This Day in Goodlove History, September 9

• This Day in Goodlove History, September 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; Nancy A. Thrap, James W. Sherman, Jesse J. Lowery, Jacob S. Lewis, Lulu B. Hardin, Walter Godlove, Parlee Godlove, Homer Godlove, Mellisa Bacon



Weddings on this date; Cari A. Repstien and Jesse J. Lowery



In the news!
Analysis: Israel faces perfect storm in shifting region
First Posted: 9/8/11 10:31 AM ET Updated: 9/8/11 11:27 PM ET



By Crispian Balmer

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Militarily strong, Israel is battling a diplomatic storm as Arab uprisings upset once-stable relationships and worsen the Jewish state's isolation in its conflict with the Palestinians.

Domestic political pressures are exacerbating the problems, as is the perceived weakness of Israel's main ally, the United States, which is itself struggling to adapt to the consequences of the turbulence that has swept the Arab world this year.

The storm is not expected to blow over quickly, with the Palestinian push for recognition of statehood at the United Nations later this month and the moribund peace process only adding to Israel's sense of loneliness.

"I am very concerned by the daily deterioration of Israel's strategic balance," said Oded Eran, head of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies and a former ambassador.

"We have seen a deterioration of our relations with Turkey and Egypt, and we have witnessed problems in our relations with America. The absence of any viable peace process and the specter of a U.N. resolution (on Palestinian statehood) is only making things worse."

Diplomatic crises in the Middle East have a history of degenerating into war, and although conflict appears unlikely at present, some senior Israelis are sounding the alarm.





"After the Arab Spring, we predict that a winter of radical Islam will arrive," Major-General Eyal Eisenberg, the chief of the Israeli army's Home Front Command, said this week.

"As a result, the possibility for a multi-front war has increased, including the potential use of weapons of mass destruction," he told a conference.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East assumed to have a nuclear arsenal. Along with Western powers, it believes Iran is seeking an atomic capability, something Tehran denies.

Although government ministers swiftly dismissed the risks Eisenberg mooted, his comments revealed a skittishness at the top just days after Turkey downgraded its ties with Israel and vowed to expand its naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean.

SEEKING AN APOLOGY

Turkey was the first Muslim state to recognize Israel, in 1949, but relations nosedived last year when Israeli commandos boarded an aid flotilla challenging a naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave Gaza, killing nine Turks in ensuing clashes.

A report into the incident released last week by the United Nations called Israel's use of force "unreasonable." It also said the blockade was legal, a reading that Israel felt vindicated its decision not to apologize to Turkey.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rejected this, cut back diplomatic representation and froze defense trade, as well as promising a more active role for his country's powerful navy.

The dispute flared just three weeks after Egypt threatened to pull its own ambassador from Tel Aviv following the deaths of five Egyptian security personnel, who were shot dead as Israeli forces tracked down suspected Palestinian militants who had earlier infiltrated its border and killed eight Israelis.

The row with Cairo influenced Israel's decision to hold back on a major military offensive in Gaza, local media said.

Israeli ministers remain much more concerned by long-running concerns over Iran and Syria and have been eager to play down tensions with their other neighbors, blaming the uncertainty of Arab unrest for much of the friction.

Egypt's new rulers are more susceptible to widespread anti-Israeli sentiment in their country than was the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak. Turkey is also looking to carve out a significant part for itself in a reshaped Arab world.

"In this new role for Turkey, Israel doesn't have much of a part to play," said Joshua Teitelbaum, a senior fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Tel Aviv.

"It needs to curry favor with the Arab world, and it's very easy to curry favor ... if you're anti-Israel," he added.

LEADERSHIP VACUUM

Washington has said little in public about the rows and officials say it is working behind the scenes to calm nerves among a trio of allies that are vital to its interests.

But Yossi Shain, a professor at both Tel Aviv University and Georgetown University in Washington, believes President Barack Obama's administration is part of the problem.

"Everyone is suffering from the lack of coherence and leadership from America," he said. "Obama is not exuding any authority or influence on anyone. This vacuum creates a sense of impunity for attacking Israel with rhetoric."

Complicating matters is the fact that Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have notoriously bad relations.

Only this week, a Bloomberg columnist reported that former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had accused Netanyahu of being an "ungrateful ally" shortly before he left office, adding that the Israeli leader was "endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel's growing isolation."

Diplomats in Jerusalem have said the Obama administration was deeply frustrated by Israel's refusal to freeze settlement building in the West Bank as a way to kick start peace talks.

Netanyahu, head of a coalition government that includes pro-settler parties, says there should be no pre-conditions to resuming negotiations, and no doubt feels comforted by the wholehearted support he enjoys in the U.S. Congress.

But Shain said Israel's failure to articulate a coherent Palestinian policy was harming its standing.

"Israel's main difficulty and challenge, one that the government has not addressed, is the issue of the Palestinians. At the end of the day, it is what Israel does in the West Bank that will be paramount," he said.

That issue will take center stage when the Palestinians ask the United Nations this month for an upgrade in their status. Although the United States and Israel oppose the unilateral move, at least 120 other countries are likely to say 'yes'.

"Israel is in a quagmire over this and we need to handle the situation differently," Shain added.

(Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Yet Another Israeli Spy Scandal?
September 8, 2011 10:53 by Simon Plosker

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Many of you will have been drawn to open this article by virtue of the headline. After all, spying affairs with a dash of Israeli involvement makes big news. But what about an Israeli spy scandal that actually involves no Israelis?

A former US government scientist has confessed to attempted espionage after he sought to sell American secrets for personal profit. Stewart Nozette was caught after an FBI sting operation where an undercover agent posed as an Israeli intelligence officer.

According to the BBC, however:

The Department of Justice said none of the charges alleged that any US laws were broken by the government of Israel or anyone working on its behalf.

So why then is the same BBC report headlined:



But the BBC wasn’t the only media outlet that used the Israel link in the headline to pique reader interest. Some did not even bother to distinguish that Nozette was guilty of attempted espionage, instead portraying Israel itself as guilty by association (despite there being no association).

Who at Australia’s Herald Sun came up with this misleading headline?



Herald Sun

The New York Times and Daily Telegraph were slightly less explicit but still made sure that Israel was portrayed as a guilty party:



New York Times



Daily Telegraph

Only slightly less egregious, remembering to mention the “attempted” part of the crime, were ABC News and Reuters:



ABC News



Reuters

At least many other media outlets decided to use correct and more neutral headlines to present the story, choosing to focus upon the attempted espionage charge rather than Israel. For example:

Washington Post: Chevy Chase scientist Stewart Nozette pleads guilty to attempted espionage
Boston Globe: Scientist pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets
LA Times: Former government scientist pleads guilty to attempted espionage
CNN: Accused NASA spy pleads guilty to attempted espionage
The Guardian also ran with a neutral headline:

US scientist Stewart Nozette pleads guilty to attempted espionage
However, it omitted the key information from the text of the article that the Department of Justice had stated that Israel itself was not accused of any crime, a detail also absent from AFP’s report.

Particularly for Guardian readers, many of whom are already comfortable with the paper’s regular attacks on Israel, this sin of omission and vital context is misleading and leaves Israel at the receiving end of a negative story that it actually has no direct involvement in.

Spy stories with an Israel element tend to appeal to some of the media’s basest instincts, drawing upon the almost mythological image of the Mossad as well as the timeless charge of “dual loyalty” leveled at Jews wherever they live.

While anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists need little more than the Stewart Nozette story to peddle their wares, it is incumbent upon the mainstream media to present such a story accurately and without the sensationalist aspect that seems to send so many into a frenzy whenever Israel happens to be mentioned.

You can send your considered comments to the following media outlets:

BBC Complaints – http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints ( For detailed instructions on how to navigate the BBC Complaints website, click here.)
Herald Sun – http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/letter
New York Times – letters@nytimes.com
Daily Telegraph – dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
ABC News – http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=ABCNews.com%20comments
Reuters – http://reuters.zendesk.com/anonymous_requests/new
The Guardian – letters@guardian.co.uk
AFP – http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/contact


This Day…



September 9, 337: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors dividing the The Roman Empire between the three Augusti. Constantine was responsible for making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. The sons would quarrel but would not reverse the father’s decision.[1]



September 9, 1087: William the Conqueror, first Norman king of England, passed away. The first verifiable Jewish population moved from Rouen in France to the British Isles in the wake of William’s victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Based on the continued acceptance of Jews in the kingdom by William’s son, the Jews were not there by accident. Rather, the new English rulers saw them as a source for developing trade and commerce in their new domain.[2]





September 9, 1545: The twenty-third Chief, Ewen Raadh nan Cath, of Straghuordill, was summoned before Parliament and charged with rebellion by acts dated, April 26th, 1531 and September 9th, 1545 (temps. James V. and Mary). The summons was finally deserted, August 4, 1546.[3]



1400-1532

40,000 Incas rule over 10 million who were not.





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September 9, 1675

The New England Confederation declares war on the Wampanoag Indians led by King Philip.[5]





1676

’ This fort was built in 1676.[6]

September 9, 1724: Endymion Smythe8 [Phillip Smythe7, Thomas Smythe6, John Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. unk / d. September 9, 1724) married Elizabeth Larget.

More about Endymion Smythe:
Endymion was the 3rd Viscount Strangford.

A. Children of Endymion Smythe and Elizabeth Larget:
+ . i. Philip Smythe (b. May 14, 1715 / d. April 29, 1787)[7]



September 9, 1763

George Washington’s Mississippi Company receives a grant of 2.5 million acres of land between the Ohio and Wisconsin Rivers.[8]



September 9, 1777

Accordingly after reconnoitering the enemy, Washington at two o’clock in the morning of the ninth, withdrew towards Chadd’s Ford, on the Brandywine, and on the evening of that day, entrenched himself upon the high ground on the left, or east bank of the creek. Maxwell’s light infantry occupied the advanced posts, and during the night of the tenth, threw up defences on the right, or west bank, at the approaches to the ford.

On the evening of the ninth, the British marched forward in two columns. Lieut. Gen. Knyphausen, with the left, encamped at New Garden and Kennett Square; Cornwallis with the right occupied a piece of ground below, at Hockesson meeting house.[9]



September 9, 1780: To protect his western flank, Cornwallis gave Major Patrick Ferguson command of the Loyalist militia. Cornwallis invaded North Carolina on September 9, 1780 and reached Charlotte on September 26. Ferguson followed and esgtablished a base camp at Gilbertwon and issued a challenge to the Patriot leaders to lay down their arms or he would “Lay waste to their country with fire and sword” The words outraged the Appalachian frontiersmen who ralled at Sycamore Shoals and acted to bring the battle to Ferguson rather thanb wait for him to come to them. [10]



KING’S MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION

By David Vance and Robert Henry



I WILL NOW GIVE THE STATEMENT OF Colonel D. Vance and General Joseph McDowell of the manner of raising of the manner of raising the army to oppose Colonel Ferguson, its march and defeat of Ferguson.

This part is the statement of Colonel Vance; and on a sarcastic and sneering reply by M. Matthews, saying that they, to-wit, the army under Campbell, was a fierce and formidable set of chickens, and could make great havocd among eggs, if each one was provided with a stick. This elicited a more extensive reply and statement of the whole affair and its consequences from Gen. J. McDowell. I will first give the reasons why Vance and McDowell made these statements. The General Assembly of North Carolina made an agreement with that of Tennessee to run and mark the division line between the two States and in the year 1799 the State of North Carolina appointed General J. McDowell, Colonel David Vance[11] and Massentine Matthews[12] Commissioners on the part of North Carolia, who associated John Strother and Robert Henry, surveyors, with the necessary members of chain-bearers, markers, and pack-horsemen for that business, who met and went to the White Top Mountain, a sur of the Stone Mountain, where the Virginia line crossede the latter. Strother did not appear at the commencement. The company were asking a great many detached questions relative to Ferguson’s defeat, at length requested that McDowell or Vance would give them a connected account of the whole transaction from first to last. It was agreed that Colonel Vance should give that account. The Colonel agreed to do so on consulting with McDowell, or pilot, Gideon Lewis, who had been a news-carrier, and myself [and related it], on the first wet day that shoul happen so that we could not progress with the line.

Accordingly a wet day happened, when we were at the first wet day that should happen so that we could not progress with the line.

Accordingly a wet day happened, when we were at the head of the Round-About on the Stone Mountain. Our bark camp was soon fixed, and Colonel Vance gave the account, ending with the details of the battle of King’s Mountain. Whereupon M. Matthews observed that “we (meaning the army) were a fierce and formidable set of blue hen’s chickens among eggs, if each one was provided with a stick” This brought a reply from McDowell. That being done I was provided with a note book, separate from my surveyor’s book, to take down a memorandum of particular things that happened, and commenced taking a memorandum of Vance’s account of that transaction. Where upon Colonel Vance, who was an elegant clerk, told me as there was only one surveyor, that I had not time to do it, and if I would give him my book, that he would write it for me, as he had leisure. He took the book and returned it to me, saying he had paper of his own, at a spring by the side of Bright’s Path in the Bald Ground on the Yellow Mountain. Having taken down his own recollections, and also General McDowell’s reply to M. Matthews, which is as follows:

“As I have in some measure to depend on my memory, I will begin with Colonel Shelby’s retreat after his defeating the British at Enoree. Colonel Charles McDowell had detached Shelby, Sevier, etc., with a party to go round where Ferguson was camped, who defeated the British and Tories at Enoree, when Colonel McDowell received intelligence of Gates’ defeat, and sent an express to Colonel Shelby to retreat. General Joseph McDowell was then Major, and I was Captain. Colonel Shelby called a council of all his officers to know what was best to do. It was agreed that we must make a wood’s trip to get round Ferguson and join Colonel C. McDowell, carrying the prisoners alternately on horseback, and running on foot short distances. After going some distance, found that Colonel C. McDowell had left his camp, and was retreating towards Gilbert Town, we altered our course and overtook him and the main army.

“After joining Colonel C. McDowell, it was proposed by Colonels Shelby and Sevier that they thought an army of volunteers could be raised to defeat Ferguson, stating that he would be at the heads of Broad River, and then go to the head of Catawba to execute that prupose, which whould give time to raise an army of volunteers over the mountains, and in Wilkes and Surry counties, all the officers, and some of the privates were consulted, and all agreed and it was right to make the trial to raise an army. It was then agreed that the prisoners should be sent to Virginia; that Colonels Shelby and Sevier and their men should immediately go over the mountains home, and procure volunteers; that Colonel Chas. McDowell should send an express to Colonels Cleveland and Herndon in Wilkes for them to raise volunteers; and that Colonel C. McDowell should provide some way to preserve the Whig stock on the head of Catawba, and provide some way also to give intelligence of Ferguson’s movements.

“The prisoners were accordingly dispatched to Virginia. Colonels Shelby and Sevier went immediately over the mountains; and Colonel C. McDowell wrote to Colonels Cleveland and Hewrndon to raise volunteers to be ready to march upon the shortest notice; he then called the men on the head of Catawba, and first proposed that they that could not go over the mountains, should take protection on the advanxce of Ferguson. And thereby save the Whig stock; Daniel Smith (afterwards Colonel), Thomas Lytle, Robert Patton, and J. McDowell, of the Pleasant Garden, absolutely refused, and stated that they would drive the Whig stock into the deep coves under the eve of the Black Mountain; that others might take protection and save the stock that remained behingd. John Carson(afterwards Colonel), Wm. Davidson, Ben Davidson, and others were appointed to take protection, to save the remaining Whig stock.

“ James, Jack and Archibald Nail were appointed to be news-beareres over the Yellow Mountains to Shelby and were to be passing continually, that they were to receive the news in Turkey Cove relative to Ferguson’s movements. That Joseph Dobson and James McKay were to be bearers of the like news to Colonels Cleveland and Herndon, and that they were to receive their news at the Montgomery Place, afterwards Joseph Dobson’s place.

“Colonel Ben Cleveland appointed his brother, Robert Cleveland, and Gideon Lewis, our pilot, to be news bearers from B. Cleveland to Shelby. Thus the news wnbet the rounds as fast as horses could carry their riders.

“After Colonel C. McDowell had thus arranged his business, he received the news that Ferguson was at Gilbert Town. He then collected all the men that he could procure from Burke county, and went to Shelby and Sevier, who had engaged Colonel Campbell, of Virginia, also to raise volunteers. The orders given to the volunteers were to equip themselves as quick as possible, and have nothing to provide when they were called on to march, but to saddle their horses and march on the shortest notice. Those who could not go supplied those who could with anything they stood in need of. It was also announce dto the volunteers bgy the officers that a battle with Ferguson was determined upon, and that they might rely on a battle before they returned home.

“The news went the rounds by the new-carriers already mentioned, of everything that happened in Ferguson’s camp, until the news came that John Carson had played a supple trick on Ferguson, that having saved almost all the Whig stock that had not been driven into the coves by Daniel Smith and Company, that Ferguson began to suspect Carson for saving Whig stock, there being a large quantity of Tory cattle ranging about the large cane-breaks where David Greenlee lives, and that a party of Ferguson’s were fitted out to kill Whig stock, and that they desgning to go to that place-and another party was going to the Montgomery place-that is , the place where Joseph Dobson lives on-for the like purpose. Carson went with the party going to the Montgomery place without informing the party going to the Greenlee place that the cattle ranging there were Tory stock, the owners being in Ferguson’s camp. The partiesw each went to their places of destination, and returned into camp; those who wento to the Greenlee place reported that they had killed over one hundred head of three, four, five and six year old Rebel steers at McGonaugh place. J. Carson observed that he expected that those steers were the stock of Joseph Brown, Dement and Johnstone, who were there in the camp. Whereupon Brown, Dement and HJohnstone went and discovered that the steers thus killed were every one theirs. This turned the Tories rather against Ferguson; whereupon Ferguson stated that the Rebels had outwitted him, and that he could not effect his purpose there, that he would start bgack to Gilbert Town on a given day.

“The news was on its passage to Shelby and Cleveland as soon as the breath left Ferguson’s mouth, it did not stop day or night, it sas soon at the place of destination. Immediately Shelby directed Cambell and his men to meet him as a given time at Watauga; and Sevier to meet him and Campell at 10 o’clock on a given day at the spring in the Bald Ground, on the Yellow Mountains, at the side of Bright’s Path, all of which were done with great exactness. He issued orders for Cleveland and Herndon to meet him on a given day on Silver Creek, in Burke county; and ordered D. Smith, J. McDowell, Lytle, Patton, and those who had taken protection, to meet him at Wm. Nail’s be given night, which was the night next after the meeting on the Yellow Mountain.

“When the officers met at the spring on the Yellow Mountain, it was quickly agreed that they would send Colonel Charles McDowell with an express to General Gates, for him to send an experienced officer to conduct them in a battle with Ferguson; and as soon as Charles McDowell, with his silver mounted Tom Simson rifle, had disappeared, steering for the path on the Linville Ridge, the army descended the mountain on Bright’s Path, and went to Wm. Nail’s that night, where they met Daniel Smith, Thomas Lytle, Joseph McDowell and Robert Patton, the persons who had driven the Whig stock into the coves under the eave of Black Mountain, and also those who had taken protection. When it was ageed that D. Smith, T. Lytle and J. McDowell should remain at the head of the river, as they were considered equal to a small army against Indians; and that the Indians were expected to fall on the frontier as soon as Ferfuson left it; and that they should have those who had taken protection to assist them. It was agreed that Joseph McDowell (now General) should take twenty men with him, and follow Ferguson’s trail for fear of surprise, who at the head of Silver Creek, near the Pilot Mountain, came on a squad of Tories who were designing to follow Ferguson, and killed some of them and put the rest to flight, and returned to the army in the morning after staying the night at Wm. Nail’s.

“The army marched ibnto Silver Creek, and at the place appointed met Colonels Cleveland and Herndon so exactly that it scarcely occasioned a halt, proceeding on the Cane Creek of Broad River, at a [place afterwards called Probit’s place.

“Major Billy Chronicle, with twenty men, joined the army; no halt called, still proceeding on. At Camp Creek Colonel William Graham, with one hundred and sixty men will mounte, joined, who gave intelligence that Ferguson had left Gilbert Town, and had crossed Broad River at Twitty’s Ford, on his way to Crudger at Ninety-Six, and that Colonel Williams was near to Gilbert Town. It was agreed among the officers [while], still on the march, that Colonel Herndon’s foot could not overhaul Ferguson before he would reach Ninety-Six. They then began tyo count the number of horsemen that they could rais. Beginning with those under Colonel Graham and those of Major Chronicle, Graham’s men 160, Chronicles’ 20, were to count 200, instead of 180. Campbell mentioned to Chronicle that the lad whom he had with him should not hear their enumeration. Chronicle replied that he was a son of Old Rugged and Tough, that his cheek was too well hooped to leak, the lad [Robert Henry] then [listenin] is now our surveryor. They numbered on and found their true number to be between six and seven hundred; but told the soldiers it was between 1100 and 2000 [1200 (?)], counting Williams’ men.,

“Orders were then given for all who were unable, from any cause that would hinder him in a severe march, should fall back into the foot troops, and give their horses to footmen [who needed them, in order to be properly equipped for the march]; a number of exchanges were made. Further ; and orders were given at Gilbert Town to kill some beeves, which was done; and orders were given for the horsemen to be ready to march at a given time, which was very short. Some of the troops who were tardy got none [of the beef (?)]. The line of march was taken to cross Broad River at Pear’s Ford, below the mouth of Green River, to take a near cut on Ferfuson on his wasy Ninety Six. The day and night were occasioned showery. We marched on, crossing Ferguson’s trail in the track (?], and proceeded to the Cowpens, and came to a Tory’s house, pulled him out of bed, treated him roughtly, and asked him at shat time Ferguson had passed that place. He said he had not passed at all; that he had torch pine, that we may light it and search, and if we could find the tracdk of an army we migtht hang him, or do what we pleased with him; and if no sign of aqn army could be found, he would expect more mild treatment. Search was made, and no sign of an army found.

“We then camped, and began to send persons to find Ferguson’s track. Chronicle propsed to send Enoch Gilmer as one; it was objected to because he was not acquainted with the country. Chronicle said that he could find out anything better than those acquainted, for he could act any character that he pleased, that he could cry and laugh in the same breath, and those best acquainted would believe that he was in earnest in both; that he could act the fool so that those best acquainted with him would beloieve him to be deranged; that he was a shrewd, cunning fellow, and a stranger gto fear. Hence he was [sent] among others. He went to a Tory’s house on Ferguson’s trail and stated to him that he had been waiting on Ferguson’s way from Twitty’s Ford to Ninety-Six, but missed finding him; that he wished to join the army. The Tory replied that after Ferfuson had crossede the river at Twitty’s Ford, he had received an express from the Lord Cornwallis for him to join the main army at Charlotte: that he had called in Tarleton, and would call in his out posts, and give Gates another defeat, and reduce North Carolina to British rule as he had South Carolina and Georgia, and would enter Virginia with a larger army than had e er been in America. Gilver gave this account to the officers. This was some time in the day. They then commenced marching to the Cherokee Ford opn Broad River. Night came on, and our pilots missed their way, the night being dark and occasionally raining, so that when we came near to the river it was near daylight; when we came to the river hislls it was agreed that we would send Enoch Gilmer to see whether Ferguson had not been apprised of us and would attack us in the river. Orders were given to keep our guns dry, fror it was raining. Gilmer was gone for some time, when his voice was heard in the hollow singing [“] Barney Linn [“], a favorite black-gurad song. This was notice that all was right. Orders were given that the largest horses should be on the upper side. The order was not obeyed. The river was deep, but it was remarked that not one was ducked. After passing the river, it was agreed that Enoch Gilmer should go ahead, and make all the discoveries about Ferguson that he could. He went off in a gallop. The officers kept in front of the privates at a very slow gait, the men cursing and stating if we were to have a battle, to let it be over, etc.

“All were very hungry, and when we would come to a cornfield, it was soon pulled. The soldiers would cut part of the raw corn off the cob and hand the remainder to their horses. After traveling some miles, the officers saw Gilmer’s horse at a gate about three-quarters of a mile ahead. They gave whip to their horses, and went at full speed to gate-alighted, and went into the house. Gilmer was sitting at a table eating. Campbell exclaimed, “We have got you, you d----d rascal.” Gilmer replied, “A true King’s man, by G-d.” Campbell in order to try Gilmer’s metamorphosis, had provided himself with a rope, with a running noose on it, threw it over Gilmer’s neck. Gilmer commenced crying and begging; Campbell swore that they would hang him on the bow of the gate. When Chronicle statede that it was wrong to hang him there, for his ghost would haunt thye women, who were now in tears. Campbell observed that was right, that we will hang him on the first stooping limb of a tree that they should pass on the road, then sending Gilmer along one or two hundred yards, Gilmer crying and begging for his life, the rope was taken from his neck, and he mountede his horse, and was asked what news he had obtained. He stated as follows: “That when he came to the Tory’s house, he professed to be a true King’s man, that he was wishing to join Colonel Ferguson, and desited to know where he was, and that he had kissed the tow Tory women; that the yongest of the two informed him that she had been in Ferguson’s camp that morning; that the camp was about three miles distant from that place; that she had carrie him some chickens; that he was camped on a ridge between two branches where some deer hunters had a camp the last Fall. Major Chronicle and Captein Mattocks stated that the camp referred to was their cmap, and that they well kinew the ground Ferguson was camped on.

“Whereupon it was agreed on that they should plan the battle, as they knew the ground. They rode a short distance by themselves, and reported that it was an excellent place to surround Ferguson’s army, as the shooting would all be up hill, that there would be no danger of our men destroying each other; but doubted whether we had men enough to surround them. It was then instantly agreed on by all the officers, that we would attempt to surround our foes. They immediately began to arrange their men, without stopping and assigning to each officer the part he was to take in surrounding the hill. By the time this was done, we were close to our enemy. The last whose duty was to be performed was Colonel William Graham with his men, who desired leave of absence, alleging that he had receved certain intelligence that his wife was dyinhg with colic, about sixteen miles off, near Armstrong’s Ford, on the South Fork. Campbell stated to him that should be the greatest inducement for him to stay, that he coulde carry the news, and if we were successful, it would be to her as good as a dose of medicen. Graham exclaimed, ‘Oh my dear, dear wife! Must I never see her again?”Campbell, in an angry tone of vcoice, turned to Major Chronicle, and said, “Shall Colonel Graham have leave of absence?’ To which Chronicle replied, “It is women’s business, let him go.” Graham said he must have an escort, Chronicle told him he might have one; Graham chose David Dickey. Dickey said he would rather bge shot (in battle) than go. Chronicle swaid, “Dave you must go.” Dickey said he “would rather be shot on the spot; but if I must go, I must.” Then Colonel Graham and Dickey immediately to the woods, and disappeared.

“The hill was surrounded in a few minutes, and the battle commenced. Our enemies had two to our one; of course their fire was double that of ours. We killed 247 of them and they killed 143 of our side, agreeably to the account of E. Gilmer and Joseph Beatty, supposed to be the most accurate of any. So that they having choice of ground we fought them two to one; we killed as many more of them as they killed of us, and took more prosoners than we had men to guard them. But we had not a coward to face the hill that day, they all faded off, until within ten minutes of the battle, the last coward left us. Our equals were scarce, and our superiors hard to find.

“This is the most particular and accurate account, my friend, that I can give.

“Whereupon at the head of the Roundabout, I made a similar statement to our chain-bearers, pack-horse men, etc., Musendine Matthew made the following reply: “Ah! You would have been a formidable and destructive set of blue hen’s chickens among eggs, if each one of you had been provided with a good stick. When any body pretends to tell the story of that transaction; it would be to his credit to play the game of shut mouth.[13] This elicited the following reply from General Joseph McDowell:

“Before that battle (referring to Ferguson defeat), we had sustained two shameful and disastrous defeats, that of Gates by treachery; and that of Sumpter by carelessness, in quick succession one after the other, upon which, the Tories flocked to the British camps, and increased their numbers to tow or three fold; that the county was over run, and fairly delayed eith them, so much that from the pressure of their numbers, the souls of the brave, from necessity were obliged to cower under its wight, and none but the bravest of the brave withstood the shock.” At the time when the news of Cates’ defeat reached Colonel Charles McDowell he had detached Colonels Shelby and Sevier to go around Ferguson’s camp to dislodge some Britich and Tories on the Enoree, near to Ninety-Six. He then sent an express to Shelby to take care of himself, for Gates was defeatede. Whereupon Shelby made the best of his way around Ferguson, and fell in with Charles McDowell and the main body retreating towards Gilbert Town. Then it was suggested by Shelby that a suffiecient force could be raised over the mountains, with the assistance from Wildes and Surry counties, to defeat Ferguson. This was agreed to by all the officers present. The troops were raised without government orders; each man had to furnish his own provisions, arms, ammunition, horse, and all his equipage, without the value ofr a gun-flint from the public; without pay, or expectation of pay or reward, even to the amount of a continental dollar, deprecitated to eight hundred to one. They were all volunteer; they were under no compulsion to go, but each man in advance consulted his own courage, well knowing he was going to fight before his return. They started in a rainy, inclement season to the year, without baggage wagon, pack-horse, or tent cloth, across the most rugged bar of mountains in the State, and almost pathless, having only a hunter’s trail to travel, followed Ferguson through all his windings; at length overtook him at King’s Mountain, where he boasted the morning of the battle that “he was on King’s Mountain, and that he was king of the mountain, and that God Almighty could not drive him from it.” There we overhausled him, fought him two to one, hence their fire was double that of ours; yet we killed 287 [247] of them, to 143 they killed of us. Yet the fate of ntions and of battles turn on a pivot. Ferguson, prudent officer, finding himself beset and surrounded on all sides, ordered his regulars, who had muskets and bayonets, to charge bayonet on Major Chronicle’s South Fork boys. The regulars having discharged their muskets at a short distance with effect, in turn the Fork boys discharged their rifles with fatal effect and keeping before the points of the bayonets about twenty feet, until they loaded again, when they discharged their rifgles, each man dropped his man. This was treatment that British courage could not stand; they iun turn retreated withg preciptaiton; then the flag was hoisted, and all was over.”

If they had succeded in the charge, it would have made a passway for his army, and they might have turned on our line on the one side of the hill and defeated us in detail, or have made good their march to Lord Cornwallis at Charlotte, either of which would have been disasterous to the American cause. We had neither a coward or a traitor to face the hill that day. We were the bravest of the brave; we were a formidable flock of blue hen’s chickens of the game blood, of indomitable courage, and strangers to fear. We were well provided with sticks; we made the egg-shells, British and Tory skulls, fly like onion pealings on a windy day; the blue cocks flapped their wings and crowed, “we are all for liberty these times; “and all was over; our equals were scarce, and our superiors hard to find.

Taking the whole campaign, including the battle, I know of no parallel to it in the annals of ancient or modern warfare; the nearest was that of the Grcian Leonidas and his army at the battle of Thermopylae with the Great Xerxes. Leonidas and his army were found, victualed and clothed at public expense; each individual of our army had to find at his own expense; Leonidas’ army were under government orders; we were under no government at all, but were volunteers; Leonidas’ army were funished with arms and camp equipage; we had to find our own arms, ammunition and horses at our own expense; Leonidas’ army were under government pay; we were under no pay or reward or the espectation of any; Leonidas’ army had choice of ground at the pass at Thermopylae; or enemies had the boasted choice of ground; Leonidas’ army had to fight superior numbers, so had we; Leonidas had never a coward, neither had we any; but Leonidas had a traitor who was his overthrow and destruction of all but one man; we had neither coward or traitor to face our enemy, hence we were successful; Leonidas would have been successful, and have defeated or put to flight the Great Xerxes if he had not had a traitor aboard; Leonidas defeat was the destruction of the fine country of Greece, and the burning and destruction of their fine city of Athens, the labor of ages. Our success was the salvation of our country and our liberty. There is no parallel here; we will see if there is in modern times.

“The generosity and patriotism of the Great Washington has been justly boasted of; he did not charge the United States anything for his services during the Revolution; he was gound his food and camp equipage by the public, and everything else that he stood in need of; his necessary incidental expenses he kept an accurate account of, and they were paid by the public; he was paid for everying else but military services. This has been justly considered as great generosity and patriotism and ought never to be forgotten. But this flight of the blue hen’s chickens threw this into the shade of an eclipse.

Now we will make the comparison. Washington was rich, and had no family to provide for. We were poor and had families to provide for. He was provided with a horse, victuals, clothing, arms, camp equipage and necessary attendance; we had to provide our own horse, victuals, clothing, arms, ammunition and blakets at our own expense. He charged nothing for his military services; neither did we charge anything for our military services, nor did we receive anything for them; he fought the battles of our country with success; we did the same. The expedition against Ferguson, including the battle of King’s Mountain, did not cost the State or the United States, the worth of a single continental dollar depreciated down to eight hundred to one. It was all done to the expense of bravery of the actors in that transaction. There is no parallel here.

We will take a view of the situation of the country after the defeat of Gates and Sumpter, and before Ferguson’s defeat. Cornwallis was in Charlotte with a large arnmy; Rowdan was in Camden with another large army; Leslie was at Winsborough with a considerable army; Conger at Ninety Six with a large army; McGirt, Cunningham and Brown, each having considerable frorce, carrying on a savage warfare of murdering, robbing,k burning and destroying. George Lumpkin, Ben Moore and others in Lincoln Co9unty, the chgief of plunderers, Tarleton and Wemyss having large bodies of dragoons, the best mounted of anyt that were ever in the United States. For on the fall of Charleston, the British deluged the country with counterfeit Contiinental bills, sending emmisaries through the three Southern States to purchase up all the best horses belonging to the Whigs, at any price. Besides these armies, numerous squads of Tories, wherever they could collect ten or twelve, were plundering, robbing, and destroying the last piece of property they could lay their hands on belonging to the Whigs. To finish the list, Furguson with about 1,200 men, three fourths Tories, whose principal business it was to destroy Whig stock. It is to be observed, that more than one half of their armies consisted of Tories.

This is a statement of facts that needs no proof; they cannot be contradicted or denied, for everybody knows them to be true. This statement does not take into view the garrisons at Charleston, Savannah, August and other places in the lower country, or the numerous bodies of Tories in the lower part of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia completerly under British rule, and North Carolina at the eve of it. We had no army in any of the three Southern States, under Government orders, of any account that I know of, except the poor fragments of Gates’ defeated army, lying near the Virginia line. Marion’s troops were volunteers, for the State, was under British rule. The Mecklenburg Hornets were volunteers from counties of Rowan, Lincoln and Mecklenburg.

From this state of things, Cornwallis could easily have carried our his avowed purpose of again defeating Gates, and entering Viginia with the most numerous army that had been on the Continent, by calling in some of his needless outposts, and thse numerous squads of petty-larceny plunderers, who were raised from poverty to affluence in a few day’s plundering, and having still the expectation of further advancement by getting the Whig plantations. If he had succeeded the patriotic State of Virginia would have had to contend with him and his army almost single handed, for it could have received little aid from the conquetred States, and but little from Washington, or the Northern States, as they had their hands full with Clinton and his New York Tories. Thgis was the most disastrous period for Liberty and Independence fromn the tinme of its Declaration to the end of the war. Liberty anhd Independence were then shrouded in Egyptian darkness. Furguson’s defeat was the turning point in American affairs. The battle, extraordinary as it was, was not ore extraordinary than its effects were.

Cornwallis on hearing that Furguson was defeated immediately dropped the notion of defeating Gates and entering Virngina with a numerous army, being already galled by the Mecklenburg hornets, was panic-struck to think that he would, alas! Have, at the same time, to encounter thegaffs and spurs of the blue hen’s chickens as soon as he could filch a few days’ provisions from under the wings of the hornets, took night’s leave of the Hornets’ nest, lest he should disturb the wasps, made a precititate retrograde march, stopping neither night nor day until he joined Leslie at Winnsborough.

Instantly after Ferguson’s defeat, McGirt, Cunningham and Brown quit their robbing, murdering, burning and destroying, and playede the game of “the least in sight,” and “shut mouth” into the bargain. Lumpkin, Moore and company fled to Nocachey; the petty larceny squads of Torys began to seek their hiding places and holes, like rats and mice when the cat would make her apperarance. When Genereals Green and Morgan came from the North with all the force that could be spared from that quarter, with the fragmanest of Gates’ defeatede army, the brave and cautious General Morgan found that he was unable to fight Tarleton, fled before him, until Wuilliams troops, being chiefly South Carolina and Georgia refugees, who fought under Williams at Fergusons’ defeat, and the other troops who lived on the east side of the mountains, who fought at the same placed, heard of Morga’s retreating before Tarleton, and rushed to his assistance. Being thus reinforced, Gernal Morgan turned about, and defeatede Tarleton at the Cowpens; General Green had to retreat before Lord Cornwallis until reinforced by the Mecklenburg counties.Green turned upon Cornwallis, and at Guilford made an equal fight, neither having the victory. How would it have been with Gereals Green and Morgan if Ferguson had not been defeated? Tarleton’s force would have been greatly increased, and Cornwallis’ army would have been more than double the number that appeared on the field of battle at Guilford. All then that Morgan and Green could have done would have been to retreat and keep out of their way, and permit Cornwallis, agreeably to his avowed intention, to have entered Virginia with the most numerous army that had been in the field since the commencem nt of the war. Virginia would then have had to cintend single handed with that formidable force, with the assistance of General Green.

In short, Ferguson’s defeat was the turning point in American affairs. The loss of this battle would, in all probability, have been the loss of Ameridcan Independence and the Liberty we now enjoy. I never on anyt occasion feel such dignified pride as when I THINK THAT MY NAME COUNTS ONE OF THE NUMBER THAT FACED THE HILL AT King’s Mountain the day of tha battle. Others may think and speak disrespectfully of that transaction who are in favor of monarchy and individual oppression; but that is not Joseph McDowell, nor you, my friend Bob.

I have written down my narrative, and General McDowell’s repy to Musentine Matthews, which he delivered to the boys at the head of the Round-About on the Stone Mountain, as nearly as memory would serve.Thinking that reading it might fill up a blank in your leisure hours, reflecting on the situation ofr the times to which the recited facts refer. Your friend, D. Vance.[14]







Led by Col. Isaac Shelby, the backwoods riflemen were instructed, “Let each one of you be your own officer, and do the very best you can…, shelter yourselves, and give them Indian play; advance from tree to tree, pressing the enemy and killing and disabling all you can.”

Eying the conspicuous Ferguson, a number of riflemen took careful aim. According to James P. Collins who witnessed Ferguson’s death,”almost 50 rifles must have beenb leveled at him at the swame time; seven rifle balls had passed through his body, both of his arms were broken, and his hat and clothing were literally shot to pieces.” Ferguson’s force suffered 157 killed, 163 wounded and 698 captured. Againjhst this the victorious American riflemen lost 28dead and 64 wounded.[15]



September 9, 1781





Shortly after their arrival here at Louisville, Gen. Clark had assigned squads of his men at the neighboring stations up Beargrass Creek to aid in their protection. One of these squads was commanded by Lt. William Crawford, son of Valentine Crawford, whose second in command was Ens. Thomas Ravenscraft. Among the privates were the brothers Thomas and Joseph Mason and the tough little Irishman, Samuel Murphy, late of Butlers(?) Rangers. They were assigned to Wells’ Station, nine miles above Louisville on Beargrass Creek, This little company, on September 9, went out hunting for buffalo with some of the resident Kentuckians and were having a wonderful time when a large party of Indians under Shemeneto, Thayendanegea[16]

[17]



and Alexander McKee showed up and chased them for many miles. They finally reached refuge of sorts at Squire Boone’s Station, established by Daniel Boone’s brother. Here they discovered that two men had just been killed while working in one of the adjacent cornfields and the residents were very fearful of venturing out.

Two days ago, on September 11, Lt. Crawford’s party escorted a group from here to Lexington, A scout around that settlement resulted in the discovery of a new pair of moccasins and other signs of Indians and it was decided that the rather weak settlement, consisting of 28 families, should he evacuated. Yesterday, half of these people, taking many of their goods with them and escorted by Crawford’s squad, set out for Linn’s Station, the idea being that another escort would be sent to guard the remainder when they followed. Young Isaiah Boone, Squire’s son, was along, proudly wearing a broad—brim beaver hat of Quaker style and carrying a rifle that seemed bigger than himself.

They had traveled only a few miles when a Kentucky militia officer with them, Lt. John Welch, was abruptly taken so violently ill that he was unable to continue. It was decided the rest of the party should go on while a dozen men under Lt. Crawford, including Sam Murphy and the Mason brothers, stayed as a guard for Welch, to bring him in when he felt better.

The larger portion of the party contirnied to be escorted by Ens. Ravenscroft and Sgt. Philip Muckano and, in a mile or so, they were abruptly ambushed by that large body of Indians, mainly Shawnees, under Shemeneto, McKee and Thayendanegea[18]. Sgt. Muckano managed to get a shot off, and his bullet broke a warrior’s neck, but before he could even reload, he was himself shot dead and tumbled from his horse. After that, all was chaos.. Little Isaiah Boone managed to escape but lost his beaver hat in the process, and Isham Floyd tossed away his empty gun and galloped off.

By this time, beyond earshot, with Lt. Welch feeling a little better, the Crawford party had begun following the others. Abruptly, they encountered a riderless horse coming toward them with a traveling bag attached to the saddle and recognized it as belonging to the party who had left them. Moments later a young woman and a little boy were observed coming in their direction, obviously captives of the two Indians with them, one of whom was mounted. Seeing Crawford’s squad, the Indians were startled and fled, although one swung his tomahawk at the young woman as he dashed away, which fortunately missed, and she told them of the attack during which many had been killed including her mother. The little boy was her brother. A few others, she said, night also have been taken prisoner

Taking her and the little boy with them, Crawford’s party went on by a circuitous route and reached Linns Station after dark last night. There they found others of the defeated party who had managed to escape, including militia Col. John Floyd, who was in ihe process of berating his younger brother, Ishain. for having discarded his gun. Murphy was pleased to find at Linn’s old schoolmate of his. Sam Wells, Jr., from back on Jacobs’ Creek near Pittsburgh. Wells and his father had emigrated to Kentucky several years earlier.[19]



September 9, 1865: In 1863, Governor David Tod of Ohio became worried about Lincoln’s safety. Tod, upon his return to Ohio, had a new unit raised for Lincoln’s security. [20]

In the fall of 1863, Gov. Tod organized a company for special duty at the White House in Washington, as a guard for the President. The company consisted of one man from each county in the State and was called the Union Light Guard (also known as the Seventh Independent Troop, Ohio Cavalry.)[21] The company was mustered in at Columbus on December 12, 1863. [22] By December 23, the “Union Light Guard,” also known as the Seventh Independent Troop, Ohio Cavalry, was ready and began heading to Washington. [23]



It was mustered out at Washington, September 9, 1865.. (included David McKinnon.)[24]



The relationship of David McKinnon to the family is not known at this time.



Later in the war, the Union Light Guard from Ohio, also known as the Black Horse Cavalry, guarded Lincoln on his commute. The President complained about his escorts, particularly because he thought noisy and possibly too inexperience for their new duties.[25]



President Lincoln protested to Army Chief of Staff Henry Halleck against a small detachment of cavalry which had been detailed without his request, and partly against his will, by the lamented General Wadsworth, as a guard for his carriage in going to and returning from the Soldiers’ Home. The burden of his complaint was that he and Mrs. Lincoln couldn’t hear themselves talk for the clatter of their sabers and spurs; and that , as many of them appeared new hands and very awkward, he was more afraid of being shot by the accidental discharge of one of their carbines or revolvers, than of any attempt on his life or for his capture by the roving squads of Jeb Stuart’s[26] cavalry, then hovering all round the exterior works of the city.[27]



When the President and his escorts left the Soldiers’ Home grounds, they turned south onto the Rock Creek Church Road, a winding dirt roadway that led to several wartime hospitals. Mount Pleasant Hospital, Columbia College Hospital, and Carver Hospital were all located near Rock Creek Church Road to the west, but the closest hospital was Harewood Hospital, established on the former Corcoran estate just south of the Soldiers’ Home. Living near so many hospitals, the President often saw ambulances carrying the wounded as he road to and from the Soldier’s Home.[28]



On his way there he often passed long lines of ambulances, laden with the suffering victims of recent battle. A friend who met him on such an occasion, says, “When I met the President, his attitude and expression spoke the deepest sadness. He paused, and, pointing his hand towards the wounded men, he said, “Look yonder at those poor fellos. I cannot bear it! This suffering, this loss of life, is dreadful!” Recalling a letter he had written years before to a suffering friend whose grief he had sought to console, I reminded him of the incident, and asked him, “Do you remember writing to your sorrowing friend these words: “And this too shall pass away. Never fear. Victory will come.” “Yes” replied he, “victory will come, but it comes slowly”.[29]



September 9, 1817: Benjamin Harrison "died sometime about 1808 leaving certain children," etc. (Deposition September 9, 1817, National Archives Record Group No. 49, V. 11, P. 516; see Hinkson section, p. 24) When heirs sold his land August 3, 1819, they said Benjamin Harrison was late of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, that the land conveyed was on the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve County, which Benjamin Harrison in his lifetime inhabited, etc. (Washington County, Mo. Deed Bk. B, P. 14; see Hinkson section, p. 25) The above deed was recorded on April 12, 1821 in Perry County, Mo. where the land was located. (Perry County Deed Bk. 1, p. 6) Perry County was created November 16, 1820 from Ste. Genevieve County, effective January 1, 1821.[30]





Fri. September 9, 1865

Clear day was after rations

Got bu of apples and peck of peaches[31]



September 9, 1920: The issue of the Leader announcing these events also contained aneditorial urging voters to support consolidation. “Every voter in the proposed Buck Creek district should ponder deeply his obligation to his own family and to his neighbors before he determines to oppose the proposition next Monday. The moral obligation is hard one to dodge.”[32]



September 9, 1939: Canada declares war on Germany. [33]



September 9, 1941: The Zidovsky Kodex (Jewish Code) is invoked in Slovakia, defining who is a Jews.[34]



September 9, 1942: Two thousand Lublin Jews are deported to Majdanek.[35]

Convoy 30, September 9, 1942



In Convoy 30 of September 9, 1942, there was a clear predominance, in decreasing order, of Poles, Germans, and Austrians. More than 100 children under 17 were among the deportees.



On board Convoy 30 was Chaim Gottlieb, born August 15, 1898 from (stateless).[36]



September 9, 2010

This email was forwarded from Don Weber, a DNA match…



HI



I SEE YOURE A NEW DNA MATCH WITH ELIEZER GOTTDIENER WHO IS A RELATIVE OF MINE MR. GOTTDIENER LIVES IN ISRAEL I AM WRITING TO YOU ON HIS BEHALF SINCE HIS ENGLISH IS NOT THAT GOOD, HE MR. GOTTDIENERS FAMILY IS FROM HUNGARY ORIGINALLY HE IS ALSO A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HE TELLS ME THAT THE GOTTDIENER FAMILY CAN TRACE THEIR ANCESSTORS BACK TO SPAIN DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATIUON IN YOURE FAMILY ABOUT THAT? I ASSUME YOU ARE A KOHEN ALSO I LIVE IN BROOKLYN N.Y. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU



GENE



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

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

[3] Clan Mackinnon, compiled by Alan McNie 1986

[4] The Field Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, 12/27/2009

[5] ON This Day in America by John Wagman.

[6] .... H. H. Hardesty’s Historical and Genealogical Encyclopedia, Virginia Edition, p. 357., Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence, pg 299.

[7] Proposed descendants of William Smith

[8] ON This Day in America by John Wagman.

[9] The Battle of Brandywine, Joseph Townsend

[10] Wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_

[11] Member of the House of Commons from Iredell County, N.DC. in 1791- Wheeler, page 62, L.C.D.

[12] Member of House of Commons, Wheeler, page 217, Iredell County, L.C.D.

[13] All we know about Mussentine Matthews is that he representede Iredell County in the House of Comkmons for 1789 to 1802 continuously. He was either a Tory or a Cynic, it seems. (Lyman C. Draper)

[14] Historical Papers published by the Historical Society of Trinity College, Durham, N.C. 1899, pages 24-35 and 78-89.

[15] American Riflemen, Riflemen of the Revolution, page 74

[16] When the smoke of wood fires and burning leaves clings to the November mists in the Mohawk Valley, men still talk about Joseph Brant, the great Mohawk war captain who tried all his life to keep a foot in two worlds, the red and the white

He refused to bend his knee to King George but gallantly kissed the hand of his queen. He had his portrait painted by the famous English painter George Romney. He was at ease dringking tea from fragile china cups, but could hurl a tomahawk with deadly accuracy. He was a graduate of the Indian school that later became Dartmouth College, and he translated the Bible into the Mohawk language, yet he could leave the Mohawk a blazing ruin from Fort Stanwix, near Rome, to the very outskirts of Schenectady. He was one of the greatest of American Indians, had he given his support to the struggling Continental army the course of our history would certainly have been changed. But it would have been improbable if no t impossible for Brant to wear a Continental tricorn, he was too vain and too closely allied with the Lords of the Valley to consider casting his lot with the humble Palatine Dutch farmers who talked so much of freedom. For Brant, they had the stik of cow dung about them, he was more familiar with buckled shoes and cologne.

(The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians by James D. Horan, Crown Publisher, Inc. New York, 1972. page 114)





[17] The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians by James D. Horan, page 114.

[18] Thayendanegea’s (Joseph Brant’s)… decision to side with the British was tragic for the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations as it was called. That ancient confederation boutnd together by wisdom, skill at war, and diplomacy became helplessly divided when it was agreed that each nation should go its own way. In the past a declaration of war had to be voted unanimously. Some nations like the Oneida went with the Americans, others tried to stay neutral, or like Brant’s Mohawk fought for the British.

Brant joined Colonel Barry St. Leger’s invasion of the AMOhawk, one of the prongs of Burgoyne’s doomed campaign The famous Battle of Oriskanyu, undoubtedly the bloodiest and most ferocious of the Revolution, was fought with Herkimer’s gallant farmers standing musket to musket with the King’s Own, the best of his Hessian gamekeeper-sharpshooters, and Brant’s painted warriors. Brant, who despised defeat, led his Indians back to Fort Niagara, bitterly advising the British high command in Montreal that from now on he would fight his way.

For six years he led his Indian raiders into the Mohawk, again and again leaving the beautiful valley a sea of lames while the alarm bells in the tiny forts clanged frantically. Some raids became classic atrocity stories of American war: Cherry Valley, where women and children lay dead in the snow with Brant protesting fiercely that Walter Butler, who led Butler’s Rangers, was to blame; Wyoming, which game birth to the celebrated eighteenth-century poem “Gertrued of Wyoming,” which pictures Brant as a murderous fiend who slaughtered the innocent. But as it developed Brant was never there.

(The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians by James D. Horan, Crown Publisher, Inc. New York, 1972. page 114)



[19] That Dark and Bloody River, Allan W. Eckert

[20] The Magazine of History, Volume III, Number 4, April 1906, p. 253.

[21] The National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/linsecur.htm

[22] Page 112.40 Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett

[23] The Magazine of History, Volume III, Number 4, April 1906, p. 253.

[24] Page 112.40 Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett

[25] http://www.lincolnscottage.com/history/lincoln/commute.htm

[26] James Ewell Brown Stuart was a soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general during the Civil War. His friends knew him as “Jeb.” Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his dashing image (red-lined gray cape, yellow sash, hat cocked to the side with a peacock feather, red flower in his lapel, often sporting cologne) and his audacious tactics. Through his daring raids and reconnaissance missions, he became Robert E. Lee’s eyes and ears and inspired Southern morale. He was killed late in the war, and was much missed by Lee and the Confederacy. (The 2010 Civil War Calendar.)

[27] Colonel Halpine, aide to Army Chief of Staff Henry Halleck; http://www.lincolnscottate.com/history/lincoln/commute.htm

[28] http://www.lincolnscottage.com/history/lincoln/commute.htm

[29] Francis F. Browne, early Lincoln Biographer.

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[31] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary.

[32] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 194.

[33]On this day in America by John Wagman.

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

[35] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1773

[36] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944. Page 263.