This Day in Goodlove History, August 17

• This Day in Goodlove History, August 17

• 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; Tina M. Walz, George C. Naugle, Lisa M. Kruse, James E. Goodlove, Ruth Godlove, Ruth Echols



Weddings on this date; Mildred McClain and Homer Melvin, Louisa N Williams and Thomas M. Hope, Fayette Numan and Gaylord A., Sara A. Goodlove and Jay F. Gallery, Ciara M. Kruse and Ralph W. Burgess

In the News!

US, Mideast mediators criticize Israel
August 16, 2011 02:18 PM EST |

WASHINGTON — The United States and other Mideast mediators criticized Israel on Tuesday for a rush of new settlement building approvals, warning the Jewish state it won't be able to shape a future peace agreement through unilateral construction in east Jerusalem or other lands claimed by Palestinians.

The quartet of mediators said the housing units planned in the West Bank settlement of Ariel and east Jerusalem prompted a restatement of its position that "unilateral action by either party cannot prejudge the outcome of negotiations and will not be recognized by the international community."

The U.S., European Union, Russia and United Nations constitute the quartet. In a statement, they noted that the fate of Jerusalem was among the core issues that needed to be resolved through Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and that the building construction "underscores the urgent need for the parties to resume serious and substantive talks."

Israel on Monday approved the building of 277 apartments in Ariel, the Jewish settlement deepest inside the West Bank. In recent days, it has moved ahead on plans to build 2,500 new apartments in east Jerusalem and Israeli officials say 2,700 more will be approved soon.

Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and claims it as part of its capital. Palestinians hope to establish their future capital there.

Talks have been at a standstill for months.

"This comes at a critical juncture with quartet efforts ongoing to resume negotiations, which are the only way to a just and durable solution to the conflict," the mediators said. "It is up to Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make tough decisions and avoid actions by their governments that undermine the very goals they and we are trying to achieve."[1]

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Is President Obama blackmailing
Prime Minister Netanyahu?


Dear Jeffery,

The US could easily stop the plan to recognize Palestine as an independent nation. Yet the Obama Administration has steadfastly refused to flatly promise to use our UN veto to defend Israel from this threat. Why? A growing number of observers in both America and Israel are raising this question: Is President Obama blackmailing Prime Minister Netanyahu by threatening to withhold the veto and allow the UN vote to go forward unless the Israeli leader makes the concessions being demanded by Washington?

If this explanation is true, it would explain a great deal of what has been transpiring. The Obama Administration has been demanding, frequently and very publicly, that Israel “withdraw” to the 1967 borders. Everyone who pays the least attention knows that this would be a political, military, economic, and humanitarian catastrophe for the Jewish state. More than half a million Jews would be left homeless, and Israel's enemies would be poised on the doorstep for military strikes at any moment.

So far the Netanyahu government, which is a divided coalition government in Israel's parliamentary system, has resisted this pressure. But what happens if President Obama tells my old friend, “Either give in to my demands, or face a UN-recognized Palestinian state”? Will Israel be able to resist that kind of pressure? Will the God-fearing and Israel-loving people of America allow our leaders to do this in our names?


Your ambassador to Jerusalem,

Dr. Michael Evans

This Day…

August 17, 986: During the days of the First Bulgarian Empire, the army of Emperor Samuil of Bulgaria and his brother defeat the Byzantines led by Basil II. The Bulgarian Empire had provided a haven for Jews escaping from the Byzantine Army so the Bulgarian victory was good news for the Jews.[2]

August 17, 1592: The pope prohibited Jews from admitting Christians into Shuls.[3]

August 17, 1629: Birth date of King John III of Poland. King John ruled from 1674 until his death in 1696. He ruled in a period when Poland was disintegrating under rebellions from the Ukraine and attacks from Sweden. Like previous Polish monarchs, King John was reasonably well disposed towards his Jewish subjects since he saw them as a valuable economic asset. But as Poland drifted into chaos his views were increasingly unpopular among the nobles and the Catholic clergy.[4]

August 17, 1665

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. •



August 17, 1665: The small colony of Surinam recently occupied by the English gave full rights to the Jews (mostly Spanish and Portuguese refugees.) to practice Judaism and run their own affairs. This remarkably liberal charter was transferred over to the Dutch when they conquered the colony. They used it as a means of encouraging the Jews to remain.[5][1]



I was wondering if this adds anything to your understanding of the events of your family? I do not know of a link between our families, other than I know we have a common ancestor. Perhaps it was around this time? I am learning something everyday and I hope that we can stay in contact so that we might learn more and perhaps connect a few dots. Jeffery Lee Goodlove

p.s. my blog is www.thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com



August 17, 1758:

The Catawba Indian trail

George Washington‘s August 17, 1758 letter to Colonel Bouquet (Appendix 0016) mentions

―Gist‘s plantation‖ along the Ohio Company road that became Braddock‘s road. Braddock‘s road is known to have recrossed the Youghiogheny River at Stewart‘s Crossing, at or near present-day Connellsville, and is said to have generally followed the Ohio Company road. Even though the two trails that head north from Gist‘s appear to cross the river well north of Connellsville, this discrepancy is most likely simply an artifact of the out of scale nature of the map. Alternatively, the Ohio Company road might have crossed the river farther north than the subsequent Braddock‘s road.

Evans‘ map (Figure 0003)

Figure 3 This image was made from the June, 23 1755 Lewis Evans map. It shows a route from Fort Cumberland to Turkey Foot.

shows Stewart‘s Crossing along the portion of the road between Gist‘s Plantation and Fort Duquesne. A footnote in Toner‘s 1893 edition of the ―Journal of Colonel George Washington‖ (Appendix 0003) indicates that Stewart‘s Crossing was located about one mile below the location of Connellsville, and was ―…on the line of the early Indian trail or path…‖. Figure 0100 is a representation of Stewart‘s Crossing from a 1908 postcard.



Figure 100 This 1908 postcard shows Stewart’s Crossing of the Youghiogheny.[6]



August 17, 1758: Washington reports that in 1754 he was repairing the Ohio Company road

Pages 302 and 303 of volume 2 of Sparks‘ 1847 book ―The Writings of George Washington‖

(Appendix 0016) indicate that George Washington wrote the following to Colonel Bouquet on

August 17, 1758:

Several years ago the Virginians and Pennsylvanians commenced a trade with the

Indians settled on the Ohio, and, to obviate the many inconveniences of a bad road, they,

after reiterated and ineffectual efforts to discover where a good one might be made,

employed for the purpose several of the most intelligent Indians, who, in the course of

many years‘ hunting, had acquired a perfect knowledge of these mountains. The Indians,

having taken the greatest pains to gain the rewards offered for this discovery, declared,

that the path leading from Will‘s Creek was infinitely preferable to any, that could be

made at any other place. Time and experience so clearly demonstrated this truth, that the

Pennsylvania traders commonly carried out their goods by Will‘s Creek. Therefore, the

Ohio Company, in 1753, at a considerable expense, opened the road. In 1754 the troops,

whom I had the honor to command, greatly repaired it, as far as Gist‘s plantation; and,

in 1755, it was widened and completed by General Braddock to within six miles of Fort

Duquesne.

Washington‘s letter clearly states that a 1753 Ohio Company road became Braddock‘s road, and

Braddock widened and completed it toward Fort Duquesne. This is harmonious with other

information presented in this chapter indicating that a branch of the Ohio Company road went

toward the present-day location of Pittsburgh in 1753. Middleton‘s 1847 map (Appendix 0075)

shows Atkinson‘s extensive on-the-ground study of the route of the Braddock Road. While it

passed within perhaps six miles of the present-day location of Confluence, it did not go there. In

any case, Braddock‘s road, which generally followed the Ohio Company road, is not the Turkey

Foot Road. It did, however, go close enough to Turkey Foot that the second petition could have

described the Ohio Company road using Turkey Foot as a landmark reference.[7]



August 17, 1758: A seemingly perplexing question is why the Ohio Company, George Washington, and Edward Braddock did not simply follow the path to Turkey Foot that is shown on the Fry and Jefferson map. The short answer is provided by George Washington‘s previously quoted August 17, 1758 letter to Colonel Bouquet. The Ohio Company first tried to find a path for a good road themselves. Failing that, ―to obviate the many inconveniences of a bad road‖ they selected a route identified by the Indians that was ―...infinitely preferable to any, that could be made at any other place.‖ In short, Nemacolin‘s route was simply better.[8]





[9]

Gen. John Forbes



Commander of the Colonial Forces that cut the road through Westmoreland County in 1758.



August 17, 1762: The Council of 4 Countries (semi-autononous congress of Polish Jewry) met for the last time. It functioned for almost 200 years before the Polish government ordered its dissolution.[10]

August 1775

In July 1775, the Conti­nental Congress adopted the “Olive Branch Peti­tion,” professing American loyalty to the crown and begging the king to prevent further hostilities. But following Bunker Hill, King George III slammed the door on all hope of reconciliation. In August 1775 he formally proclaimed the colonies rebellion; the skirmishes were now out and out treason, a hanging crime. The next month he widened the chasm when he sealed arrangements for hiring thousands of German troops to help crush his rebellious subjects. Six German princes involved in the transaction needed the money (one reputedly had seventy-four children); George III needed the men. Because most of these soldiers-for-hire came from the German principality of Hesse, the Americans called all the European mercenaries Hessians.

News of the Hessian deal shocked the colonials. The quarrel, they felt, was within the family. Why bring in outside mercenaries, especially foreigners who had an exaggerated reputation for butchery?

Hessian hirelings proved to be good soldiers in a mechanical sense, but many of them were more interested in booty than in duty. For good reason they were dubbed “Hessian flies.” Seduced American promises of land, hundreds of them finally deserted and remained in America to become respected citizens.[11]



Thursday, August 17th, 1775

Very low-spirited. At supper had a political dis­pute with Mr. John Gibson. Find him much prejudiced against me by the malevolent aspersion of that double-laced villain, B. Johnston. No prospect of getting money here. Made my situation known to the Landlord desiring credit for my board till the Treaty, when some Gentleman of my acquaintance will be there and loose me. Told me he paid ready money for his provisions. By the influence of his wife got credit. When I got there, to my great disappointment and surprise found three Indian women and a little boy. I believe they were as much surprised as I was. None of them could speak English and I could not speak Indian. I alighted and marked the path I had come and that I had left, on the ground with the end of my stick, made a small channel in the earth which I poured full of water, laid some fire by the side of it, and then laid myself down by the side of the fire, repeating the name of Anderson which I soon understood they knew.

The youngest Girl immediately unsaddled my Horse, unstrapped the Belt, Hoppled him, and turned him out, then spread my Blankets at the fire and made signs for me to sit down. The Oldest made me a little hash of dried Venison and Bear’s Oil, which eat very well, but neither Bread or Salt. After supper they made signs I must go to sleep. Then they held a consultation for some time which made me very uneasy, the two eldest women and the boy laid down on the opposite side of the fire and some distance away. The youngest (she had taken so much pains with my horse) came and placed herself very near me. I began to think she had some amorous design upon me. In about half an hour she began to creep nearer me and pulled my Blanket. I found what she wanted and lifted it up. She was young, handsome, and healthy. Fine regular features and fine eyes, had she not painted them with Red before she came to bed. [12]



August 17 , 1777— by Queens Island..[13]



August 1777



August 1777: In August, 1777, with about two hundred of his new levies, Crawford joined the main army under Washington, who was then near Philadelphia He rendered efficient service in the preliminary movements which resulted in the battle of BrandyWine, and in that contest not only took an active and prominent part, but came near being captured. He was also, it seems, in the battle of Germantown[14]. Just before this, General Joseph Reed wrote Washington that he had Colonel Crawford with him, “a very good officer.”[15]





http://www.ushistory.org/march/phila/elk_3.htm

1777 Linsing’s First Grenadier Battalion participated in the landing at the head of the Elk River that led to the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and the occupation of Philadelphia. [16]





August 1778: George Gottlieb, Private, Unit:WLD 5 Fifth Company (Captain Georg von Haacke,

after August 1778 Major Konrad von Horn) :Recruited June 1782



During the American War of Independence troops from var-

ious German territories fought on the British side,

including one unit from Waldeck called the Third English-

Waldeck Mercenary Regiment. All these auxiliary troops

are known under the name "Hessians" because the Land-

gravate of Hesse-Kassel provided the largest contingent

of mercenary units.[17]







August 1778:

1875 GOTTLIEB GEORD 0/ 0 GE WLD5 62 6:1782 942,118

1876 GOTTLIEB GEOR~ 0/ 6 GE WLD5 01 6:1783 942/132

3877 GOTTLIEB GEORD 0/ 6 WLD 12 8:1783 978/25

(GE indicates Private or “Gemeiner”)

WLD 5 Fifth Company (Captain Georg von Haacke,

after August 1778 Maj~r Konrad von Horn)



02 recruited, induction as a recruit

01 appointed, especially in the unit rolls

12 deserted; deserted to the enemy



Month/Year



The last number in the column indicates the page of

the source.[18]





American Forces Commanded by
Col. Elijah Clarke and Col. Issac Shelby

Strength
Killed
Wounded
Missing/Captured

200
4
8
?



British Forces Commanded by
Maj. Patrick Ferguson

Strength
Killed
Wounded
Missing/Captured

400+
63
90
70



Conclusion: American Victory



On August 17, 1780 Col. Elijah Clark, Col. Isaac Shelby and Col. James Williams with 200 mounted men (from Georgia, the over-mountain settlements, and South Carolina respectively) rode from Col. Charles McDowell’s camp on Smith's Ford to attack loyalists at Musgrove's Mill. On the morning of the 18th, some of Clark's, Shelby's, and Williams' men skirmished with an outlying party of the loyalists at Musgrove's Mill, in which both sides lost sides suffered some wounded, and the loyalist one killed. The firing alerted Lieut. Col. Alexander Innes and Major Thomas Fraser who were staying in the Musgrove's residence nearby.

A council was held, and rather than wait for a patrol of 100 mounted who had gone out a short while earlier, it was decided to attack the rebels immediately, who meanwhile had moved to a wooded ridge about a half mile from the mill. For to the back-countrymen's surprise, the loyalist had the previous night been reinforced from Ninety-Six with 200 Provincials under Lieut. Col. Alexander Innes, and another 100 loyalists recruits for Ferguson. Innes reinforcement included a detachment of New Jersey Volunteers under Captain Peter Campbell, a company from 1st Bttn. Delancey, under Captain James Kerr, plus 100 mounted men of Innes’ own South Carolina Royalists. Some accounts speak of some New York Volunteers also being present, but this seems unlikely. The original garrison there was under the command of Maj. Thomas Fraser of the South Carolina Royalists. Present also were Capt. Abraham DePeyster of Ferguson’s corps, and Capt. David Fanning, and Col. Daniel Clary head of the loyalists of that region. Another hundred, apparently all or mostly loyalist militia, were out patrolling. Maj. Patrick Ferguson with a sizable force was not many miles away to the east. Innes left 100 of his men to guard his camp, and went to attack Shelby and Clark with the rest, not counting the 100 out patrolling. While awaiting Innes, Shelby and Clark's men built an impromptu redoubt in some thirty minutes. Then Capt. Shadrack Inman led a party of 25 men to lure Innes' force into an ambush. The stratagem, proposed by Inman, succeeded. The Provincials and loyalists attempted to take the backcountry men with the bayonet, and almost succeeded, but most of their officers, including Innes, himself, were wounded at the critical moment. Disorder set into their ranks and they fled, Inman, however, was killed. Being informed of Camden, the Whigs then mounted and headed northeast toward North Carolina. Prisoners were distributed one for each three Americans who alternated riding double with the enemy. Each prisoner was forced to carry his rifle or musket, with the flint removed so that it could not fire. They avoided the roads and moving as quickly as possible, were thus able to reach the safety of McDowell’s camp at Smith’s Ford.

The action as a whole, from the approach of Innes to the retreat of his forces to the Mill lasted about an hour. According to Draper British lost 63 killed, 90 wounded, 70 prisoners. The back-country men lost 4 killed and 8 or 9 wounded. Much of the disparity in losses is attributed to the Provincials and Loyalist over shooting their targets. Following the battle Clark, Shelby and Williams withdrew in a northwesterly direction, traveling 60 miles, to re-join McDowell (there with about 200) at Smith's Ford. In their flight, they came within five miles of Ferguson. Ferguson pursued, but was unable to catch up with partisans. Prisoners taken were sent to Hillsborough. Clark subsequently returned to Georgia and secreted himself in the woods of Wilkes County, where he was supplied with food from friends. Shelby, meanwhile, returned to the Holston and Watauga settlements, the term of his men’s service having expired. Accounts of the numbers involved and casualty estimates of forces at Musgrove’s Mill differ. Col. James Williams, cited in Draper, gave the Whigs strength as 200, the original Loyalists at the mill at 200, who were then reinforced by 300. The Whigs lost 4 killed and 7 or 8 wounded, while the loyalists lost 60 killed while taking 70 prisoners. Major James Sevier reported the Whig’s strength as 250, as learned from participants. Maj. Joseph McJunkin gave Clark, Shelby and Williams force at about 150, and the British who participated as 300. Ripley calculates the Patriots as numbering from 250 to 700, Tories 200 to 1,300, preferring the lower figure in each case.






August 17, 1782





1782 Aug. 15, JOSEPH CROOK (his mark), deserted the Brittisli

Army at Kingsbridge in 1780. Weaver.

THOMAS HOOKER (his mark), who deserted the Brit.­tish Army at Monmouth in 1778. Baker.

MATTHIAS EIKHART (his mark), deserted the Brit­tish Service & Hessian Line at White Plains in 1778. Taylor.

BERNHARD SHAGERT, deserted the Brittish Service & Hessian Line at Philada. in 1778. Taylor.

FRIEDERICH BLOSS, who deserted the Hessian Line in Virginia in 1781. Taylor.

17 CONRAD LEITSHOK, deserted the Brittish Service & Hessian Line in March last from N. York. Weaver.

JOHANNES SATJTTER, deserted the Brittish Service & Hessian Line at Kingsbridge in July last. Baker.

GEORGE VENSELL (his mark), deserted the Brittish Service & Hessian Line at Kingshridge in 1779. Taylor.

GEORGE STEPHNON (his mark), deserted the Brittish Service & Hessian Line in Jersey in 1778. La­bourer.

JONAS HAVESSTRICK (his mark), deserted the Brit­tish Service & Hessian Line at Philadelphia in 1778. Labourer.

August 17, 1782 CONRAD GOTLIB (his mark), deserted the Brittish Army at the head of the Elk in 1777. Labourer.

TICTUS EtJNTHEIMER (his mark), deserted the Brit­tish Service & Line of Anspach in Virginia 1781. Rope Maker.[19]



Richmond (Virginia), August 17th, 1782. . . After the barbarous massacre of Colonel Crawford, as mentioned in one of our late papers, the Delawares demanded his son-in-law, Colonel William Harrison, and his nephew [William] Crawford, of the Shawanese, by whom they had been taken; and they were accordingly given up. They both experiencel the most horrid tortures until they were dead. Colonel Harrison was then quartered and stuck up on poles. One Sloven was to have been put to death in the same manner; the fire had been once kindled for him, but a heavy shower of rain falling saved his life then, and before the next day he fortunately escaped.”— [20]

DE PEYSTER TO GEN. FRED’K HALDIMAND.]



August 17, 1787

The Jews of Budapest, Hungary, received permission from the government to conduct religious services in private homes provided no rabbi officiated.[21]

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August 17, 1790: President George Washington visits Newport, Rhode Island, where he is given ”the address of the ‘Hebrew Congregation of Newport’” that expressed their appreciation for the rights and liberties that the Jews enjoyed in the United States. It was in response to this document, that Washington wrote his famous reply guaranteeing the Jews religious liberty and promising them that they would be able to sit under their own vine and fig tree and none would make them afraid.[1][22] “To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance” [2][23]

August 1792: In August 1792, the royal couple was arrested by the sans-cullottes and imprisoned, and in September the monarchy was abolished by the National Convention (which had replaced the National Assembly). In November, evidence of Louis XVI's counterrevolutionary intrigues with Austria and other foreign nations was discovered, and he was put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

The next January, Louis was convicted and condemned to death by a narrow majority. On January 21, he walked steadfastly to the guillotine and was executed. Nine months later, Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a tribunal, and on October 16 she followed her husband to the guillotine.[24]

August 1795: Benjamin Harrison, formerly of Harrison County, Ky., now an inhabitant of the Spanish Province of Louisiana, conveyed to James Mullen and Patrick Griffith of Harrison County, Ky., 250 acres in Harrison County, part of tract granted to Thomas Logwood by the State of Virginia and deeded to Harrison in August 1795 by Thomas Veatch and _____Foster. Corner to Scott, etc. Consideration £50. Acknowledged Nov. 9, 1801 in Harrison County by Benjamin Harrison. [25]



August 17, 1812: John Gabby, thus acquiring about 280 acres, and residing near

the present Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, never

came to Washington County, Pennsylvania. He* had a brother

James, however, who did come thither and settled upon the land

sooner or later after its purchase, having acquired an undivided

. one-half interest therein by an assignment or transfer not yet

discovered. At all events, John Gabby removed to Letterkenny

Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where he died, and on

August 17, 1812, William and Joseph Gabby, the executors of his

will, by deed of that date (in D. B. "X," vol. 1, Part 1, p. 128)

acknowledged before a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of

Franklin County, conveyed to James Gabby of Washington County,

Pennsylvania, "the one undivided half part of a tract on Ghartiers

Creek, containing in the whole 284 acres, strict measure, which

tract was granted by patent to the said John Gabby by the Com-

monwealth of Pennsylvania, December 10, 1786."



This James Gabby was the father of William Gabby, who was

bom on this land in 1803 and died on May 21, 1883, and was the

William Gabby mentioned by Dr. Creigh in his account of the old

Virginia court-house, heretofore referred to. He was the father

of James F. Gabby and a number of other sons and daughters,

who on March 11, 1884, joined in conveying to William A. Gabby,

another son, by deed of that date (in D. B. 240, p. 219), 97 acres

and 75 perches out of the Richard Yeates tract; and on April 1,

1902, William A. Gabby and wife, by deed of that date (in D. B.

276, p. 23) conveyed 79.725 acres of the last mentioned tract to

Jonathan Allison and John W. Donnan, and the record title thereof

is in Mr. Donnan and the grantees of Mr. Allison to-day.



Thus is traced the title to that part of the Richard Yeates'

land upon which stood the old Virginia court-house erected in the

summer of 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence.

Mr. James F. Gabby and Mr. William A. Gabby have pointed out

the spot where their father William Gabby often told them the

old court-house stood, and they remember well the frequent con-

versations with their father upon the subject, and the appearances

of the soil when plowed over, indicative of the existence long ago

of a building of some kind upon the place pointed out. The place

is on the upper side and near the cross-road from the Cumberland

Road to the Upper Ten Mile Plank Road, and near to the point

of land overlooking the Graves Creek Road as it passed over to

the creek-crossing a little to the south of the Citizens Water

Company's Pump Station. This location is perhaps superior for

a town to that of Washington placed five years afterward upon

"Catfish Camp" • and "Grand Cairo," but Augusta Town never

materialized, and may also be called a lost town.



And thus has been sketched something of the celebrated

Boundary Controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia, in the

days which tried men's souls, and when all around us was a

wilderness in comparison with what it is to-day; the courts of

justice held by Virginia, within the limits of Pennsylvania, when

she held such control that it seemed likely to be permanent; and

especially the old court-house of the County Court for the District

of West Augusta, of the Colony of Virginia, within less than one

mile by a direct line from the present magnificent Temple of

Justice of Washington County, Pennsylvania. To mark the place

where this old court-house stood, for the information of the people

to come after us, we now place the granite memorial tablet with the

inscription quoted at the beginning of this paper.

May 10, 1905.





MEMORANDA.



The erection of the memorial tablet for the purposes discussed

in the foregoing pages was brought about finally by the following

correspondence :



The Washington County Hiatoricai Society,



Washington, Pa., February 22, 1905.

To John W. Donnan, Esq.,

and others, owners of

the W. A. Gabby Farm,

Washington, Pa.:

Dear Sirs: —



The Washington County Historical Society desires to erect a

commemorative tablet upon the spot on the Wm. A. Gabby Farm

where in 1776, before the western boundary of Pennsylvania was

ascertained and established, was * held the County Court for the

District of Wiest Augusta, Virginia, the first court of justice ever

held by any English-speaking people west of the Monongahela

River; the tablet to be three feet long, two feet high above a light

base, and two feet thick, made of the best granite, with an appro-

priate inscription, and at a cost to the society of Fifty (50) Dollars^

finished ready for placing in position.



Will you kindly express to the society whether or not you are

willing to permit the tablet to be erected and maintained upon

said farm, for the purpose stated?



Very Respectfully,



Boyd Crumrine,

President [26]



August 17, 1820
Francis Godlove the Elder: Summary and Hypothesis
James Funkhouser (View posts)
Posted: 9 Jul 2005 11:35AM


Classification: Query

Surnames:

Francis Godlove (1744?-1835) of Hardy and Hampshire Counties, (West) Virginia

The name of Francis Godlove is spelled more than a dozen ways in Hardy and Hampshire records. In the Hardy County tax lists he is Francis Godlove. In census records and most Hampshire county tax lists the name is “Cutloaf.” But in the Hebron Church register, the only place where the name was recorded by German speakers, he was Franz (or Franciskus) Gottlob. In the only autograph signature I have found for Francis, on his consent to Savilla’s marriage, he signed as “Francis Gotlob.” His wife's name was Maria, and in the 1840 census for Hardy County there was a Mary Ann Godlove, in her seventies, apparently Francis' widow.

Francis lived on the Hardy-Hampshire County line at the head of Oldaker's Run, Dutch Hollow, on 100 acres on the south side of North River Mountain, land he bought in 1814 from Stephen Mayhall. On December 6, 1816 Francis entered a claim for a land patent from the Commonwealth of Virginia. This land, 78 acres on the drains of North River and the north side of Bucks Hill, adjoining his 100-acre tract, was surveyed on June 8, 1818 and patented August 17, 1820 to “Francis Godlop.”

The younger Francis Godlove administered the estate of his father. In the bond, the deceased was called Francis Godlove and the administrator was Francis Godlove Junior. He posted his bond on April 21, 1835 with Henry Detewick [Didawick] as suretor.

Francis Godlove/Franz Gottlob first appeared in Hardy Co. tax lists in 1795. He is listed in the Hardy County personal property tax lists from 1795 through 1805 and is in Hampshire 1806-1825. Probably after that date he was exempt from taxes because of his age, and, perhaps his poverty. Excluding his 178 acres of mountain land, his personal property was appraised in 1835 at $27.71. In 1821 he was listed as on the delinquent tax list, (for personal property--horses, cattle, etc.), but the assessor reported he could find no taxable property.

In 1793 and 1794, in Shenandoah County, Frederick Heiskell of Edinburg paid the personal property tax for [no first name] Gutlope/Gudlope. These might be references to Francis Godlove. On April 2, 1790, a Francis Cutliff was in Augusta County. Sarah, daughter of Franz and Maria Gottlob, was born November 5, 1789 and baptized March 14, 1790 at Altalaha Lutheran Church, Rehrersburg, Tulpehocken Township, Berks Co., Pennsylvania. These suggest a man on the move.

I want more evidence, but it looks like Francis Godlove/Franz Gottlob of Hardy and Hampshire Counties was the Johan Franz Gottlob who deserted in July 1783 from Mallet's Company of the Linsing Regiment of Hessian Grenadiers shortly before they left New York after the American War for Independence. This Franz Gottlob was born in Werneck, principality of Würzburg (now in Bavaria). The military records give his year of birth as variously 1751-1753. An 1805 court record says Francis of Hampshire County he was 61 at that time, so born 1744.

Wed. August 17, 1864

200 men left for baltimor hospital

H. Crocus an John Keysecker came to camp[27]



August 17, 1906

(Pleasant Valley) Mrs. W. H. Goodlove and her son Willis, took in the excursion to Minneapolis.[28]



August 17, 1906

(Jordon’s Grove) The death of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Goodlove’s baby occurred Sunday evening. The funeral was held Tuesday at 11 o’clock at the church.[29]



August 17, 1906

W. R. Goodlove and wife went to Minneapolis this week. (Winton Goodlove’s note:It seems my Grandad Goodlove was quite a traveler in those days, or else someone made a mistake in reporting the news??)



August 17, 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.[30]

August 17, 1938: All Jewish men in Germany are required to add “Israel” to their name, and all Jewish women, “Sarah.”[31]



• August 17, 1941: Thirteen thousand Jews are interned in the Vertujeni camp.[32]



August 17, 1942

On August 17, 1942 Convoy 20 left Drancy, France for Auschwitz with 581 children. On board was Paulette Gotlib born in Paris (12) February 19, 1936, age 6. Her brother Simone born June 18, 1939, age 4, was also on board. Their home was 35, r Francois Arago, Montreuil, France. Prior to deportation to Auschwitz they were held at Camp Pithiviers[33]. Pithiviers is of global historical interest as one of the locally infamous World War II concentration camps where children were separated from their parents while the adults were processed and deported to camps farther away, usually Auschwitz. [34] Also on board was Rachla Gotlib born March 22, 1908 from Chanciny, Poland. On board from Vienne Austria was Gertrude Gottlieb born July 6, 1901 and Michel Gottlieb born November 27, 1897.[35]



Convoy 20 , August 17, 1942 was the first of seven large convoys of children who had been separated from their parents buty then deported with other adults to create the illusion that families were being kept together. First grought to camps in the Loiret, in this case, Pithiviers, they were taken back to Drancy, where they were put into deportation convoys together with a few hundred adults from the Unoccupied Zone. This convoy carried 584 children under 18, 358 girls and 226 boys. They ranged in age from 18 down to 2, the youngest allowed by law.

The children were classified by railway car. The date and place of birth, the nationaliey, and in some cases the addresses, were recorded on the deportation lists.



Car 1, 7 children.



Car 4, 56 children and 6 women.



Car 5, 46 children and 4 women.



Car 6, 42 children and 4 women.



Car 7, 33 children and 2 women.



Car 8, 48 children and 7 women.



Car 9, 45 children and 8 women.



Car 10, 49 children and 5 women.



Car 11, 49 children and 6 women.



Car 12, 57 children and 3 women.



Car 13, 46 children and 1 woman.



Car 14, 46 children and 5 women.



Car 15, 30 children and 12 women.



The Nazis placed three people on a list entitled, Last minute volunteers, . The three were children, ages 8,7, and 5. Another list entitled Volunteers, includes 16 people, among them seven children.[36]





• The Nazis gassed 341 French Jewish children from the ages of two to ten, as well as 323 girls up to the age of 16, at Auschwitz. Two of the victims are Suzanne Perl, seven, and her sister Micheline, three.

This Day in Jewish History

August 17, 1943: Thorpe Abbotts, England: 376 bombers will go further into German airspace than ever

before. Their targets are vital industrial chokepoints. If knocked out it will deal a heavy blow to the German war machine. The plan is to send to groups as if they are going for the same target. They will split apart so that each group will face only half of the German fighters. The first group will head to a bal bearing plant in Schweinfurt. The second group to a Mesherschmitt assembly plant in Regensburg. [37] The weather causes the groups to take off 3 hours late. The plan is shatterd. 150 Luftwaffe fighters attack the Regensburge force. Within 90 minuts 240 American airmen are lost. Over Schweinfurt 300 rearmed and refueled German fighters ambush the bombers. 36 B-17s are shot out of the sky. More than 360 American airmen are lost.[38] The headlines of Stars and Stripes read “Biggest Air Battle Cost Nazis 307 Planes.” It was a lie. It reports that the targets had been wiped off the maps. In reality nearly one third of the bombs missed the target at Schweinfurt. At Regensburg the bombing is accurate but the Messerschmitt plant is quickly rebuilt. 60 bombers were missing and another 100 were permanently disabled. In just one day nearly 40 percent of the 8th airforce’s entire fighting force has been crippled or destroyed. [39]

• August 21, 1941-August 17, 1944

• Seventy thousand Jews pass through the Drancy transit camp.[40]



Frederica "Freda" GUTLEBEN was born on May 4, 1882 in Colmar,Upper Rhine,Alsace and died on August 17, 1966 in Fruitvale,Alameda,CA at age 84. [41]

August 17, 2011

From the editor:

In an upcoming preview of fate: Francis Gotlop (Godlove) and William Crawford will cross paths in one of the most famous moments in American Military History, Germantown and Brandywine.

And what about George Gottlieb, another Hessian who deserts, just like Conrad Gotlib did in 1777, and Francis Gotlob will, in 1783. They just did not want to go back to Germany. Something told them to stay. Something told them that this was a better, safer place. They were one of the few, one of the few who had battled for their own freedom, and won. The first Germans of Jewish Cohen ancestry to come to America. Jeffery Lee Goodlove



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[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110816/us-us-israel/

[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[3] This day in Jewish History.

[4] This Day in German History.

[5][1] This Day in Jewish History

[6] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 23.

[7] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 82.

[8] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 95.

[9] Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, Volume I pg. 181

[10] This Day in Jewish History

[11] The American Pageant, Bailey, Kennedy, Cohen pg. 143

[12] The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 pg. 104-105

[13] Journal kept by the Distinguished Hessian Field Jaeger Corps during the Campaigns of the Royal Army of Great Britain in North America, Translated by Bruce E. Burgoyne 1986

[14]Col. William Crawford is listed as having served in the 5th Virginia Regiment, Feb.13, 1776 and the 7th later that year. His Campaigns included Germantown. October of 1777 found Washington and his Americans near Germantown, where he continued to worry the enemy. After a few weeks of rest, he moved in on the enemy troops in that locality. The beginning was successful when another fog gave way to another retreat.

(From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 142)

[15] The Washington-Crawford Letters, by C. W. Butterfield

[16] JF

[17] Waldeker Truppen im amerikanishen unabhangigkeitskrieg

Inge Auerbach und Otto Frohlich Nr. 10

[18] VEROFFENTLICHUNGEN DER ARCHIVSCHULE MARBURG

- INSTITUT FÜR ARCHIVWISSENSCHAFT - Nr. 10

WALDECKER TRUPPEN IM AMERIKANISCHEN UNABHANGIGK EITSKRIEG (HETRINA) Index nach Familiennamen Bd.V Bearbeitet

Von Inge Auerbach und Otto Fröhlich Marburg 1976

[19] Names of Persons who took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, Between the Years 1777 and 1789, by Thompson Westcott, Clearfield Company.

[20] Pennsylvania Packet, August 27, 1782.

Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield, page 377

[21] This Day in Jewish History

[22] [1] This Day in Jewish History

[23] [2] www.wikipedia.org

[24] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-louis-xvi-executed

[25] (Harrison County, Ky. Deed Bk. 1, p. 658) ) BENJAMIN HARRISON 1750 – 1808 A History of His Life And of Some of the Events In American History in Which He was Involved By Jeremy F. Elliot 1978 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[26] The County Court of West Augusta

[27] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove

[28] Winton Goodlove papers.

[29] Winton Goodlove papers.

[30] Winton Goodlove papers.

[31] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page1761.

• [32] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1767.

[33] “Memorial des enfants deportes de France” de Serge Klarsfeld

[34] Wikipedia.org

[35] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page unknown.

[36] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 383-384.

[37] WWII in HD: The Air War. 11/10/2010

[38] WWII in HD: The Air War. 11/10/2010

[39] WWII in HD: The Air War. 11/10/2010

[40] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1767.

[41] Descendents of Elias Gotleben, Email from Alice, May 2010.