Jeff Goodlove email address: 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, Russia, Czech 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, Thomas Jefferson,and ancestors Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/index.html
The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
• • Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.
“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.
Birthdays: Betty J Holder, Mary R. McKee Wesley, Catharine McKinnon Goodlove, Clay W. McKinnon
This Day…
November 7, 1770: Reachd the Mouth of the Hockhocking—distant abt. 20 Miles.[1]
November 7, 1771 Left Williamsburg on my return home, dined & lodged at Col. Bassetts.[2][3]
November 7, 1772: Busy with Captn. Crawford all day.[4]
On November 7, 1775, shortly after the conviction of Dr. Church, the Continental Congress added a mandate for the death penalty as punishment for acts of espionage to the "articles of war."[5]
November 7, 1794 – Treaty of Tellico Blockhouse, ending the Chickamauga Wars.[6]
November 7, 1797
According to a family record sent to me by Dorothy Nordgren, the birth date of Catherine was November 7, 1797, in Kentucky. (Ref.#5) Please note that her name was spelled with a “K”; I will show later that she signed her name with a “C”. Her marriage certificate also shows her name spelled with a C.[7]
November 7, 1797
Vol. 17, No. 3972. Ann Connell. 500 a. Bullitt Co. Knob Cr. 11/7/1797. Bk. 6, p. 99. Same and Heirs June 17, 1801. Bk. 14, p. 456-7.[8]
November 7, 1811: The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, between United States forces led by ancestor and future president, Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and forces of Tecumseh's growing American Indian confederation led by his brother, Tenskwatawa[9].
[10]
Tenskwatawa, the Prophet, Brother of Tecumseh.
In response to rising tensions with the tribes and threats of war, an American force of militia and regulars set out to launch a preemptive strike on the headquarters of the confederacy. The battle took place outside Prophetstown, at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash Rivers.
Although the Americans claimed victory, the Indians attacked with fewer men and sustained fewer casualties. The battle was the culmination of rising tensions in a period sometimes called Tecumseh's War, which continued until his death in 1813. The battle was an important political and symbolic victory for the American forces and a devastating blow to the confederacy which never regained the strength it had before the defeat. Public opinion in the United States blamed the uprising on British interference and Tippecanoe was one of the catalysts that resulted in a declaration of war beginning the War of 1812 only a few months later.[11]
19th century depiction by Alonzo Chappel
Date
November 7, 1811
Locationn
near modern Battle Ground, Indiana
Result
United States victory
Belligerents
Tecumseh's confederacy
United States
Commanders
Tenskwatawa "The Prophet"
Gov. William Henry Harrison
Strength
500–700
250 US Army Regulars
100 Kentucky militia
600 Indiana Territory militia
90 Mounted riflemen
Casualties and losses
50+ killed
70+ wounded
37 killed in action
25 died of wounds
126 wounded[1]
[12]
Tecumseh's War
In 1800, William Henry Harrison had become the governor of the newly formed Indiana Territory. Harrison sought to secure title to Indian lands in order to allow for American expansion; in particular he hoped that the Indiana Territory would attract enough settlers so that it could qualify for statehood. Harrison negotiated numerous land cession treaties with American Indians, including the the Treaty of Fort Wayne on September 30, 1809, in which Miami, Pottawatomie, Lenape and other tribal leaders sold 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km²) to the United States.[2][3]
Tenskwatawa, known as the Prophet, had been leading a religious movement among the northwestern tribes calling for a return to the ancestral ways. His brother, Tecumseh, was outraged by the Treaty of Fort Wayne, and thereafter he emerged as a prominent leader. Tecumseh revived an idea advocated in previous years by the Shawnee leader Blue Jacket and the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant[13],
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which stated that American Indian land was owned in common by all tribes, and land could not be sold without agreement by all the tribes.[2][4] Not yet ready to confront the United States directly, Tecumseh's primary adversaries were initially the American Indian leaders who had signed the treaty. He began by intimidating them and threatening to kill anyone who carried out the terms of the treaty. Tecumseh began to travel widely, urging warriors to abandon the accommodationist chiefs and to join the resistance at Prophetstown. Tecumseh insisted that the Fort Wayne treaty was illegitimate.[5] In a 1810 meeting with Harrison, he demanded that Harrison nullify the treaty and warned that Americans should not attempt to settle the lands sold in the treaty. Harrison rejected his demands and insisted that the tribes could have individual relations with the United States.[6]
Tenskwatawa, by Charles Bird King.
In August 1811, Tecumseh again met with Harrison at Vincennes, where he assured him that the Shawnee brothers meant to remain at peace with the United States.[6] Tecumseh then traveled to the south on a mission to recruit allies among the "Five Civilized Tribes." Most of the southern nations rejected his appeals, but a faction among the Creeks, who came to be known as the Red Sticks, answered his call to arms, leading to the Creek War, which also became a part of the War of 1812.[7][8]
Harrison left the territory on business in Kentucky shortly after the meeting with Tecumseh, leaving secretary John Gibson as acting-governor. Gibson, who had lived among the Indians for many years, was quick to learn of Tecumseh's plans for war and immediately called out the territory's militia and sent emergency letters to call for the return of Harrison.[7] By mid-September most of the militia regiments had formed. By then Harrison had returned accompanied by a small force of army regulars and took command of the militia. Harrison had already been in communication with his superiors in Washington D.C., and he had been authorized to march against the natives as a show of force, hoping that they would accept peace.[9][10]
Harrison gathered the scattered militia regiments near a settlement on Maria Creek. There he was joined by the sixty man company called the Yellow Jackets, so named for their bright yellow coats, from Corydon, Indiana. He was also joined by the companies of the Indiana Rangers. From there the entire force of about 1000 men set out northward towards Prophetstown.[11] The force consisted of about 250 army regulars from the 4th US Infantry Regiment, 100 Kentucky volunteers, and near 600 Indiana militia including two companies of the Indiana Rangers.[10] The army reached the site of modern Terre Haute, Indiana on October 3 where they camped and built Fort Harrison while they waited for supplies to be delivered. A scouting party of Yellow Jackets was ambushed on October 10 causing several casualties and preventing the men from continuing to forage. Supplies quickly began to run low. By October 19, rations were cut and remained so until October 28 when fresh supplies arrived via the Wabash River from Vincennes. With the army resupplied, Harrison resumed his advance to Prophetstown on October 29.[12][13]
November 3, 1811
By November 3, William Henry Harrison (6th cousin, 7 times removed) and his men had arrived on the banks of the Wabash River, near some of the Miami villages.[15]
Battle
A map showing the layout of the battlefield.
As Harrison's forces approached Prophetstown late on November 6, they were met by one of the Prophet's followers waving a white flag. He carried a message from Tenskwatawa, requesting a cease fire be put in place until the next day when the two sides could hold a peaceful meeting. Harrison agreed to a meeting, but was wary of the Prophet's overture believing that the negotiations would be futile. Harrison moved his army to a nearby hill near the confluence of the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers. There he camped his men in battle array, and kept sentinels on duty during the night.[14] The hill he encamped on was the site of a Catholic mission school built to educate the surrounding tribes. On the east side of the hill there was a shallow creek and the west side was a very steep embankment. Because of the nature of the position, Harrison did not order any temporary works to be created around the position as was ordinarily done by encamped armies.[15] The Yellow Jacket company, with Captain Spier Spencer in command, was posted on the southern end of the camp perimeter. The rest of the militia formed a rectangular formation along the edges of the bluff surrounding the camp. Colonel Davis Floyd commanded the militia units guarding the steep bluff on the eastern side of the formation. The regulars, commanded by Major Rodd, and the dragoons, commanded by Maj. Joseph Daviess and former congressman Captain Benjamin Parke, were kept behind the main line to serve as a reserve.[9][16]
The Prophet's followers were worried by the nearby army and feared an imminent attack. They had began to fortify the town, but the defenses were not yet completed. During the evening, the Prophet consulted with the spirits and decided that sending a party to murder Harrison in his tent was the best way to avoid a battle. He assured the warriors that he would cast spells that would prevent them from being harmed and confuse the Americans so they would not resist. The warriors then moved out and began to surround Harrison's army looking for a way to sneak into the camp.[16] Ben, an African-American wagon driver with the army had deserted during the expedition. He agreed to lead a small group of warriors through the line to Harrison's tent. During the late night hours he was captured by the camp sentries, taken back to the camp and bound. He was later convicted of treason but pardoned by Harrison.[15]
November 7, 1811: Although existing accounts are unclear about exactly how the battle began, Harrison's sentinels encountered advancing warriors in the pre-dawn hours of November 7. Around 4:30am, the soldiers awoke to scattered gunshots, they discovered themselves almost encircled by the Prophet's forces. Contact was first made on the northern end of perimeter, but the movement was probably intended as a diversion. Shortly after the first shots, fierce fighting broke out on the opposite end of the camp as the Indians broke through Harrison’s line on the southern corner and entered the camp. The attack took the army by surprise as the Indians shouted war calls and attacked. The brunt of the first charge came down on the right flank. Captain Spencer was among the first to be killed, being shot in each thigh. Governor Harrison later recorded his death in a dispatch to Washington. Of Spencer he said, "...Spencer was wounded in the head. He exhorted his men to fight valiantly. He was shot through both thighs and fell; still continuing to encourage them, he was raised up, and received a ball through his body, which put an immediate end to his existence."[17] Lieutenants McMahan and Berry, the other two Yellow Jacket command officers, were also soon wounded and killed. Without leadership, the Yellow Jackets began to fall back into the camp with the retreating sentinels. The soldiers quickly regrouped under the command of future United States Senator, ensign John Tipton, and with the help of two reserve companies under the command of Capt. Rodd, they repulsed the advance and fixed the breach in the line.[9][18][19]
William Henry Harrison as painted by Rembrandt Peale in 1814.
The second charge on the line targeted both the north and south ends of the camp, with the far southern end again being the hardest hit. Over half the casualties were suffered among the companies on the southern end, including Captain Spencer and five other men in his company, and seven other men in the adjoining company. With the regulars reinforcing that critical section of the line, and the surprise over, the men were able to hold their position as the attacks continued. On the northern end of the camp, Maj. Daviess led the dragoons out on a counter charge punching through the Indians' line before being repulsed. Most of Daviess' company retreated back to the main line, but Daviess himself was killed. Throughout the next hour Harrison's troops fought off several more charges. When the Indians began to run low on ammunition and the sun rose, revealing the small size of the Prophet's army was, the Indian forces finally began to slowly withdraw.[9][20][19] A second charge by the dragoons forced the remaining Indians to flee.[21]
The battle lasted about two hours and Harrison lost 62 men (37 killed in action and 25 mortally wounded), while about 126 were less seriously hurt.[1] The Yellow Jackets suffered the highest causalities of the battle, with 30% of their numbers killed or wounded. The number of Indian casualties is still the subject of debate, but it was certainly lower than that of the United States forces. Historians estimate that as many as 50 were killed and about 70–80 were wounded.[19][21][22][23][24]
Fearing Tecumseh's imminent return with reinforcements, Harrison ordered his men to fortify the camp with works for the rest of the day. As the sentries moved back out, they discovered and scalped the bodies of 36 warriors. The following day, November 8, he sent a small group of men to inspect the town and found it was deserted except for one elderly woman to sick to flee, the rest of defeated Indian forces had evacuated the village during the night.
[16]
Wakawn, or the Snake
Harrison ordered his troops to spare the woman, but to burn down Prophetstown and destroy the Indians' cooking implements, without which the confederacy would have a difficult time to survive the winter. Everything of value was confiscating, including 5,000 bushels of corn and beans.[21] Some of the American soldiers dug up bodies from the graveyard in Prophetstown to scalp. Harrison's troops buried their own dead on the site of their camp. They built large fires over the mass grave in an attempt to conceal it from the Indians.[25] However, after Harrison's troops departed the area, the Indians returned to the grave site, digging up many of the corpses and scattering the bodies in retaliation. It was then that the Prophet supposedly placed the curse of Tippecanoe on Harrison.[9][24]
1811
General William Henry Harrison[17]’s victory at Tippecanoe in 1811. It began the opening of the Northwest Territory.[18]
November 7, 1825 - Shawnee
The Treaty of St. Louis was signed on November 7, 1825 (proclaimed on December 30, 1825) between William Clark on behalf of the United States and delegates from the Shawnee Nation. In this treaty, the Shawnee ceded lands to the United States near Cape Geredeau.[5] In return for Cape Geredeau, the United States government gave the Shawnee a sum of 11,000 dollars and leased to them a blacksmith shop for five years providing all tools and 300 pounds of iron annually.[6] Moreover, peace and friendship between the two nations were renewed and perpetuated.[7][19]
In 1826, the Prophet moved with most Ohio and Indiana Shawnee to a reservation in modern-day Kansas. Here, the Prophet's quest for power continued. By the end of his life, Tenskwatawa lived in his own village with only his family. The other Shawnee people chose to live in the villages of younger and more prominent leaders.[20]
1826: Treaty of Mississinwas
The Treaty of Mississiniwas or the Treaty of Mississinewa is an 1826 treaty between the United States and the Miami tribe.
Terms
After negotiations with the Pottawatomie to build the Michigan Road through Indiana by James B. Ray and Lewis Cass on behalf of President John Quincy Adams, Cass negotiated a two more treaties to purchase lands in Indiana and Michigan, including the Treaty of Mississinewa. By the treaty, the Miami leadership agreed to cede to the United States the bulk of Miami reservation lands held in Indiana by previous treaties. In compensation, the families of Chief Richardville and certain other Miami notables were given estates in Indiana, with houses like the Richardville House and livestock furnished at government expense. The federal government agreed to buy out some of the estates granted by the previous Treaty of St. Mary's. Small reservations were to be carved out along the Eel and Maumee rivers.
The tribe was also to be compensated with $31,040.53, $10,000 of this in silver, the first year; and $26,259.47 in goods the next. Promises were made of a $15,000 annuity thereafter, in addition to monies provided for by other treaties. $2,000 per annum was to be set aside for the "…poor infirm persons of the Miami tribe, and for the education of the youth of the said tribe…" as long as the Congress should "…think proper…" Hunting rights would continue to be enjoyed "…so long as the same shall be the property of the United States."
Problems
One problem with the treaty was language making fulfillment of several US obligations conditional on the will of Congress. No such language limits native obligations pursuant to "the will of the tribal council," thus, the Miami party is at a distinct disadvantage. The United States, after a vote in Congress, can walk away from some of its obligations without breaking the treaty; the Indians cannot. Since most of the land in Indiana was soon parceled out to settlers, the Miami could not long enjoy the privilege of hunting on open land that was "…the property of the United States." This seriously curtailed the ability of most Miami to supplement their diet with meat from the hunt.
While the promises to the Miami elite seem for the most part to have been honored, the provisions for the maintenance of the lower orders were later modified to their detriment or ignored. The "commoners" of the Miami tribe, as they might be called, were left helpless in the face of the Indian Removal Act and were often at the mercy of agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for whom the best interests of natives were not always a priority.[21]
1826:
Benjamin W. MC_KINNON
[2785]
ABT 1826 - ____
· BIRTH: ABT 1826
Father: Uriah MC_KINNON
Mother: Nancy Star INSKEEP
Family 1 : Anna WILCOX
1. +Adeline MC_KINNON
2. Henry MC_KINNON
3. +Olive MC_KINNON
4. +Frank MC_KINNON
5. Stella MC_KINNON
6. William MC_KINNON
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_________________________
|
_Daniel MC_KINNON ___|
| (1767 - 1837) m 1798|
| |_________________________
|
_Uriah MC_KINNON ____|
| (1795 - ....) m 1821|
| | _William HARRISON _______+
| | | (1740 - 1782) m 1765
| |_Nancy HARRISON _____|
| (1772 - 1856) m 1798|
| |_Sarah (Sally) CRAWFORD _+
| (1748 - 1838) m 1765
|
|--Benjamin W. MC_KINNON
| (1826 - ....)
| _James INSKEEP __________
| |
| _Joshua INSKEEP _____|
| | (1770 - 1852) m 1793|
| | |_Hope COLLINS ___________
| |
|_Nancy Star INSKEEP _|
(1800 - 1832) m 1821|
| _John GARWOOD ___________
| |
|_Margaret GARWOOD ___|
(1776 - 1851) m 1793|
|_Ester HAINES ___________
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[2785] ! Compiled by Karen S. Garnett, Morgan Hill, Ca. 95037
! Correspondence from Ruth Inskeep, 209 E. Chillicothe, Bellefontaine,
Oh., 43311: From History of Hardin Co., by Warner, Beers, 1883
! Compiled by JoAnn Naugle, 4100 W St., NW #513, Washington, DC 20007: [22]
1826 – Whitepath was removed from the Cherokee National Council, but reinstated two years later when the schism collapses.[23]
1826-1835 (Francis Godlove) No tax record: probably exempted from personal property taxes because of his advanced age[24]
November 7, 1835 – The Georgia Guard invades what will later be southeast Tennessee by crossing its own declared stateline on the way to Flint Springs in what became Bradley County to arrest John Ross at his house, where they also found and arrest John Howard Payne, taking both men to a makeshift jail at Spring Place. Ross was released nine days later, immediately heading to Washington City, but Payne was held an additional 3 ½ days.[25]
November 7, 1838 – After seeing off the other detachments on the land route, the detachment of John Drew, which included the families of John and or Lewis Ross as well as that of Joseph Vann, attempts to get underway on the luxury riverboat, but was delayed because by low water.[26]
November 7, 1861: Battle of Balmont, ME. [27]
November 7, 1863: Battle of Rappahannoek Station, VA.[28]
November 7, 1863: Battle of Kelley’s Ford, VA.[29]
Mon. November 7, 1864
Rainy day in camp was on fatigue
After wood. Drawed clothing[30]
November 7, 1887: Seigfried Gottlob, Offenbach (place of residence), November 7, 1887 (born). Missing. Mecheln (last known whereabouts). [31]
November 7, 1912: In 1867, William and Sarah moved to their new farm in Sections 27 and 28 of Maine Township, Linn County, Iowa. It is located three miles southwest of Central City at what is now known as 3974 Pleasant Valley Road. This farm embraced 240 acres, which they farmed until retirement four years prior to William’s death. They moved to their new home in Central City, Iowa, November 7, 1912. [32]
November 7-8, 1941: Twenty-one thousand Jews are killed in the Sosenki pine grove outside Rovno.[33]
November 7-9, 1941: More than three thousand Jews Are killed in Pogulanda, outside Dvinsk.[34]
November 7, 1941: Twelve thousand Jews of Minsk are killed at Tuchinka, including Clara Gottlieb.[35]
November 7, 1944
President Roosevelt is reelected for an unprecedented fourth term.[36]
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[1] George Washington Journal
[2] GW arrived at Mount Vernon on 1 1 Nov. “about Dark.”
[3] George Washington Journal
[4] GW today paid Crawford £31 l5s., the balance due to him from the veterans of the Virginia Regiment (LEDGER B, 36, 61).
[5] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/washington-informs-congress-of-espionage
[6] Timetable of Cherokee Removal
[7] Gerol “Gary” Goodlove, Conrad and Caty, 2003
[8] Index for Old Kentucky Surveys and Grants in Old State House, Fkt. KY. (Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett.)
[9] Tecumseh refused to touch alcohol but his brother, Tenskwatawa, was a boasting, swaggering drunk. He had lost an eye as a child and wore a handkerchief over the empty socket, which gave him the appearance of a Corsican pirate. Suddnly in 1805, when a religious mania swept the frontier, he found religion and became a mystic.
The Prophet was transformed from a drunk into a wandering preacher and foe of the white man’s poison water. He was a powerful orator, and the intensity of his message began to reach the tribes. But hios words were those of Tecumseh: the Indians must abandon the life of the white man and return to the ways of their fathers.
From about 1808 to 1810 Tecumseh journeyed among the tribes, traveling as far south as the Seminole, preaching his philosophy that the only way for the Indians to survive was to unite. During his absence General Harrison, using alcohol and threats, forced the aged and feeble Little Turtle to sign away three million acres of land, much of it owned by tribes not represented at the council, for $7,000 in cash and an annuity of $1750.
Harrison met twice with the outraged Tecumseh, but each council ended in an impasse. At one meeting the Shawnee made his famous speech:
“Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the earth?”
Tecumseh, sensing a final confrontation was coming with the white man, intensified his efforts to unite the Indian nations while Harrison burned Prophet’s town at the junction of the Wabash and the Tippecanoe. After a savage two-day battle Harrison triumphantly announced to Washington that he had broken Tecumseh’s power, but the importance of the battle was grossly exaggerated.
On his return Tecumseh exiled his brother, the Prophet, for disobeying his orders not to fight the white man until the confederacy had been formed. The Shawnee leader joined the British in the War of `1812 to defeat the American invasion of Canada and later helped to annihilate a relief column of Kentuckians trying to lift the siege of Fort Meigs. He was killed by Colonel Richard M. Johnson while protecting the British retreat.
It was irony piled upon irony: Tippecanoe would help bring Harrison to the White House; Tecumseh’s death would help bring Johnson to the vice-presidency under Martin Van Buren. There is no known portrait of Tecumseh. A pencil sketch made by Pierre Le Dru, a young Frenchg trader at Vincennes, Indiana, 1808, is said to be a composite.
Painter:James Otto Lewish painted the Prophet in Detroit in 1823,However, this portrait was pai9nted in Washington by Charles Bird King.
(The McKenney-Hall Poertrait Gallery of American Indians, by James D. Horan, page 156.
[10] The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians, by James D. Horan, page 157.
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe
[13] When the smoke of wood fires and burning leaves clings to the November mists in the Mohawk Valley, men still talk about Joseph Brant, the great Mohawk war captain who tried all his life to keep a foot in two worlds, the red and the white.
He refused to bend his knee to King George but gallantly kissed the hand of his queen. He had his portrait painted by the famous English painter George Romney. He was at ease drinking tea from fragile china cups, but could hurl a tomahawk with deadly accuracy. He was a graduate of the Indian school that later became Dartmouth College, and he translated the Bible into the Mohawk language, yet he could leave the Mohawk a blazing ruin from Fort Stanwix, near Rome, to the very outskirts of Schenectady. He was one of the greatest of American Indians; had he given his support to the struggling Continental army the course of our history would certainly have been changed.
But it would have been improbable if not impossible for Brant to wear a Continental tricorn;he was too vain and too closely allied with the Lords of the Valley to consider casting his lot with the humble Palatine Dutch farmers who talked so much of freedom. For Brant, they had the stink of cow dung about them; he was familiar with buckled shoes and cologne.
His decision to side with the British was tragic for the Iroquis Confederacy or Six Nations as it was called. That ancient confederation bound together by wisdom, skill at war, and diplomacy became helplessly divided when it was agreed that each nation should go its own way. In the past a declaration helplessly divided when it was agreed that each nation should go its own way. In the past a declation of war had to be voted unanimously. Some nations like the Oneida went with the Americans other tried to stay neutral, or like Brant’s Mohawk fought for the British.
Brant joined Colonel Barry St. Leger’s invasion of the Mohawk, one of the prongs of Burgoyn’s doomed campaign. The famous Battle or Oriskany, undoubtebly the bloodiest and most ferocious of the Revolution, was fought with Herkimer’s gallant farmer standing musket to musket with the King’s Own, the best of his Hessian gamekeeper-sharpshooters, and Brant’s painted warriors. Brant, who despised defeat,m led his Indians back to Frot Niagara, bitterly advising the British high command in Montreal that from now on he would fight his way.
For six years he led his Indian raiders into the Mohawk, again and again leaving the beautiful valley a sea of flames while the alarm bells in the tiny forts clanged frantically.
Some raids became classic atrocity stories of American wars: Cherry Valley, where women and children lay dead in the snow with Brant protesting fiercely that Walter Butler, who led Butler’s Rangers, was to blame; Wyoming, which gave birth to the celebrated eighteenth-century poem “Gertrude of Wyoming,” which pictures Brant as a murderousd fiend who slaughtered the innocent. But as it developed Brant was never there.
Following the Revolution Brant led his people, the first American DPs, across the border to settle in Canada.
He came in solitary glory to Philadelphia in 1792 to see Washington and his cabinet, but only after the other Iroquois chiefs, like Cornplanter and Red Jackt, had already left the capital. It was typicalof Brant. Humilyut was alien to the Mohawk; in fact, pride and arrogance were his major flaws.
Brant was no wigwam, story book Indian dressed in Buckskins staind with bear grease and smelling of a thousand campfires. He was educated, he wrote with the grace and lucidity that was far beyond many of the farmers he had fought against. His clothes were of the finest material, and in his luxurious home elaborate meals were served on crisp Irish linen. He had a host of slaves, as many as the aristocratic Virginians who would later rule the United States
He died in his fine home on Grand River, Ontario, November 24, 1807, whispering with his last breath: Have pity on the poor Indians.” Painter: Brant was painted by many famous artist; among them were Romney, Charles Willson Peal, George Catlin, and Wilhelm Berezy. It is not certain who painted this post-revolutionary portrait. (The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians by James D. Horan.)
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[15] Unknown source.
[16] This Winnebago chief (Wakawn, or the Snake), a follower of Tecumseh, was in the Battle of Tippecanoe when General Harrison’s troops stormed the Prophet’s town in the autumn of 1811. He was wounded but escaped to Fort Malden where he fought with the Shawnee leader on the side of the British until peace was declared.
The Snake, as he was known on the frontier, denounced the commander of the fort for leaving his Indian allies to the mercy of the Americans, then crossed the border to make his own peace with the United States. He endorsed Indian removal and according to Colonel McKenney “was the first Winnebago of any note who crossed the river [Mississippi]…”
When an Indian school was established at Prairie du Chien in 1834, the Snake insisted all the children in his nation must attend. To set an example he asked the Reverend David Lowry, a missionary who had devotee his life to the Winnebago, to teach him English and rudimentary facts about farming,.
He had an immediate confrontation with other Winnebago chiefs who denounced him for accepting the ways of the white man. Colonel McKenney gives no details but claims on one occasion that the Snake “defended his opinions at the risk of his life.”
He alo did what few Indians, chiefs, or warriors whould ever dare to do;’ he tossed aside his blanket and helped his wife plow their fields.
He wisely advised Lowry not to waste his time on the older Winnebago but to consentrateon the yong. Indians who had spent all their adult lives in the free and easy life on the plains would never take up the plow, he warned the clergymean, but their children might listen to him.
To show its apprecitation of the Snak’s attempts to abandon his ways, the government built him a log house with a chimney and fireplace. When the agent returned a few months later he was startled to see smoke coming from the the center of roof. He ddiscovered the Snake had ripped out the floor, used the lumber for his cook fire that was in the center of the room, and cut a smoke hole in the roof. As the agent advised McKenney, the Snake now had a log tepee.
Whiskey was a problem among the Winnegago, and the Snake was the best customer at the Prairie du Chien’s trading post. One winter’s night he drank himself into insensibility and died of pleurisy. His drinking companions soon made his grave a favorite meeting spot. An indignant Colonel McKenney wrote: “[They] gather around it and pour whiskey on the ground, for the benefit of the departed spirit, which is supposed to return and mingle in their orgies.”
Even the most superstitious Winnebago never reportede seeing the Snak’s spirit returning for a drink, but after his death his wife became a fierce foe of all whiskey traders. She learned English from Doctor Lowry, cultivated her farm, and raised the Snak’s sons, threatening to shoot anyone she found with a cup of whiskey.
McKenney recalled: “Winnebago like, he was always ready to fight, except when the Sioux look upon them in a war attitude. He wears a snake sken around his head indicating his name.”
Painter: Original by James Otto Lewis, Fond du Lac council, 1826, and copied later in Washington by A. Ford.
(The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians, by James D. Horan.
[17] William Henry Harrison
H O M E S T A T E Ohio P A R T Y Whig T E R M I N O F F I C E March 4, 1841- April 4, 1841 V I C E P R E S I D E N T John Tyler _ Harrison became the first president to die in office when he died of pneumonia 32 days after his inaugural celebration. S I G N I F I C A N T A C T S Harrison died only 32 days after taking office and carried out no significant acts. C A R E E R 1791 Left medical school to fight in the Indian Wars. 1800-1812 Served as territorial governor of Indiana. 1811 Defeated Native American forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, earning the nickname "Old Tippecanoe." 1813 Recaptured the city of Detroit from the British during the War of 1812. 1816-1819 Represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1825-1828 Represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate. March 4- April 4, 1841 President of the United States. _ Harrison's father signed the Declaration of
Independence and his grandson became the 23rd president of the United States. _ Harrison's 8578-word inaugural address is the longest on record.
"William H. Harrison Quick Facts," Microsoft’ Encarta’ Encyclopedia 2000. b 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All
[18] Ci.springfield.us/profile/history.html
[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Louis
[20] http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=312
[21]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mississinwas
[22] http://jonathanpaul.org/silvey/graham/d0000/g0000144.html#I3758
[23] Timetable of Cherokee Removal
[24] The Hampshire County Court Minutes for that period that could document this do not exist. JF
[25] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[26] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[27] State Capital Memorial, Austin, TX, February 11, 2012
[28] State Capital Memorial, Austin, TX, February 11, 2012
[29] State Capital Memorial, Austin, TX, February 11, 2012
[30] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove
[31] [2]Memorial Book: Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Oppression in Germany, 1933-1945
[32] Winton Goodlove:A History of Central City Ia and the Surrounding Area Book ll 1999
[33] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[34] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[35] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
Gedenkbuch, Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945. 2., wesentlich erweiterte Auflage, Band II G-K, Bearbeitet und herausgegben vom Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, 2006, pg. 1033-1035,.
[36] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
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