This Day in Goodlove History, October 7

Jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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

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.

Good morning everyone!

In the synagogues they begin reading from the Torah (Old Testament) from the beginning, since this is the beginning of the year. Every week they continue until the end of the until they are finished, this time next year.

It is the beginning of the year because this is the day that God created the world.



October 7, 3761 BCE

According to some Jewish traditionalists, this corresponds to the date on which God created the World. This marks the start of the epoch of the Modern Hebrew calendar.[1]

c3.761k BC The first year of the Jewish calendar that begins with Rosh Hashana. [1997 was year 5758]
(SFC, 10/1/97, p.A16)(WUD, 1994, p.767) [2]



3711: Lamech . [3]

3.652k BC Archeologists found ears of popcorn 5,600 years old in the Bat Cave in New Mexico in 1948.
(HFA, '96, p.66) [4]

3.627k BC - 3.377k BC In Armenia a leather shoe dating to this period was found in 2010 in a pit outside a cave.
(AP, 6/10/10) [5]

3620 to 340 BCE

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3.6k BC In 2005 a team working for five years in the area of Kom El-Ahmar, Egypt, known in antiquity as Hierakonpolis, excavated a complex thought to belong to a ruler of the ancient city who reigned around this time. Archaeologists unearthed seven corpses believed to date to the era, as well as an intact figure of a cow's head carved from flint.
(AP, 4/22/05)
3.6k BC In Washington state the Osceola mudflow from Mount Ranier covered an area from Rainier to Puget Sound.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A22)
3.6k BC The Supe people, a maritime farming community along the coast of Peru, disappeared about this time. In 2009 researchers found their disappearance coincided with earthquakes and landslides followed by massive flooding.
(SFC, 1/20/09, p.A13) [7]

5600-5520 BP

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3.6k BC - 3.5k BC An Egyptian cemetery of working class inhabitants at Hierankopolis of this time showed evidence of mummification.
(AM, 9/01, p.13) [11]

3600 to 3200 BC

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3600 to 3200 BC

3.6k BC - 3k BC On Malta the Gantija phase saw the construction of the first megalithic temples.
(AM, Jul/Aug '97 p.43) [13]
3.6k BC - 1.7k BC Neolithic jade pieces represent some of the oldest of Chinese art.
(WSJ, 2/19/98, p.A20) [14]

3.6k BC - 1k BC The Mesopotamian settlement of Nagar (in northeastern Syria) grew to become one of the first large cities of the Middle East. It began before 6,000BC and continued to about 1000BC.
(MT, summer 2003, p.11) [15]

3529: Noah[16]

5,500 years ago: Sudden aridification of the Sahara.[17] About 5500 years ago the Sahara began to dry. The rains failed, the rivers shrank, and the lakes dried out.[18]

3500 B.C.: Mesopotamia. The Greek word for ancient Iraq means “the land between the rivers”, the Tigris and Euphrates. The Mesopotamian plain, with its fertile plain, was a perfect environment for civilization to flourish. An advanced tribal culture developed in this region, long before Egypt, Greece and Rome. Tribes turned into settlements, settlements into towns. By 3500 B.C. the worlds very first cities Uruk and Ur rose in southern Mesopotamia. A region also known as Sumer.[19]

3500 B.C.: Excavation work undertaken in 2005 and 2006 has shown that Tell Hamoukar was destroyed by warfare by around 3500 BC-—probably the earliest urban warfare attested so far in the archaeological record of the Near East.[8] Contiuned excavations in 2008 and 2010 expand on that. [9][20]

3.5k BC Sumerians and Babylonians use a sexigesimal (base 60) number system according to historian Eric Temple Bell.
(V.D.-H.K.p.27)
3.5k BC King Etena of Babylonia was pictured on a coin, flying on an eagle’s back.
(NPub, 2002, p.2)
3.5k BC A linen shroud dating to this time was later put on display at the Egyptian museum in Turin, Italy.
(SSFC, 1/22/06, p.E6) [21]




[22]

3500 to 3100 B.C.

3.5k BC - 3.1k BC In Egypt the "Knife of Gebel-el-Arak" was made with an ivory handle carved with hunting and battle scenes. It is now in the French Louvre.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A16) [23]

3.5k BC - 2.4k BC The Tower of Babel was built during this period by people of one language who inhabited the land of Shinar in the kingdom of Nimrod.
(Econ, 4/26/08, p.108) [24]

3500BC - 3k BC In 2008 a team of German and Peruvian archaeologists reported the discovery of a ceremonial plaza near Peru's north-central coast dating to this period.
(AP, 2/27/08) [25]




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3,500 to 2,900 B.C.

3500 BC: Throughout the land of Israel, village culture is evident, with notable concentrations in the Negev and the Jordan Valley, Copper implements begin to be manufactured in the next few centuries.[27]

The world’s oldest known barley beer is from Iran’s Zagros Mountains, dating to 3400 B.C.[28]

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5,500 B.P.

3.45k BC The first cities appeared along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates just north of what is now the Persian Gulf. The cities made up the Uruk culture named after the principal city of Uruk, which corresponds to the Biblical Erech. The culture invented writing, the lunar calendar, used metal and built monumental architecture. The cities remained independent for almost a thousand years.
(eawc, p.1) [30]



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• 3400 to 3200 B.C.: Writing appeared in Egypt.[32]

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3400- 3200

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3350-3100 B.C.

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3350 to 3100 B.C. Clay envelopes with seal impressions.

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3350 to 3100 B.C.[37]

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3350 to 3100 BC

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3350 to 3100 BC

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3350 to 3100 BC.



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October 7, 1690

English forces attack Quebec, Canada, in the first major military operation of King Williams War.[42]



October 7, 1747: Ebenezer Zane, the eldest was born October 7, 1747, and grew to manhood in the Potomac valley. There he married Elizabeth McColloch, a sister of the famous McColloch brothers so well known in frontier history. [43]



1748

The Battailes continued to fulfill the role of one of Virginia's leading families, The Battaile silver, engraved with the .Battaile crest and shield still in. the possession of the descendants of the eldest son, John Battaile the younger. He was the owner of the famous 5,000. acre plantation, "Flintshire," where his tomb remains to this day. His daughter, Sarah, married Henry Fitzhugh of "Bedford" plantation. Captain Battaile's remaining children were Lawrence, who served as justice of Caroline County and who married Sarah____ in 1748[44]



1748: David Vance2 (Andrew1), b. 1748 d. 1813 m. Priscilla Brank, Capt NC.[45]



1748

King George authorized in 1748, Thomas Lee, a member of his Majesty’s council in Virginia, to organize the Ohio Land Company , its backers comprising a dozen wealthy land owners in Maryland and Virginia, including Lawrence and Augustine Washington, elder brothers of George, as well as a prosperous merchant of London James Hanbury. The company, formed with the stated objective of settling lands and engaging in large scale trade with the Indians, was given a grant o 500,000 acres within the Dominion of Virginia but west of the mountains, all the way to the Ohio River and the Kanawha, with the stipulation that the company establish 100 families on that land within seven years.

One of the Ohio Company’s first acts was to hire a well known trader and frontiersman, Christopher Gist, to survey both the Ohio and Kanawha for them in the area included under the terms of the grant. He was to keep a journal of his journey, draw accurate maps, explore the country inland from the river for some distance to asses its value for projected settlement and farming and make a full report to the company. [46]



1748/49

Sarah (Sally) CRAWFORD b: 1748/1749 in Berkeley Co., Va., USA



George Washington as a surveyor.



Whatever he did he did well.[47] William Crawford was a surveyor with George Washington and could be in the background of this picture. JG.





1748/49

In the winter of 1748-1749, George Washington met William Crawford and his half brothers. Washington was at the time still a young man, and while engaged in running the surveys for Lord Fairfax in the Shenandoah region he often stayed at Widow Stephenson's home. [48] The men were the same age (Washington and Crawford), and Washington was a boarder in the Crawford family at the time.[49] Both he and Crawford were 17 years old and struck up a friendship that would last a lifetime. When Washington was done with his daily work he often visited Crawford’s home where all the boys would take part in games like running, jumping and wrestling. The long, lean Washington usually won the track events while Crawford and his broad, burley brothers excelled at contests of strength.[50] Wm. Crawford became the intimate friend of Washington and learned surveying under him and followed it as a vocation until 1755 when he joined Forbes expedition, raised a company of militia and was commissioned Ensign under Washington.[51] The relationship between Washington and Crawford became so close that they sent scores of letters back and forth, many of which have been preserved. Crawford eventually became Washington’s land agent.[52]



October 7, 1763 – When the French and Indian War was over, England's King George III feared that more tension between Native Americans and settlers was inevitable.[53] King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, creating a boundary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains beyond which colonists are forbidden to settle in an effort to try to preserve Indian territory and reduce conflicts.[54] In an attempt to avert further bloodshed, he issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Proclamation was, for the most part, ignored. [55]

FROM THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION ON NORTH AMERICA,
OCTOBER 7, 1763

George III, by Gainsborough
Whereas we have taken into our royal consideration the extensive and valuable acquisitions in America secured to our Crown by the late definitive treaty of peace concluded at Paris on the 10th day of February last; and being desirous that all our loving subjects, as well of our kingdom as of our colonies in America, may avail themselves, with all convenient speed, of the great benefits and advantages which must accrue therefrom to their commerce, manufactures, and navigation; we have thought fit, with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby to publish and decare to all our loving subjects that we have, with the advice of our said Privy Council, granted our letters patent under our Great Seal of Great Britain, to erect within the countries and islands ceded and confirmed to us by said treaty, four distinct and separate governments, styled and called by the names of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada, and limited and bounded as follows, viz.:
First, the Government of Quebec, bounded on the Labrador coast by the river St. John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river, through the lake St. John, to the south end of the lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the river St. Lawrence and the lake Champlain in 45 degrees of north latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the sea;...
Secondly, the Government of East Florida, bounded to the westward by the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River; to the northward, by a line drawn from that part of the said river where the Chatahoochee and Flint Rivers meet, to the source of the St. Mary's river, and by the course of the said river to the Atlantic Ocean;...
Thirdly, the Government of West Florida, bounded to the ...westward, by the Lake Pontchartrain, the lake Maurepas, and the river Mississippi; to the northward, by a line drawn due east from that part of the river Mississippi which lies in 31 degrees north latitude, to the river Apalachicola or Chatahoochee; and to the eastward, by the said river....
We have also, with the advice of our Privy Council aforesaid, annexed to our Province of Georgia all the lands lying between the rivers Altamaha and St. Mary's.

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And whereas it is just and reasonable, and essential to our interest and the security of our colonies, that the several nations or tribes of Indians with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the possession of such parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are reserved to them, or any of them, as their hunting-grounds; we do therefore, with the advice of our Privy Council, declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, that no Governor or commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, East Florida, or West Florida, do presume, upon any pretence whatever, to grant warrants of survey, or pass any patents for lands beyond the bounds of their respective governments, as described in their commissions; as also that no Governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America do presume for the present, and until our further pleasure be known, to grant warrants of survey or pass patents for any lands beyond the heads or sources of any of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest; or upon any lands whatever, which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, as aforesaid, are reserved to the said Indians, or any of them.
And we do further declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, for the present as aforesaid, to reserve under our sovereignty, protection, and dominion, for the use of the said Indians, all the land and territories not included within the limits of our said three new governments, or within the limits of the territory granted to the Hudson’s Bay Company; as also all the land and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers which fall into the sea from the west and northwest as aforesaid; and we do hereby strictly forbid, on pain of our displeasure, all our loving subjects from making any purchases or settlements whatever, or taking possession of any of the lands above reserved, without our special leave and license for that purpose first obtained.
And we do further strictly enjoin and require all persons whatever, who have either willfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any lands within the countries above described, or upon any other lands which, not having been ceded to or purchased by us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements.
And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchasing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interests, and to the great dissatisfaction of the said Indians; in order, therefore, to prevent such irregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined resolution to remove all reasonable cause of discontent, we do, with the advice of our Privy Council, strictly enjoin and require, that no private person do presume to make any purchase from the said Indians of any lands reserved to the said Indians within those parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the Governor or commander in chief of our colony respectively within which they shall lie: and in case they shall lie within the limits of any proprietary government, they shall be purchased only for the use and in the name of such proprietaries, conformable to such directions and instructions as we or they shall think proper to give for that purpose. And we do, by the advice of our Privy Council, declare and enjoin, that the trade with the said Indians shall be free and open to all our subjects whatever, provided that every person who may incline to trade with the said Indians do take out a license for carrying on such trade, from the Governor or commander in chief of any of our colonies respectively where such person shall reside, and also give security to observe such regulations as we shall at any time think fit, by ourselves or commissaries to be appointed for this purpose, to direct and appoint for the benefit of the said trade. And we do hereby authorize, enjoin, and require the Governors and commanders in chief of all our colonies respectively, as well those under our immediate government as those under the government and direction of proprietaries, to grant such licenses without fee or reward, taking especial care to insert therein a condition that such license shall be void, and the security forfeited, in case the person to whom the same is granted shall refuse or neglect to observe such regulations as we shall think proper to prescribe as aforesaid.
And we do further expressly enjoin and require all officers whatever, as well military as those employed in the management and direction of Indian affairs within the territories reserved as aforesaid, for the use of the said Indians, to seize and apprehend all persons whatever who, standing charged with treasons, misprisions of treason, murders, or other felonies or misdemeanors, shall fly from justice and take refuge in the said territory, and to send them under a proper guard to the colony where the crime was committed of which they shall stand accused, in order to take their trial for the same.
Given at our Court at St. James's, the 7th day of October (October 7) 1763, in the third year of our reign. [56]


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1763



The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended French influence in the area, but in that year Britain aimed at avoiding Native American trouble by barring white settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The prohibition was generally ignored, even by Virginia’s governor, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore. He started a retaliatory action, called Lord Dunmore’s War, against Native Americans who were raiding settlers in the prohibited area.[57]







1763

At the close of the memorable struggle with the French for the possession of Canada in 1763 John (John Og, Rev. Daniel MacKinnon’s brother) went to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[58]



At first, the formal conclusion in 1763 of the worldwide war between Britain and France, of which the French and Indian War had been a part, aroused hope that the land would be quickly granted. These expectations were overshadowed by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which (among other provisions) forbade colonial governors from issuing land grants west of the Allegheny Mountains.







1763


French and Indian (Seven Years) War ended. Illinois country ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Paris.



Jesuits in Illinois received word that their religious order had been disbanded by the French crown. They were expelled from Illinois. Fearing the same persecution, the Seminarian priest at Cahokia sold the mission there and fled.[59]












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1763

Faneuil Hall in Boston, adorned with a grasshopper on the windgage, is dedicated to the “Cause of Liberty” by James Otis.[61]





. In Pontiac’s War, (1763-1767) which followed the Seven Years’ War, he William Crawford) took an active part, doing effective service in protecting the frontiers from savage incursions.[62]



October 7, 1770 Dind at Rinkers[63] and lodgd at Sami. Pritchards[64].



October 7th.—My portmanteau horse being unable to proceed, I left him at my brother’s, and got one of his, and proceeded to Samuel Pritchard’s in Cacapehon. Pritchard’s is a pretty good house, there being fine pasturage, good fences, and beds tolerably clean.[65]







October 7, 1772: Susannah Smith10 [Francis Smith9, William Smith8, Lawrence Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. 1739 / d. 1823) married Col William Preston (b. 1729 / d. 1783).

A. Children of Susannah Smith and William Preston:
. i. Elizabeth Preston (b. May 31, 1762 / d. February 4, 1837)
. ii. John Preston (b. may 2, 1764 / d. March 27, 1827)
+ . iii. Francis Preston (b. August 2, 1765 / d. May 26, 1835)
. iv. Sarah Preston (b. may 3, 1767 / d. July 3, 1841)
. v. Ann Preston (b. February 12, 1769 / d. 1782)
. vi. William Preston (b. September 5, 1770 / d. January 24, 1821)
+ . vii. Susannah Preston (b. October 7, 1772 / d. July 21, 1833)
. viii. James Patton Preston (b. June 21, 1774 / d. May 4, 1843)
. ix. Mary Preston (b. September 29, 1776 / d. February 4, 1824)
. x. Letitia Preston (b. September 26, 1779 / d. September 13, 1852)
. xi. Thomas Lewis Preston (b. August 19, 1781 / d. August 11, 1812)
. xii. Margaret Brown Preston (b. February 23, 1784 / d. May 4, 1843)



October 7, 1774

[2ZZ32, 33]

A Roll of Capt Phi[l] Love[‘s] Company of Volunteers.

John Craford, Sergeant is on this list of 53.[66]



October 7, 1774

2ZZ37, 38.

A list of Capt Shelby Compy Volunteers from Fincastle



Saml. Vance* is one this list. The starts are founed on the original MS., and their purport is uncertain. [67]



Saturday, October 7th, 1775

Returned to V. Crawford’s. Find V. wants to take advantage of my necessity. Experience teaches me adversity is the touchstone of friendship.[68]

October 7, 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. Evidently it was largely recruited after that date, as the rearrangement in September 1776. The Seventh Regiment alone of the first nine regiments maintained its separate existence, not being combined with any other. It was renumbered the Fifth Regiment under the following commands. Colonel William Dangerfleld, February 19, 1776 - August 13, 1776, resigned. Colonel William Crawford, August 14, 1776 - March 4, 1777, resigned. Colonel Alexander McClenhan, October 7, 1776 - May 13, 1778, resigned. Thirteenth Regiment 1776-1778. This was the fourth of the six regiments of October 1776. It was raised in West Augusta District, largely through the efforts of Colonel William Crawford of the Seventh Regiment. It formed part of Muhlenberg’s Brigade in September 1778, it was renumbered the Ninth Regiment.[69]\



On the 7th of (October 7, 1777) October sixty jägers under Captain Ewald foraged as far as Plymouth without meeting any of the enemy. [70]



October 7, 1777: Brigadier General Francis Nash, of the Continental Army, died on October 7 of wounds received during the battle.



October 7, 1780: King’s Mountain and its Heroes: History of the Battle of King’s Mountain, October 7th, 1780 by Lyman C. Draper, 1881, pg. 386.



October 7, 1780

Battle of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, near Blacksburg, South Carolina. Result Decisive American victory. The Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780, was an important Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. Frontier militia loyal to the United States overwhelmed the Loyalist American militia led by British Major Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Foot. In “The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.”[71]



American settlers of largely Scotch-Irish descent settledwest of, or “over,” the Appalachians,and were thus known as the “Overmountain Men.” They united into a semi autonomous government called the Watauga Association in 1772, about four years before the United States Declaration of Independence. The Scotch Irish Patriots (Whigs) were entirely volunteer forces who fought under men that they chose to follow. William Campbell, John Sevier, Frederick Hambright, Joseph McDowell, Benjamin Cleveland, JamesWilliams, John McKissack, Isaac Shelby and James Johnston (Colonel) who was in command of the rear guard led their militiaunits as Colonels while Captain Joseph Winston and Edward Lacey commanded the other mostly autonomous units.CapgtainEspey, and Captain John Mattocks were both killed during the battle while leading theirunits. Also Major William Chronicle was alsokilled leading his men, during hand to hand combat. After the defeat of Horatio Gates’s army at the Battle of Camden British General Cornwallis was convinced that Georgia and South Carolina were under British control, and he began plansto move into North Carolina. However, a brutal civil war between colonists continued to rage in South Carolina. The Whig frontiersmen, led by a group of self-proclaimed colonels of the rebellion, Isaac Shelby, Elijah Clarke, and Charles McDowell conducted hit and run raids on Loyalist outposts. 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. [72]



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[73] and Massentine Matthews[74] 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.[75] 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.[76]







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.[77]























































October 7, 1843, 18th Virginia Cavalry





Groom: Godlove, John A.

Age 32

S

Hardy County, WV

Father: Godlove, Jacob

Mother: ?, Louisa Married

April 18, 1876

Bride: Bauserman, Mary

Age 22

S

Shenandoah County, VA

Father: Bauserman, William H.

Mother: ?, Elizabeth



John Abraham Godlove, born October 7, 1843, died June 8, 1915.



October 7, 1852

[1] Mary Ann Goodlove, born January 7, 1829, in Moorefield Twp. Clark County, Ohio.She died April 29, 1926 in Columbus Ohio. She was the daughter of Conrad Goodlove and Catherine “Katie” McKinnon. She married Peter T. Davis October 7, 1852. She is the sister of William Harrison Goodlove. (Conrad Goodlove Family Bible)



Fri. October 7, 1864

Marched 17 miles went in camp after dark

On a stony hill side 3 miles north of wood-stock

lame foot[78]

October 7, 1920: Along with its report on the election of the new school board, the Leader included the following; The newly elected officedrs well go to Manchester next Saturday and qualify before the county superintendent. Following this the necessary steps will be taken to fix upon a location for the proposed school buildings, select plans for the buildings, and hold an election thereafter for authority to issue bgonds fro the erection of the schoolhouse and the dormitory for teachers.[79]

The people of Buck Creek community are going about their enterprise with a determination that forcasts decided success in the undertaking. All those with whom the Leader had talkedseem to fully realize that they are entering upon an extensive and an expensive enterprise but theyfeel that it is justivfied and that the children of the cdommuntiy are entitiled to the very best to be had in schools and culture. Buck Creek is one of the very few rural consolidatied districts in the state. Mostr consolidated enterprises have a town as a nucleaus for the district, admittedly an advantage in many ways. But the state reports are avidence that the all rural schools are being conducted with great success, and that after the initial expense is passed the cost of the schools is no greater than in districts combined with towns. The commendable thing about this community, is that it has reached a point where the people are determined to work out their own destiny and community problems by their own efforts, and such zeal and community inspiration will win for success.[80]



October 7, 1938: Germany decreed that passports of Jews were to be marked with a J.[81]

October 7, 1939: Hitler appointed Himmler head of the R.K.F.D.V., an organization responsible for the deportation of Poles and Jews from Polish provinces.[82]

October 7, 1940: German troops move into Romania bringing with them the horrors of the Holocaust. As can be seen from negotiations surrounding the 19th century Treaty of Berlin, anti Semitism was an established part of the Romanian landscape. The Romanians, led by the infamous Iron Cross killed tens of thousands of their Jewish neighbors. Estimates as to the actual number killed rangefrom 280-,000 to 380,000.[83]



October 7, 1940: The Vichy Government “swept away the Cremeiux Decree of 1870; a law that granted French citizenship to the Jews of Algeria. This act of anti-Semitism would reach in the world of 21st American politics when Virginia Republican Senator George Allen found out for the first time that his mother was an Algerian Jews; a refugee from the Holocaust who had never told her son of his Jewish ancestry for fear that someday the United States would turn on its Jewish citizens in the same that France had during World War II.[84]



[85]

October 7, 1940: The Law for the Protection of Nations is issued in Bulgaria, curbing the rights of Jews.[86]

• October 7, 1941: At Rowne, Volhunia, the SS and local militia took over 17,000 Jews taken from their homes, marched them to open pits, and slaughtered them.[87]

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• October 7, 1942

• The United States and England announce that a United Nations Commission will be established to prosecute Axis war crimes.[88]



October 7, 1943: German convoys deported Jews from Morocco to the concentration camps of Europe.[89]



October 7, 1943: One thousand Jews are deported from Paris to their deaths at Auschwitz.[90]



Convoy 60, October 7, 1943



On September 30, Brunner telexed to Eichmann and asked for the green light for the departure of a convoy on October 7 (XLIX-49). On October 1, Eichmann responded favorably (XLIX-50) and added that a commando to escort the convoy would come from Stuttgart.



Convoy 60 included 564 males and 436 females. One hundred eight were children under 18. The routinetelex (XLIX-52) was signed by Rothke. It established that on October 7, at 10:30 AM, a convoy of 1,000 Jews left Paris/Bobigny with the Meister der Schupo, Schlamm, head of the escort. On October 13, Hoss, Commandant of Auschwitz, telexed to Rothke (XLIX-53) that on October 10 at 5:30, the convoy actually arrived.



When they arrived in Auschwitz, 340 men were selected and went to Buna, the I.G Farben synthetic rubber plant at Auschwitz. They were assigned numbers 156940 through 157279. One hundred sixty nine women remained alive and were given numbers 64711 through 64879. The rest, 491 people, were gassed.



In 1945, less than two years later, 31 of the 509 selected had survived. Two of the survivors were women.



Professor Waitz, who was on this convoy, gave an account of the voyage from Drancy to Auschwitz:



“The voyage in closed cattle cars began at Drancy on October 7, 1943. In each car, one or two pails of water and a sanitary bucket; 95 to 100 persons squeezed together, without sufficient provisions. In two infirmary cars, where there are some straw mattresses on the floor, are the old, those recovering from typhoid or pneumonia, pregnant women, women with infants, ets., and nine screaming women who were taken from an insane asylum by the Germans.

“It is difficult to care for people in these infirmary wagons as the medicine is in an ordinary car and we are not allowed to go pick it up during the stops. During one stop, I try to obtain heart medicine for one old man who is fainting repeatedly; the German NCO tells me: ‘Let him croak, he’ll be dead soon anyway.’



“During another stop, I request water for the sick, and another NCO answers: ‘It’s useless to give them any, they’ll be finished soon.’

“After three days and three nights of travel, the train arrives at a station platform on October 10, 1943, around three in the morning, and remains standing there until dawn.”



On board Convoy 60 was Mosiek Gottlibowicz, born December 12, 1888 from Wilezyn, Russia.[91]



October 7, 1943: In an official report, the German chief of police in Poland recommends that Poles who aid Jews should be dealt with without benefit of trial.[92]



October 10, 1944: Fourteen men from the Sonderkommando who escaped during the revolt of October 7 are found. They are tortured along with many other picked up during the prior two days. But none gave away the locations of the hiding survivors. None of the men would survive the interrogation.[93]







October 7, 2000



Sent: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:45:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Goodlove History - Ruth Gray Johnson

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Saturday, October 7, 2000.

"ANAMOSA

Ruth G. Johnson, 100, of San Antonio, Texas, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000. Memorial services were held on Sept. 25 in San Pedro Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, with private burial at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio.

Survivors include four daughters, Marie Helen Sargent, Margaret S. Barnes, Sylvia S. "Susie" Moore and Norma S. Benson; a son, C. G. "Pat" Sargent; two stepdaughters, Lucille J Whiteturkey and Helen J. Woltersdorf; a stepson, Louis E. "Sonny" Johnson; 26 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren; and five great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Richard Hardy Gray and Dr. Nettie I. Goodlove Gray; a brother, Richard Harrison Gray; her husband, Louis J. Johnson; and a stepdaughter, Ruth J. Daffin.

Ruth was born on April 15, 1900, in Anamosa.

Memorial contributions may be made to the San Antonio Garden Center, 3310 N. New Braunfels, San Antonio, Texas 78209, or to The American Heart Association, San Antonio Division, PO Box 29306, San Antonio, Texas, 78229, or to a charity of your choice."



Regarding Ruth's brother, Richard Harrison Gray. Clippings in Myrtie Andrews Goodlove's scapbook shows he died as a child of a sudden illness while the family was visiting Central City. He is buried at Jordan's Grove Cemetery.



I have a very poor copy of Ruth's parents' business card. Richard is listed in the upper left corner as "R. H. Gray, M. D."; Nettie is listed in the upper right corner as "Nettie O. Gray, M. D."



The center of the card in an arched script read "DOCTORS GRAY", and beneath that in a smaller type "HOMOEOPATHISTS".



The bottom right corner reads "Anamosa, Ia., .............................. 189 "



As ever,



Linda







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[8] The Grand Canyon, September 5, 2011


[9] The Grand Canyon, September 5, 2011


[10] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.


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[18] How the earch changed History, NTGEO, Thursday 6/20/2010.


[19] The Kings, From Babylon to Bagdad., November 1, 2004, Histi.


[20] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamoukar


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[22] The Oriental Museum , Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011


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[27] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 1.


[28] Smithsoninan Magazine, July August 2011


[29] Ice Age Museum, Dundee WI, July 23, 2011.


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[33] The Oriental Institute Museum photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.


[34] Oriental Institute and Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.


[35] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.


[36] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011.




[37] The Oriental Institume Museum Photo by Jeff Goodlove. January 2, 2011.


[38] The Oriental Institute Museum, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2


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[40] The Oriental Institute, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011


[41] The Oriental Institute, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, January 2, 2011


[42] On This Day in America by John Wagman.


[43] Betty Zane, by Zane Grey, page 1.


[44] Moore Harrison Papers Cynthiana/Harrison Public Library, Ref. from Conrad and Caty, by Gary Goodlove, 2003 Author Unknown. Pg. 84


[45] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 1820.22


[46] That Dark and Bloody River, by Allan W. Eckert, xxxiv.


[47] by Frank Schoonover, 1924


[48] Forrest P. Wood of Seattle, Washington,. which appeared in the April, 1967, issue of Kentucky Ancestors (Vol. 2, No. 4).


[49] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 454.46.


[50] DAN REINART


[51] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 454.46.


[52] DAN REINART


[53] http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Hardy/harhistory.html


[54] Timetable of Indian Removal.


[55] http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Hardy/harhistory.html


[56] Source: Samuel Eliot Morison, ed., Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788 and the Formation of the Federal Constitution 2nd ed., Oxford, 1965.


[57] "Virginia," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


[58] Memoirs of Clan Fingon, by Donald D. MacKinnon M.A.


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[60] The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne, page 31.


[61] The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne, page 5.


[62] Washington-Crawford Letters, C. W. Butterfield


[63] Casper (Jasper) Rinker’s house was located approximately ten miles from Winchester on the Winchester-Cumberland road.


[64] Samuel Pritchard resided on the Cacapon River some 40 miles from Samuel Washington’s establishment.


[65] George Washington Journal


[66] Dunmores War by Thwaites and Kellogg p. 407.


[67] Dunmores War, by Thwaites and Kellogg p. 412.


[68] The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 pg. 123


[69] The Brothers Crawford


[70] Revolution in America, Confidential letters and Journals 1776-1784 of Adjutant General Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces. Pg 122


[71] Wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_


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


[75] 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)


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


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


[78] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary, Iowa 24th Infantry, Union Army


[79] The Dormitory was never built, probably to save on costs.


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