• This Day in Goodlove History, August 9
• 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; Jennie W. Winch, William Taliaferro, Ivan A. Sherman, Irvin A. Sherman, William J. Lyons, Ivy LeClere, George P. Kirby, Samuel P. Adams
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Weddings on this date; Kelly J. Burns and Ryan Hemphill, Mary Hichell and Clarence Bateson
In the news!
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster
Director of North American Programs, Rabbis for Human Rights North America
Stories of Loss and Chaos: The Ninth of Av and the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
Posted: 8/8/11 05:00 PM ET
Stories change with every retelling -- sometimes the details and sometimes the meaning. The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will be here soon, and then the stories will begin again.
I was in New York on 9/11. From a bus entering the Lincoln Tunnel, I saw the fireball go up when the second plane hit the twin towers, and I remember that in the days that immediately followed, every gathering or chance encounter began with the telling of our 9/11 stories. Over time, as the chaos and pain and ruin moved into the background, the ritual of the telling of stories diminished, only to resurface as summer moves into fall, reminiscent of a blue-skied day when the world fell apart.
The Fast of Tisha B'Av, which begins this year on the night of Aug. 8, has been a way for the Jewish community to confront and contain trauma through the telling of stories. First established to commemorate the destruction of First Temple in B.C.E. 686, it has become the day to relive the trauma of many other national calamities: the destruction of the Second Temple, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and the Holocaust, among others. While some have decried the over-identification of calamities with this date (surely, not everything bad that has ever happened to the Jewish people began in late July or early August), there is something to be said for containing all the communal rage and pain to one day, and then on that date, letting it all pour out. We read the Book of Lamentations, and imagine ourselves to be the survivors of a ruined and desolate nation, wondering where God had gone.
The rabbis tell the story of Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai and Rabbi Joshua visiting the ruins of the Second Temple after it was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E. Rabbi Joshua bursts into tears, anguished that the place where Israel atoned for its sins had been destroyed. Rabbi Yochanan comforts him, declaring that deeds of lovingkindness (chesed) had more power to achieve atonement and heal a broken world than sacrifice ever could. Chesed is not just something God shows us; it is our obligation to our fellow human beings in light of unimaginable tragedy. Chesed and not hatred or revenge.
Over the past six months, I struggled with how Rabbis for Human Rights-North America would commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an organization. What is the message of a Jewish human rights organization, particularly one that has focused on the darker legacy of 9/11, the use of torture in the War on Terror and the rise of bigotry against Muslims? Would anything we said be heard as prophetic admonition, or an inspiring challenge to hold fast to our most cherished values as a nation? Doesn't the anniversary belong to those closest to the events, the survivors and families of victims, the first responders and the disaster chaplains?
One theme that has emerged in some of the interfaith settings I have posed this question to is "Remember Sept. 12." The memory of the day after 9/11 is one of unity: people reaching across boundaries of faith, race and class to connect with their neighbors, with their friends and with perfect strangers. Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists and agnostics, we were together in our shock. It was the strength of unity that helped us survive those first days of trauma. Out of the trauma, chesed.
But it is important to acknowledge that for many people, this message of unity and chesed is completely false. After I posed "Remember Sept. 12" as a theme to a group of rabbinic colleagues, there were loud objections to what was seen as a glossing over of the experience of real pain and suffering. Many of my colleagues had counseled those who had lost family members. For some who had been in New York and D.C., the visceral memory was the fear that the planes were just the first wave of a larger, more sustained attack. Some complained that one dishonored the memory of 9/11 if he or she did not also talk about the two wars that have followed (both the soldiers who have fought and the politic quagmires that have resulted). "Remember Sept. 12" seemed like a rosy nostalgia for a day that never really was.
More recently, when I participated in the interfaith "Our Better Angels" master class for Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith leaders, one of the Muslim participants challenged the entire paradigm of telling stories about 9/11. Certain stories get privileged over others, she reminded us. For example, who remembers those people turned away from the intake centers at the piers because they lacked documentation?
How do we acknowledge the fact that one's experience of 9/11 is profoundly affected by his or her race, class and religion. How can we have unity when we aren't clear what story we are telling?
I don't know the answer. Maybe we'll just have to wait to see what Sept. 12, 2011, feels like. It took the Jewish people generations to figure out what the narrative of the destruction of the Temple on Tisha B'Av was, and we still incorporate new episodes of pain and loss into the commemoration. Even the official story is still open. As we approach the 10th anniversary of 9/11, may we have the wisdom to hear other, competing stories with hearts of chesed.
I Get Email!
In a message dated 8/8/2011 8:41:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time, :
Hey Jeff,
I appreciate all you do with the genealogy but can you remove me from the mailing list? Thanks!
Ross Godlove
No problem. You can still visit anytime at www.thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com anytime. Jeff
This Day…
August 9, 48: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey, who is killed in Egypt. [1][1] Considering Pompey’s behavior towards the Jews, including his desecration of the Temple, Caesar’s victory was the preferred outcome.[2][2]
August 9, 378: Roman Emperor Valens who began his reign in 364, was killed by the Visigoths as he led his large to defeat at the Battle of Adrianople. During his reign Valens followed the course of his predecessors and issued an edict strengthening the Patriarchate. He issued an edict that exempted “officers of communities subject to the ‘illustrious Patriarch (Nasi)’ from service on municipal councils. In 368 he issued an edict forbidding the billeting of troops in Synagogues. Such minor sounding positive notes, makes him better than his imperial peers when it came to treatment of the Jewish people.[3]
August 9, 681: Founding of the first Bulgarian Empire. Archaeologists have found traces of Jewish communities in the area that pre-dated the formation of Bulgaria. The first major movement of Jews into Bulgaria took place early in the 8th century when Jews fled persecution in the Byzantine Empire.[4]
August 9, 1471: The Papacy of Sixtus IV began. “In Italy the reign of Sixtus IV marks a high point of tolerance. The pope used Jewish physicians, and perhaps employed Jews for the collection, copying, and translation of Hebrew works. He refused to canonize Simon of Trent, allegedly a victim of Jewish ritual murder. It is clear, however, that the pope's tolerance was offset, outside his own domains, by local hostility. A generous bull of 1479 concerning the Jews of Avignon was questioned and subsequently withdrawn. In November 1478 the pope issued a bull investing Ferdinand and Isabella with extraordinary powers to appoint inquisitors in all parts of Castile.” ( From the Jewish Virtual Library) This was the first step in what would lead to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.[5]
August 9, 1506: Prince Yaroslavitch established the community of Pinsk. At the same time, he reconfirmed the rights given to the Jews by King Alexander Jagello, King of Lithuania.[6]
August 9, 1757
French General, Joseph de Montcalm, takes Fort William Henry on LAKE George, furing the French and Indian War.[7]
No. 10.—CRAWFORD TO JAMES[8] TILGHMAN.[9]
STEWART’S CROSSINGS, August 9, 1771.
SIR:—I understand by Captain John Haden, the bearer of this, that there is an agreement entered into by a number of the inhabitants of Monongahela and Redstone. They have entered into a bond or article of agreement to join and keep off all officers of the law, under a penalty of fifty [pounds], to be forfeited by the party refusing to join against all officers whatsoever.
I understand this was set on foot by a set of people who have made a breach of the law by driving out men from their homes for which there was a King’s warrant issued against them, together with a notion propagated by Colonel Croghan that those posts would not fall into Pennsylvania. He told me it was the opinion of some of the best judges that the province line would not extend.by considerable so far; as it would be settled at forty-eight nifles to a degree of longitude, which was the distance of a degree of longitude allowed at the time the charter was granted to Mr. Penn. He has since told these people that they had no right to obey any precept issued from Pennsylvania.
He has run a line from the mouth of Raccoon [creek] up the Ohio to Fort Pitt, and thence up Monongahela, above Pigeon creek; thence across till it strikes Raccoon creek ten miles up It; and says he has one more grant of 100,000 acres to lay off in a paralleI with that. Many surveys he has cut to pieces and sold to sundry people, that have been returned to your office, some of which are not above three or four miles from Fort Pitt. He has done so with one of mine and many others. It is a great pity there is not a stop put to such proceedings, as it will be attended with very bad consequences.
I am informed there is a large number of signers already to the paper; when I see it, I will give you a more distinct account. I am, etc.
P. S.—I shall be down this fall and pay off to the land office for the different lands I am concerned in or have undertaken to transact.[10]
Wednesday August 9th 1775
Mr. Berwick and I set out this morning to Major Crawford’s, but met him at his Mistresses. This woman is common to him, his brother, half brother, and his own son and is his wife’s sister’s daughter, at the same time. A set of Vial Brutes. He informed me, the Congress has discharged all the Governors on the Continent and taken all affairs Civil and Military into their Management. independence is what these Scoundrals aim at. Confusion to their Schemes. [11]
August 9, 1777
FROM BRIGADIER-GENERAL KNOX.
"It is the opinion of the subscriber that the Battery on
Fort Island ought to have an additional work thrown up
upon its left, and Garrisoned with 12 pieces heavy cannon,
150 cannoniers, and half as many assistants, with 500 In-
fantry.
" Red Bank is to be contracted so as to have 5 or 6 can-
non on the land side, and as many heavy towards the river ;
to prevent any ships coming up the channel leading to it, in
order to flank the Gallies which may be station'd for the
defence of the Cheveaux de Frize near the Fort.
" Billingsport to be finished as at present contracted, or if
possible more so ; so as to hold 300 men exclusive of 150
cannoniers and 75 assistants, to work 12 pieces heavy can-
non which ousrht to be in this work.
" The Gallies to lye opposite to it at the break of the low
Island, in order to assist the fire of Billingsport : these Gal-
lies would be for this purpose preferable to the floating
Batteries, as they can be most easily remov'd in case of an
accident to Billingsport.
" If much depends on the fire ships an inclosed Battery
ought to be constructed on some advantageous piece of
ground near Derbys Creek, and something higher up the
river than where the present defective Battery is ; this in
order to prevent any of the enemy's ships mooring at the
mouth of the western channel ; so to hinder the fire ships
sent round into the, main ship channel. The western chan-
nel is thought to be most commodious for the free operation
of the fire ships either in the Channel leading to Billings-
port or further down the river ; the Gallies ought also to lye
in the western channel if their retreat is perfectly secure ;
as the Commodore says ; as well in order to protect the fire
ships, as to annoy any of the enemy's Frigates which may
be opposed to Billingsport ; but the two floating Batteries
which from their unwieldiness, cannot be easily mov'd to-
gether with the Frigates and Xebecques, ought to lye behind
the second row of Chevaux de Frize, upon a line with Fort
Island.
" If there should be time enough, a strong enclos'd work
ought to be thrown up on fort Island, capable of contain-
ing 4 or 500 men ; an advantage may be taken of part of
the stone work already erected, and which in its present
state would be infinitely detremental to any body of men
who may seek shelter from it.
" These sentiments are respectfully submitted by Sir Y r
most obt Hble Serv*
" HENRY KNOX
" Brif Gen 1 Artillety.
" CAMP SANDY RUN, 9 th Aug*. 1777."
August 9, 1777
WASHINGTON TO THE PEESIDENT OF CONGRESS.
" HEADQUARTERS, CAMP, NEAR GERMAN TOWN,
"Aug[9],1777.
" SIR :
" The disappearance of the enemy's fleet for so many
days rendering it rather improbable, that they will again
return, I have thought it adviseable to remove the army back
to CoryelPs where it will be near enough to succor Philadel-
phia, should the enemy contrary to appearances still make
that the object of their next operations, and will be so much
the more conveniently situated to proceed to the Northward,
should the event of the present ambiguous and perplexing
situation of things call them that way. I was the more in-
clined to this step, as the nearness of the army to the city,
beside other disadvantages, afforded a temptation both to
officers and men to indulge themselves in licenses incon-
sistent with discipline and order, and consequently of a very
injurious tendency. 1 [12]
" But before my departure, I esteem it my duty to com-
municate to Congress the result of my examination into
the nature of the River defence proper to be adopted ac-
cording to the means in our possession, to prevent the suc-
cess of any attempt upon Philadelphia by water. I there-
fore beg leave to lay before Congress what appears to me
most eligible, considering all circumstances, and comparing
my own observations, with the different opinions of the
Gentlemen, whom I consulted on the occasion.
" It is generally a well founded maxim, that we ought to
endeavor to reduce our defence as much as possible to a cer-
tainty, by collecting our strength and making all our prepa-
rations at one point, rather than to risk its being weak and
ineffectual every where, by dividing our attention and force
to different objects. In doing this, we may disable ourselves
from acting with sufficient vigor any where, and a misfortune
in one place may pave the way for a similar one in another.
In our circumstances, we have neither men, cannon, nor any
thing else to spare, and perhaps cannot with propriety
hazard them on objects which being attended with the
greatest success we can promise ourselves, can be pro-
ductive of only partial and indicisive advantages, and which
may possibly fail of the end proposed, may have some seri-
ous ill-consequences, and must at all events have some dis-
advantages.
" It is then to be considered, where our defence can be
most effectually made, whether at Billingsport, or at Fort
Island.
"It appears to me, that the last deserves greatly the
preference. Billingsport has but one row of Chevaux de
frize, Fort Island has three; and in addition to them, a
boom and another Chevaux de frize, ready to be sunk in
the channel, on the approach of the enemy; of course the
obstructions in this respect are four times as great at the
one as at the other. The Gallies and floating batteries, that
could be brought for the defence of the chevaux de frize at
Billingsport, would be unable to maintain their station,
when once the enemy were in possession of the command-
ing ground on the Jersey side, to which they would be en-
tirely exposed, and notwithstanding the works raising there,
even supposing them complete, the strongest advocates for
making our defence in this place do not pretend, that that
.event can be protracted more than fifteen or twenty days at
most, at the end of which time, we should be obliged with
the loss of our cannon at least to abandon the defence, and
leave it in the power of the enemy to remove or destroy the
chevaux de frize at pleasure. Nor is it by any means certain
that a single row of chevaux de frize would be an impene-
trable barrier to the enemy's ships. Experiments have been
made that lead to a contrary supposition, and if they should
hazard one, which it might be well worth their while to do,
with some of their less valuable ships, under favor of a
leading breeze and tide, and should succeed in it, the
consequence might be the loss of our gallies and floating
batteries, which I apprehend might be intercepted, and with
the assistance of their gallies and small armed vessels, taken
and this would greatly weaken the opposition we might
otherwise give at Fort Island, and tend powerfully to render
it abortive. But if they should not attempt this, contenting
themselves with safer though slower operations, I have
already observed, that it is agreed, on all hands, in fifteen
or twenty days they would be able to possess themselves of
infallible means of frustrating our opposition there, by the
capture of our works ; and if we add to this, that it might
very possibly happen in less time, if from no other cause,
yet from the garrison being intimidated, by a conscious-
ness of its own inferiority and inability to support itself
against a so much superior force of numbers, which might
occasion a conduct destructive to itself there will remain
no sufficient reasons to justify the making this the principal
point of defence.
" At Fort Island the boom and chevaux de frize are an
ample security against any forcible impression of the enemy's
ships which it would be imprudent in them to attempt. On
the Jersey side the situation of the ground is such, that the
gallies, floating batteries and forts employed in the defence
of the obstructions would have little to fear from any bat-
teries erected there. Red-bank seems, by its elevation to
be the only advantageous spot for annoying them ; but as it
is computed to be above 1900 yards from Fort Island, the dis-
tance is rather too great to allow any battery raised there to
act with so much effect as to be able to silence our fire. On
this side, the ground by dykes and sluices may be laid under
water to so considerable an extent as to leave no danger of
our River force being annoyed from thence ; for which pur-
pose suitable precautions ought, at once, to be made, against
it may be necessary to carry them into effect.
" But, though a battery upon Red-bank, would not in my
apprehension, be able to prevent the efficacy of our defence
or give any material disturbance to Fort Island, in particular, yet it might serve to make the situation of some of our
gallics rather uneasy ; and this perhaps makes it worth
while to pre-occupy it in order to keep it out of the enemy's
hands erecting a small, but strong work there capable of
containing about two hundred men, with six or eight pieces
of light cannon, and a proportionable quantity of stores. As
the approaches to it are difficult on account of the adjacent
creeks, and a communication can be kept open between it
and our army, by which means the garrison might receive
succors from time to time, though we could not expect to
make it impregnable, yet we should have a prospect of hold-
ing it much longer than we could the work at Billingsport.
"In the position, which from my present view of it, I
should think it best for our army to take, the left wing of it
would be nearly opposite to Red-bank, and therefore in a con-
dition to relieve and support it ; whereas Billingsport being
more remote from the probable position of the army, and
detached from any other work, could not easily derive any
assistance from without and must rely wholly upon its own
strength.
" Either at Billingsport or at Fort Island, I believe there
is not much to be apprehended from the fire of the enemy's
ships unaided by land batteries ; For as by the information
of those who ought to be acquainted with the fact, not more
than three ships can act abreast at a time at either place,
and as the gallies, not requiring the same depth of water,
can extend themselves at pleasure, and besides carry a supe-
rior weight of metal to that which frigates commonly have,
a much superior fire, could be opposed to them than any
they could bring and from the difference of size and make
between the frigates and gallies, to much better effect than
theirs. The comparative extent of the River at Billings-
port and at Fort Island has been assigned as a motive of
preference to the former, the river being narrower there
than at the latter, and supposed to admit of fewer ships
operating at a time ; but as it is asserted by the gentlemen
in the River department, that the sand banks and shallow-
ness of the River in most places near Fort Island, compensate for the width of it and make it impossible for more
than three ships to act together at a time, this reason of
preferring the position at Billingsport seems to have no
foundation. And if we consider, that our whole force of
gallies and floating batteries, would be collected at Fort
Island, assisted by the fort itself and that it would not be
safe to trust them all out for the defence of Billingsport, for
fear of the disaster already suggested, it seems evident
enough that this is the place where our defence may be
most successfully made.
" One of the most weighty considerations with me is, that
our Army as before intimated, could more conveniently
co-operate with the defence by water here than at Billings-
port. The ground on this side is better situated here than
at the other place, and the Army being so much nearer the
city, it is so much the less likely, that the enemy should be
able, by a circuitous route to fall into the rear of it and sep-
arate it from the city, which is a circumstance that ought
carefully to be attended to.
" Some Gentlemen are of opinion that our principal de-
pendence ought to be upon Fort Island and its appendages ;
but at the same time, that we should make a part of our
defence at Billingsport proposing for that purpose that the
works there should be continued on the new contracted
scale to be garrisoned by four or five hundred men. The
reasons for this are that it would serve to delay the enemy
and give our army time to come up, should it be at any dis-
tance and that it would prevent those disagreeable impres-
sions which never fail to accompany the abandoning works
that have been once raised and plans that have been once in
execution ; especially when the persons concerned in the
defence of them repose a degree of confidence in them ;
which is said to be the case in the present instance. But
these reasons may perhaps not be so conclusive as 'tis
imagined ; for 'tis a question whether, if our army was so
remote as to make such a delay necessary, the enemy would
embarrass themselves with removing the water obstructions
in the first place, but would not rather debark and make
a rapid march by land ; possessing themselves of the city
and of those positions which would make the surrender of
the gallies, &c., in some sort a natural consequence; and it
is worthy of consideration, whether the* abandoning the
works begun at this time, which will probably allow some
leisure for any disagreeable impressions it might make to
be effaced, will not be less injurious than the abandoning
them hereafter when they have cost more expence, time and
labor, and in the critical moment of an attack, when every
misfortune, and the loss of the most inconsiderable post is
too apt to have a much worse influence on the mind than
the real importance of it will justify. Add to this the pos-
sibility that the garrison dismayed at the approach of num-
bers so superior to their own, might not answer the end
expected from them, and might even be lost by their ti-
midity the certahity of losing the cannon after the time
limited for the defence and thereby weakening that of the
upper position the chance of losing the gallies and floating
batteries, requisite for covering the chevaux de frize, by a
hazardous and successful attempt to break through them,
and the garrison with them, which would fall of course upon
such an event, It is however, submitted to Congress to
ballance the advantages and disadvantages and determine
accordingly. I would only beg leave to give it clearly as
my opinion, that our principal dependence ought to be upon
Fort Island and the obstructions there, and that Billingsport
ought not by any means to be defended, more than as a
secondary object.
" And to that end, I would recommend that the works on
Fort Island, which on their present construction are by no
means calculated for the defence of the Chevaux de frize be
immediately altered and adapted to that purpose, taking
care, at the same time, to make them defensible with a
small number of men against any sudden attempt to land
in boats and carry them by assault. But whatever scheme
is pursued, I could wish the greatest diligence and despatch
may be used in bringing it to maturity; for though the
danger which lately threatened seems to have subsided, there is no knowing how soon it may return and certainly
it will be prudent to do every thing in our power to be pre-
pared for it, as we can lose nothing by being so, and may
lose a great deal by neglecting to improve the interval
of leisure they have given us should it be their intention
to revisit this quarter. As the means to this it will be
necessary to furnish Mr. Coudray to whom the Superin-
tendency of those works is intrusted, with a competent
number of workmen, tools, and what other things he may
want to enable him to carry them on with propriety, ease
and expedition.
" On the whole I am of opinion that the obstructions in
the River, with the help of gallies, floating batteries, and
with tolerable industry to put the land works in a proper
state, will be extremely formidable to the enemy and author-
ise a reasonable expectation of their being effectual. The
fire ships also will contribute to this end, for though there
are many obstacles that render their success precarious, and
a happy concurrence of circumstances is necessary towards
it, any of which failing may disappoint the project, and
there is therefore no room to be sanguine, yet there is some
probability of its succeeding and they will be at least an
embarrassment and terror to the enemy, and will oblige
them to use precautions inconvenient to them and service-
able to us.
" As an accurate knowledge of the country is essential to
a good defence and as the enemy's approach may be sud-
den and we may be called to act, without having time, when
it happens, to examine it sufficiently if it is not done before-
hand, it would answer a valuable purpose to have it imme-
diately carefully reconnoitred, and sketches taken of all
the landing places, great roads and bye-paths, In camping
grounds, heights, rivers, creeks, morasses, and every thing
that it can be of any importance to know.
" Marcus Hook seems to be the most advanced place at
which it is conjectured the enemy will land, the survey
should therefore comprehend all the country between that
& Phil*.
" Mr. Du Coudray has offered his services with his Engi-
neers to do this business, if authorized by Congress, only
requiring that they be supplied with horses and a hand or
two. If Congress approve of it, I shall be glad they may
be desired to enter upon it, without loss of time. I have
the honor, &c.
" G? WASHINGTON/' [13]
XI.— COOK TO IRVINE.
AT My House, August 9, 1782.
Sir:— We have hired five spies who are now out, who are to reconnoiter from Fort Crawford to the Kittanning, agreeable to what was proposed when with you. They are ordered to correspond with those you may send. They are to make the figure of the day of the month upon a tree in order to ascertain their meeting or appointing places, and leave a line under a stone at the root of the tree importing the nature of the discovery if they have made any.
I have had a meeting of the field officers and other principal inhabitants upon the subject of the expedition.2 The plan agreed upon I will lay before the gentlemen who are to meet
Ante, pp. 123, 175, 303.
The following is a copy of the proceedings:
“At a meeting of the field officers and other respectable inhabitants of the county of Westmoreland at the house of Colonel Edward Cook, on Thursday, the eighth day of August, (August 8) 1782, to consult on a plan for an expedition against the Sandusky Indian nations bordering on our frontier,— Colonel Christopher Hays, Esq., Colonel Alexander McClean, Colonel Benjamin Harrison, Captain Hezekiah MeGruder, and Charles Foreman, Esq., were appointed a cornittee to form a plan for that purpose.
“1st. Resolved, That each battalion of the militia of Westmoreland county shall furnish their quota of men, provisions and horses, equipped at Catfish Camp [now Washington, Washington county] the 15th instant. It is thought we cannot complete our plan before the 20th instant, so as to make returns.1
for transportation, hereunto annexed to each and every battalion respectively, namely:
Men. Rations. Horses.
The 1st Battalion Col. John Pumroy 61 4,117 30
“ 2c1 “ Col. Benj. Davis 176 11,800 88
3rd “ Col. Geo. Beard 122 8,235 61
4th “ Col. Benj. Harrison 123 8,302 61
5th “ Col. Theophilus Phillips 119 8,032 59
“The said provision, etc., to be deposited at such time and place in each and every battalion as the commanding officer shall appoin“2dly. Resolved, That the commanding officer of each and every battalion do exempt the militia from one month’s service and each and every man that shall furnish and equip one horse sufficient for the said service at the time and place appointed for depositing said provisions.
“Provided always that the said expedition proceeds on or is carried into execution. And every horse so as aforesaid entered be adjudged and appraised by two indifferently chosen by each company of said battalion respectively.
“3rd. Resolved, That in case any of the said horses so as aforesaid entered and equipped, adjudged and appraised and proceeding on said expedition, be lost in said service, the lieutenant and sub-lieutenants of the county together with the memJjers of this committee in conjunction with those whose names are hereunto annexed, do pledge themselves, their fortunes and honors for the payment of the said horses agreeable to the said appraisements [Signed] Edward Cook, Alexander MaClean, Benj. Davis, Christopher Hays, Charles Foreman, Neheiniali Stokely, Benj. Harrison, Hex. MaGruder, Zadock Sprin. gei, Samuel Wilson, John Hughes, Thomas Warring, Paden Cook, Theophilus P~iillips, Andrew Sinn.”
‘The following order issued to Lieut. Richard Johnson, the day previous to tl~e writing of the above letter, exhibits Cook’s watchful care over the north. em settlements of his county:
In a message sent the general assembly of Pennsylvania by President Moore, August 14th, following, he says: “We had great reason to apprehend a severe blow would be aimed at the frontiers by the Indians. Our fears, in this respect, have been but too well justified by events that have since happened, and there is reason to believe that the blow has fallen with redoubled force, in consequence of the killing of the Moravian indians at Mps. kingum lupon that branch now known as the Tuscarawas], an act which never had our approbation or countenance in any manner whatever.” The report of the committee of the assembly upon so much of his message as related to the killing of the Moravian Indians was made the next day, as follows:
“Your committee are of opinion that an inquiry, on lega) principles, ought to be instituted respecting the killing of the Moravian Indians, at Muskingum — an act disgraceful to humanity and productive of the most disagreeable and dangerous consequences.
“Resolved, therefore, that this house will give every support in their power to the supreme executive council toward prosecuting an inquiry respecting the killing of the Moravian Indians at Muskingum.”
Nothing further, however, was ever done in an official way, either by the United States, Pennsylvania or Virginia, “tending to elucidate the dark transaction.”[14]
Tues. August 9, 1864
At hospital troops passing towards
Shanedoa valley[15]
August 9, 1915: James Woodruff, the DPI’s inspector of consolidate schools and leading spokesperson on consolidation, was brought in just tow days before the election in a last minute attempt to salvage the proposition to consolidate the schools in Hopkinton. He gave what Mrs. Reeve referred to as a “very forcefuol argument in favor of consolidation,” but it was a case of too little too late.[16]
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• July 13-August 9, 1941
• A total of 9,012 Jews from Dvinsk are killed.[17]
• August 9, 1941: According to reports at the time the Nazis killed 510 Jews Brest-Litovsk and 296 Jews killed in Bialystok.[18]
August 9, 1942: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died in Auschwitz. Born Edith Stein, Sister Teresa and her sister converted long before World War II. However, the Catholic Church allowed the Nazis to seize her and thousand of other Jews who had converted to Catholicism and ship them off to the death chambers. According to Canon Law, Sister Teresa was a Catholic. But apparently she was not a real Catholic since the Church let her go up in smoke facing the fate of a Jewess named Stein. [19]
• August 9, 1942: 1942: Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died in Auschwitz. Born Edith Stein, Sister Teresa and her sister converted long before World War II. However, the Catholic Church allowed the Nazis to seize her and thousand of other Jews who had converted to Catholicism and ship them off to the death chambers. According to Canon Law, Sister Teresa was a Catholic. But apparently she was not a real Catholic since the Church let her go up in smoke facing the fate of a Jewess named Stein. [20]
•
• August 9, 1942
• 1942: In the first mass deportation to the gas chambers 10,000 Jews were sent from the Borislave ghetto to the Belsen death camp. [21]
• August 9, 1942: : 200 Jews escape into the forests of Mir. During that week, 6,000 would die in Naliboki, Lubcz and Karelicze. Another 1,500 would be taken from the Krzemieniec. [22]
• August 9, 1942: During the liquidation of the Mir ghetto, Jews offer armed resitance. Over the nest three days, some 10,000 Jews from Bedzin, Sosnowiec, and Dabrowa are selected and deported.[23]
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August 9, 1945
A second nuclear bomb hit Nagasaki. It destroys the city. The Japanese still refuse to surrender. A third atomic strike is considered. Two thousand planes take to the sky targeting Tokyo.
“I realize the tragic significance the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly taken by this government, but we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. We won the race of discovery against the Germans. Having found the bomb we have used it.”
Harry Truman.[24]
Two major Japanese cities had been annihilated by American atomic bombs but even now the Japanese empire resisted defeat searching for any way to stave off the inevitable. According to one report they made one last ditch effort. They conducted a nuclear test.[25]
August 9, 1988: The first night baseball game at Wrigley field in Chicago is played, and called after four innings because of rain. The next night, August 9, 1988 the first complete game is played and the Goodlove’s are there.[26]
August 9, 2010: Jane, Brian, Carson and Cole sat in the VIP section at the WTA LaCoste Tennis tournament and saw Radwanska (Poland) defeat Peer (Israel) in professional womens tennis on Friday. Peer was born in Jerusalem and resides in Macabim, Israel.
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[1] [1] The world Before and After Jesus, Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill, page 337.
[2] [2] This Day in Jewish History
[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[4] This Day in Jewish History
[5] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[6] This Day in Jewish History.
[7] On this Day in America by John Wagman.
[8] James Tilghman, an officer of the Provincial Council, that there was an agreement entered into by a number of inhabitants of Monongahela and Redstone, who have entered into a bond to keep off the officers of the law, under penalty of ₤50 to be forfeited to the party refusing to join; that this movement was set on foot by a set of people who had made a breach of the law by driving out men from their homes, for which there was a King’s warrant issued against them; together with a notion propagated by Colonel Croghan that the posts would not fall within Pennsylvania. He referred to Croghan’s change of the line, with many surveys cutting into the tract, which would be attended with very bad consequence, if a stop were not put to the proceedings. Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, Volume II. pg. 46.
[9] This letter has been published. See Penn. Arch. IV., pp. 424, 425. It is inserted in this connection (although it does not belong to the Washington-Crawford correspondence), as being germane to the general subject about which Crawford and Washington were corresponding.
[10] The Washington Crawford Letters, By C.W. Butterfield, 1877
[11] Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777, p. 100 (1924)
[12] " You will take every possible care in your power, as well in your
march as during your stay at that place [Maidenhead], to restrain every
species of licentiousness in the soldiery, and to prevent them doing the
least injury to the inhabitants or their property, as nothing can be more
disserviseable to our cause, or more unworthy of the characters we pro-
fess to say nothing of the injustice of the measure." Washington to
Colonel Morgan, August 9, 1777.
[13] Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
[14] Washington-Irvine Correspondence, C.W. Butterfield
[15] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove
[16] There Goes the Neighborhoo, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 163.
• [17] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1766.
[18] This Day in Jewish History
[19] This Day in Jewish History
[20] This Day in Jewish History
[21] This Day in Jewish History
[22] This Day in Jewish History
[23] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1773
[24] Mission for Mussolini, Military Channel, 6/19/2009
[25] Japan’s Atomic Bomb, HISTI, 8/16/2005
[26] On this Day in America, by John Wagman.
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