This Day in Goodlove History, December 16
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.
Birthday’s: Sara Reinhart Sutton 56, Ernest S Yates 72,
Anniversary: Janet Goodlove and Edwin V Yehle 51.
This Day…
December 16, 1590: On December 16, 1590, Luchlane McKynnon of Strathardill is charged to find Caution for the good behaviour of himself and his clan to the amount of £2000 in terms of the Act of Parliament.[1]
December 1607: In May 1607, about 100 English colonists settled along the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. The settlers fared badly because of famine, disease, and Indian attacks, but were aided by 27-year-old English adventurer John Smith, who directed survival efforts and mapped the area. While exploring the Chickahominy River in December 1607, Smith and two colonists were captured by Powhatan warriors. At the time, the Powhatan confederacy consisted of around 30 Tidewater-area tribes led by Chief Wahunsonacock, known as Chief Powhatan to the English. Smith's companions were killed, but he was spared and released, (according to a 1624 account by Smith) because of the dramatic intercession of Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's 13-year-old daughter. Her real name was Matoaka, and Pocahontas was a pet name that has been translated variously as "playful one" and "my favorite daughter."
In 1608, Smith became president of the Jamestown colony, but the settlement continued to suffer. An accidental fire destroyed much of the town, and hunger, disease, and Indian attacks continued. During this time, Pocahontas often came to Jamestown as an emissary of her father, sometimes bearing gifts of food to help the hard-pressed settlers. She befriended the settlers and became acquainted with English ways. In 1609, Smith was injured from a fire in his gunpowder bag and was forced to return to England. [2]
December 1681
French exploreres LaSalle and Tonti go down the Chicago River on their way to the Mississippi, December, 1681 (Wabash and Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. Photo 2009 by Jeff Goodlove
1682
La Salle and Tonty build Fort St. Louis across the Illinois River from the Great Village of the Illinois site.[3]
1682
Ancestor Major Lawrence Smith’s services were as follows: Major and Commander of fort, Rappahannock County.[4]
Lieutenant-Colonel, 1682. [5]
1682: Founding of the city of Philadelphia by William Penn. The city’s name means “brotherly love.” Twenty-six years before William Penn, the Quaker leader who founded Philadelphia set foot in the New World. [6]
1681-1682: Hailey’s comet reappears. He predicts that in 76 years it will return again, in 1758.[7]
December 16, 1718: The Will OF ANDREW HARRISON of St Mary ‘a Parish, Essex County,
Virginia, was dated April 28, 1718; proved in Essex’ County Court,
November 18, 1718, December 16, 1718 and March 17, 1718 (1718-19).
“Being grown very aged. & at this time, sick & weak in body, but in perfect sense and memory—” After the usual expressions of Christian faith in the atonement and resurrection, and the committal of his body to the ground at the discretion of his executors, provision? for the payment of. debts and funeral charges, he disposed of his estate as follows: Wife, Eleanor Harrison is named as executrix; son Andrew Harrison, and son-in-law. Gabriel Long are named as trustees and overseers to assist her in carrying out the provisions of the will; he ratifies former gifts of land to three of his children, viz, son William Harrison, 270. acres; son Andrew Harrison. 200 acres, and daughter Elizabetli, 200 acres, “all of which lands, they are now possessed, and which I now give to them & theirs forever.’? * lie refers to having put into the hands Of William Stanard, bills of exchange for Sixty five pounds, twelve shillings and Six pence, sterling, with which said Stanard is to buy two negroes for said Harrison; the use of these two negroes,. or that money, to testator’s wife~ during life or widowhood, and after her decease, the negroes or the money to daughter Margaret Long ‘a three youngest sons, viz: Richard; Gabriel, and: William (Long), to be given and equally divided between them and their heirs as soon as they are 21 years old. * If wife dies before either of the three mentioned Long children come of age, then testator’s son in law, Gabriel Long, to have use thereof, until that ~specified time, and for the use’’. thereof, he is to give the said three Long children ‘schooling, that is to teach them to read & write & cast aecount4’~ daughter
Margaret Long, after the death of testator’s wife, a servant boy named
Richard Bradley, “till he comes of age of one & twenty years”; also to
Margaret, at the time specified, a “featherbed, bolster, pillow, rug and blankets”; son William, after decease of testator’s wife, a “ feather bed, bedstead, and all furniture belonging thereto, my own chest and all my wearing apparel and the cloth which I have to make ~my clothing, and my riding saddle”; “to my son William” after the decease of the testator ‘s wife, an “oval table”, a “large iron pot”; to son Andrew, after the decease of testator’s wife, “a feather bed, bolster, pillows, and furniture belonging thereto; a large iron pot;” residue of estate, personal & movable, after wife’s death, to be equally divided among testator ‘s four children, Viz: “William, Andrew, Elizabeth, and Margaret “.
- His
Witnesses: (Signed) Andrew A. II. Harrison
Mark
John Ellitt
William-X-Davison
Mary-X~Davison[8]
December 16, 1718: Andrew Harrison was in perfect sence and memory at the time of making his will.
December 16, 1718. Further proved by Wm. Davison and Mary Davison
March 17, 1718/19 Further proved by Elianor Harrison, executrix.
Page 55: original pages 102-103 Andrew Harrison late of Parish of St. Mary. Inventory. June 2, 1719. Made pursuant to order of March 17, 1718/19. Total valuation L113.13.10 1/2, including two Negroes valued at L58 and one white servant at L10. Signed by Elianr. (X) Harrison.
Jno. Ray
John Catlett Jun.
Robt. Kay
Andrew Harrison and his association with Richard Long and Samuel Elliott.
Essex County, Virginia, Records, Deeds and Wills #12, 1704-1707.abstracted and compiled by John Frederick Dorman, Washington, D.C. 1963.
(3)
page 409, February 24, 1703/4. Surveyed for Andrew Harrison, Richard Long and Samuel Elliott, 1149 acres 80 perches on the branches of Mattapony and the branches of Puminsend Creek, corner to a patent lately granted to Harrison, Long and Elliott . . . in the fork of a branch of Mattapony and in the line of a patent formerly granted unto Mr John Buckner, deceased,
Charles Smith, surveyer
Plat showing division of land to:
Samuell Ellit, 416 acres: adjoins .
. . south side of a branch of Mattapony. . .
Richard Long, 316 acres: adjoins south side of a branch of Puminsend . . . north side of another branch of Puminsend
Mr. Andrew Harrison, 416 acres: adjoins Buckner's line corner to a patent of Harrison's . . . patent formerly granted unto said Buckner . . . branch of Mattapony.
May 10, 1707. Division acknowledged by Andrew Harrison, Richard Long and Samll. Ellits.
Page 410. February 23, 1703/4. Surveyed for Andrew Harrison, Richard Long and Samuel Elliott 813 acres and 120 perches in Essex County . . . in a branch of Goulden Vale and in a line of a petent formerly granted unto Mr. Buckner. Divided into three parts.
Charles Smith, surveyer
Plat showing division to:
Andrew Harrison, 271 acres 40 perches
Richard Long, 271 acres 40 perches
Samuel Elliot, 271 acres 40 perches.
May 10, 1707 Andrew (AH) Harrison
Richrd. (R) Long
Samuel Ellitts
May 10, 1707 Acknowledged.
Also, in the year after his fathers death, Andrew Harrison, Jr. was sued by a firm of merchants from Bristol, England. There are numerous entries in the Essex county order book 1717-1723, part III. It seems to have stretched through six courts with continuances and motions. Andrew ended up losing and having to pay damages of 300 pounds of tobacco, plus lost time for his witnesses, including Richard Long, and some court costs.
•Andrew Harrison (1648 - 1718)[9]
December 16, 1772: Valentine Crawford who came yesterday went away today.[10]
December 16, 1773; Mr. Val Crawford who came yesterday and went this day.[11]
Old South Church, Boston.[12] December 16, 1773The deadline was midnight, December 16. That day, some 7,000 citizens came to Old South, spilling out into the surrounding streets. Samuel Adams chaired the meeting, and a delegation was sent to Governor Huchinson’s country estate with a final plea. At a quarter to six, the delegation returned. Hutchinson had once again refused. Adams asked a few questions; then he said, resignedly, “Gentlemen, this meeting can do nothing more to save the country.” Adams was not accepting defeat; he was giving a signal. Nearly a hundred men, disguised as Mohawk Indians, suddenly appeared outside the meeting house doors. Amidst war whoops, the cry “To the wharves!” rang out. “Boston Harbour a teapot tonight!” The “Indians”, followed by 2,000 spectators, rushed down to Griffin’s Wharf. The protest over tea was costly. The East India Company’s destroyed cargo was valued at 45 times the price of Paul Rever’s sevenroom house. Destroyed were 342 chests, half-chests, and quarter chests of tea, wighing 92, 626 pounds in all, more than 46 tons of tea leaves, enough to make 18,523,200 cups! And tea was a luxery then. TheEast India Company’s losses mounted to L9,659; today the ruined tea would cost about a million dollars in the grocery![13]Parliament retaliated by taking away Boston’s self-government and even its livelihood, the port. The troops returned, and soon colonists began to prepare for the inevitable war.[14] What came to be known as the Boston Tea Party would lead to the war of American independence. Many scholars believe that Mason’s were deaply involved in the Tea Party. Brothers were known to have met regularly at the Green Dragon Tavern where it was more than likely where the plot was hatched. Their former Lodge Master was Paul Revere, an artist and patriot that made an engraving of the Boston Massacre.[15] Another brother was Joseph Warren, who died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.[16]
[17] After the Tea Party, British officials banned town meetings and restricted the use of Faneuil Hall. The Cradle of Liberty became a barracks for troops, then a theatre for their amusement. One performace of a farce written by General Burgoyune was rudely interrupted by the news of an American attack. All of the actors and most of the audience rushed out to take their posts.[18]
[19]
Uniforms used by “The Ancients” at Faneuil Hall, in Boston.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, or Ancients, as they are called, are America’s first and oldest militia organization. Founded in 1637 to protect the colony against Indian attack, they were a “School for Officers and a Nursery for Soldiers”. Members of the Company dumped tea into Boston Harbor and fought at Bunker Hill; indeed, they have fought in every American war since the 17th century. As a unit, however, their only service was with Myles Standish in a 1645 skirmish with native Americans, and again in Say’s Rebellion in 1787.[20]
No. 19.—CRAWFORD TO WASHINGTON.
[No date.[21]]
SIR:—I should be glad to know how matters were settled at Fredericksburg, at the last meeting of the officers in regard to our lands under his Majesty’s proclamation. You may depend on my taking every step in my power to finish the soldiers’ land this fall and winter. As soon as any can be finished, it shall be sent to you by time hand of some person who shall bring it to you immediately. I waited on Colonel Mason on my return home, and have agreed with him to survey time Ohio land as soon as the land for the soldiers is done.
I am indebted to Mr. Hite for some goods had last spring of him before I went down the river, and I am obliged to give him an order on you for some money, which I hope you will pay as soon as you get it in your hands. Any news you may hear toward the new government that may concern me, I should be glad to hear as soon as convenient. Your lands on Chartier’s are safe yet; but how long they may continue so, I do not know, as the people that were going to settle on them at the time we come down were driven off, but attempted to return in the spring.
I shall settle some man on them if possible, and hope by that means to secure them. Everything in my power shall be done. They must be stronger than I and my party are if they take them. I have agreed to pay twenty pounds to Mr. Stephenson’s estate from you, which I should be obliged to you for. I am, etc.[22]
December 16, 1778:
The commissaries at Wilmington are sending cattle once a week for the captive rebels and, from time to time, clothing. On the 16th, Regimental Quartermaster Kitz of Woellwarth’s Regiment[23] was sent to the prisoners at Winchester to deliver money and equipment to the officers, Now and then one or more soldiers return from captivity. They have no complaints about ‘their treatment and even less about lack ‘of food. There seems to be some hope that within the near future the officers will be paroled, especially since it would bring about the exchange of Generals Prescott and Lee.
The 71st Regiment and von Mirbach’s made the voyage from here to New York in ten days, landing there on the 25th of December last. On the 17th and 18th of December the 71st foraged ,near Chester.
At present there are quartered in New York the 38th, 52nd, and 57th English Regiments and the Hessian regiments Erb Prinz, Prinz Carl, Trumhach, Wissenbach, and Stein. Von Mirbach’s Regiment is posted in scattered houses along the North River as far as Bloomingdale. At its right wing, near Jones’s [24] house, is a detachment of four hundred men from New York, who are relieved every four weeks, The daily duty in the city is being done by one captain, six subalterns, twenty-eight noncommissioned officers, seven drummers, and two hundred and fifty-seven, privates. ‘[25]
December 16-19, 1779
On the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th the following troops were embarked in the East River at New York under the command of Sir Henry Clinton and the generals Lord Cornwallis, Huyn, Kospoth, and Paterson.
1. 280 Hessian and Anspach jägers.
2. Two battalions of English light infantry, reckoned at 1,000 men, under Colonel Abercromby[26] and Major Dundas.’
3. Two battalions of English grenadiers of 1,000 men under the two colonels Yorke and Hope.2
4. Four battalions of Hessian grenadiers under the lieutenant colonels Linsing, Lengerke, Schuler, and Graff.3
5. The 7th, 23d, 33d, 63d, and 64th English regiments.
6. The Hessian Regiment Huyn.
7. The British Legion under Colonel Tarleton.
8. A company of the 17th Regiment of Light Dragoons.
9. A company of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, refugees.4
10. The Aithouse sharpshooter company.5
11. The Scottish corps under Major Ferguson.
12. One hundred Hessian volunteers drawn from all the regiments under Sir George Hanger,6 who served as a volunteer with the Jager Corps.
13. 250 English and Hessian bombardiers and gunners under Majors Traille and Collins,7 which were equipped with all necessities for a siege.
14. 200 pontoniers and pioneers.
This entire corps numbered between 7,000 and 8,000 men.[27]
December 16, 1811
George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton all played a part in the history of Clark County. So did the great chief Tecumseh. (Ref. 9.3) According to Allan Eckert in pages 537-543 of the “Frontiersmen,” Tecumseh had predicted two signs that were to be the “signs” of his followers to go to battle against the whites. One was a meteor across the heavens and another was to be an earthquake. (Page 537-543-Ref 9.31) On December 16, 1811, an earthquake shook the entire mid-section of North America exactly as predicted. It continued off and on for two days, the second on January 23, the third on January 27 and the worst, the fourth, on February 13, 1811, according to Allan Eckert’s narrative. It would have been the next August that Conrad Goodlove and William McKinnon would have entered the war; Conrad would have felt the earthquake tremors. [28]
The unusual seismic activity began at about 2 a.m. on December 16, 1811, when a strong tremor rocked the New Madrid region. The city of New Madrid, located near the Mississippi River in present-day Arkansas, had about 1,000 residents at the time, mostly farmers, hunters and fur trappers. At 7:15 a.m., an even more powerful quake erupted, now estimated to have had a magnitude of 8.6. This tremor literally knocked people off their feet and many people experienced nausea from the extensive rolling of the earth. Given that the area was sparsely populated and there weren't many multi-story structures, the death toll was relatively low. However, the quake did cause landslides that destroyed several communities, including Little Prairie, Missouri.
The earthquake also caused fissures--some as much as several hundred feet long--to open on the earth's surface. Large trees were snapped in two. Sulfur leaked out from underground pockets and river banks vanished, flooding thousands of acres of forests. On January 23, 1812, an estimated 8.4-magnitude quake struck in nearly the same location, causing disastrous effects. Reportedly, the president's wife, Dolley Madison, was awoken by the tremor in Washington, D.C. Fortunately, the death toll was smaller, as most of the survivors of the first earthquake were now living in tents, in which they could not be crushed.
The strongest of the tremors followed on February 7. This one was estimated at an amazing 8.8-magnitude and was probably one of the strongest quakes in human history. Church bells rang in Boston, thousands of miles away, from the shaking. Brick walls were toppled in Cincinnati. In the Mississippi River, water turned brown and whirlpools developed suddenly from the depressions created in the riverbed. Waterfalls were created in an instant; in one report, 30 boats were helplessly thrown over falls, killing the people on board. Many of the small islands in the middle of the river, often used as bases by river pirates, permanently disappeared. Large lakes, such as Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee and Big Lake at the Arkansas-Missouri border, were created by the earthquake as river water poured into new depressions.
This series of large earthquakes ended in March, although there were aftershocks for a few more years. In all, it is believed that approximately 1,000 people died because of the earthquakes, though an accurate count is difficult to determine because of a lack of an accurate record of the Native American population in the area at the time.[29]
[30]
Saul Henkel, married Conrad and Caty in 1819.
December 16, 1824
1825
In those days books were rare and Abraham Lincoln’s library was small and select. It consisted at first of three volumes: The Bible, Aesop’s Fables and Pilgrim’s Progress. Some-time in the eighties a prominent magazine published a series of articles written by men of eminence in the various walks of life, under the title of “Books that have helped me." The most noticeable fact was that each of these eminent men–men who had read hundreds of books–specified not more than three or four books. Lincoln’s first list was of three. They were emphatically books. Day after day he read, pondered and inwardly digested them until they were his own. Better books he could not have found in all the universities of Europe, and we begin to understand where he got his moral vision, his precision of English style, and his shrewd humor.
Later he borrowed from a neighbor, Josiah Crawford, a copy of Weems’Life of Washington. In lieu of a bookcase he tucked this, one night, into the chinking of the cabin. A rain-storm came up and soaked the book through and through. By morning it presented a sorry appearance. The damage was done and could not be repaired. Crestfallen the lad carried it back to the owner and, having no money, offered to pay for the mischief in work. Crawford agreed and named seventy-five cents (in labor) as a fair sum.
“Does this pay for the book,” the borrower asked, “or only for the damage to the book?” Crawford reckoned that the book “wa’n’t of much account to him nor to any one else.” So Lincoln cheerfully did the work–it was for three days–and owned the book.[31]
1825: In 1825 Abraham Lincoln borrowed a book titled Life of Washington[32] by Parson Mason Weems. [33]However, the book got soaked with rain. Unfortunately Abe left the book inside the cabin near where there was a chink in the logs and an all-night rain had soaked the book. He worked off its worth for his neighbor from whom he had borrowed it (Josiah Crawford). This was the very first book Abraham ever personally owned.[34]
NPS Photo
INDIANA PANEL: 1816-1830.
The Boyhood Days of Lincoln.
This panel depicts Lincoln as a youth, but fully grown and capable of doing a man's job. At the extreme left is James Gentry, wealthy farmer and merchant.
Abe was a frequent visitor in his home. Next to him is Josiah Crawford. Lincoln worked for him three days to pay for a book he borrowed which was damaged by rain. Behind Abe, "The Railsplitter," holding a hewn log are Aaron Grigsby, husband of Lincoln's sister, and Dennis Hanks, his mother's cousin. To the right is James Gentry's son Allen who was Lincoln's companion on a trip down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Beside him is Thomas Lincoln's second wife, Sarah Bush Lincoln.[35]
1825: The Erie Canal was proposed in 1808 and completed in 1825. The Canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west to the Hudson River in the east. [36] A ship could now travel all the way from the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. In the days before railroad this was big business. [37]
1825: Russian Poet and author, Abraham Baer Gottlober, when at the age of fourteen (born January 14, 1811) he married the daughter of a wealthy “Hasid” in Chernigov, and settled there. When his inclination for secular knowledge became known, his father ion law, on the advice of a Hasidic rabbi, caused the young couple to be divorced, and Gottlober, who had joined the Hasidim after his marriage, now became their bitter enemy. [38]
1825 ca. - Percussion-cap guns are in general use.[39]
December 16, 1873: John Paulus GUTLEBEN was born on December 16, 1873 in Colmar,Upper hine,Alsace and died on November 25, 1895 in Emerald, Lancaster, NE at age 21. [40]
December 16, 1941: Japanese forces invade the Dutch East Indies. [41]
December 16, 1942: A ghetto is established in Kharkov. Three weeks later approximately 15,000 Jews are killed in the Drobitski Ravine.[42]
December 16, 1944: On December 16, 1944 at the Opera Theater in Milan “The Duce” Mussolini delivered what was to be called his “redemption speech” in which he referred the German secret weapons…”We are not dealing with secret weapons but new weapons. It is obvious that they are secret until they are used in combat. The British can bitterly confirm that such weapons exist. I can assure you that the first attacks will be followed by others. Those attacks will reestablish the balance of power…and soon return it to the Germans hands. [43]
1945: In 1945 an explosion blew out windows and wrecked equipment in the research building. Three employees were injured: Fred Albinson, a chemist; George Keck, a company fireman, and Kenneth Town, a lab assistant. My wife, the former Doris Dean, who worked in the laboratory, clearly remembers the incident as well as myself.
The blast buckled the ceiling of the basement and the floor of the first floor, knocking over and destroying analytical balances where Drs. Louis Waldbauer and Larry
Hallet worked and near the area where Dr. Isaac H. Godlove worked as head of the physical chemistry department. If my memory serves me correctly, Doris' boss,
Richard Towne, was attempting to co-polymerize methyl vinyl ether (made from methanol and acetylene) with maleic anhydride, using lauroyl peroxide catalyst. By
mistake, he used fifty times too much catalyst. The accident happened after working hours and they called in the company nurse to assist, but she got so nervous and
excited that they had to take care of her![44]
1945: In 1945, a major trove of manuscripts was unearthed from a cave near Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, which included a small number of the sayings of Jesus dating from the second century C.E.[45] Included in the find were 52 documents in 13 papyrus books. Among the manuscripts, which were written in a Coptic translation of the original Greek, was the only complete copy ever found of the Gospel of Thomas, one of the so called Gnostic Gospels. This rich ollerction of banned religionus literatre included texts, and fragments of tests, that had been condemned by early champions of Christian orthodoxy such as Athanasius, Hegesippus, and Irenaueus, who wrote in the second, third, and fourth centuries C.E.The documents in these codices, dating back to the second dentury, were believed to have been originally part of a library at the nearby monastery of St. Pachomius.
The recovery of the complete Gospel of Thomas solved a major puzzle for schoolares. It confirmed something that had previously been only a hypothesis. Scholars had long thought that there had been a proto gospel, a collection of sayings they dubbed the Lost Gospel Q, one of the two sources from which the gospeols of Matthew and luke drew their material. The Gospel of Thomas proved conclusively that such sortys of codices had really existed. [46]
Early Christian teachings had remained something of a mystery until the discovery in 1945 of mystical Christian texts buried for more than a thousand years.
Named for the Egyptian town for which they were unearthed, this collection of some fifty works is known as the Nad Kamady library.
What the Nad Kamady library shows us is that the early Christian movement is enormously more interesting and complicated than we ever imagined. It shows us that instead of four gospels which have in the new testament it shows us that there are dozens and it shows us what they said and that they are really quite different.[47]
December 16, 1989: On February 15,1990, ( An earlier version had been delivered on December 16, 1989, in Rieti, and a later version in Madrid on February 24, 1990 (Ratzinger, 1994, p. 81). According to Feyerabend himself, Ratzinger had also mentioned him "in support of" his own views in a speech in Parma around the same time (Feyerabend, 1995, p. 178).) in a speech delivered at the Sapienza University of Rome,[144] Cardinal Ratzinger (later to become Pope Benedict XVI) cited some current views on the Galileo affair as forming what he called "a symptomatic case that permits us to see how deep the self-doubt of the modern age, of science and technology goes today".[145][48]
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[1] M E M O I R S OF C LAN F I N G O N BY REV. DONALD D. MACKINNON, M.A. Circa 1888
[2] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
[3] http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/ilchronology.htm
[4] Henning’s Statutes at Large, vol. 2, PP. 347-434.
[5] Executive Journal-s of the Council of Colonial Virginia, vol. 1, p. 18.
Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence pg. 300
[6] This Day in Jewish History
[7] Comets: The Prophets of Doom, H2, 3/13/2012
[8] Essex County Records, Will Book 3, page 84, 1717-1722. Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence pgs. 312-313
[9] Andrew Harrison (1648 - 1718)
[10] George Washington
[11] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 120.)
[12] Photo by Jeff Goodlove
[13] The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne, page 30.
[14] The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne, page 4.
• [15] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1774
• [16] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1774
[17] Photo by Jeff Goodlove, November 14, 2009.
[18] The Complete Guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne, page 32.
[19] Photo by Jeff Goodlove, November 14, 2009
[20] The Complete Guide to Bostons Freedom Trail by Charles Bahne page 33.
[21] It was written in the fall of 1773.
[22] Washington-Crawford Letters, C. W. Butterfield
[23] Woellwarth’s Regiment is part of the Combined Battalion (see :1777, note 78); it consisted mainly of what was left of von Rail’s Regiment.
[24] Woodlawn, the home of Nicholas Jones. It stood a little west of the present corner of 107th St. and 11th Ave. (Magazine of American History, VIII, 48).
[25] Confidential letters and Journals 1776-1784 of Adjutant General Major Baurmeister of the Hessian Forces pg. 151
[26] Abercromby. (Also Abercrombie) Major General James Abercromby. (1706-1781). Scot. After being his assistant, Abercromby replaced the Earl of Loudon as British military commander in North America. Abercromby’s assault in July 1758 on the French Fort Carillon (later Fort Ticonderoga) resulted in 2,000 dead and wounded British and colonial forces. The French, on the other hand, lost some 375. Abercromby continually spoke in critical terms of all things colonial—militias as well as merchants. This criticism became standard fare for British generals frustrated by the short enlistments, high desertion rates, and undisciplined nature of the militia troops. Abercromby was replaced by forty year-old Jeffery Amherst who had recently been promoted to Temporary Major General in 1758. A question exists whether Amherst replaced Abercromby or was it Wolfe? Most believe it was Amherst. Some sources maintain that when Wolfe arrived to be reporting to Abercromby, he (Wolfe) became the de facto commander. Also, the thirty-three year old George Augustus, Viscount Howe had been promoted to brigadier with the purpose of assigning him to help Abercromby. Howe was killed near Ticonderoga—leaving Abercromby to make the decisions. Abercromby is treated roughly by most historians who write that he was overweight, knew little about the military, and was a blatantly political appointment. Whatever the actual command structure designed by London—command defects did in fact exist. Historians disagree on whether Abercromby replaced Shirley or whether he actually replaced John Campbell, the Earl of Loudon, who is often cited as his superior when Abercromby arrived in North America. Loudon succeeded Shirley in 1756.
(See Amherst—below and Shirley.)
http://www.thelittlelist.net/abetoawl.htm#abenaki
[27] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pg 190.
[28] Gerol “Gary” Goodlove Conrad and Caty, 2003
[29] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-causes-fluvial-tsunami-in-mississippi
[30] Yorktown Victory Center, Yorktown Virginia, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, 2008.
[31] http://www.authorama.com/life-of-abraham-lincoln-5.html
[32] The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800). Published anonymously in its first edition the year following Washington's death, this immensely popular biography would undergo continual expansions and revisions during the author's lifetime, with a twenty-ninth edition published the year of Weems's death. Not a model of strict factual biography, the work originates many of the Washington myths, including the cherry-tree story, which first appears in the fifth edition (1806). Weems also publishes Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant, the first of his popular moralistic pamphlets, to be followed by God's Revenge Against Murder (1807), The Devil in Petticoats (1810), God's Revenge Against Gambling (1815), and God's Revenge Against Dueling (1820).
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[33] Parson Weems
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Portrait of Parson Weems
Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author. He is best known as the source of some of the apocryphal stories about George Washington. The famous tale of the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet") is included in The Life of Washington (1800), Weems' most famous work. This nineteenth-century bestseller depicted Washington's virtues and provided an entertaining and morally instructive tale for the youth of the young nation.[1]
Weems was born on 11 October 1759 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He studied theology in London and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1784. He worked as a minister in Maryland in various capacities from 1784 to 1792. Financial hardship forced Weems to seek additional employment, and he began working as a traveling book agent. Weems married Frances Ewell in 1795 and established a household in Dumfries, Virginia. He had a small bookstore in Dumfries that now houses the Weems–Botts Museum, but he continued to travel extensively, selling books and preaching.[2]
Dumfries is not far from Pohick Church, part of Truro Parish, in Lorton, Virginia, where both George Washington and his father Augustine had worshipped in pre-Revolutionary days. Weems would later inflate this Washington connection and promote himself as the former "rector of Mount-Vernon parish".
· Other notable works by Weems include Life of General Francis Marion (1805); Life of Benjamin Franklin, with Essays (1817); and Life of William Penn (1819). He was an accomplished violinist.
Influence and historical reliability
The New York Times has described Weems as one of the "early hagiographers" of American literature "who elevated the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, into the American pantheon and helped secure a place there for George Washington".[3]
Weems' name would probably be forgotten today, had it not been for the tension between the liveliness of his narratives, contrasted with the "...charge of a want of veracity [that] is brought against all Weems's writings".[4] The cherry-tree anecdote illustrates this point. Another dubious anecdote found in the Weems biography is that of Washington's prayer during the winter at Valley Forge.[5][6]
The exaltation of Washington
The exalted esteem in which the founding fathers, and especially George Washington, were held by 19th century Americans seems quaintly exaggerated to their 21st century counterparts; but that Washington was so regarded is undisputed. The acme of this esteem is found on the ceiling of the United States Capitol Building in the form of Brumidi's fresco The Apotheosis of Washington.
Weems' A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington,[7] was a biography written in this spirit, amplified by the florid, rollicksome style which was Weems' trademark. According to this account, publicly his subject was "...Washington, the HERO,and the Demigod...;" furthermore, at a level above that "...what he really was, [was] 'the Jupiter Conservator,' the friend and benefactor of men." With this hyperbole, Weems elevated Washington to the Augustan level of the god "Jupiter Conservator [Orbis]" (that is, "Jupiter, Conservator of the Empire", later rendered "Jupiter, Savior of the World").
Weems also called Washington the "greatest man that ever lived". This degree of adulation, combined with the circumstance that his anecdotes cannot be independently verified demonstrates clearly that they are confabulations and parables. Similar mythology grew up about other Founding Fathers (e.g., Patrick Henry), usually well after the subjects of the mythology had died.
The cherry-tree anecdote
Arguably the most famous (or infamous) of the exaggerated or invented anecdotes is that of the cherry tree, attributed by Weems to "...an aged lady, who was a distant relative, and, when a girl, spent much of her time in the family...," who referred to young George as "cousin".[8]
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The following anecdote is a case in point. It is too valuable to be lost, and too true to be doubted; for it was communicated to me by the same excellent lady to whom I am indebted for the last.
"When George," said she, "was about six years old, he was made the wealthy master of a hatchet! of which, like most little boys, he was immoderately fond, and was constantly going about chopping everything that came in his way. One day, in the garden, where he often amused himself hacking his mother's pea-sticks, he unluckily tried the edge of his hatchet on the body of a beautiful young English cherry-tree, which he barked so terribly, that I don't believe the tree ever got the better of it. The next morning the old gentleman, finding out what had befallen his tree, which, by the by, was a great favourite, came into the house; and with much warmth asked for the mischievous author, declaring at the same time, that he would not have taken five guineas for his tree. Nobody could tell him anything about it. Presently George and his hatchet made their appearance. "George," said his father, "do you know who killed that beautiful little cherry tree yonder in the garden? " This was a tough question; and George staggered under it for a moment; but quickly recovered himself: and looking at his father, with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth, he bravely cried out, "I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." "Run to my arms, you dearest boy," cried his father in transports, "run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold."
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Death
Weems died on May 23, 1825 in Beaufort, South Carolina of unspecified causes. He is buried somewhere on the grounds of Bel Air Plantation[9] near the extinct town of Minnieville in present day Dale City, Prince William County, Virginia. The precise location of his grave and the accompanying cemetery were lost in the mid 20th Century.
In 1911, Lawrence C. Wroth authored Parson Weems; a biographical and critical study; it was his first book.[10]
[34] http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln92.html
[35] http://www.nps.gov/libo/historyculture/the-sculptured-panels.htm
[36] Eriecanal.org
[37] How the states got their shape, HIST, 4/16/2010.
[38] Jewish Encyclopedia.com by Herman Rosenthal and Peter Wiernik .
[39] http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline/
[40] Descendents of Elias Gotleben, Email from Alice, May 2010.
[41] Nazi Collaborators, The Zealot, MIL. 12/16/2022
[42] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1775
[43] Mission for Mussolin, Military Channel, 6/9/2009
[44] http://colorantshistory.org/GAFFreyermuth.html
[45] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 6.
[46] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 6 and 7.
[47] Egypt: Land of the Gods 4/2/2
[48] Wikipedia
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