This Day in Goodlove History, February 2

This Day in Goodlove History, February 2

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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: Jesse B. Graham 121, Reuben C. Harrison 208, Daniel Hemenway 294, Kaleb R. Schmidt 20.

February 2, 1119: Pope Calixtus II (Guido, Comte de Bourgogne) appointed, February 2. [1]

February 2, 1451: Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. He conquered Constantinople in 1453. The oppressed Jews were relieved to see him occupy the city. He allowed Jews from today's Greek Islands and Crete to settle in Istanbul. Mehmed II’s declaration read as follows: "Listen sons of the Hebrew who live in my country...May all of you who desire come to Constantinople and may the rest of your people find here a shelter". Mehmed II invited the Ashkenazi Jews of Transylvania and Slovakia to settle in the Ottoman Empire. The synagogues Ahrida, Karaferya, Yanbol and Cuhadji which were damaged due to a fire were repaired on his order. Based on surviving documents, the Sultan employed at least five Jewish doctors a February 2, 1468: Johannes Gutenberg, father of modern printing, passed away. Gutenberg was not Jewish. But the invention of the printing press was a boon to Jewish study and culture. The people of the book had much easier access to the World of Books.[2]

1469: Death of Fra Filippo Lippi the Italian painter, Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castille, Lorenzo de’ Medici “Il Magnifico” rules Florence, Lorenzy "The Magnificent" Medici rules Florence, First printed version of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Birth of Nanak, founder of Sikhism, Pliny’s Natural History published in Venice, Lorenzo de Medici ruled until 1492 Ferdinand son of John II of Aragon marries Isabella the half-sister of Henry IV of Castile – Ferdinand and Isabella, Christian I gives Shetland to Scottish king James III as a dowry, Marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella - begin modern Spain, Montezuma I dies, Ferdinand and Isabella married uniting kingdoms of Aragon and Castile, Warwick falls out with Edward and defeats him, Margaret, Henry and Warwick vs. Edward, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile marry, starting modern kingdom of Spain. [3]

1470: Collapse of Chimu culture in N Peru, death of Knutson Bonde (King Charles VIII) of Sweden, The first French farce “Maitre Pathelin” written, Portuguese navigators discover Gold Coast West Africa, first French printing press set up at the Sorbonne in Paris, House of Lancaster under Henry VI takes throne in ENG until 1483 as War of Roses continues – Warwick turns Lancastrian – defeats Edward IV and restores Henry VI, Turks seize Negroponte from Venetians, Warwick banished, Makes peace with Margaret, helps restore Henry VI to throne, Andean Chimú empire conquered by Incas, Collapse of Chimu culture in N Peru. [4]

February 2, 1645: During the civil wars that followed, the MacKinnons declared for the crown and joined the standard of Montrose; under him they fought in the desperate battle of Inverlochy, February 2, 1645, and the victory of Auldearn, May 5, 1645. Concerning the latter field a curious incident has been preserved. A Highland eye witness narrates: " At a critical moment, a hero, named Ranald, the son of Donald, the son of Angus MacKinnon in Mull, was keeping the pikemen at bay with his shield on his left arm, and his gun in his other hand presented at them. Some bowmen ran past him, letting fly their arrows with deadly effect among the Gordon soldiers; and one of these archers who, on looking over his shoulder, saw the pikemen kept at bay by Ranald, suddenly turned his hand and shot him in the face, the arrow penetrating one cheek and appearing out at the other. Ranald's dirk was lost, and his bow useless; so, throwing away his gun and stretching out his shield to save himself from the pikes, the warlike islander attempted to draw his sword, but it would not come; he tried it again and the cross hilt twisted about; a third time he made the attempt, using his shield hand to hold the sheath, and succeeded, but at the expense of five pike wounds in his breast. In this state he reached the entrance to the garden (broken ground consisting of enclosures, rocks and brushwood in front of the village of Auldearne, consigned to the charge of the gallant Alastair Macdonald, with one hundred of his own clan and the MacKinnons, the rest of his command consisting of three hundred half-hearted Gordons; it was to this little band Montrose entrusted the defense of the Royal Standard which he usually carried before himself), closely followed by the enemy's pikemen. As the first of the latter bowed his head under the gate in pursuit, Macdonald, who had been watching his opportunity, with one sweep of his claymore struck it off, which,” says the chronicler, “hit upon Ranald's houghs; the head fell in the enclosure and the body in the door-way; Ranald lifted up the head, and, looking behind him at the door, saw his companion in arms, who cut away the arrow that stuck in his cheek and restored him his speech.”

It was about this date that a sad disaster befell one branch of the clan. Lauchlan Mor MacKinnon, the chief’s son. was brought up, owing to the bond of friendship entered into between the families in 1601 by the Earl of Argyle at Inverary; but having married a daughter of the MacLean of Duart. Lauchlan was induced to join that chief in a descent on the lands of his former benefactor with- a body of two hundred men. on their approach, being recognised by their badge of pine, the Campbells were so incensed that they would give no quarter, when a sanguinary rout took place, in which the MacKinnons were fairly cut up. [5]

February 2, 1747: A deed dated with today’s date conveyed a half-acre of land in the Township of Lancaster, Pennsylvania from Thomas Cookson to Isaac Nunus Ricus and Joseph Simons "in trust for the society of Jews settled in and about Lancaster, to have and use the same as a burying-ground." “At this time there were about ten Jewish families at Lancaster, including Joseph Simon, Joseph Solomon, and Isaac Cohen, a physician.” The deed is the earliest record of Jewish settlement in Lancaster which was an early and important settlement during the Colonial and post-Revolutionary period of American history.[6]



February 2, 1749: Sicily, invited Jews to return to the island ending a three hundred year ban. The Sicilians believed that the Jews would restore trade to the island and improve its diminished economic conditions.[7]

February 2, 1750: Ruth McKinnon was born December 4, 1755 and about 1785 married Captain John Bavington (Bevington) born February 2, 1750. They both died in Washington County, Pennsylvania, he on June 10, 1810 and she on February 4, 1824. They took up a Patent called "Milltown" in Washington County, PA, February 22, 1786. They had ten children(37). (The records of Pennsylvania were not research for additional information.) [8]

February 2, 1802: Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

SAMUEL C. VANCE

LETTER, February 2, 1802

Collection #:

SC 2625

Processed by

Chris Harter

September 4, 1997

USER INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item

COLLECTION DATES: February 2, 1802

PROVENANCE: Norma Peters, Vancouver, WA, 27 May 1997

RESTRICTIONS: Item is very fragile.

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in

writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: M 283, Samuel C. Vance Papers; F 366-368, Samuel C. Vance Papers; F 516, Samuel C.

Vance Papers; M 211, A.G. Mitten Collection; SC 45, J. David Baker Letters

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1997.0528

NOTES:

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Samuel Colwell Vance (1770-1830), the son of David Vance, was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, at an undetermined date and worked as a surveyor. In 1802, he married Mary Morris Lawrence (1783-1823) (See also: SC 1235, Catherine Lawrence Randolph Letters), the granddaughter of Gen. Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) (See also: M 211, A.G. Mitten Collection; M 98, W.H. English Collection). In April of that year, he began laying out the city of Lawrenceburg, Indiana (Dearborn Co.), which he named after his wife. A year later, he was appointed Clerk of the Courts for Dearborn County by Gov. William Henry Harrison. According

to Indiana and Indianans (Vol. I, p. 262-263), Vance was the brother-in-law of Harrison, but the relationship could not be verified in any other sources. He was one of the directors of the Indiana Canal Company when it was chartered in 1805. Vance served as a soldier under Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) (See also: card catalog under the heading: Wayne, Anthony) and also fought in the War of 1812. He made Lawrenceburg his permanent home in 1818. (Some sources confuse Samuel Colwell Vance with Samuel Corville Vance (1762-1843) of Fayette County, Indiana.)

No information located in available resources for C. Swan.

Sources: Dunn, Jacob Piatt. Indiana and Indianans. Vol. I, p. 262-263; Vol. II, p. 1047.

History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counites, Indiana (1885) p. 113, 201, 232, 241-242.

Lake, D.J. and Griffin, B.N. (compilers). Atlas of Dearborn County, Indiana. p. 18.

Shaw, Archibald (ed.). History of Dearborn County, Indiana (1915) p. 241, 467.

Waters, Margaret. Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana: A Supplement (1954) p. 101.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of a letter, dated February 2, 1802, from C. Swan (?) to Capt. Samuel Vance. The letter was written from "Washington," which was probably Washington D.C. In it, Swan discusses a measure to divide "the Western Country into three states," which was defeated by Congress. He mentions a person named Worthington, who opposed the measure. Swan states that the gentleman was "inimical to [Vance's] present governor," Arthur St. Clair, who was also related to Vance.

CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Vance, Samuel C., d. 1830

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Vance, Samuel C., d. 1830

Northwest, Old--History--Sources

END’[9]

February 2, 1809: Birthdate of Felix Mendelssohn. This famous composer was not Jewish and that is what makes him significant in terms of Jewish History. His grandfather was Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of Reform Judaism. Felix was baptized and raised as a Protestant. His detractors point out that he wrote oratorios for the Church instead of music for the synagogue. Others see him clinging to a vestige of his Jewish roots in choosing to write an oratorio called Elijah and setting Psalm 100 to music. Ironically, the German composer Richard Wagner cited Mendelssohn when he attacked the Jewish influence on German music. Hitler and the Nazis were not the first Germans to see the Jews as a race for whom conversion to Christianity was not a solution to "the Jewish Problem." Regardless of any sentimental attachments Moses Mendelssohn may have felt for the faith of his grandfather, he died in 1847 as a Protestant. The Jewish line of Mendelssohn had disappeared.[10]



February 2, 1827

The Supreme Court rules that the President has the final authority to call out the militia.[11]

February 2, 1839: Detachments arrive With Cherokee refugees at Ft. Gibson, led by named men, on the following dates: Situwakee


Ashville, February 2, 1853

My Dearest Harriet,

I set down this evening in rather low spirits to write you a letter in accordance with my duty and my inclination. I am quite unwell with another attack of the tooth-ache. I went to the dentist this morning to have something done with it as I have been suffering long enough; he declined pulling it as it is a front tooth and is very little decayed. He says it was shattered in pluging and that it will get well probably in a year or two! Poor comfort indeed, is’nt it?

We had beautiful weather to come home in. We spent Sabbath at Mr Carsons and got home on Monday evening about 7 O’clk. I regretted so much that I could not stay longer with you, but Harriet I really could not without treating Miss Osborne impolitely. The only gentleman in our company who proffered to take my place with her was one with whom she would have been quite unwilling to have traveled. Indeed my situation was rather a delicate one with her anyhow, as she was under the constant impression that I was unsatisfied with having her to take care of, and no attention or assurances to the contrary on my part could remove it. So you see that I was uncomfortably situated, and I felt it my duty to use every exertion to make her feel at ease; something I did not feel myself.

Inaddition to the unpleasant regrets connected with that matter and my being quite unwell, I have also been suffering acutely on account of your health. I left you with a very severe cold which had taken effect upon your lungs and knowing the danger of such an attack upon such a constitution as yours I was really much alarmed, & have been ever since I left you. I hope you called in Dr Tate and took medicine as you said you would, and that tonights mail will bring me intelligence of your recovery. I hope you will inform me truly as to the state of your health and if you have really a bad attack I assure you I will be with you as soon as I can possibly get there after hearing the news. And here permit me to say Harriet, that I hope you will take warning in your future attendance upon parties, and do not jeopardise your won health and my happoiness by adhering to the foolish fashions of society. But enough of this; I hope my fears are all groundless and that you are by this quite well. I trust you will excuse me, my own Dear Harriet, for dwelling upon this subject so much; you can scarcely conceive my anxiety under existing circumstances, but if our positions were reversed you might then think me excusable. If I were to say Hattie, that you were my only earthly treasure and the only object on this earth for which I care to live, I would not perhaps say the truth, for I have a mother and brothers & Sisters and God forbid I should overlook them in any event. But if I were to say that you are the first and chiefests object of my earthly existence, the being before all others for whom my heart gives it noblest throbs and my soul its holiest aspirations, I would say truly-most truly, and I believe Hattie you will acknowledge it. You will see then my anxiety is most natural, and if I shol now & then weary you on the subject of your health, as perhaps I often do, my hope is that you will forgive me. I found my Mother and all my folks quite well when I got home. Mother & sister return the kind messages you sent them with usury and are quite anxious to hear by the mail this evening of your recovery. My business has suffered somewhat by my absence and so soon as I get well enough I propose being quite busy for some weeks. I am more & more gratified with the treatment I receive from your relations in Burke and hope earnestly that they may never have cause to change the opinion they seem to have formed of me. Do remember me to my sweet and artless Cousin Mollie Jo; I wanted her to come home with me so bad. And Miss Maltby-will you mention me respectfully to her: Please say at any rate, that I was sorry she was so much out of the way that I could not see her before leaving-The Dr & Mrs Lester are gone I suppose: we are preparing to give them a reception when they get home. Make Cousin Mary Jo write to me, she owes me a letter any how for one I wrote long, long, agol May god bless you Hattie and restore you to health, so that you may live long and happily to bless and cheer your own devoted

Zebulon[1]



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[1] My Beloved Zebulon, The correspondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and Harriett Newell Espy, edited by Elizabeth Roberts Cannon, pgs 176-177.


February 2, 1855

To the Editor of the Raleigh Register[1]

From Zebulon Baird Vance

I observe this morning in the “Newbern Journal”, and attack upon the Greenville and French Broad Rail Road,[2]a bill for the incorporation of which passed this House sometime since, and is now before the Senate. This article is based upon such gross ignorance of the provisions of the bill and the geography of the country, and, above all, is conceived in such a spirit of unfairness towards that project, as to demand a refutatuion at the hands of the friends of that Road. This road does not run “from Charlotte, N. C., to Sparta, S. C.” and would not “make Charleston more accessible to the west than any of our weaport towns.” It runs from the Paint Rock, on the Tennessee line, through the Valley of the French Broad, in the direction of Greenville and Spartanburgh, S. C., and connects with the Central Road at the mouth of the Swannonoa. The gage of this road is to correspond with that of the Central Road, and gives it a connection with the East Tennessee and Virginia Road, and reaches out an arm toward Cincinnatia nd Chicago, thereby giving the North Carolina roads a chance for that immense trade which they never could otherwise have. In fact, the provisions of the bill were so carefully prepared, that the warmest friends of the great Central project are perfectlyu satisfied, not only with its non-interference with that cherished work, but that its operations will be decidedly advangtageous to it.

Permit me to regret sincerely, that the Editor of the Journal has not been personally present to exercise a paternal and superintending care over the well-meaning but misguided members of the Legislature. If our “journals whould be stained with a charter for this South Carolina Road,” he must certainly blame himself for it, as his advice did not reach us in time. I would suggest that an examination of Colton’s Map of N. C., would doubtless show the gentleman the relative positions of Charlotte and Spart.

[Raleigh]

[From Raleigh Register, February 7, 1855[3]



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[1] The signature in the Register is “W. B. Vance,” but it is manifestly an error.


[2] The Greenville and French Broad Railroad proposed to buil a line from one of the South Carolina roads along the French Broad Valley to a connection with the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad beyond Paint Rock. It expressed the desire of the mountain section for a railroad of some sort, though it connected the area with South Carolina towns, and came at a time when debated on the Western North Carolina Railroad was being held in the legislature. Cecil Kenneth Brown, A State Movement in Railroad Development. The Story of North Carolina’s First Effor to Establish an East and West Trunk Line Railroad.


[3] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Edited by Frontis W. Johnson Volume One 1843-1862 pgs 27-29



ZBV to Jefferson Davis[1]

State of North-Carolina

Executive Department

Raleigh, February 2, 1863



His Excellency

President Davis,



Sir,



I was both surprised and grieved to learn to day that it was your intention to [remove] Maj. Gen G. W. Smith from the command of this Dept.



It is rumored here that he is to be sent to Texas at the request of the [faded]tatives of that State. I know not [of] course how that is, but hope that the wishes of the people of this State will meet with as much consideration frm your Excellency as any of [her] Sisters. The unanimous sentiment here, so far as it can be ascertained, is adverse to the removal of Gen. Smith.



His great zeal in acquainting himself with the localities of our coast; his thorough efforts to organize both our forces and transportation, together with his evident knowledge of and respect for our people had inspired universal confidence and esteem. Between himself and the State authorities there existed the most con[faded] and thorough accord in all respects, giving promise of the most beneficial results in the expected invasion of the enemy. A stranger would have to learn all these thing over again, and might probably, thougj it is hardly possible, inspire the same confidence and give promise of the same results.

Permit /me/to indulge the hope that you may find it not inconsistent with the public service to retain Gen. Smith in command of this Department. Should it be determined however to remove him, I beg we may not be disappointed in his successor. This Department is certainly intitled to a general of approved talent and experience.



I have the honor to be

Your Excellency’s obt svt.

Z.B. Vance



[Endorsed] February 2, 1863 Governor Vance N. Car. Has heard it was intended to remove Genl. G. W. Smith from command of Dept. N. Car. & hopes that the Prest. will retain Genl. S. in the command, as he has the entire confidence of the people of N. Car.



Ans. It is not in present contemplation to remove Genl. Smith from his present position, his return to his Hd. Qrs. From the field was for considerations not connected with any disatisfaction[2] I am happy to receive the within impressions-Genl. D. H. Hill it is hoped will be ab le to serve his country in N.C.



Jeffn. Davis



Recd. February 11, 1863[3]



ZBV to Albert G. Jenkins[4]

State of North Carolina

Executive Department

Raleigh February 2, 1863



Brig. Genl. A. G. Jenkins

Salem Va.

Sir

Your communication of the 28th. Ulto. Asking for authority from me to impress Corn & forage for the use of a number of Calvary horses belonging to your command has been received.

I am sorry that I cannot consistently with the duty I owe my own people, comply with your request-The horses are unfortunately in the midst of a section which was almost ruined by drough last summer which concurring with the diminished amount of labor in that region has produced such a scarcity of Corn as to render the certainty of suffering imminent among the women and children unless relif be afforded them. With this view I have been authorized by the Legislature and am now actually engaged in removing Corn from the Eastern counties up the line of our central road to prevent starvation there. So far therefore from granting authority to anyone to impress corn there, I had some days before the receipt of your letter addressed the Secy of War asking for the horses to be removed as a matter of humanity. I at the same time suggested that they be ordered into Eastern North Carolina, where corn is not only abundant but liable to be destroyed by the enemy and it is our object to consume as much of it as possible.

You do me no more than justice in your estmate of my desire to serve the cause in any possible way, which good opinion I hope will be in no wise changed when informed of my great anxiety to protect the wives & children of our soldiers from suffering for want of bread.

Allow me to say that I am sure you are not aware of the conduct to themen in charge of these horses. I am informed by citizens that they are under no sort of of controls. They feed their horses on the ground-wasting more than half in the mud, at night they ride them all over the country, frequently breaking open granaries, drinking & insulting citizens and making temselfves a terror to the whole population. I trust you will enquire into these reports, and have the evil corrected if true.

Assuring you of my gratification in hearing directly from after having read so much of your gallant exploits in N. Western Virginia, and hoping that some day we may be able under happier auspices to renew old association.

I have the honor to remain

Most respectfully & Truly

Yr. obt. Srvt

Z.B.Vance[5]



David A. Barnes to William H. Richardson[6]

State of North Carolina Executive Department

Raleigh February 2, 1863



Adjutant General W. H. Richardson

Dear Sir

His Excellency Gov. Vance has received your communication of the January 31 in reply to his letter,[7] and he directs me to say in reply that he is willing that conscripts who have been already recruited by Officers of the Virginia line and are now in actual service may remain. He desires howver that the deserters may returned and that your officers may in future desit from recruiting persons subject to conscription and deserters.

I herewith return your orders to Captains Parsley and Oliver and you can modify them accordingly

Yours very respectfully

David A. Barnes

Aid de Camp to the Governor[8]



ZBV to William G. M. Davis[9]

State of North Carolina Executive eDepartment

Raleigh February 2, 1863



Gen G.W.M. Davis [sic]

Warm Springs N.C.



Sir

Yours giving an account of operations of yr. command in the mountains of this State has been received. The result is quite satisfactory and I am especially pleased to learn that there appears to be o regular organization of enemies to the Government in that country. I was loath to believe so, and from the first was of the opinion that the raid[10] was only for plunder and that the whole matter was probably exaggerated. I hope now that quiet and order are restored in that region, and have to return you my thanks for the very prompt and energetic aid offered by your command in producing this state of things.

I was fearful in the great excitement prevailing among our people, that the misguided people of Laurel might be dealt too harshly with, and warned the officers to be cool & just. I was therefore sorry to learn this morning, that Col Allen[11]had hanged several of the captured prisoners. I hope this is not true, as it would be much better to have them dealt with by the law.

In regard to removing them into Kentucky, I approve of the plan, provided they desire to go. I would not with however to excite the women & children or old men, if they desire to remain. As the law ought to be strong enough to keep them in subjection

I hope Col. McElroy[12]will take proper steps to prevent the escape of his prisoners

With sentiments of regard

I am Sir

Yr. obt. Svt.

Z. B. Vance[13]



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[1] Zebulon Baird Vance Papers, Manuscrpt Department, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge


[2]Smith resigned his commission on February 17. For the organization and various commanders of the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia after his resignation, see Boatner, Civil War Dictionary, 599-600.


[3] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Joe A. Mobley Editor 1995.


[4] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors Letter Books, State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh


[5] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Joe A. Mobley, Editor, pages 40-41.


[6] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors Letter Books, State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh


[7] January 27


[8] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Joe A. Mobley Editor pg 41.


[9] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors Letter Books, State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh


[10] Of the town of Marshall, preceding the Shelton Laurel massacre.


[11] Lawrence M. Allen, commaner of the Sixty-fourth Regiment North Carolina Troops and the superior officer of James A. Keith, the officer charged with ordering the massacre of the Shellllton Laurel prisoners. Clark, Histories of Regiments from North Carolina, 3:659.


[12] John W. McElroy, Yancey County merchant and father in law of Robert B. Vance. He commanded the Yancey County militia, which operated against unionists and deserters in western North Carolina. Johnston, Papers of Vance, 1:96.


[13] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Edited by Joe A. Mobley page 41-42.



Tues. February 2, 1864

Started for Dixie as far as bloominton, ill had to wait at laselle for care very colde and windy laselle a large nice town land flat streams mdy[12]



February 2-5, 1865: Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove (1st cousin, 3 times removed) and the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Salkehatchie Swamps. S.C., [13]

On February 2, 1950, Klaus Fuchs, a physicist who had worked on the development of the atomic bomb, was arrested. The year before, America learned that the Soviet Union had tested an atomic bomb and a scientific report from Klaus Fuchs to the Soviet Union about the Manhattan Project was deciphered. As the government investigated Soviet spy-rings in the United States, arrests were made. The arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg garnered worldwide attention and controversy.

Both Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass were raised in poor, Jewish families in New York City. Active in labor rights and radical politics, the two met at a dance in 1936 that was sponsored by a union. In February 1939, about the time that he became a member of the Communist Party, Julius graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in electrical engineering. Julius and Ethel married on June 18 of that year. In 1942, Julius obtained a position in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. as a civilian engineer. In 1945, however, he lost his job due to allegations of communist activities. The Rosenbergs had two sons, Michael and Robert.

After the arrests of Harry Gold and David Greenglass, Ethel's brother, Julius Rosenberg was arrested on July 17, 1950. On August 11, Ethel Rosenberg was arrested and then Morton Sobell, a Russian diplomat, was arrested about six days later after being deported from Mexico. The five were arrested on charges of involvement in a spy-ring which sold atomic weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. The alleged spy-ring operated in this manner: David Greenglass, working as a machinist at Los Alamos, New Mexico during the development of the atomic bomb, imparted secret sketches and drawings to Harry Gold. In turn, Gold delivered these to Julius Rosenberg who yielded them to Martin Sobell. Greenglass and Gold pleaded guilty, but the Rosenbergs and Sobell did not.

A controversy ensued over the guilt or innocence of the Rosenbergs, a debate that has continued to this day. Some asserted that the Rosenbergs were victimized by anti-Semitism. Some believed that the Rosenbergs were merely scapegoats for the Korean War (the judge all but blamed the couple for the Korean War). Despite mixed public opinion, the prosecution achieved victory after only fifteen trial days and one day of jury deliberation. The Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell were convicted on March 30, 1951. On April 5, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death. On June 19, 1953, one day after their wedding anniversary, the Rosenbergs were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison.

Klaus Fuchs was released in 1960 and moved to East Germany. David Greenglass was paroled later that year, and Harry Gold was paroled in 1966. Morton Sobell was released in 1969.[14]

February 2, 1972: Scamp returned to San Diego on February 2, 1972, but due to increasing tension in Southeast Asia, redeployed to the Seventh Fleet in May. [15]

February 2, 1977: Jimmy Carter signs Emergency Natural Gas Act; “Fireside Chat”.[16]

February 2, 2000: Added to the site. Provided by the Connellsville Area Historical Society. One of Connellsville's First Veterans:

The first white man in what is now Connellsville was William Crawford. He was a farmer/surveyor/soldier who was a friend of George Washington and had served with him in the Virginia militia. In the fall of 1765, he came over the mountains on horseback with his half-brother Hugh Stephenson. When they saw the beautiful meadow lands in the bend of the Youghiogheny River, Crawford decided to build his home there. The two men surveyed a tract of little over 376 acres and put up a log cabin. The next year, he moved his family into the cabin after a very hazardous trip over the mountains. Hannah, his wife, and their four children, had to follow what was little better than a path that was exceedingly rough and dangerous in places. As they had just pack-horses to carry their possessions, only the essentials could be brought along.[17]

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[1] mike@abcomputers.com


[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


[3] mike@abcomputers.com


[4] mike@abcomputers.com


[5] 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


[6] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


[7] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


[8] http://washburnhill.freehomepage.com/custom3.html


[9] http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/samuel-c-vance-letter-feb-2-1802.pdf


[10] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/


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


[12] William Harrison Goodlove Cilvil war Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove


[13] Ohiocivilwar.com/cw57.html


[14] http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/rosenber.htm

[15] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.Skipjack-class submarine:

•Skipjack
•Scamp
•Scorpion
•Sculpin
•Shark
•Snook


[16] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 497


[17] Provided by the Connellsville Area Historical Society. Added to the site on February 2, 2000.