This Day in Goodlove History, January 29
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: Harry C. Mckinnon 133, John T. McKinnon 168, Batteal H. Yates 151.
January 29, 1676(OS): Tsar Alexis I of Russia passed away. “During his reign a considerable number of Jews lived in Moscow and the interior of Russia. In a work of travels, written at that time, but published later, and bearing the title, Reise nach dem Norden the author states that, owing to the influence of a certain Stephan von Gaden, the czar's Jewish physician, the number of Jews considerably increased in Moscow. The same information is contained in the work, The Present State of Russia by Samuel Collins, who was also a physician at the court of the czar. From the edicts issued by Alexis Mikhailovich, it appears that the czar often granted the Jews passports with red seals (gosudarevy zhalovannyya gramoty), without which no foreigners could be admitted to the interior; and that they traveled without restriction to Moscow, dealing in cloth and jewelry, and even received from his court commissions to procure various articles of merchandise. Thus, in 1672, the Jewish merchants Samuel Jakovlev and his companions were commissioned at Moscow to go abroad and buy Hungarian wine.” Another edict “instructed a party of Lithuanian Jews to proceed from Kaluga to Nijni-Novgorod, and as a protection they received an escort of twenty sharpshooters.” The Czar’s attitude towards the Jews was a mixed bag as can be seen from his expulsion of “the Jews from the newly acquired Lithuanian and Polish cities” – Mohilev, Wilna, and Kiev. Altogether, taking into consideration the hatred of foreigners among the Russian population of his time, it is evident that Alexis was kindly disposed toward the Jews.”[1]
January 29, 1773: While the Provincial Council on January 13, 1773, laid the matter on the table for the time being Governor Richard Penn, on January twenty-ninth sent this message to them affecting the settlements west of the mountains: “Gentlemen: I think it encumbent upon me to inform you, that the late evacuation of Fort Pitt, by order of the Commander-inChief (Gage), hath greatly alarmed the inhabitants of this province, settled beyond the Allegheny Mountains, who have been used to look upon that fortress as their safeguard against the incursions of the Indians. I have received from that quarter several petitions, which I have ordered the secretary to lay before you, expressing their apprehension of the dangerous situation to wich they are reduced, and prayikng form government a suitable relief. Upon receipt of these petitions I wrote to General Gage by express, requesting the continuance of a small garrison at that post, at least till the meeting of the Assembly. But too far advanced to be countermanded; nor did he seem to think it expedient for him to have continued abny of the troops there, had my letter been received in time.
“It cannot be doubted that the late military establishment at Fort Pitt did very greatly contribute to the rapid population of the country beyond the mountains; and that the withdrawing the King’s troops must of course not only depress the spirits of the present settlers, but retard the progress of the settlement. I persuade myself that you will view the safety and protection of that extensive and flourishing district as an object of great importance, and worthy of the public attention. And as it appears to me that the most proper, and indeed only assistance, which can be afforded these people, is the supporting a small garrison at the post, I find myself under the necessity of applying to you to enable me to carry that measure into execution.”[2]
January 29, 1777: Facing a surprise British counterassault in the bitter cold and with a snowstorm approaching, American commander Major General William Heath and his army of 6,000 abandon their siege on Fort Independence, in Bronx County, New York, on this day in 1777.
Acting on orders from General George Washington, General Heath and his men had begun their assault on Fort Independence 11 days earlier on January 18, 1777. General Washington, who was under British attack in nearby New Jersey, believed that a successful assault on Fort Independence would force the British to divert troops from New Jersey to defend the outpost, located just outside British-controlled Manhattan between the Post Roads to Boston and Albany.
On January 25, a torrential rainstorm overflowed the Bronx River and muddied the battlefield, making troop movement nearly impossible for the Patriots. A British counterassault and the pending snowstorm forced General Heath to admit defeat, and he ordered his troops to retreat on January 29, 1777.
Fort Independence was first built by the Patriots in 1776 and then burned by them as they retreated from New York City. The British partially rebuilt the fort when they took control later in the year. The fort endured the Patriots' attack in 1777, but was destroyed again as the British left in 1779 . The city park that now exists on the site memorializes the fort on its front gates, as well as in its name.
Also on this day in 1777, Washington placed Major General Israel Putnam in command of all Patriot troops in New York, charging them with defense of the city and its water routes.[3]
January 29, 1779
The British under Lieutenant Colonel Archibald
Campbell capture August, Georgia.
January 29, 1780: On the morning of January 29th we had ten fathoms of water; the air was clear, and we were at latitude 32° 29’ north. At two o’clock in the afternoon a sailor cried out from the mast, “Land!” I do not believe that the Ten Thousand Greeks, when they beheld the Black Sea after their difficult retreat through Asia, could have been more joyful over the sight of the sea than we were over the word “Land!” Every face brightened. Toward three o’clock the fleet heaved to in order to assemble. Today we saw wild ducks and sea gulls in great numbers, which looked as welcome to us in the air as when we saw them fried in a pan at other times. [4]
1784:
January 29, 1784
Harrison, Benj. & Lawrence: 1097 1/4 acres, Book 3, page
171. Date 1-29-1784. no watercourse nearby.[5]
January 29, 1784: Adams County, Ohio was known as the mouth of Brush Creek, where it flow into the Ohio; with its head waters forming as far north as Highland County Ohio. Where Brush Creek meets the Ohio River, a level stretch of land spreads out at the froot of Iron Ridge; which is a noted historical spot in this area. Here in this place, a survey to Churchill Jones, No. 2311, perhaps a thousand acres, part of the former survey of 4,000 acresw warranted to Chruchill Jones, who served as a Captain on the Virginia Cont. Line Establishment. It is doubtful that his whole 4,000 acres were situated at this Brush Creek, although 1,000 acres of the survey was sold to Noble Grives, uncle of Effie (Grimes) Crawford, wife of Lt. John Crawford. The former survey was dated January 29, 1784, while the 1,000 acres purchased by Noble Grives was dated in Oct. 1799, on No. 459. (See record in Auditor’s office at the State House in Columbus.). Whether the whole 1,000 acres purchased by Noble Grimes, was also located there is not known, but limited research reveals quite a stretch of land belonging to Noble Grimes, existed in this Ohio River shoreline area.[6]
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January 29th, 1788
John Crawford, Yeomen, on January 29, 1788 sold to Richard Graham, yeoman, his household goods, live stock, etc…One negro wench Lucy, One black cow with some white spots, Three sheep with a crop and slit in each ear, an over kehl and under kehl in each ear. Household goods, beds, bedding, furniture, one china plate. Witnesses: David Graham, Jacob Stewart. Recorded December 18, 1789.[8]
January 29, 1790: "The Jews of Paris obtained a certificate, couched in most flattering terms, and testifying to their excellent reputation, from the inhabitants of the district of the Carmelites, where most Jews dwelt at this time.”[9]
January 29, 1791: During the French Revolution, a Jewish delegation dressed in their uniforms as National Guardsmen and bearing certificates of ‘good behavior’ from the Christian citizens of Paris appeared before the Commune seeking support for their demand to be granted full rights as citizens of France.[10]
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January 29, 1834: On this day in 1834, Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest.
Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were rebelling because of persistent poor working conditions and low pay. The canal project, initially designed by George Washington, was intended to ease transportation of goods from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River Valley. Barges navigating the Potomac River, the main conduit between the Chesapeake and inland waterways, were forced to contend with challenging rapids and tributaries, which hindered American commerce. As early as 1772, George Washington received a charter from the colony of Virginia to survey alternate routes from the Potomac—he envisioned a canal that would bypass the river's rapids and falls. Washington's plan included building locks that raised barges at increases in elevation. Interrupted by the American Revolution, Washington returned to the project after the war and organized the Patowmack Company in 1785. The Patowmack Company built several canals along the Maryland and Virginia shorelines—engineers later deemed the lock systems at Little Falls, Maryland, and Great Falls, Virginia, innovative in concept and construction. Washington sometimes even supervised the harrowing, dangerous work himself, which entailed the removal of earth and boulders by manual labor.
After Washington's death, the Patowmack Company folded. However, in 1823, legislators, business leaders and engineers held a convention in the capital to revive and expand the canal project. With plans to achieve a safe inland waterway route to the Ohio River, the newly chartered Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company began construction in 1828. President John Quincy Adams ceremoniously broke ground on what became an enterprise fraught with financial difficulties and frequent labor stoppages. The incredibly rocky ground proved nearly impossible to excavate and years of slow progress sent costs soaring. In addition, property owners fought the canal's passage through their land, exacerbating the situation.
Construction teams consisted primarily of Irish, German, Dutch and black workers who, with primitive tools, were forced to work long hours for low wages in dangerous conditions. Fed up, the workers rioted on January 29, but were quickly put down by federal troops. The move set a dangerous precedent for future labor-management relations. When labor uprisings increased toward and into the turn of the century, business leaders were confident in the knowledge that they could turn to local, state or federal government leaders to head off labor unrest. Although work resumed on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the project was finally abandoned in 1850, with the farthest reach of the canal ending at Cumberland, Maryland.[11]
The U.S. Senate censured ancestor and President Andrew Jackson on March 28, 1834, for his action in removing U.S. funds from the Bank of the United States. When the Jacksonians had a majority in the Senate, the censure was expunged.[12] Jackson was the first president to suffer this formal disapproval from Congress.
During his first term, Jackson decided to dismantle the Bank of the United States and find a friendlier source of funds for his western expansion plans. Jackson, who embodied the popular image of the Wild West frontiersman, claimed that the bank had too many foreign investors, favored the rich over the poor and resisted lending funds to develop commercial interests in America's Western territories. When the Senate passed legislation in 1831 to renew the bank's charter, Jackson promptly vetoed it. An 1831 meeting with his cabinet generated classified documents regarding Jackson's veto of the bank legislation. Soon after, Congress overruled Jackson's veto.
One of the key issues in the election of 1832, between Jackson, a Democrat, and Whig (Republican) Henry Clay, was the bank's survival. Jackson easily won reelection, but Clay's Whigs took control of the Senate. Jackson renewed his attack on the bank early in his second term, appointing a new treasury secretary whom he ordered to dismantle the bank and distribute all federal funds to individual state banks until a new federal bank could be organized. The Senate, with Clay at its helm, fought Jackson's attempts to destroy the bank, passing a resolution demanding to see his cabinet's papers regarding the veto of 1831. When Jackson refused to release the documents, Clay retaliated by introducing a resolution to censure the president.
Congress debated the proposed censure for 10 weeks. Jackson protested, saying that since the Constitution did not provide any guidance regarding censure of a president, the resolution to censure him was therefore unconstitutional. Congress ignored him, slapping him on March 28 with what amounted to an official public scolding for assuming authority and power not conferred by the Constitution.
The largely symbolic censure failed to stop Jackson from revamping the federal banking system. Democrats regained the majority in the Senate in 1837 and had Jackson's censure expunged from the record. Still, Jackson did take the reprimand personally--a biographer later wrote that, when Jackson retired from the presidency, the only regret he expressed was not being able to shoot Henry Clay.[13]
January 29, 1850
Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky introduces eight resolutions in the Senate regarding free or slave status for new states, known as the Compromise of 1850.[14]
January 29, 1861: Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.[15] Kansas is admitted to the Union as a free state. It was the 34th state to enter the Union. The struggle between pro- and anti-slave forces in Kansas was a major factor in the eruption of the Civil War.
In 1854, Kansas and Nebraska were organized as territories with popular sovereignty (popular vote) to decide the issue of slavery. There was really no debate over the issue in Nebraska, as the territory was filled with settlers from the Midwest, where there was no slavery. In Kansas, the situation was much different. Although most of the settlers were anti-slave or abolitionists, there were many pro-slave Missourians lurking just over the border. When residents in the territory voted on the issue, many fraudulent votes were cast from Missouri. This triggered the massive violence that earned the area the name "Bleeding Kansas." Both sides committed atrocities, and the fighting over the issue of slavery was a preview of the Civil War.
Kansas remained one of the most important political questions throughout the 1850s. Each side drafted constitutions, but the anti-slave faction eventually gained the upper hand. Kansas entered the Union as a free state, but the conflict continued in Kansas into the Civil War. The state was the scene of some of the most brutal acts of violence during the war. One extreme example was the sacking of Lawrence in 1863, when pro-slave forces murdered nearly 200 men and burned the anti-slave town. [16]
January 29, 1863: JEPTHA M. CRAWFORD, b. December 28, 1812, Estell County, Kentucky; d. January 29, 1863, Jackson County, Missouri/ Blue Springs Cemetery. [17]
January 29, 1862: RILEY CRAWFORD, b. 1847, Jackson County, Missouri; d. 1864, Cooper County, Missouri.
Notes for RILEY CRAWFORD:
After Riley's father, Jeptha, was murdered by troops of Captain Penick, January 29, 1862, Riley's mother, Elizabeth, took him to William Quantrill and asked him to make a guerrilla of him, so he could avenge his father's death.
He was not only one of the youngest but also one of the hardest fighters on Quantrill's roster. After the Battle of Baxter Springs while eating supper and drinking whiskey from captured rations, Riley stepped up to one of the dead soldiers and said, 'Get up you S.O.B....and to everyone's surprise rise the man, having feigned death and thinking he had been discovered, stood up before him. Riley drew his pistol and shot him dead. [18]
JEPTHA M.8 CRAWFORD (VALENTINE "VOL"7, JOSEPH "JOSIAH"6, VALENTINE5, VALENTINE4, WILLIAM3, MAJOR GENERAL LAWRENCE2, HUGH1) was born December 28, 1812 in Estell County, Kentucky, and died January 29, 1863 in Jackson County, Missouri/ Blue Springs Cemetery. He married ELIZABETH (BETSY) HARRIS January 30, 1832 in Jackson County, Missouri, daughter of RUBAN HARRIS and MARGARET MCALEXANDER.
Notes for JEPTHA M. CRAWFORD:
Settled 1831 a short distance South of Oak Grove near Round Prairie, Jackson County, Missouri.
Bought 40 acres, April 25, 1833 in Section 15 Range 48 Township 30. Jackson County Missouri.
Bought 40 acres, May 31, 1836 Section 15 Range 48 Township 30. Jackson County, Missouri.
Bought 40 acres from Richard and Saryn Sneed, 19 September 1846 (NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 S15 T49 R30)
The Will of Jeptha Crawford
Jeptha Crawford died intestate Appoints Elizabeth Crawford & C.B.L. Booth, Admrs. 18 Dec 1865.
Jeptha Crawford
Elizabeth Crawford & his children, Laura F. Whitsett, Marion Crawford, Laurana Crawford, Jeptha D. Crawford, F. Alexander Crawford, Volentine Crawford living in Jackson County, Mo., the children of Susan Vandiver & the children of Arminia Selvey. William L. Crawford in Texas, Mariah Crawford supposed in Alabama, Ann E. Selvey in Buchanan County, Mary E. Bowman in Illinois. Signed 18 December 1865.
Farmers Census 1850-1860-1870
Jackson County, Missouri
1850
Crawford, Jeptha 50 Imp. acres 40 unimp. Value $1200 5 horses 5 oxen
1860
Crawford, Jeptha 70 Imp. acres 90 unimp. Value $3200 7 horses 1 mule 10 oxen
1870
Crawford, Elizabeth 40 acres 20 woods area Value $2100 No livestock
More About JEPTHA M. CRAWFORD:
Burial: January 18, 1863, Location: Row 1 Lot 3. Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs Missouri. The inscription reads: Jephthah M. Crawford died 29 January 1863 Age 50 yrs. 1 mo. 12 da.
Elected: August 05, 1836, Monday August 1836. Elected Constable with 40 votes defeating William Williams, 11 votes; Thomas P. Clark, 29 votes; William Nolan, 5 votes.
Marriage Notes for JEPTHA CRAWFORD and ELIZABETH HARRIS:
Recording of their marriage
The State of Missouri, to wit, The undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for Boone County Township in the County of Jackson, Certifies that on the 30th of January 1831 he united in Matrimony Jeptha M. Crawford & Betsy Harris, Certified this 22nd Feby 1832.
D.C. Butterfield J.P.
Recorded the 29th Feby 1832.
Children of JEPTHA CRAWFORD and ELIZABETH HARRIS are:
14. i. LAURA F.9 CRAWFORD, b. 1833, Jackson County, Missouri.
15. ii. SUSAN JANE CRAWFORD, b. 1835, Jackson County, Missouri; d. August 14, 1863, Kansas City, Missouri.
16. iii. ANN ELIZABETH CRAWFORD, b. March 06, 1836, Jackson County, Missouri; d. October 22, 1874, Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri.
17. iv. ARMENIA CRAWFORD, b. 1838.
v. WILLIAM L. CRAWFORD, b. 1839.
18. vi. MARY ELIZABETH CRAWFORD, b. April 19, 1840, Jackson County, Missouri; d. June 17, 1920, Grain Valley, Purdee Cemetery, Missouri.
vii. MARSHALL N. CRAWFORD, b. 1843.
viii. MARION CRAWFORD, b. 1845, Jackson County, Missouri; d. 1872, Jackson County, Missouri; m. SUSAN ELIZABETH ST. CLAIR, November 11, 1869, Jackson county, Missouri.
Notes for MARION CRAWFORD:
Letter of Administration for Marion Crawford
Marion Crawford died Intestate
Marshall N. Crawford apptd. to adm. estate 3 Jan 1872
Marion Crawford...Marshall N. Crawford Admn. with C.B.L. Booth, heirs Elizabeth Crawford, William Crawford, Laura Whitsett, Ann E. Selvey, Rany Selvey, M.N. Crawford, J.D. Crawford, F. Crawford, Valentine Crawford the children of Susan Vandever & the children of Melvina Selvey, & Susan Crawford.
ix. RILEY CRAWFORD, b. 1847, Jackson County, Missouri; d. 1864, Cooper County, Missouri.
Notes for RILEY CRAWFORD:
After Riley's father, Jeptha, was murdered by troops of Captain Penick, January 29, 1862, Riley's mother, Elizabeth, took him to William Quantrill and asked him to make a guerrilla of him, so he could avenge his father's death.
He was not only one of the youngest but also one of the hardest fighters on Quantrill's roster. After the Battle of Baxter Springs while eating supper and drinking whiskey from captured rations, Riley stepped up to one of the dead soldiers and said, 'Get up you S.O.B....and to everyone's surprise rise the man, having feigned death and thinking he had been discovered, stood up before him. Riley drew his pistol and shot him dead.
x. LURANA CRAWFORD, b. 1848.
xi. JEPTHA DUDLY CRAWFORD, b. 1851, Jackson County, Missouri; m. SARAH C. DEALY, February 25, 1875, Jackson county, Missouri.
Notes for JEPTHA DUDLY CRAWFORD:
Probably changed his name from Dudley Crawford to Jeptha Dudley after his father's murder.
19. xii. FLEMING ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, b. 1853, Jackson County, Missouri.
xiii. VALENTINE CRAWFORD, b. 1855.
January 29th. 1865: We was relieved from picket at a 11 o’clock a.m. Since the great fire there has been a great many torpedoes and shell and large quantity of powder found in different buildings in all parts of the city. It seems that a portion of the citizens intend to destroy the city if possible.
The guards has orders to arrest all suspicious persons.[19]
Arriving in Savannah, the troops found that the prices were very high, and many prominent citizens were receiving rations fronm the army. Some were shocked to find ladies dressed in silk, engaged in the humble occupation of rag picker. Rigby showed little Christian charity as he recordede, “…the sad expression of contenance betray all the effects of a wicked cause… well may the matron and fair maidens of this land sit in ashes and drape their ulcerated hearts.” Private Rigby accompanied Captain James Martin to visit a sick woman whose husband was in the Copnfederate army and whose familoy was libving upon the hospitality of “Uncle Sam.” Again Rigby bitterly penned, “While the husband is fighting to sustain barbarism, Union officers and soldiers are praying for the salvation of his household.[20]
January 29, 1903
(Pleasant Valley) Notice: Anyone wanting hair for plastering next spring call on Will Kearns, Willis Goodlove or Ira Miller.[21]
January 29, 1933: Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. The Nazis did not come to power through a coup or putsch. They came to power legally, using the German political and electoral processes.[22]
January 29, 1940: As the Nazi plunder of Poland continues, General Gouvernment ordered registration of all Jewish property.[23]
On January 29, 1942, Yorktown, Enterprise, and their respective task forces parted ways. [24]
January 29, 1943: Germans execute 15 Poles at the village of Wierzbica for aiding three Jews. One of the victims is a two-year-old girl.[25]
January 29, 1943: Merdsche, the Commander of Orleans, sent 67 Jews to Drancy, among them 25 women and 4 children; from Poitiers 22 internees arrived; from Dijon, [26]
January 29, 1943: In late January, Enterprise was sent into the Coral Sea, to cover the landings of four transports full of men and supplies on Guadalcanal, part of the final push to drive the Japanese from the island. In her final engagement in the seas around Guadalcanal, she provided air cover for the heavy cruiser Chicago, torpedoed by land-based Japanese planes the evening of January 29. [27]
January 29, 1944: In Trieste, the Nazis conduct a roundup of Jews aimed the old and sick people including those living in facilities for the aged.[28]
January 29, 1944: A Nazi court in Kraków, Poland, sentences five Poles to death for aiding Jews. One of the accused, Kazimierz Jozefek, is hanged in the public square.[29]
January 29, 1944: In Lithuania, Soviet led partisans including Jews from the Kovno and Vilnius ghettos attacked Koniuchy which was later described a pro-Nazi town from which Germans launched attacks against partisans. According to various reports several civilians were killed in the action which has led to it being described as a “massacre.”[30]
January 6 to January 29, 1966: During the final weeks of Vatican II, there was read a Papal document, a Special Jubilee from January 6 to January 29, 1966; among other things it granted confessors power to absolve penitents from censure incurred for belonging to the Masonic Order or other forbidden societies.[31]
January 29, 2001: "Where We Come From: Recent advances in genetics are starting to illuminate the wanderings of early humans." U.S. News and World Report (January 29, 2001). Excerpts:
"On the Internet, Carvin located Family Tree DNA, a small Houston firm created to answer such questions. He mailed in a sample of his DNA, gathered by swabbing the inside of his cheek, and waited. In late October, he got a call from Bennett Greenspan, president of Family Tree DNA. Not only did his Y chromosome have the cohanim markers-small genetic variations-but other markers matched with those of another man in the database, making it likely that they share a forefather within the past 250 years... Since then, other researchers have used the cohanim markers to ascertain that the Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people in Southern Africa who have traditionally claimed Jewish ancestry, do indeed have Semitic roots. And last June, Hammer published results showing that although Palestinian and Jewish men may be political foes, they are also brethren, so closely related as to be genetically indistinguishable."
January 29, 2011: Is this the skull of Count Carl Von Donop, Hessian Commander?
On Saturday, January 29th, five intrepid docents from the Whitall House, Red Bank Battlefield, National Park, NJ, drove up the snowy highway to the Clarke House, on the Princeton Battlefield. We enjoyed a highly informative tour given by John Mills, a lifelong Revolutionary War historian, re-enactor, and historic site curator. He's also a black-powder expert. I saw Mills do a black-powder demo at Walnford historic site many months ago. He demonstrated both cannon and rifle firing. On this day, he gave us a fascinating description of this momentous battle of the Revolutionary War. It is generally regarded, along with the Battle of Trenton, as the turning point in the war for Independence. It is part of what is known as The Ten Crucial Days. This farm house is the site of the death of the heroic General Hugh Mercer, who was bludgeoned, bayonetted and died of his wounds in the Clarke farmhouse.
The house has both period furnished rooms and a museum that features weapons and ammo as well as many prints, and maps depicting the battle.
The grounds were breathtakingly beautiful in the fresh deep snow.
After touring the Clarke House, we headed to New Brunswicke where we examined the alleged skull of Count Carl Von Donop, the Hessian commander who died of his wounds at Red Bank Battlefield in October of 1777.
The skull was donated to the special collections department of the library but no other provenance exists to identify the donor or prove whether the skull is in fact Count Von Donop's. He was buried near the site of the battle and it has been alleged that his bones were later dug up. It is known that bones of the soldiers buried on the battlefield were washed out the banks of the Delaware after floods, and dug up by vandals and scattered.
Whitall House, Red Bank Battlefield
Hessian wounded were treated in the Whitall house. Those that died on the spot were buried in unmarked graves. Others died nearby in the Woodbury Friends Meeting House and their remains were buried in The Strangers' Cemetery which was later moved to an almost forgotten site outside of town. More Hessians who died on the retreat were buried in Glendora. Survivors who were captured, were imprisoned in Philadelphia.
The monument at Red Bank Battlefield is engraved with a quote alleged to have been uttered by the dying Count Von Donop that he died "the victim of my own ambition and the avarice of my prince." Some dispute that he ever actually said this and it was attributed to a later observation by an unnamed French man.
If you are interested in learning more about this battle, I'll be listing some good books from a brochure offered at the Clarke House.
location of the Clarke House and Princeton Battlefield:
500 Mercer Road, Princeton, NJ 08540-4810, 609-921-0074
location of the library that houses the alleged skull of Count Von Donop:
Ronald L. Becker
Head, Special Collections
Rutgers University Libraries
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163
(732) 932-7006 x362 phone
(732) 932-7012 FAX
rbecker@rulmail.rutgers.edu
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml [32]
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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[2] Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A. M. Volume ll, pg 4.
[3] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-retreat-from-fort-independence
[4] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.
[5] Kentucky Land Records From Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds. by Willard R. Jilison, Baltimore, Gen. Pub. Co., 1969 reprint of 1926. (LDS 976.9/J6) Note: Harrison County was formed from Bourbon County in 1793 which was formed from Fayette County in 1785.
Fayette Land Entries(1782-1794):
[6] From River Colyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969. pg. 194
[7] http://doclindsay.com/kentucky_stuff/1784kyfilsonmap.html
[8] Item 408, Recorder of Deeds Office, in Fayette County, PA. (Uniontown). From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969. p. 173
[9] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[10] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[11] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackson-sends-troops-to-put-down-labor-riot
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
[13] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-censures-jackson
[14] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[15] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[16] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kansas-enters-the-union
[17] http://penningtons.tripod.com/jepthagenealogy.htm
[18] http://penningtons.tripod.com/jepthagenealogy.htm
[19] Joseph W. Crowther,Co. H. 128th NY Vols.
[20] Rigby Journal, Jan 29 and February, 13 1865
(History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 194.)
[21] Winton Goodlove papers.
[22] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[23] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[24] http://www.cv6.org/1942/marshalls/marshalls_2.htm
[25] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[26] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 360-361.
[27] http://www.cv6.org/1942/marshalls/marshalls_2.htm
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