This Day in Goodlove History, September 11

• This Day in Goodlove History, September 11

• 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 aakov 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.




Updates are requested.

Birthdays on this date; Charles M. Yates, Brenda A. Warren, Annette J. Walz, Robert R. Soisson, Ira Colyar



Weddings on this date; Susan Simmons and Moses P. Winans, Rulia Rockziem and Randy Kruse, Eliza Russell and Harrison Connell





I will be performing today at…



A Concert of Remembrance



Sunday, September 11, 3:30 pm
Hemmens Theatre, Elgin, IL

Andrew Lewis, Conductor

Johannes Brahms
A German Requiem

John Adams
On the Transmigration of Souls

Elgin Choral Union
Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Heartland Voices
Elgin Children's Chorus

From Elgin OPERA:
Solange Sior, Soprano
Ghibong Kim, Baritone

Tickets may be purchased by calling the Hemmens Box Office at (847) 931-5900, visiting the box office in person at 45 Symphony Way, Elgin, IL or by visiting the Hemmens website.

The Elgin Choral Union, the City of Elgin and Elgin Symphony Orchestra present this commemorative concert featuring Elgin Choral Union, members of Heartland Voices, Elgin Children's Chorus and generous services provided by Elgin OPERA. "A Concert of Remembrance" is sponsored in part through the generous contributions of:

Cornelia A. and Florence B. Palmer Foundation; Duchossois Family Foundation; Walgreens; Otto Engineering; Jack and Marlene Shales.

I hope to see you there! I am proud to be a part of this performance.

In the news…

Israel scraps pilgrimage to Syria, cites security


September 11, 2011 06:37 AM EST |

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government has canceled an annual religious pilgrimage to Syria by Druse Arabs because of security concerns.

Interior Ministry spokesman Roei Lachmanovich says his office withdrew travel permits because of warnings from security officials.

He didn't elaborate on the warnings but they appear linked to the anti-government uprising in Syria.

Druse religious leader Hosam Nasser says about 550 Druse residents of the Golan Heights were waiting for U.N. buses to take them to Syria early on Sunday. The pilgrims learned of the cancellation when their buses didn't arrive.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967. The territory's Druse residents remain loyal to Syria and some are allowed to cross the hostile frontier.

I Get Email…

In a message dated 9/11/2011 8:17:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time



Hi Jeff, Re: September 10, 1808: Catherine Gottleab died date unknown.

I've been doing a little research on Catherine Gottleab. The witnesses to her baptisme were Regina & Peter Muffly. There are several family trees on-line for them. Catherine's mother was Anna Margaret Wannemacher. Regina's full name was Catherine Regina Wannemacher and I believe her to be Catherine's aunt. None of the Ancestry trees listed a marriage for Anna Margaret, but the family was German and lived in the Berks County area of PA which is consistent with what we have about our Conrad Goodlove. Reading, PA (Berks Co) was the location of the Hessian Camp where the Hessian prisoners were located after capture. They were allowed to work locally and some of the family histories of that area reference that the immigrant ancestor was a Hessian who remained in the area. Residents at the time were German speaking, so the Hessians fit easily into the community. Some of the prisoners who had money bought their freedom to stay in the county; others just walked out to blend into the community. Do you know of anyone who researches in Berks County? I'd love to find the marriage record for Catherine Gottleab's parents. As ever, Linda

Linda,

Linda, I have the same info from this church.

March 22, 1781



BAPTISMS[1][1]

Parents Child Sponsors

21 Conrad Gottlieb wf Catharine Peter Mufly,

Anna Margaret b —— Mar 1781, Regina

Wannemacher bp 22 Mar 1782[2][2]



I believe we visited that church but it was closed. At the local library there was evidence of the Hessians working and assimilating in the community.



Here is some more info on the subject...



• Here is a little history from Berks County, PA. On the east side

• of Reading I came across a historical marker. It is just west of

• Schwartzwald Hill, where Schwartzwald UCC and Lutheran Churches are.

• The marker reads

• HESSIAN CAMP

• After Burgoyne’s surrender, 1777, German mercenaries, mostly Hessian, were held prisoners at various places until the end of the war. Those brought to Reading, 1781, were encamped until 1783

• in huts on the hillside a quarter—mile to the north.

• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1948

• The closest road that winds up the hill is Hessian Road (what else).

• About 1/4 mile up the road it splits. Most of the houses on a

• side road are built in the style of the German A

• (exposed wooden beams)[1]

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[1] Bob Bensing rbensing@nuc.net AMREV-HESSIANS-L Archives



I am not familiar with any researchers from that area but clues keep popping up as we go along. Please keep me posted with your research. Jeff





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This Day…

Mid September 1186

In mid September 1186, after a feast at the Temple Mount, Guy became King.[3]

1186

In 1186 the Sultan took Mosul in Upper Mesopiotamia. He was well poised to strike. The month of Rajah was in the offing.[4]

1187

The ruler of Kerak was arguably the most importand lord in the entire Crusader kingdom. In 1187 that ruler was Reginald of Chatillon. He was the most hated man in all the Muslim world.[5] Chatillon a rich camel train was attacked on the hajj road, its armed escort slaughtered, its rich hoard seized, and travelers, including Saladin’s sister, taken prisoner to the confines of the Crow’s Castle. The King of Jerusalem insisted that he make restitution. Chatillon refused to surrender his spoils. A chain reaction began.[6]

September 1197, In Acre, Gerard allows himself to be captured again and is beheaded. [7]

1198-1216

Transsubstantiation was of comparatively recent origin and could be dated to the time of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216). It is the belief that the bread and wine, elements used in the Mass, when consecrated by the priest, are “transubstantiated” (transformed in substance) into the actual body and blood of Christ. Wycliffe called it “a pestiferous doctrine.” In return he was called “a pertinacious heretic.”[8]

• 1198: Philip Augustus readmits Jews to Paris, only after another ransom was paid and a taxation scheme was set up to procure funds for himself. [9]

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September 11, 1541: After the Turkish Army had defeated the Austrians and seized the city of Buda, Sultan Suleiman I entered the city. Some of the Jews had remained in the city and before the Sultan arrived, they met with Ibrahim Pasha before whom they humbled themselves and begged to be spared.[10]

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1542 Jews expelled from Bohemia.[11]

September 11, 1683: Battle of Vienna began as an army of European Christians led by King Jan III of Poland fought to end the Ottoman siege of the Austrian metropolis that had begun in July. The defeat of the Ottomans was the “high water mark” of Moslem conquests in Europe. There are those who date the beginning of the slow decay of the Moslem dominated world from this event. There will be those who contend that this event was the impetus for choosing 9/11 as the date to blow up the Twin Towers in 2001. With the exception of Holland, Jews were doing better in the land of the Ottomans than they were in Christian Europe. For example, the Ottomans had provided a home the Jews who were expelled from Spain. However, as Ottoman power was receding, Jews enjoyed a growing amount of freedom as economic and social reform took hold in different parts of Western Europe. Whether or not the shift in power marked by this is “good for the Jews” is up for the debate; the important thing is that it took place and had a profound impact on the general society as well as the Jewish component.[12]



September 11, 1769: Warrant No. 2309, for Crawford's Delight,

• issued to John Crwford, 376 1/2 acres, September 22, 1769. Warrant to

• Accept January 5, 1787 to Edward Cook. Neighboring Warrant July 4,

• 1795 to Wm. McCormack (on other side of river). Neighboring

• September 11, 1769: Warrant No. 3441. Mt. Pleasant. Lawrence Harrison, 346 1/4

• acres, surveyed September 11, 1769. In Harrisburg, Pa.[13]



September 11, 1777

Franz Gottlob’s battalion was at Brandywine (PA,







Grenadier Battalion von Linsingen’s 4th [14]



The following two sources list the engagements of the von Mirbach regiment. More analysis of the engagements is needed. JG.





REGIMENT VON MIRBACH

(MIR plus company number)



The Regiment V. Mirbach departed on March 1, 1776 from Melsungen. It embarked from Breznerlehe on May 12, 1776 and reached New York on August 14, 1776. The regiment was part of the Hessian First Division and took part in the following major engagements:



-- Long Island (NY, August 27, 1776)

-- Fort Washington (upper Manhattan, NY, November 16, 1776)

-- Brandywine (PA, September 11, 1777)

-- Redbank (Gloucester County, NJ, also known as Fort Mercer, October 22-November 21, 1777)



The regiment departed from New York on 21 November

1783 and arrived at Breznerlehe on April 20, 1784.

They returned to their quarters in Melsungen on May 30, 1784.



Musketeer Regiment von Mirbach, to 1780: Musketeer Regiment Jung von Lossburg, 1780 to war’s end (Hesse Cassel) Arrived at New York August 1776 Sent on the 1777 Philadelphia campaign fighting at Brandywine and Red Bank, N.J. Returned to New York, December, 1777, and stationed there until returned to Germany, 1783. Uniform: Red facings trimmed with plain white lace, white small clothes, red stocks; officers’ lace, silver.

CHIEF: Major General W. von Mirbach, to 1780

Major General W. von Lossburg, 1780 to war’s end

COMMANDER: Colonel J.A. von Loos, to 1777 Colonel von Block, 1777-1779

Colonel C.C. von Romrod, 1777 to war’s end

FIELD COMMANDER: Lieutenant Colonel von Schieck, to October, 1777

Lieutenant Colonel H. von Borck, October, 1777 to war’s end.[15]



September 11, 1777



Col. William Crawford, still commanding the Virginia Thirteenth Regiment, had fought at Brandywine as well.[16]



Mike Ceceres book mentions Crawford



September 11, 1776

Fifth Regiment General Stevens Brigade, William Crawford was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He served until August 14, 1776. He was promoted to colonel at Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776, of the Seventh Regiment which he headed 1776-1778. It was raised largely by William Crawford in the district of West Augusta. It was accepted by Congress February 29, 1776 and was taken on the Continental Establishment June 17, 1776. It seems to have been attached to General Woodford’s Brigade during its entire term of service. The Regiment was nearly cut to pieces in the defeat at Brandywine.[17]



September 11, 1777

The column of Lord Cornwallis, on the eleventh, consisted of two battalions of grenadiers, two of light infantry, the Hessian grenadiers, part of the seventy-first regiment, and two British brigades; in all about thirteen thousand men.

That of Knyphausen consisted of two British brigades, the residue of the Hessians and Wemyss’s corps of rangers; in all about five thousand.

The position of the two armies on the morning of the eleventh of September will be seen by reference to the accompanying map. On the preceding night, the British army lay at Kennett Square and to the east and west of that place, which was a small village. A road led from it directly to Chadd’s Ford. Welsh’s tavern (still existing) is about three miles to the east of it, on this road; a short distance beyond is Kennett meeting house and grave yard; and about a mile west of Chadd’s Ford is an eminence then occupied by Maxwell’s out-posts. West of Welsh’s tavern a road runs directly north to the street- road, and after reaching this, recommences again a short distance to the eastward, and runs again north, crossing the west branch of the Brandywine at Trirnble’s Ford.

Early on the morning of the eleventh the Commander-in-Chief, with the column of Cornwallis, took this road leading northwardly to Trimble’s Ford, and under cover of the hills and forests, and aided by a fog, proceeded a considerable distance unobserved. Knyphausen started much later, and then pursued the direct road to Chadd’s Ford, upon the eminences near which it will be remembered that Maxwell’s regiment was posted. Scouting parties of light horse were also sent out upon this road.

To the east of Chadd’s Ford and commanding it was posted the main body of the American army, consisting of the brigades of Muhlenburg and Weedon, forming Gen. Green’s division. Wayne’s division and Proctor’s artillery occupied an entrenchment upon the brow of an eminence immediately above the ford. The brigades of Sullivan, Stirling and Stephens, forming the right wing, extended some distance up the river. To the left of the main body, and two miles below them, Gen. Armstrong with about a thousand Pennsylvania militia, was posted to guard Pyle’s Ford.

The Fords of the Brandywine in ascending order were Pyle’s Ford just mentioned; Chadd’s Ford, where the attempt to force a passage was anticipated; Brintori’s, one mile above and more difficult; Painter’s, called also Jones’s, on the street road, about three miles above Chadd’s Ford, and about two and a~ half miles below the forks of the creek ; Wister’s or Shunk’s, about a mile above Painter’s. On the east or north branch were three fords, Buffington’s,immediately above the forks, Jefferis’ Ford (by mistake called Jones’s in Washington’s letters and elsewhere,) about six miles from Chadd’s Ford, and about a mile and a half above the forks, and Taylor’s Ford about a mile and a half up higher, where “the old Lancaster Road” crossed. On the west branch was Trimble’s Ford, about one mile above the forks, and full five miles from the British encampment. Seeds’s Ford is unnoticed in the old annals.

The whole country abounded in forests, interspersed with plantations, more or less detached. To the east of the Brandywine it was more open, but both banks of the creek were pretty densely covered with woods. The country is undulating, the larger hills usually skirting the creek separated by flats now forming beautiful and luxuriant meadows, but then doubtless covered with the primitive forest. So dense and impenetrable were the wood and undergrowth upon these flats that a part of them above Painter’s bridge on the street road bears to this day the name of Dungeon Bottom.

Birmingham meeting house is on the brovofa hill, about three miles north of Chadd’s ford, one fourth of a mile south of the Street road, and about two miles east of Painter’s Ford.— Jones’s house lies to the north, the farm extending to the street road. An orchard occupied a portion of the angle formed by the street road, and “the great Dilworthtown road,” which passes both this house and Birmingham meeting house. Osborne’s hill is about a mile north of the meeting house. Sconneltown (now entirely extinct,) was on the top of another eminence between Jefferis’ Ford and Osborne’s Hill.

“The Great Valley road,” spoken of in the narratives of the battle, was the road leading from Kennett Square through Trimble’s and Jefferis’ Fords, and by the Turk’s Head (now West Chester,) to the Great Valley, four miles north of the latter place.

Martin’s tavern (now Marshalton) was about four miles west of the Turk’s Head, and about two miles west of Taylor’s Ford, on “the old Lancaster road,” which traversed nearly the same ground upon which the Strasburg road was subsequently laid out.

Upon the roads leading to Chadd’s and Taylors Fords and towards Wilmington, parties of British light horse were sent out on the tenth, most probably to reconnoitre.

The column under Cornwallis set out at daybreak on the eleventh, that under Knyphausen, about nine o’clock. A very dense and heavy fog continued until a late hour. A scouting party of American light horse had ventured as far as Welsh’s tavern, and having carelessly left their horses in front of the inn, were drinking at the bar when the advance of the British approached within a few rods, before they were discovered. The troopers fired one volley, escaped by the back of the house and fled across the fields to the - woods, leaving their horses in the hands of the enemy. Tradition mentions as the only result of their fire the death of a horse belonging to one of the British cavalry, who mounted one of those left by the Americans and rode on.

About a mile beyond, the column was again fired on by a party stationed behind the walls of Old Kennett Grave Yard, and a retreating fire was kept up from behind walls and trees, until Maxwell’s forces became engaged with the advance of the division. A body of troops sent to dislodge him from his position on the heights about a mile from the ford compelled him to retire until reinforced from the eminence at the edge of the creek. The front ranks of Knyphausen were then thrown into confusion, but being sustained by successive detachments, drove Maxwell back and finally across the creek. This part of the action began about ten o’clock. It is probable from the advantageous position of Maxwell’s men on each side of the road and upon entrenched heights, that the loss of the British must have been considerable. Washington’s Secretary, writing the same day, (before the engagement at Birmingham,) estimates their loss at three hundred killed and wounded, and adds, “ours does not exceed fifty in the whole.”

After securing the height, Knyphausen commenced a heavy cannonade, which was continued with little intermission until the ford was passed. Every feint and mancauvre was tried, to present the appearance of a large force and a vehement effort to cross the ford.

Several detachments of the Americans crossed the creek and assailed the British who were labouring to throw up entrenchments and batteries. Captains Porterfield and Waggoner having thus passed over and secured a footing on the western bank, Gen. Maxwell returned in force, and a warm conflict ensued. Maxwell driving the enemy from the ground, killing thirty men, (among them a captain of the forty.ninth, and seizing some entrenching tools with which they were throwing up a battery.) The sharpness of the skirmish soon drewupon them overwhelming numbers, and the Americans were again repulsed.

Lord Cornwallis, with the larger division arrived, it may be presumed, at the summit of the hills south of Trimble’s ford, before or about the time when Knyphausen moved from Kerinett Square. Some cannon were discharged’ at this point, (and balls have been found in the vicinity,) for which it is difficult to account, unless they were designed to notify to Knyphausen their having gained a midway position. or to direct him to march to the ford.

Gen. Sullivan, who commanded the right wing of the American army, had received instructions to guard the fords as high up as Buffington’s, just above the forks of the Brandywine. Scouting parties were sent out in various directions to watch the movements of the enemy. Col. Bland, with the light horse, crossed the creek at a point above the camp, probably at Painter’s Ford on the street road, with orders to watch the movements of the enemy should they make any demonstrations of an attempt to turn the enemy’s right. He in fact sent early information that he had seen two brigades advancing on “the valley road” towards Trimble’s Ford, and that the dust appeared to rise in their rear for a considerable distance. This was confirmed by a note from Col. Ross who was in their rear, and who estimated the force that he had seen at not less than five thousand.

The intelligence being thus confirmed of a large division’s being so far separated from the army at Chadd’s Ford, Washington formed the bold design of’ crossing the Brandywine with the great body of his troops and falling upon Knyphausen, and orders were sent to Gen. Greene to cross above the ford. Before this could be effected, counter intelligence was received by Sullivan, who had advanced to meet the division under Cornwallis. This is said to have come from a major of militia, who stated that he had just left the forks, and that there was no appearance of an enemy in that quarter. lt was also reported about the same time that Cornwailis had turned and was coming down the right or west bank of the creek to join Knyphausen. Sullivan communicated these reports to the Commander in Chief, and they seem to have had sufficient weight to discredit the intelligence received from Col. Bland and Col. Ross. Whether Sullivan be censurable or not for confiding in these reports, it is evident that it was within his power to ascertain the truth and that within an hour’s time. The street road was open across the whole country to the westward, and the road northward led to Buffington’s Ford just above the forks. Scouting parties might readily have reached Osborne’s Hill, even at a late hour; but though his orders required him to guard as high up as the forks, there is every reason to believe that he had no party (except Col. Bland) on the west of the stream, north of the street road. In this all tradition concurs.

Whilst Washington was in the state of painful uncertainty produced by these conflicting accounts, Squire Cheyney rode up to the forces under Sullivan, and being uncourteously received by that General, demanded to be led to the Commander in Chief. this was done; and the earnestness of his asseverations, to the truth of which he pledged his life, secured confidence in his statements, corroborating, as they did, the earlier information of the morning. According to his account, the enemy was already at hand, and in large force, to the eastward of the creek.

The brigades of Stephen, Stirling and Sullivan, under the command of the latter were pushed forward to Birmingham meeting house, whilst Greene’s division took the intermediate position that it had chiefly occupied. during the day. Washington remained with the latter, holding it as a reserve in aid of either Wayne or Sullivan.

Birmingham meeting house had been for some days occupied as a hospital; probably the sick and wounded had been removed thither when the army took its position on Red Clay Creek. In consequence,the Friends had adjourned their meeting to the day of their usual meeting in the middle of the week, (Thursday,) appointing the wheelwright shop in Sconneltown as the place. On this day they met. Some time before separating, the younger members manifested uneasiness, which was fully explained, when on breaking up the meeting the whole country about Jefferis’ Ford was seen covered with the British troops. The hour could have been little later than noon. Townsend, in his narrative, will be found clear and explicit as to these particulars. A heavy cannonade, the policy of Knyphausen, had been heard from below. About two o’clock in the afternoon Cornwallis’s division reached Osborne’s Hill, where they halted and took dinner, having marched nearly thirteen miles. Before they again fell in, the forces of the Americans were seen forming upon the brow of the opposite hill at Birmingham meeting house. Cornwallis, who with the field officers occupied the summit of Osborne’s Hill, exclaimed, on seeing their movements, “the damned rebels form well.’’

Among the Americans, some dissention had arisen as to who should have the honour of occupying the right of their line. Gen. Deborre, a French officer, who had recently entered the service, claimed this post; and Sullivan finding that his orders upon the subject had been disobeyed, made a considerable circuit for the purpose of outreaching him, and thus was late upon the field with his brigade, and unable to form before the columns of the enemy vehemently attacked him. It would seem that Sullivan’s manauvre was unsuccessful, and that Deborre obtained the position he coveted, for Deborre’s brigade was the first to give way, and the confusion evidently commenced at the extreme right of the line. This officer was suspended, and an inquiry into his conduct ordered, upon which he resigned.

The action was commenced by a party of Hessians, who crossed the street road and resting their guns upon the fence fired upon the outposts of the Americans, stationed in Jones’ orchard north of his house. In half an hour, about four o’clock, the action became general.[18]



4:00 PM, September 11, 1777

During this time the troops had been formed in three columns for an attack:

Left Column Center Column Right Column

4th English infantry brigade All the dismounted jagers Brigade of Guards 2 battlions of light infantry English:cavalry and Hessian cavalry 2 battalions of English grenadiers 3 battalions of Hessian grenadiers artillery



The 3rd English infantry brigade stayed behind to cover the baggage. At four o’clock in the afternoon the columns advanced to attack, the center column along the main road, and the other two on both sides through valleys and woods. When they had come close enough, they formed in line and advanced upon the enemy, who received them with a heavy fire of cannon and musketry. Our men, however, made a spirited attack with their bayonets and drove them back into the woods, following close upon their heels. Colonel von Donop with the Hessian grenadiers supported the English brigade of Guards throughout, as he had been ordered to do. Three companies of light infantry threw themselves against the flank of the enemy’s right wing, which seemed to be outflanking our line, and after turning it back, rejoined their battalion. The Hessian grenadiers joined the English grenadiers in the line. General Agnew, however, in spite of great efforts, was unable to align completely the fourth brigade forming the left wing, because of the rough terrain. Thus the left flank of the 2nd English Grenadier Battalion was unsupported for some time and was compelled to fall back a little before the enemy’s attack. However, when General Agnew did arrive to support this battalion, the enemy withdrew all along the line from one height to another. Though they fought stubbornly all the way, they were compelled to escape through Terrenton towards Chester. By five o’clock in the evening the entire column had gained a victory and advanced far enough to join our column on the Brandywine hills at nightfall.[19]



Unfortunately for Colonel Patrick Ferguson, his commander in America, Sir William Howe, did not take well to young upstarts with pet ideas. Howe publicly welcomed the new unit and its peculiar rifle, but he sought to dispose of both. That came with the September 1777 Battle of Brandywine, when Ferguson’s riflemen were unwisely employed and suffered more than 50 percent casualties, among them Ferguson, whose right arm was badly wounded. That encounter, however, almost turned the course of history. As Ferguson later wrote, at one point a mounted enemy officer rode past, well within range. “I could have lodged a half-doszen balls in or about him before he was out of my reach,” the British officer recalled, “but I was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty; so I let him alone.” That officer was General Washington.[20]







Evening, September 11, 1777

The confusion created by the contest between Sullivan and Deborre spread through the ranks. In attempting to rally the troops, La Fayette was wounded in the left leg. Sullivan, whose own brigade was retreating, threw himself with Sterling and La Fayette personally into the conflict, and a most heroic stand was made, these officers continuing to maintain their ground until the American forces were completely broken and the enemy within twenty yards of them, when they escaped into the woods.

In the course of the day Washington had pointed out to Gen. Greene a suitable position for a second stand in the event of their being obliged to fall back from either point. As soon as the en­gagement at Birmingham meeting house took place, Greene quickly advanced and occupied this position. It was about a mile from Birmingham meeting house, on the road to Dilworthstown, in a narrow defile flanked on both sides by woods and commanding the road. Near this place on the road side, stood a blacksmith’s shop. here the retreating parties were stopped and formed in the rear. Several hours yet remained before the darkness of the night covered the further retreat of the Americans. Knyphausen, at the first fire at Birmingham, had attempted the passage of the ford in earnest, and after a short though severe contest, Wayne’s division was compelled to abandon their artillery and retreat.

Greene succeeded in defending the pass, and maintained his position until the close of the day. The brigades of Weedon and Muhlenburg greatly distinguished themselves. The most conspicuous among them were the 10th Virginia regiment, and a Pennsylania regiment under Col. Stewart.

The entire force of the Americans could not have exceeded eleven thousand men, whilst Cornwallis’s division alone is estimated at thirteen thousand. The continental troops laboured under serious disadvantages. Their muskets were not of the same calibre; their cartridges in consequence were not adapted to universal use, and the efficacy of their fire was impaired. Many of the soldiers were raw and undisciplined troops, the more readily thrown into disorder upon being attacked whilst in motion, and before they had gained their proper position in the line.

The troops that had served during the preceding campaign proved themselves able and effective; and the fact that Sir William Howe, with the superior force under his command, after pursuing the retreating Americans but for a single mile, was then checked by a few regiments, speaks much for the valour of the continental army.

According to Howe, the loss of the British was one hundred killed and four hundred wounded, whilst that of the Americans was three hundred killed and six hundred wounded. Three or four hundred were taken prisoners, chiefly of the wounded.

The militia under Gen. Armstrong, posted at Pyle’s Ford, had no opportunity of engaging.

The American army retreated during the night to Chester. The baggage had been previously sent off. Their loss of blankets was considerable, and in view of the approaching season, serious.

They had been in their knapsacks, and were mostly lost during the enagement. Seven or eight cannon and a howitzer fell into the hands of the enemy.

The ardour of the troops was unabated; and Washington immediately prepared for a second engagement.

Sir William Howe’s delay is unaccountable. With the exception of some movements towards Chester and Wilmington, his army remained near the field of battle until the sixteenth, when they learned that Washington was within a short distance, at the Warren tavern on the Lancaster (or old Provincial) road in the Great Valley, and prepared to give them battle. A succession of heavy rains, which ruined their ammunition, prevented the engagement, and rendered the retreat of the Americans unavoidable.

The bold design of Washington to cross the Brandywine and attack Knyphausen, whilst Sullivan was to cross above and hold the other division in check, has, singularly enough, been the occasion of a covert attack upon his military character. The author of the Life of Gen. Greene congratulates the country upon the receipt of the false intelligence which prevented the movement, and argues that the movement would have proved injurious, as his baggage would have fallen into the hands of Cornwallis. But Washington had already removed his baggage, as is shown in his letter from Chester, dated the same evening. Nothing appears to have been more likely than that a brisk attack upon Knyphausen would have been successful in dislodging, if not completely repulsing him, and that arrangements could then have been made for the more serious conflict with Cornwallis. It is not to be supposed that Washington would have been led to follow up his advantage over Knyphausen too far, to the neglect of the more important duty of guarding the fords against Cornwallis. His caution is too well known to admit of such a supposition.

This sketch has reached its proper limit. The events which succeeded—” the Massacre of Paoli” (as it is popularly called) on the night of the 20th of September, Howe’s entry into Phila­delphia on the- 26th, the battle of Germantown and the encampment of the Americans at Valley Forge—” the darkest hour of the Revolution,” form suitable subjects for the future labours of the Society; and it is greatly to be desired that persons in the vicinity of these historial localities should engage in the work of gleaning the field of tradition that nothing may possibly be lost.[21]



At Midnight, Chester, September 11, 1777

I am sorry to inform you, that in this day’s engagement we have been obliged to leave the enemy masters of the field. Unfortunately the intelligence received of the enemy’s advancing up the Brandywine, and crossing at a ford about six miles above us, was uncertain and contradictory, notwithstanding all my pains to get the best. This prevented my making a disposition adequate to the force with which the enemy attacked us on the right; in consequence of which the troops first engaged, were obliged to retire before they could be reinforced. In the midst of the attack on our right, that body of the enemy which remained on the other side of Chad’s Ford, crossed it, and attacked the division there under the command of General Wayne, and the light Troops under Genl. Maxwell who, after a severe conflict, retired. The Militia under the command of Major Genl. Armstrong, being posted at a ford, about two Miles below Chad’s, had no opportunity of engaging. But altho’ we fought under many disadvantages and were from the causes above mentioned obliged to retire, yet our loss of Men is not, I am persuaded, very considerable, I beleive much less than the enemys. We have also lost about seven or eight pieces of cannon, according to the best information I can at present obtain. The baggage having been previously moved off is all secure, saving the men’s Blankets; which being at their backs, many of them doubtless are lost.

I have directed all the Troops to Assemble behind Chester, where they are now arranging for the night. Notwithstanding the misfortune of the day, I am happy to find the troops in good spirits; and I hope another time we shall compensate for the losses now sustained.

The Marquis La Fayette was wounded in the leg, and Genl. Woodford in the hand. Divers other Officers were wounded, and some slain; but the number of either cannot now be ascertained. I have the honor To be Sir Your obedient hub. Servant

Go: WASHINGTON



P.S. It has not been in my power to send you earlier intelligence; the present being the first leisure moment I have had since the action.[22]



The Hessian Yägers and Grenadiers, and the Ansbach Yägers, and the Hessian Light Cavalry, just mounted, won great praise for their gallantry. The Hessians lost Capt. Trautvetter, Lieuts. Dupuy, v Trümbach, v. Lissingen, and v. Baumbach; and the Ansbach Light Infantry lost Lieut. v. Förstner, and many men killed and wounded. Of the eleven guns taken, there were three Hessian guns that had fallen into the hands of the Americans at Trenton. (Capt. V. Baumbach was of the v. Linsing Regiment.) JG. [23]



After Brandywine, General Howe collected Ferguson’s rifles, the world’s fastest firing military rifles, and disbanded his rifle corps. It was not the end of Ferguson. [24]



September 11, 1781: 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[25]. 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.[26]



September 11, 1784: . Set out at half

after 5 oclock from Tumbersons, & in about 1 Miles came to what is called the

little crossing of the Yohiogany. . . . Breakfasted at one Mounts or Moun-

tains, 11 Miles from Tumberson's ; the Road being exceedingly bad, espe-

cially through what is called the Shades of death. Bated at the great cross-

ing [of the Youghiogheny River or Braddock's road, now Somerfield]

which is a large Water, distant from Mounts 8 9 Miles, and a better Road

than between that and Tumbersons Lodged at one Daughertys a Mile &

half short of the Great Meadows . . . distant from the crossing 12 Miles."

Washington's Diary. [27]





September 11, 1814, Noon. The British attack begins on Baltimore.[28] British General Ross is killed by an American rifleman. Moments later the American sniper is killed by British fire. Had Ross lived he might have been remembered as the battles most well known figure. But now that distinction would go to a lawyer detained on an American truce vessel several miles away. His name was Francis Scott Key.[29]



Sun. September 11, 1864

A very hard rain in the afternoon. Preaching in the evening box of sanitary peaches

Distrib examination by a drunk doctor[30]





September 11, 1918: On Convoy 3 list of Deportees, is Moise Gotlib, born September 11, 1918 in Varsovie (Warsaw, Poland). Code F is indicated but its meaning is unknown as of this writing. [31]





September 11, 1941, Charles Lindberg made a speech titled "Who Are the War Agitators?" in which he claimed that Americans had solidly opposed entering the war when it began, and that three groups had been "pressing this country toward war" -- the Roosevelt Administration, the British, and the Jews, and complained about what he insisted was the Jews' "large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government." He made clear however his opposition to anti-Semitism, stating that "All good men of conscience must condemn the treatment of the Jews in Germany", further advising "Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation."[32]



• September 11, 1942: The Nazis wiped out the ghetto in Stolin, Poland, with the mass murders of 11,000 Jews. [33]



• September 11, 1942: Meir Berliner, an Argentine Jew deported to the Treblinka death camp from Warsaw, stabs an SS officer to death with a penknife. In reprisal, Berliner and 150 other Treblinka inmates are executed.[34]

•

• September 11, 1942: Five thousand Jews are deported from the Warsaw Ghetto in Treblinka. [35]



• September 11, 1942: Ninety thousand Jews were sent to their deaths from the Warsaw ghetto. A total of 300,000 Jews were sent to Nazi killing camps during a 53 day period.[36]



September 11, 1943: One thousand Jews discovered hiding in Przemysl Poland, are murdered.[37]



September 11, 2001: The worst terrorist attack in America's history was waged on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Washington, DC claiming 2,973 lives. Radical Islam declared this attack was against the "Crusaders and Jews." [38]





September 11, 2010



Jillian Goodlove at the John Deere Museum. Photo sent by John Kiss





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[1][1] MARRIAGES & MARRIAGE EVIDENCE IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CHURCHES

SCHLOSSER’S REFORMED CHURCH 1765-1846 Also called Union Reformed Church. Unionville North Whitehall twn., Lehigh Co. Part 8, Roll 136—137. Second item on film. Copied 1938.

[2][2] Pennsylvania German Marriages compiled by Donna R. Irish pg 328

[3] Warriors of God by James Reston Jr, page 16.

[4] Warriors of God by James Reston Jr, page 8.

[5] Warriors of God by James Reston Jr, page 19.

[6] Warriors of God by James Reston Jr, page 25.

[7] The Templar Code, HISTI, 5/17/2006

[8] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 44.

[9] www.wikipedia.org

[10] This Day in Jewish History.

[11] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm

[12] This Day in Jewish History.

[13] !The Crawfords of Adams co., Oh., comp.

by H. Marjorie Crawford, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry,

Vassar College. Publ. Poughkeepsie, NY, 1976, p. 3:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3892k+ct000363))+@field(COLLID+setlmap))

[14] Battalion was attached to Regiment von Mirbach. Notes on Hessian soldiers who remained in Canada and the United States after the American Revolution, 1775-1784 Clifford Neal Smith

[15] Encylopedia of British, Provincial, and German Army Units 1775-1783 by Philip R. N. Katcher

[16] That Bloody River Allan W. Eckert

[17] The Brothers Crawford



[18] The Battle of Brandywine, Joseph Townsend

[19] Letters from Major Baurmeister to Colonel von Jungkenn, Written during the Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778 Edited by Bernhard A. Uhlendorf and Edna Vosper pg. 16.



[20] American Rifleman, Riflemen of the Revolution, May 2009, pages 42-43.

[21] The Battle of Brandywine, Joseph Townsend



[22] George Washington, A Biography in His Own Words, Edited by Ralph K. Andrist

[23] The German Allied Troops on the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783 by Max von Eelking pg. 113.

[24] American Rifleman, Riflemen of the Revolution, May 2009, page 43.



[25] 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)



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

[27] Pennsylvania magazine of History and Biography

[28] First Invasion: The War of 1812, HISTI, 9/12/2004

[29] First Invasion: The War of 1812, HISTI, 9/12/2004

[30] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary

[31] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 379.

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

[33] This Day in Jewish History.

• [34] This Day in Jewish History.

[35] This Day in Jewish History.

• [36] This Day in Jewish History.

• [37] This Day in Jewish History.

[38] Jerusalem Prayer team email 3/30/2010