This Day in Goodlove History, February 4
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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: Elizabeth Arbogast 201 McKinnon, Shanon J. Etheridge Mentus 45, Evelyn D. Godlove Manchester 88
February 4, 362: Roman Emperor Julian promulgates an edict that recognizes equal rights to all the religions in the Roman Empire. Known as Julian the Apostate, Julian effectively undid the edicts of Constantine that had made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. He brought back the old religions of the Empire including those that were tied to Hellenism, the spiritual path that he favored. Julian was sympathetic to the Jewish people and was prepared to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, he was murdered by a Christian Arab soldier who may have been angered by Julian’s decision to deny state support to Christianity.[1]
February 4, 1194: Richard The Lion Hearted bought his freedom by paying his ransom to Leopold, an Austrian Duke. In collecting the ransom, the Jews were forced to pay 5,000 marks. They were taxed at three times the rate as that paid by their Christian countrymen.[2]
1195: Death of Isaac II Angelus the Byzantine Emperor – Alexius III rules, Harald Maddadsson loses earldom of Shetland and islands under control of Norway and Sverre Sigurdsson, end of Isaac II the Byzantine Emperor, Alexius III the Byzantine Emperor to 1203. [3]
February 4, 1555
John Rogers, editor of “Mathews Bible”[4] was the first Protestant leader burned at the stake at Smithfield under orders from Queen Mary in 1555.[5]
February 4, 1657: Oliver Cromwell granted the right of residence in England to a Jew, Antonio Fernandez Carvajal. According to some, this is the earliest official British act of tolerance in favor of the Jews.[6]
February 4, 1728: Augustine Smith was the son of Lawrence Smith per page 54 of "Colonial Caroline: A History of Caroline County, Virginia, " (1954) by T. E Campbell. Augustine commanded the first garrison at Fredericksburg, and had been public surveyor for St Mary's Parish, whose people did not like him. However, the Williamsburg authorities made him surveyor of both Spotsylvania and Essex Counties when the upper end of St Mary's Parish was split. The feud grew greater through the years as planters tried many tactics to get rid of him. A new county (Caroline) seemed a plausible way.
Spotsylvania Co., VA. DB A (1722-1729) dated February 4, 1728, from John Waller and John Taliaferro as Trustees of the town of Fredericksburg in Spots Co. to Augustine Smith of Caroline Co., VA., conveyed lots 30 an 32 in said town. Augustine was the first to purchase a lot, per "History of Fredericksburg Virginia," (1937), by Alvin T. Embry. Spots Co DB B (1729-1734) dated November 2, 1731. Augustine Smith of Spts. Co., Gent. to his eldest son, Thomas Smith, of the same County, Gent. 250 ster. and for sd. Thos. advancement in life, 400 a. in Spts. whereon sd. Thos. now dwells and for some time past has dwelt, etc. M. Battaley, J. Mercer. November 2, 1731.
[Note: Spots. Co DB E (1751-1761) dated June 17, 1752 a Deed of Gift from Lawrence Washington, to his brother George of King Geo. Co., Gent., conveyed his interest acquired as heir of the late Augustine Washington, deceased, in Lots 33, 34 and 40 in the town of Fredericksburg]. For info on Fredericksburg see http://www.ego.net/us/va/fb/history/index.htm)[7]
Augustine Smith is the 8th great granduncle of the compiler.
February 4, 1736
John Wesley arrives in Georgia to introduce Methodism to the colonies.[8]
January 31 to February 4, 1773: Preached at Laury Irwin’s-the week past Mr. F. came to see me.
Saw a large Indian fortification at Stewart’s Crossings. Saw an Indian, Joseph Wapee, who informed me, that the forts in the Ohio country were places of retreat and defence, made by the ancient inhabitants, against the Catawbas[9]. This probably he received by tradition from his ancestors. Visited the settlement until February 4. [10]
February 4, 1778: The military records show that John Dodson was inducted into by Lt. James Brice. This process took place February 5, 1778 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. [11] Lt. James Brice was the son of Captain John Brice. St. John's parich register shows that on November 19, 1761 Sarah Bryce, the second daughter of Captain John Bryce of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland was married to Richard Henderson. [12]This wedding took place while the McKinnon family was associated with St. John's parish. Thus it is likely that Eleanor knew the Brice Family and they could have acted to bring John Dodson and Eleanor (Howard) McKinnon together.
The register for the military unit being formed in Annapolis shows the following enlistments:
Name Rank Date Enlisted Date Discharged Remarks
Majors. Jno pbt February 4, 1778 August 16, 1881 Prisoner
Dodson John Pvt February 5, 1778 June 11, 1778 Discharged
Pringic. John Pvt 6 February 6, 1778 August 16, 1880 Missing
Rady. Laurence Pvt February 7, 1778 July 8, 1779 Deserted
Cheney. John Pvt February 10, 1778
Timms. Edward Pvt February 11, 1778 November 1, 1880 Present
Therefore it appears that John Dodson was not part of any group but rather enlisted himself on that date.[13]
February 4th, 1780: Today the admiral put out to sea with the fleet to blockade the irbor of Charlestown. I heard today that Fort Mobile on the Missisppi in Florida had been taken by the Spanish, in which the grenadiers of e Waldeck Regiment were partly killed and partly captured.—How many bones are scattered around in this war![14]
February 4, 1780: Benjamin Harrison settled on the Youghiogheny River in what is now Franklin Township, Fayette County, Penn. (See items dated February 4, 1780 and August 11, 1785)[15]1780 February 4 - Surveyor's Office, Yohogania County, Va.: Benjamin Harrison produced a Certificate from the Commissioners appointed to grant lands in the Counties of Yohogania, Monongahela and Ohio - 400 acres on the Youghiogheny River "to include his settlement made in the year 1770." [16] By orders of the Board of Property (September 15, 1784 and March 7, 1785), a survey was made for Benjamin Harrison pursuant to a Certificate granted by the Commissioners from the State of Virginia, entered February 4, 1780 - 290-3/4 acres and 6% allowance for roads, etc., on the Youghiogheny River below the mouth of Dickinson's Run in Franklin Township, Fayette County, Penn.[17]
February 4, 1785:
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On August 10, 1785, the day before the land was surveyed, Benjamin Harrison assigned to James Rankin, all his right, etc. in and to the "within land (400 acres entered February 4, 1785) with a general warrantee the Lord of the soil accepted." (Survey Bk. C, v. 176, p. 236; Warrant #22, Fayette County; Patent Book P, v. 4, p. 60; Pennsylvania Dept. of Community Affairs, Harrisburg)
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February 4, 1789: Newly chosen electors cast their ballots in the first presidential election.[20] George Washington was unanimously elected first President of the United States. Because he was the first President, Washington’s actions set the tone for the new nation and for his predecessors. Washington offered assurances to American Jews that they would enjoy full rights as citizens of the new republic where every man will sit under his fig tree and “none shall make him afraid.”.[21] George Washington becomes the first and only president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College. He repeated this notable feat on the same day in 1792.
The peculiarities of early American voting procedure meant that although Washington won unanimous election, he still had a runner-up, John Adams, who served as vice president during both of Washington's terms. Electors in what is now called the Electoral College named two choices for president. They each cast two ballots without noting a distinction between their choice for president and vice president. Washington was chosen by all of the electors and therefore is considered to have been unanimously elected. Of those also named on the electors' ballots, Adams had the most votes and became vice president.
Although Washington's overwhelming popularity prevented problems in 1789 and 1792, this procedure caused great difficulty in the elections of 1796 and 1800. In 1796, Federalist supporters of John Adams cast only one of their two votes in an effort to ensure that Adams would win the presidency without giving votes to any of the other candidates. This led to a situation in which the Federalist Adams won the highest number of votes and became president, but Thomas Jefferson, the opposing Democratic-Republican candidate, came in second and therefore became his opponent's vice president.
In 1800, the system led to a tie between the Democratic-Republican candidates for president and vice president, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. This sent the vote to the House of Representatives, where Federalists voted for Burr instead of Jefferson, whom they despised. As a result, the Congressional vote ended in a tie 35 times before the Federalists decided to hand in blank ballots and concede the White House to Jefferson.
In 1804, the 12th Amendment to the Constitution ended this particular form of electoral chaos by stipulating that separate votes be cast for president and vice president.[22]
February 4, 1792: George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. Washington’s treatment of the Jews set a national tone that would help make the Jewish experience in America a unique one.[23]
February 4, 1794: The first court of Harrison County was held in February, 1794. Robert Hinkston was the first Sheriff, Benjamin Harrison, Hugh Miller, Henry Coleman, Samuel McIlvain, Nathan Rawlings and Charles Zachary, Justices of the Peace, all of whom were sworn in February 4, 1794, and formed the first county Court., they elected William Moore, Clerk. They held their first court in the house of Morgan Van Meter; Richard Henderson was the first County Attorney; Daniel Lindsay the first Coroner; Archibald Hutchinson, Thomas Rankin and William Hall qualified as Constables. Henry Coleman was the first Surveyor, with Benjamin Harrison as Deputy; also John Little and Edward Coleman as Deputies. At this session of court, a ferry was granted to Benjamin Harrison across the Licking River; he was also appointed Commissioner of Tax. Among other business done was a tavern license granted to Robert Harrison in Cynthiana, for one year; also one to William Harrison; a ferry to Robert Harrison across South Licking, near the mouth Gray’s Run, where the present bridge is. [24]
1794 – February 4 - At the first Court of Harrison County, new Justices were sworn: Benjamin Harrison, Hugh Miller, Henry Coleman, Samuel McIlvain, Nathan Rawlings, Charles Zachary. Henry Coleman was the first Surveyor with Benjamin Harrison as Deputy. At that session of Court, a ferry was granted Benjamin Harrison across Licking River; he was also appointed Commissioner of Tax. [25]
1794 – February 4 - Surveyed for Benjamin Harrison, 2,000 acres on Licking in Harrison County. [26]
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February 4, 1807: In France, The Great Sanhedrin, a creation of Napoleon Bonaparte, met at the Hotel de Ville in the City Hall of Paris.[28] Ancestor Joseph Lefevre was said to have been in Napoleon’s body guard unit.
Will of Isaac Meason
Fayette County, Uniontown, PA, written September 24, 1817, proved February 4 1818. Bk. ?, pages 579-585.
Note: This is a very long will for the time period, mostly detailing the land owned by Isaac. The following is an abreviated version.
I, Isaac Meason of Mounty Braddock in Fayette County, and State of Pennsylvania, being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and Testament...
First, I devise to my beloved wife should she outlive me one third part of the yearly value of my Real Estate...that she bge put to no trouble in becoming possessed of her share...
Secondly, to my oldest daughter, Elizabeth Murphy, I give that part of the lands I purchased from...Thomas Gist whereon she now lives, containing 500 acres, described as follow...Also all that tract of land in Union Township... adjoining the above described, containing 300 acres, known by the name of Samuel Lyuons old place… Also 300 acress of land to be laid off of my woodland… to my said daughter Elizabeth Murphey and to her heirs and assigns forever.
Thirdly, to my son Isaac Meason, I devise the mansion plantation and tract of land where I now reside…called Mounty Bradock together with all the buildings and improvements…supposed to contain about 1200 acres and 170 acres more or less. Also a tract of land by Jacobs Creek where I formerly lived containing 339 and one half acres, except the piece sold to Houcoholt (surveyed Application No. 2187 in name of John Henderson, and Application 2974 in name of James Northington). 323 ½ acres. …Also, my furnace in Bullskin Township called Mount Vernon…and all buildings and lands and mills…
Accounting in all to about 6000 acres. Also one half of my tract of land opposite Connelsville on the Youghigheny River excluding the town of New Haven and the piece of land surveyed by Colonel William Crawford to his daughter,Mrs. Springer to be laid off…together with the landings rights of landings, ferry bridge and toll of ferry and bridge with the right of maintaining and keeping up and repairing the same. Also the Saltwork situate on the south side of the Yough. River above Connellsville…and 300 acres of land, and the tract on the opposite side of the river…Also one Majority or undivided half part of my Maira Forge, Union Forge and Rolling Mill, Union Furnace and Gist Mill situate on Dunbars run…Accouting in the whole to upwards of 8000 acres… to my said son Isaac Meason, his heirs and assigns forever.
Fourthly, to my second daughter, Mary Rogers, wife of Daniel Rogers, all my lower half part of my tract on Yough. River opposite Connellsville, now occupied by Mr. Weaver. Also all that tract of land on the Youghiogheny avoe the mouth of Jacobs Creek, containing 298 ½ acres…Also a tract of land in Tyron township contining about 200 acres.l..(unsold residue of Application No. 2980)…Also, 69 ¾ acres, being unsold residue of warrant in name of Elizabeth Meason. To my said daughter Mary Rogers.
Fifthly, to my daughters Elizabeth Murphey and Mary Rogers I devise the remaining majority of Maria Forge, Union Forge and Rolling Mill, Union Furnace and Gist Mills…
Sixthly, to the children and legal heirs of my son Thomas Meason, deceased, I devise…the tract of land near Uniontown…containg 306 ¾ acres purchased of the executors of Col. Isreal Shreve, William Hoge, Mrs. Shreve Patterson and Stewart in Washington’s bottom containing 600 acres. Also all the interest I have in Dunbars Furnace and lands…about 2000 acres. To the children of Thomas Meason deceased.
Seventhly, to my sister, Elizabeth Fell, wife of John Fell, I devise…the tract of land where she now lives…containing about 200 acres, during her natural life and at her decease to her two sons Isaac and George Fell.
Eighterly, I devise…that my Executors shall have power to sell all the unsold lands in the coutnties of Indiana, Armstrong and Jefferson, also the unsold town lots in the town of New Haven, all my houses and lots in Union Town. The Middletown Iron Works with lands and houses. One tract of land in Washington’s bottom. All my lands and tenements in the state of Kentucky or elsewhere. Also a tract of land in Bullskin township containing 371 acres (surveyed 1 dec 1781…Residue to be equally divided between Isaac Meason, Elizabeth Murphy and Mary Rogers.
Ninthly, my tract of land on Jacob’s creek warranted in the name of Catharine Meason…containing 398 ½ acres…200 to son Isaac, 100 to Elizabeth, and remainder to Mary Rogers.
Tenthly, some more land in Tyrone Township to Mary Rogers…
Eleventhly, to my beloved wife in lieu of her dower waved in the first item, $1000 per annum, one half of the Mansion House and the whole of the garden during her Natural life, also one half the furniture, 6 milk cows and a horse and Marcia her servant girl and Harry a Negro man…
Twelvethly, the other half goes to my three children.
Executors are Isaac Meason and son-in-law Daniel Rogers. At mount Bradock this twenty-fourth day of September in the year of our Lord 1817. Signed Isaac Meason[29]
February 4th , 1820: JOHN IRWIN FOR COL. WILLIAM CRAWFORD35
IN TESTIMONY THEREOF, I John Irwin of Brust Hill, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania having served as Dy. Comm’y Gen. of Issues in the Western Department, of being constantly stationed at Fort Pitt the head of Said department, do certify that, I was intimately acquainted with the late Colonel William Crawford from the commencement of our Revolutionary War until his unfortunate expedition against the Indians, in which he lost his life. .. . that I find by old books now in my possession, he drew rations as a Colonel early in the year of 1777 from the Provision Stores at FortPitt & at several of the out Posts in the department.... That he was employed in an expedition under Col Broadhead against the hostile Indians up the Alleghany River.... Tha he either commanded or served in an expedition to the Muskingham River, in which it is said the Moravian Indians Suffered great loss & which was supposed to have been the cause of the tortures inflicted on him at the time of his death; and that he also served in another expedition of very great enterprise under General Clark, which was commonly called “The Western Expedition.”
This is but a brief sketch of his Public Services which fell under my own particular notice, because in all his various Expeditions & other services he generally signed the provision returnes for the troops or Corps which he Commanded.
But still I am not able to say with certainty, to what Regiment or Corps of the Army he belonged.... But I always considered him as Colonel in the Virginia Line of the Continental Army.
Witness my hand this February 4, 1820
John Irwin[30]
February 4, 1824: 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.)
Eleanor Howard is claimed to be the daughter of a male Howard (General Eager Howard).
Eleanor McKinnon's father cannot be established and the most that can be inferred from the records
was that he resided in All Hallows Parish of Anne Arundel County, Maryland and was not Daniel
McKinnon. [31]
February 4, 1824 and February 4, 1837: Susannah Smith10 [Francis Smith9, William Smith8, Lawrence Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. 1739 / d. 1823) married Col William Preston (b. 1729 / d. 1783).
A. Children of Susannah Smith and William Preston:
. i. Elizabeth Preston (b. May 31, 1762 / d. February 4, 1837)
. ii. John Preston (b. may 2, 1764 / d. March 27, 1827)
+ . iii. Francis Preston (b. August 2, 1765 / d. May 26, 1835)
. iv. Sarah Preston (b. may 3, 1767 / d. July 3, 1841)
. v. Ann Preston (b. February 12, 1769 / d. 1782)
. vi. William Preston (b. September 5, 1770 / d. January 24, 1821)
+ . vii. Susannah Preston (b. October 7, 1772 / d. July 21, 1833)
. viii. James Patton Preston (b. June 21, 1774 / d. May 4, 1843)
. ix. Mary Preston (b. September 29, 1776 / d. February 4, 1824)
. x. Letitia Preston (b. September 26, 1779 / d. September 13, 1852)
. xi. Thomas Lewis Preston (b. August 19, 1781 / d. August 11, 1812)
. xii. Margaret Brown Preston (b. February 23, 1784 / d. May 4, 1843)
More about Elizabeth Preston
Elizabeth married William Strouther Madison (b. 1752 / d. 1782)
More about John Preston
John married Mary Rayford (b. 1765 /d. 1810). He also married Eliza Ann Carrington (b. 1769 / d. 1839).
More about Sarah Preston
Sarah married James McDowell (b. 1765)
More about William Preston
William married Caroline Hancock (b. 1785 / d. 1847)
More about Mary Preston
Mary married John Lewis (b. 1758 / d. 1823)
More about Letitia Preston
Letitia married John Floyd (b. 1783 / d. 1837). John was Major as a Surgeon in the War of 1812. John was the Governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834. Receive the Electoral Vote from North Carolina in the 1832 Presidential Race.
More about Thomas Preston
Thomas married Edmonia Madison Randolph (b. 1787 / d. 1847).
More about Margaret Preston
Margaret married John Preston (b. 1781 / d. 1864) [32]
February 4, 1842: Charles Marcus STEPHENSON. Born on February 4, 1842 in Howard County, Missouri. Charles Marcus died in Mendon, Chariton County, Missouri on December 2, 1927; he was 85.
On October 22, 1882 when Charles Marcus was 40, he married Maggie HOLMES, in St. Charles, Missouri. Born on December 11, 1858 in Saline County, Missouri. Maggie died in Chariton County, Missouri on August 7, 1942; she was 83. Was on the census for 52 Years Old in 1910.
They had the following children:
i. William C. Born in 1887.
ii. S. E. Born in 1890.
iii. Charles B. Born in 1896.
iv. Laura E. [33]
From C.C. Jones. [34]
To Zebulon Baird Vance (3rd cousin, 6x removed) Governor of North Carolina
Lenois February 4, 1861
I hope you will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you the following lines and if convenient let me hear from you in response at an early day-
You are aware that we have a convention in N. C. and it would aid our Cause (The Union) if indications of a settlement of this unfortunate difficulty are of such a character as we can claim them with Confidence & promise the masses of the people that this question is really to be settled on the Crittenden proposition or plan- he is a great favorite with all the Union men in N. C. Wi.. the Free States accept the? If so in this great emergency why do they hesitate longer? Will they wickedly persist in straining the Conservative element, until its cords are snap’t asunder- I hope not! You know the nature of the southern people is impulsive and sectional feeling contagious! North Carolina and especially Caldwell and Wilkes are deeply attached to the Union, as well as the larger section of the State I hope- as for my self I cant contemplate a dislution of this government without horror and indignation- and it is deeply humiliating (or ought to be) to any citizen of a Border State if they will allow these arrogant Cotton Obligarchys South of them to dragoon them into their service After all the Action of Virginia[35] will decide the fate of North Carolina if she (VA) goes out of the Union I fear N.C. must follow her very soon, therefore we look to the course and action of Va with great interest, and as far as I am concerned with serious misgivings- much very much depends upon the Republicans at this moment- if they are fatally bent upon mischief it must come and that soon.
Excuse his hastily written Scroll and accept the best wishes of your Cincere friend
Washington[36]
February 4, 1861: The Confederate States of America is formed in Montgomery, Alabama.[37] The official record read: "Be it remembered that on the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Capitol of the State of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, at the hour of noon, there assembled certain deputies and delegates from the several independent South State of North America..."
The first order of business was drafting a constitution. They used the U.S. Constitution as a model, and most of it was taken verbatim. It took just four days to hammer out a tentative document to govern the new nation. The president was limited to one six-year term. Unlike the U.S. Constitution, the word "slave" was used and the institution protected in all states and any territories to be added later. Importation of slaves was prohibited, as this would alienate European nations and would detract from the profitable "internal slave trade" in the South. Other components of the constitution were designed to enhance the power of the states--governmental money for internal improvements was banned and the president was given a line-item veto on appropriations bills.
The Congress then turned its attention to selecting a president. The delegates settled on Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate who was the U.S. Secretary of War in the 1850s and a senator from Mississippi. [38]
Joseph E. Brown to ZBV[39]
Executive Department,
Milledgeville, Ga.,
February 4, 1863
His Excellency
Z.B. Vance
Governor of N. Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th. Ult., accompanied by a copy of Resolutions passed by the legislature of your State, in reference to the procurement of machinery and wire for the manufacture of cotton and wool card; and in reply, beg leave to state that, in December last, pursuant to an act just previously passed by the General Assembly of this State, I purchased, on behalf of the State, a half interest in what was known as the “Pioneer Card Manufacturing Co.” then located at Carterville, Ga., at the price of $60,000. At the time of the purchase, the property of the Company consisted of one machine for setting the teeth of cotton cards and one for card clothing for factories-a lot of wire said to be enough to make some 12,000 pairs of cards, all of which, I believe, had been brought in from the United States, at considerable expense to the enterprising parties /who/ imported and transferred them to the persons of whom the State purchased. They also had a steam engine, and a small stock of leather and other materials necessary in the business of the Company.
The great object the State had in view in purchaseing an interest in the Company, was to get the imported machine to duplicate it, and by putting more machines inoperation, to be able, after time, to manufacture cards enough to supply, in a great measure, the wants of the people of our State, for that indispensable implement of domestic manufacture of cloth.
The machinery and stock of the Company have been removed to this city, and the manufacturing is now carried on in the State Armory buildins, which are located inside the Penitentiary walls. We have commenced to make ten new machines in the Stae Armory shops; but none of them are yet in successful operation. The old machine when in operation, turns out about 24 pairs of cotton cards per day, which we sell at $6. Per pair, for leather or skins suitable for making others- giving a perferance in making sales, to widows of deceased soldiers and wives of soldiers now in service We cannot yet approximate a supply enen to those classes of our people. The original stock of wire has not yet been exhausted; but our Master Armorer, (who is also Superintendent of the card manufactory,) says he can draw suitable wire in the Armory.
The State being only half owner of the card manufactory, and as all the manufacture enough cards to supply the wants of our own citizens to sell any of the machines would be considered unfair to the other part owners, and to our own people who have so much need of cards; yet I cannot permit the State to be even a partner in selfishness, and refuse to a sister State the privilege of inspecting, takeing the dimensions and making drawings of one of our machines, that whe might have others made; and though to grant this privilege may be viewed by the individual part owners, as derogatory to their interests, yet, if your State will send a competent mechanist here to inspect, take the dimensions and make drawings of our machines, he shall have every facility afforded him to accomplish that object. In this way I presume your State could have machines made in some machine shop within her own limits, or elsewhere in the Confederacy.
The machines are small, but quite complicated. A good machinist will, however, find no difficulty inmaking them. They require but little power to run them.
I REGRET THAT I DO NOT HAVE IT IN MY POWER TO DO MORE FOR YOUR NOBLE State in this regard. I shall at all times, however, be glad to five you any information in my power, and to render you any assistance which my obligations to the other partners in the Company, will allow.
I am, very respectfully,
Your Excellency’s obt. Servt.
Joseph E. Brown
ZBV[40]
ZBV to James A. Seddon
State of North Carolina
Executive Department Raleigh February 4, 1863
Hon Jas. A Seddon
Secty of War
Sir
Yours of the 30th Ulto. Asking what appointment have been made by the War Dept. which pertained to the Executive of this State and what regiments this power extended to and upon what grounds this claim of the Executive rested has been received.
I have the honor to enclose herewith a list of the regients which the Governor of this State claims to exercise the right of appointing officers in. This claim rests on the ground that these regiments were organized originally for the period of the War under a state law and the governor was required by that law to commission the officers and to cies therein. The remaining regiments from this State in Confederate service known as “Conscript regiments” were originally twelve months men and the appointments of these officers is given to the President by an act of the April 16th, 1962 and is conceded by the State authorities.
Permit me to remark that whilst there is no particular importance attached to the matter, yet the foregoing distinction has been so far observed by my predecessors and the War Dept. and a departure from it now could only created dissatisfaction and confusion.
The enclosed extract of a letter from Col. Avery 6th. N.C.T will give you a particular case, to which among others my former letter referred. The case of Lt. Col. Moore was not complained of, as I had thro’ a misapprehension recommended him myself.
Allow me to disclaim, Sir, most emphatically, an intention to charge you with a disposition to “trench upon my pregogrative:. I have seen no evidence of such intention in any part of the official intercourse I have had the honor to hold with you. My former letter was based upon the supposition that you were unacquainted with the staus of the troops from this stae in the matter ommissioning officers &c
I have the honor to be
Sir most respectfully Yr obt. Srvt.
Z. B. Vance[41]
ZBV to Samuel G. French[42]
State of North Carolina
Executive Department
Raleigh February 4, 1863
Maj. Genl. French
Goldboro N.C.
My dear Sir
A Mr John Wilson a citizen of Bertie Co. writes that all communication between his county and the contiguous counties beyond the Chowan River has been forbidden by your order and that in consequence large supplies of pork, lard, &c are prevented from coming into our lines. He also states that Capt Newhart of the Cavalry, intrusted with the execution of your orders in that region, has seized some twelve or fifteen thousand pounds of meat, brought across the river by loyal citizens and confiscated to the use of the troops as lawful prize. If all this be not according to your orders permit me to request you to look into the matter and to see that no wrong is done to loyal citizens; and if done by your order, I hope you will pardon me for suggesting that no prohibition should be laid on the trade with loyal people across the river & Especially upon the getting our of all manner of provisions and Army supplies.
Supposing that the scope of your orders must be misapprehended and that you intended very properly only thesuppression of illegal traffick with the enemy, I am content merely to call your attention to the matter
Most respectfully
Yr. obt Svt.
Z.B. Vance[43]
James A. Seddon to ZBV[44]
Confederate States of America
War Department
Richmond Va. February 4th 1863
His Excellency
Z.B. Vance
Sir
Some six or eight weeks since I invited your attention to the importance of the Rail Road connection to be made by the Confederate Govt. under act of Congress between Danville Va and Greensboro N. C. and invoked you aid to command the slave labor requisist for its early completion. You then declined any impressment in this request under the conviction that with adequate energy on the part of the contractors a sufficient number of slaves might readily be obtained at not unreasonable rates. Will you excuse my again asking your attention to this subject and soliciting a reconxsideration of your decision. I am assured that every effort has been made and that rates exceeding in liberality current prices for hire have been freely offered without success in obtaining the required labor. Some impression has prevailed that slaves employed in this locality had peculiar facilities of excaping and hence the uunwillingness of their owners in Eastern Counties to hire them to the Contractors. Besides there is a general disinclination to hire servants to be employed on works of this character where large numbers are assembled. Serious delay must therefore occur iunless the aughority of your State can be exercised to provide an adequate number of slave labourers for the work. In consequence it is respectfully submitted to you to determine whether the importance of this work, does not justify, if it does not require such exercise of your authority. Full hire shall be paid and every care possible shall be taken to provide for the comfort and safety of the slaves.
In connection with the same subject allow me to ask your attention to a petition which, I understand has been presented to your legislature seeking such change in the charter of incorporation for the connecting road as will allow conformity of guage thoughout & prevent the necessity of break at Danville.
The importance of this in view of the usefulness of the road for military operations needs no comment, but in reference to the future advantage of the road to your State interest, I may be permitted to suggest that a break at Danvillecould only operate injuriously as, it would tend to make that place more decidedly a depot and a place of transfer. All considerations seem to recommend the proposed chang of charter and it would be grativying to this Department if you could concur in this view and lend your potent influence to induce the amendment.
With great esteem
Very respectfully Your s James A Seddon Secty of War[45]
Thurs. February 4, 1864 (William Harrison Goodlove, Iowa 24th Infantry) 2nd gg.
At cario went on steam boat
Olive branch[46] stayed all night heavy
timber on both sides cario
large business city very low and muddy[47]
February 4, 1872: Fifth Generation
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Family of Marcus STEPHENSON (13) & Catherine HANCOCK
15. Robert STEPHENSON. Born on May 8, 1833 in Missouri. Robert died on February 4, 1872; he was 38.
Robert married Nancy. Born in 1843.
They had the following children:
i. William. Born in 1860 in Missouri.
ii. Charles. Born in 1862 in Missouri.
iii. Mary. Born in 1864 in Missouri.
iv. Jennie. Born in 1866 in Missouri.
v. J. W.
J. W. married Miss BRAXDALE.
vi. Lucy.
Lucy married Mr. BRAXDALE. [48]
February 4, 1902: Birthdate of Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh is the famed “Lone Eagle,” the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. He was not the first to fly the Atlantic. That had already been done by " Lt. Cmdr. Albert Read and the crew of the flying boast NC-4 in May of 1919" and by two RAF pilots in the following month. Unfortunately, Lindbergh’s skill as an aviator surpassed his political aptitude. “As World War II began, Lindbergh became a prominent speaker in favor of non-intervention, going so far as to recommend that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Germany during his January 23, 1941 Charles Augustus Lindbergh testimony before Congress. At an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941, he made a speech titled "Who Are the War Agitators?" in which he claimed that Americans had solidly opposed entering the war when it began, and that three groups had been "pressing this country toward war" -- the Roosevelt Administration, the British, and the Jews, and complained about what he insisted was the Jews' "large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government." He made clear however his opposition to anti-Semitism, stating that "All good men of conscience must condemn the treatment of the Jews in Germany", further advising "Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation."[49]
• February 4, 1927: Linda, Love your book, “Our Grandmothers”. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about their family history. It has a lot of info that I did not have!
Regarding your email about Ursula Armstrong and John A. Lorence...John Anthony Lorence (Frank, Frantisek, Lorenc) was born May 16, 1901, and died September 1989 in Cedar Rapids, Linn Cnty, IA. He married Ursula Armstrong, August 28, 1924 in Cedar Rapids, IA, daughter of Frank Armstrong and Edna Valenta. She was born May 27, 1906 in Tipton, Iowa.
John Anthony Lorence is buried in Cedar Memorial, Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Child of John Lorence and Ursula Armstrong is Jack Junior Lorence, born February 4, 1927, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Jack Junior Lorence (John Anthony, Frank, Frantisek Lorence) was born February 4, 1927 in Cedar Rapids, Ia. He married Jean LaRose Goodlove October 15, 1949 in Center Point, Ia., daughter of Covert Goodlove and Berneita Kruse. She was born April 13, 1931 in Linn Cnty, IA. Jack Junior Lorence graduated 1944 from McKinley H.S. bet 1944-1946 was in the Navy. Jean Larose Goodlove was a school secretary at Linn Mar in Marion.
Jack and Jean (my aunt and uncle) were instrumental in the transcription of the original William Harrison Goodlove diary and visited many of the battle grounds that William Harrison Goodlove was at. This information of their visits should be in the edition of the diary.
Hope this answers some of your questions.
Jeff Goodlove
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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] mike@abcomputers.com
[4] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 168.
[5] Trial by Fire, by Harold Rawlings, page 119, 121.
[6] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[7] http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ja7smith/Genealogy_of_William_Smyth.html Proposed Descendants of William Smyth (b. 1460)
[8] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[9] Catawba. Southern Indian tribe. Living in piedmont area of Virginia south to South Carolina (Catawba River). Other Southern Indians—see Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Seminoles. With the exception of the Cherokees, the Southern Indians spoke a Muskogee language (also given as Muskhogean). Catawbas and Delawares were long-time enemies. This enmity was used to the colonist’s advantage when fighting the Delaware. Another Catawba enemy was the Iroquois who traveled south from NY on the “Catawba Path” on war parties. The Catawba Path generally started at Olean, NY (on the upper Allegheny River) and south through Indiana, PA and Uniontown, PA, south to Morgantown, WVA and on south. Some historians view the Catawba as a confederation of small tribes combining due to losses from disease and fights against the settlers. This combining would have taken place around 1650. The “Catawba” is a name given to the group by the European settlers. The word Catawba is from the Choctaw.
Another story has it that the Catawba were formed from remnants of the Erie Nation. When the Erie were defeated by the Iroquois in the 1650s many were chased south and came to rest in northwestern South Carolina. The Iroquois spoke of the Catawba as being “bad Indian” or “devil Catawba.” In the 1700s when the Iroquois would treat with Virginia officials they would always insist on rights to travel through the colony on their way to fight the Catawba. Fighting the Catawba seemed to be a right of passage for an Iroquois warrior.
Catawba War Path. County Route 39, Mason-Dixon Historical Park. West Virginia Memory Project - Highway Markers. Photo by compiler with Joyce Chandler. Enlarged photo
"Branch of Warrior Trail of the Great Catawba Indian War Path located here where Mason and Dixon Survey crossed Dunkard Creek for third time. Guide, Six Nations Indians' chief, declared he 'would not proceed one step further,' because hostile Delaware and Shawnee Indians had ordered them to halt. On Oct. 18, 1767, western end of original Mason-Dixon Line was set on the next high peak, Brown's Hill."
This area is in Monongalia County, WV and is located southwest of Mt. Morris in Greene County, PA and a few miles east of Blacksville, WV on County Road 39. At the intersection leading to the park is a marker titled: "Border Heroine." The inscription is "During the Indian raids in 1779 upon the settlements on Dunkard Creek, savages attacked the cabin of John Bozarth. Armed only with an axe, in a brief hand-to-hand fight, Mrs. Bozarth; killed three of the men." (See Anna Bozarth.)
Note: Catawba grapes are light-red in color and grow in the Carolinas as well as on the Lake Erie Islands and Sandusky area of Ohio. A light, dry wine is made from this grape. If you're in the area of Put-in-Bay, Ohio—visit the winery on Catawba Avenue. (JC)
[10] Diary of David McClure, New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1899, p. 108 The Brothers Crawford, Scholl, 1995, p. 24-25.
[11] . (Muster Rolls & Other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, 1775-1783. Muster of Maryland Troops, Vol. 1, First Regimant, Genealogical Publishing Co) ., Inc. Baltimore, MD, 1972.)
[12] (Maryland State Archives, St. John's Parish Records, Microfilm Roll M 229. Page 331.)
[13] (http://washburnhill.freehomepage.com/custom3.html)
[14] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.
[15] Chronology of BENJAMIN HARRISON compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giulvezan, Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[16] (Survey Bk. C, v. 176, p. 236, Pennsylvania Dept. of Community Affairs, Harrisburg; see "Virginia Entries in Western Pennsylvania 1779-1780," Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, V. 3, p. 513) Chronology of BENJAMIN HARRISON compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giulvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html.
[17] (Survey Bk. C, v. 176, p. 236; Warrant #22, Fayette County; Patent Book P, v. 4, p. 60; Pennsylvania Dept. of Community Affairs, Harrisburg) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[18] The Horn Papers, Early Westward Movement on the Monongahela and Upper Ohio 1765-1795 by W.F. Horn Published for a Committee of the Greene County Historical Society, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania by the Hagstrom Company, New York, N.Y. 1945
Ref. 33.92 Conrad and Caty by Gary Goodlove 2003
[19] LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, TX. February 11, 2012
[20] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[21] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[22] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/washington-unanimously-elected-by-electoral-college-to-first-and-second-terms
[23] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[24] History of Harrison County, Ref 42.2 Conrad and Caty, by Gary Goodlove, 2003 Author Unknown
[25] (History Bourbon etc., p. 220) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[26] (Jillson, p. 185) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[27] http://doclindsay.com/kentucky_stuff/oldkentucky.html
[28] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[29] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett page 452.17-19
[30]Gen. Irwin certificate relative to Col. William Crawford, No. 1 Collected from the General Services at Washington, D. C.
From River Clyde To Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford.
The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995.
[31] http://washburnhill.freehomepage.com/custom3.html
[32] Proposed Descendants of William Smith
[33] www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/families/Stephenson.rtf
[34] Calvin C. Jones 1813-1896), of Caldwell County, was a political leader who was a candidate for the House of Commons in 1862; but withdrew in favor of S. F. Dula before the elction. Jones was later a member of the Convention of 1868. Raleigh North Carolina Standard, July 26, 1862; Connor, N. C. Manual, p 865.
[35] The election of delegates to the Virginia convention occurred on February 4, 1861, the day this letter was written. The Virginia convention convened on February 14, with a clear majority for Union for existing causes. As late as April 4, 1861 a motion to draw up an ordinance of secession was voted down, 88 to 45.
[36] [A. L. S. Z. B. Vance Papers, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh.]
[37] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[38] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/provisional-confederate-congress-convenes
[39] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors Letter Books, State Archives, Diviosn of Archives and History, Raleigh
[40] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2 1863, Edited by Joe A. Mobley, pages 43-44.
[41] The Papers of Zebuon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Edited by Joe A. Mobley, page 45,
[42] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors letter Books, State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh
[43] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2, 1863, Edited by Joe A. Mobley, page 46,
[44] Zebulon Baird Vance, Governors letter Books, State Archives, Division of Archives and History, Raleigh
[45] The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 2 1863, Edited by Joe A. Mobley. Page 46-47.
[46]The Olive Branch was a riverboat. It was a sidewheel, wooden hull packet. Size: 283’ x 42’ x 8’, 697 tons. Launched: 1863, Jeffersonville, Ind. By Howard Yard. Destroyed: 1871, July 22, Liberty Island below St. Louis. Hit a stump which tore down her entire hull causing her to sink within 1 ½ minute. Area: 1863, St. Louis-New Orleans. Owner: 1863, Capt B. Rush Pegram and others. 1865?-18??, Atlantic and Mississippi Steamboat Company. 1871, July 22, Capt John T. McCord and others. Captains: 1863, Capt B. Rush. Pegram Other masters, Ben F. Taper, J.T. McCord and J.H. Jones. Comments: 1865, April, late: Cleared Memphis with 700 Union soldier/prisoners heading upriver and home, just before the doomed Sultana arrived to pick hers up.
The Sultana, a Side-wheeler rated to carry 376 persons. At 2 AM, April 27, 1865, overloaded with Union soldiers going up river from Vicksburgh after being released from Andersonville prison, her boilers exploded. She burned and sank in a group of islands called the “Hen and Chickens” above Memphis. 1547 died. Comments: Arrived in Memphis at 7 P.M. and got back underway around midnight with 2,400 released Union soldiers/prisoners home from Memphis, and 180 civilians. (Dave Dawley “Riverboat Dave”, 4510 Genessee, Kansas City, MO 64111, United States Http://members.tripod.com/~write4801/riverboats/o.html)
[47] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove
[48] www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/families/Stephenson.rtf
[49] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
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