This Day in Goodlove History
October 11, 1750
Richard Stephenson (Stinson) purchases 316 acres from the Proprietors of Virginia (Lord Fairfax?).[1]
Bullskin aka Beverley (West Virginia)
Beverley
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front of Beverley
Location:
Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA
Nearest city:
Charles Town, West Virginia
Coordinates:
39°15′3″N 77°53′34″W / 39.25083°N 77.89278°W / 39.25083; -77.89278Coordinates: 39°15′3″N 77°53′34″W / 39.25083°N 77.89278°W / 39.25083; -77.89278
Area:
4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built:
1760
Architectural style:
Federal
Governing body:
Private
NRHP Reference#:
87000486[1]
Added to NRHP:
March 20, 1987
Beverley, also known as Bullskin, is a farm near Charles Town, West Virginia that has been a working agricultural unit since 1750. The narrow lane that leads from U.S. Route 340 to the Beverley complex was, in the 18th and 19th centuries a toll road. The main house was built about 1800 by Beverley Whiting on the site of a c. 1760 stone house. The house is Georgian influenced Federal style, with a later Greek Revival portico. A number of outbuildings dating to the original 1760 house accompany the main house. As noted in the nomination form Beverley is one of Jefferson County's important architectural landmarks, the seat of an important agricultural complex of historic importance to the county and one that provides a sense of stability and continuity with the county's past.
The original land was purchased from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1750 by Richard Stephenson. During the course of the next decade, Stephenson constructed a stone residence, two stone outbuildings, and other farm-related structures and put into operation the farming business that still operates here today. It is not known exactly when the two extant stone structures were constructed, but they were certainly standing by 1760. The surviving outbuildings are among the oldest buildings in West Virginia. The west outbuilding served as a school for a time during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The east outbuilding was used as a kitchen. Due to their age, these stone outbuildings are individually listed as Jefferson County Historic Landmarks.
Richard Stephenson was the father of seven children, two of whom rose to prominence in the Revolutionary War. Colonel John Stephenson served with noted distinction, but it was his brother, Colonel Hugh Stephenson who is better remembered. He had served previously in the French and Indian Wars and in Lord Dunmore's War. In 1775, he was recommended by George Washington to command one of the two Virginia rifle companies. Colonel Hugh Stephenson led the famous Bee Line March that left from Morgan Springs (near Shepherdstown) on July 16, 1775 and marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts to join the Continental Army, covering 600 miles in 24 days. Colonel Stephenson's half-brother, Colonel William Crawford, who also lived at what is now known as Beverley for a time, was also a noted Revolutionary soldier who was burned at the stake by Indians in 1782. George Washington was friends with Richard Stephenson and notes in his journal that he stayed at Bullskin with Richard during a visit to his own property in the area in May 1760.[2] George Washington performed the survey of the property for Richard Stephenson around 1750 which still survives to this day and is publicly displayed in the Boston Public Library.
The property passed by purchase from the Stephenson family to Dr. John Bull in 1777, and then to Beverley Whiting, in 1795. Beverley Whiting was a leading planter and man of affairs in post-Revolutionary Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, as evidenced by the fact that he served on the first grand jury empaneled in the newly formed Jefferson County, being sworn in on March 9, 1802. Around 1845 the name of the property was changed from "Bullskin" to "Beverley". Around 1870 the property was sold to John Burns, and the property has remained in the Burns family ever since.[3][2]
October 11, 1759: Parson Weems
Portrait of Parson Weems
Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author. He is best known as the source of some of the apocryphal stories about George Washington. The famous tale of the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet") is included in The Life of Washington (1800), Weems' most famous work. This nineteenth-century bestseller depicted Washington's virtues and provided an entertaining and morally instructive tale for the youth of the young nation.[1]
Weems was born on 11 October 1759 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He studied theology in London and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1784. He worked as a minister in Maryland in various capacities from 1784 to 1792. Financial hardship forced Weems to seek additional employment, and he began working as a traveling book agent. Weems married Frances Ewell in 1795 and established a household in Dumfries, Virginia. He had a small bookstore in Dumfries that now houses the Weems–Botts Museum, but he continued to travel extensively, selling books and preaching.[2]
Dumfries is not far from Pohick Church, part of Truro Parish, in Lorton, Virginia, where both George Washington and his father Augustine had worshipped in pre-Revolutionary days. Weems would later inflate this Washington connection and promote himself as the former "rector of Mount-Vernon parish".
· Other notable works by Weems include Life of General Francis Marion (1805); Life of Benjamin Franklin, with Essays (1817); and Life of William Penn (1819). He was an accomplished violinist.
Influence and historical reliability
The New York Times has described Weems as one of the "early hagiographers" of American literature "who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, into the American pantheon and helped secure a place there for George Washington".[3]
Weems' name would probably be forgotten today, had it not been for the tension between the liveliness of his narratives, contrasted with the "...charge of a want of veracity [that] is brought against all Weems's writings".[4] The cherry-tree anecdote illustrates this point. Another dubious anecdote found in the Weems biography is that of Washington's prayer during the winter at Valley Forge.[5][6]
The exaltation of Washington
The exalted esteem in which the founding fathers, and especially George Washington, were held by 19th century Americans seems quaintly exaggerated to their 21st century counterparts; but that Washington was so regarded is undisputed. The acme of this esteem is found on the ceiling of the United States Capitol Building in the form of Brumidi's fresco The Apotheosis of Washington.
Weems' A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington,[7] was a biography written in this spirit, amplified by the florid, rollicksome style which was Weems' trademark. According to this account, publicly his subject was "...Washington, the HERO,and the Demigod...;" furthermore, at a level above that "...what he really was, [was] 'the Jupiter Conservator,' the friend and benefactor of men." With this hyperbole, Weems elevated Washington to the Augustan level of the god "Jupiter Conservator [Orbis]" (that is, "Jupiter, Conservator of the Empire", later rendered "Jupiter, Savior of the World").
Weems also called Washington the "greatest man that ever lived". This degree of adulation, combined with the circumstance that his anecdotes cannot be independently verified demonstrates clearly that they are confabulations and parables. Similar mythology grew up about other Founding Fathers (e.g., Patrick Henry), usually well after the subjects of the mythology had died.
The cherry-tree anecdote
Arguably the most famous (or infamous) of the exaggerated or invented anecdotes is that of the cherry tree, attributed by Weems to "...an aged lady, who was a distant relative, and, when a girl, spent much of her time in the family...," who referred to young George as "cousin".[8]
“
The following anecdote is a case in point. It is too valuable to be lost, and too true to be doubted; for it was communicated to me by the same excellent lady to whom I am indebted for the last.
"When George," said she, "was about six years old, he was made the wealthy master of a hatchet! of which, like most little boys, he was immoderately fond, and was constantly going about chopping everything that came in his way. One day, in the garden, where he often amused himself hacking his mother's pea-sticks, he unluckily tried the edge of his hatchet on the body of a beautiful young English cherry-tree, which he barked so terribly, that I don't believe the tree ever got the better of it. The next morning the old gentleman, finding out what had befallen his tree, which, by the by, was a great favourite, came into the house; and with much warmth asked for the mischievous author, declaring at the same time, that he would not have taken five guineas for his tree. Nobody could tell him anything about it. Presently George and his hatchet made their appearance. "George," said his father, "do you know who killed that beautiful little cherry tree yonder in the garden? " This was a tough question; and George staggered under it for a moment; but quickly recovered himself: and looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, "I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." "Run to my arms, you dearest boy," cried his father in transports, "run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold."
”
Death
Weems died on May 23, 1825 in Beaufort, South Carolina of unspecified causes. He is buried somewhere on the grounds of Bel Air Plantation[9] near the extinct town of Minnieville in present day Dale City, Prince William County, Virginia. The precise location of his grave and the accompanying cemetery were lost in the mid 20th Century.
In 1911, Lawrence C. Wroth authored Parson Weems; a biographical and critical study; it was his first book.[10][3]
October 11, 1771. Still at home all day Plotting & Measuring the Surveys which Captn. Crawford made for the Officers & Soldiers.[4]
October 11, 1776
[5]
October 11, 1776: Butterfield reports on page 103 that “On the 11th of October (1776), he (Crawford) was appointed Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of the Virginia battalions, by Congress, his commission to be dated the 14th of August. During the year, he (Crawford) was with his command - first, in the campaign on Long Island, engaging in the battles and skirmishes which there took place, and, later in the season, sharing in the famous retreat through New Jersey.”[1][6]
October 11, 1777
[7]
October 11, 1785
October 11, 1819
Age 22
Marriage of Francis Godlove to Elizabeth Didawick-Snapp
Shenandoah, Virginia, United States
[8]
-LOGAN, Simon Kenton House Site 1819-1828 & Stone Barn 1819, 4746 C.R.153/ Columbus Rd., Zanesfield, Jefferson Twp. *barn built of stone from nearby British fort (historical marker, barn)
"One item we have found and gotten a copy of is a will by Samuel Bumbarner who leaves $15 each to the heirs of his sister Hannah Godlove and the court appointed Aaron McKee as executor for Hampshire Co and Shenandoah. This is a very exciting possibility but tediously slow to confirm." [9]
ID: I9416 Name: Joseph C. GODLOVE Given Name: Joseph C. Surname: Godlove Sex: M _UID: C61873B3D5899240A47C31A63526E2329A20 Change Date: 29 Sep 2003 Birth: 1800 Death: 1859
Marriage 1 Hannah BUMGARDNER
Married:
Children
Abraham GODLOVE b: JUNe 18, 1818 in Virginia
Elizabeth GODLOVE b: MAY 21, 1819 in Ohio
John GODLOVE b: NOVember 8, 1823 in Ohio
Sarah GODLOVE b: BEF 1830
Child GODLOVE b: 1830
Nancy GODLOVE b: DECember 25, 1830 in Ohio
Perry GODLOVE b: JUNe 4, 1832 in Guernsey co, Oh.
Baby GODLOVE b: AFT OCTober 1833
Henry GODLOVE b: SEPtember 12, 1837 in Delaware co, In.[10]
Joseph and Margaret Godlove appear to have moved to Ohio
+LOGAN, HistoricLogan County, C.R.10, Bellefontaine, Harrison Twp. *Isaac Zane-Simon Kenton Monument & Simon Kenton Grave listed (historical marker)
October 11, 1838 – A detachment of 675 persons of the Treaty Party under John A. Bell departe from the Agency, having refused removal under Ross.[11]
October 11, 1862
The Confederate Congress passes a law making anyone owning more than 20 slaves exempt from military service.[12]
• October 11, 1892: Viktor Gottlieb born October 11, 1892. By- October 26, 1942 Auschwitz. ZAHYNULI
• Transport Aar- Praha, Terezin 16. cervence 1942
• 919 Zahynulych
• 80 osvobozenych
• 1 osud nezjisten[13]
Tues. October 11, 1864
Laid in camp all day all quiet
Pleasant day wrote a letter to JB Scott
Supply train came up[14]
October 11, 1917: Chalice announced that he would take the field superintendency. At the same time he also announced that he had accepted the call to a much larger parish in West Branch, just a few miles east of Iowa City, the home of the State University of Iowa. In her weekly column in the Manchester Press, Mrs. F.C. Reeve praised his good work in Buck Creek and congratulated him on his “appointment to a better charge.”[15]
October 11 and October 18, 1917: In 1918 and 1919 neither the Buck Creek pastors nor the Buck Creek community capruted any hadlines in the local press. Chalice’s replacement, William Baker, came highly recommended from the Methodist Episcopal church in Mechanicsvill (population 812 in 1920), but he was unhable to pick up where Chalice had ledft off in carrying forward with the reform of rural community life.[16]
October 11, 1936: As the time passed, by autumn the Arab middle class had exhausted its resources.[90]> Under these circumstances, the Mandatory government was looking for an intermediary who might help persuade the Arab Higher Committee to end the rebellion. Al-Husseini and the Committee rejected King Abdullah of Transjordan as mediator because of his dependence on the British and friendship with the Zionists, but accepted the Iraqi Foreign Minister Nuri as-Said. As Wauchope warned of an impending military campaign and simultaneously offered to dispatch a Royal Commission of Inquiry to hear the Arab complaints, the Arab Higher Committee called off the strike on October 11.[91] When the promised Royal Commission of Inquiry arrived in Palestine in November, al-Husseini testified before it as chief witness for the Arabs.[91][17]
• October 11, 1941: A ghetto is established in Chernovtsy.[18]
• October 11, 1941: Al-Husseini arrived in Rome on October 11, 1941, and immediately contacted Italian Military Intelligence (Servizio Informazioni Militari, or SIM). He presented himself as head of a secret Arab nationalist organization with offices in all Arab countries. On condition that the Axis powers 'recognize in principle the unity, independence, and sovereignty, of an Arab state, including Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Transjordan', he offered support in the war against Britain and stated his willingness to discuss the issues of 'the Holy Places, Lebanon, the Suez Canal, and Aqaba'.[19]
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[1] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969 p. 12.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_(West_Virginia)
[3] Wikipedia
[4] George Washington Diaries, An Abridgement, Dorothy Twohig, Ed. 1999
[5] Library of Congress
[6] [1] Gerol “Gary” Goodlove Conrad and Caty, 2003
[7] Valley Forge Orderly Book of General George Weedon, 1777-1778 pg. 80-81
[8] http://www.geni.com/people/Francis-Godlove/6000000000284944187
[9] Emma Lee Smith Saucier Page 4
[10] http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mp648&id=I9416
[11] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[12] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
• [13] Terezinska Pametni Kniha, Zidovske Obeti Nacistickych Deportaci Z Cech A Moravy 1941-1945 Dil Druhy
[14] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove
[15] There Goes the Neighborhood by David R. Reynolds, page 173.
[16] There Goes the Neighborhood by David R. Reynolds, page 173.
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini#World_War_I
[18] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini#World_War_I
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