as to where they originated when they chose their name. I hope to hear from you again.



Jeffery Lee Goodlove

www.ThisdayinGoodloveHistory.blogspot.com





Hans Cohen Rodriguez, Thank you for responding to my inquiry. I was writing my blog for tomorrow and thinking about your email when I came across the following entry. •


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[1] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Entine page 99.

[2] www.wikipedia.org

[3] Biblical Archaelogy Review, March/April 2010, Vol 3 No 2, page 45.

[4] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[5] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[6] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[7] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[8] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[9] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[10] The Gifts of the Jews, How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, by Thomas Cahill; Page 272.

[11] The Bibles Buried Secrets, Nova 11/18/2008

[12] The Bibles Buried Secrets, Nova 11/18/2008



[13] Mapping Human History by Steve Olson, page 106.

[14] The Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I, page 37.

[15] T Bible Tech, Modern Marvels, 4/7/2004 .

[16] The Naked Archaeologist, Delilah’s People, 9/5/2005.

[17] The Naked Archaeologist, Delilah’s People, 9/5/2005.

[18] The Naked Archaeologist, Delilah’s People, 9/5/2005.

[19] The Naked Archaeologist, Delilah’s People, 9/5/2005.

[20] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110708/ml-israel-philistine-metropolis/

[21] 4 The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[22] The Naked Archaeologist, HISTI, 9/5/2005

[23] The Gifts of the Jews, How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, by Thomas Cahill; Page 271.

[24] The Oriental Institute Museum , Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011

[25] The Oriental Institute Museum , Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011

[26] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011

[27] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.

[28] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.

[29] [29] The Anchor At;las of World History Vol. 1, From the Stone Age to the Eve of the French Revolution, 1974, pg. 25.

[30] The Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I, page 37.

[31] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[32] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[33] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 10.

[34] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[35] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[36] The One Year Chronological Bible.

[37] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[38] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[39] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[40] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[41] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[42] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[43] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[44] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[45] Biblical Archaeology Review, March April 2010, Vol 36 No 2, page 50.

[46] Ice Age Museum, Dundee, WI, July 23, 2011

[47] The Oriental Musem Institute, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.

[48] The One Year Chronological Bible.

[49] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[50] The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization, page III.

[51] The One Year Chronological Bible, NIV, page 400.

[52] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[53] 1 Samuel 6:1

[54] Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History, by David B. Goldstein., 2008, page 42-43.

[55] The Gifts of the Jews, How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, by Thomas Cahill; Page 27.

[56] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine, page 101

[57] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine, page 101

[58] Introducing Islam by Dr. Shams Inati, pg 33.

[59] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 11.

[60] David: Giant Slayer. Battles BC, HIST, March 16, 2009.

[61] The Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I, page 37.

[62] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 12.

[63] The captured Jebusite settlement becomes the City of David.[2]

[64] The Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I, page 37.1

[65] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 12.

[66] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 12

[67] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Georgia.html , This Day in Jewish History

[68] "Eleanor of Castile," Microsoft’ Encarta’ Encyclopedia 2000. b 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

[69] http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/ThePlantagenets/EdwardILongshanks.aspx

[70] http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/KingsandQueensofEngland/ThePlantagenets/EdwardILongshanks.aspx

[71] On This Day in ‘America by John Wagman..

[72] http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/1754.htm

[73] Proposed descendants of William Smith.

[74] Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

[75] Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, by Lafayette



[76] Keck Family History

[77]The Union force arrived at Cedar Creek, near Strasburg, Va., on August 12th, where it encamped and remained until the 15th, when it fell back to Charleston, where General Grover had just arrived with reinforcements from Washington, and a re-organization of the army took place. The Twenty-forth Iowa was assigned to the Fourth Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, with Colonel Shunk, of the Eighth Indiana Veteran Infantry, commanding the brigade, General Grover commanding the division, and General Emory commanding the detachment of the Nineteenth Corps The Army of the Shenandoah consisted of two divisions of the Nineteenth Corps, the Sixth Corps commanded by Major General Wright, the Army of Western Virginia commanded by General Crook and about 10,000 cavalry commanded by General Torbet, making in all an army of about 40,000, under command of Major General Sheridan. (Roster of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion Vol. III, 24th Regiment-Infantry.

http:www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/county/linn/civil war/24th/24 history p2.htm



[78] I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a helthy location some three miles north of the city, the Soldiers’ Home, a United States military establishment. I saw him this morning about 8:30, coming in to business, riding on Vermont Avenue, near L Street. He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabers drawn and held upright over their shoulders. They say this guard was against his personal wish, but he lets his counselors have their way. The p[arty makes no great show in uniform or horses. Mr. Lincoln on the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-going gray horse, is dressed in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty, wars a black stiff hat, and looks about as ordinary in attire, etc., as the commonest man. A lieutenant, with yellow straps, rides at his left, and following and following behind, two by two, come the cavalry men, in their yellow-striped jackets. They are generally going at a slow trot, as that is the pace set them by the one they wait upon. The sabers and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unornamental cortege as it trots toward Lafayette Square arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger stops and gazes.

Poet Walt Whitman, August 12, 1864, who lived at the corner of Vermont and L Streets.



David McKinnon, a cousin of William H. Goodlove by way of his grandmother, Catherine McKinnon Goodlove, was a member of “Lincoln’s Body Guard” aka Bennets Co. Union Light Guard, Ohio Cavalry.



AT the beginning of Lincoln’s administration, there were mounted and foot guards posted at the White House gates. But at the President’s insistence, these precautions were immediately discontinued. They did not return until 1863 upon the prompting of Governor David Tod of Ohio. Concerned about the lack of White Hose security, the Bovernor applied to the War Department for permission to organize one hundred men to be assigned as Lincoln’s mounted bodyguards. Upon receiving permission, Governor Tod contacted the military committees of several counties in Ohio for volunteers.



Governor Tod named the the troop the Union Light Guard. Each bodyguard was given a black horse and sent to Washington to be placed on duty at the White House.



As one Smith Stimmel later recalled in his memoirs, “our duties were to guard the front entrance to the White house grounds, and to act as an escort to the president whenever he went out in his carriage, or when he rode on horse-back, as he often did during the summer.

(Prairie Public Radio, http://www.prairiepublic.org/programs/datebook/bydate/07/1207/121707.jsp.



http://www.lincolnscottage.com/history/lincoln/commute.htm

Incidently, the cook for “Lincoln’s Body Guard” was William David (1846-1938), a black man, who became Booker T. Washington’s first teacher.

The Booker T. Washington Papers. The University of Illinois Press. http:///www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.2/html/17.html

[79] While William Harrison Goodlove was sick and in camp the 24th Iowa was arriving at Cedar Creek on August 12, the men still soft and weak from the ocean voyage, suffered terribly from the heat. After the first day‘s march, Lieutenant Lucas reported his company had only sixteen men compleated the march out of forty-three who started. The majority had stopped along the road to rest as they became overcome with heat and fatigue. Most rejoined the regiment in the evening, but on the 12th the same falling out was repeated. While the 24th only numbered 150 men when they stopped, Rigby reported some regiments had only ten men finish the march on time. The private related that a Zouave officer who struck one of his men with a sword for falling back was shot by the man for his cruelty. (Probably the 165th NY Second Battalion Duryee Zouaves.) Rations were low, and the men subsisted on green corn and green apples. (A History of the 24th Iowa Infantry 1862-1865 by Harvey H. Kimble Jr. August 1974. page 164) Zouaves: Civil War units known for their colorful uniforms and bravery, first organized in Chicago by Elmer E. Ellsworth. The Zouave tradition, popularized by the French, combined acrobatic infantry drills with North African dress. Civil War 2010 Calendar





[80] Winton Goodlove papers.

[81] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 46.

[82] Japan’s Atomic Bomb, HISTI, 8/16/2005