This Day in Goodlove History, November 17
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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), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson and George Washington.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
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November 1759:
The Late War is the French and Indian War which ended c1763. This is the form of the fort begun c1759 and the foundations and a surviving blockhouse can be seen today at Point State Park in Pittsburgh. Brown shows a sequence of plans dating from a manuscript sketch of Fort Duquesne in 1754 up to the 'Plan of the New Fort at Pittsburgh', November 1759, which is almost identical to this image. The history of the forts at Pittsburgh is complex. The first fort was a rudimentary one built by Virginians in 1754 and called Fort Prince George. It was destroyed the same year by the French who built Fort Duquesne (see 1761). On December 1, 1758, the ruins of Fort Duquesne were officially renamed and from then on the Forks of the Ohio was called Pittsburgh. A temporary fort was built c1758-59 near the Monongahela River to house troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Mercer, and was called Mercer's Fort, see Brown, No. 35. This was followed by Fort Pitt begun c1759, which took several years to build. It was abandoned by the British in 1772, taken over by Virginians in 1774 and renamed Fort Dunmore. It was again abandoned when the new Fort Fayette was constructed in 1791-92. This newer fort was used by General Anthony Wayne during the Indian wars in the Northwest Territory.
November 1765: The Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765, leading to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation. Enacted in November 1765, the controversial act forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained. The stamp itself displayed an image of a Tudor rose framed by the word "America" and the French phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense--"Shame to him who thinks evil of it."
The colonists, who had convened the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765 to vocalize their opposition to the impending enactment, greeted the arrival of the stamps with outrage and violence. Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods, and some organized attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors. After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.[1]
November 1768: William Powell, deposed, that he had settled and Improved a Plantation on Turtle Creek, by permission of the Commanding Officer at Fort Pitt, before November 1768, and was still in possession of it—He knew of no Settlcments being made between the Monongahela and Little Kanahwa Rivers, prior to November 1768. [2]
November 17., 1770 Reachd the Mingo Town about 13 Miles more.
November l7th.1770:—By this morning the river had fallen in time whole, twenty-two or twenty-three feet, and was still lowering. About eight o’clock we set out, and passing the lower Cross creek, we came to a pretty long and tolerably wide and good bottom, on time east side of the river: then came in the hills, just above which is Buffalo creek. About three o’clock we came to the Mingo town, without seeing our horses, the Indian who was sent express for them, having passed through only the morning before ; being detained by the creeks, which were too high to ford.
Here we resolved to wait their arrival, which was expected tomorrow; and here then will end our water voyage along a river, the general course of which from Beaver creek to the Kenhawa is about southwest, or near as I could determine ; but, in its windings through a narrow vale, extremely serpentine; forming on bottom sides of the river alternately necks of very good bottoms, some exceedingly fine, lying for the most part in the shape of a half moon, and of various sizes.
There is very little difference in the general width of the river from Fort Pitt to Ken hawa; Out in the depth I believe the odds are considerably in favor of the lower parts, as we found no shallows below the Mingo town, except in one or two places where the river was broad, and there, I do not know but there might have been a deep channel in some parts of it. Every here and there are islands, some larger and some smaller, which, operating in the nature of locks or steps, occasions pretty still water above, but for the most part strong and rapid water alongside of them. However, none of these so swift but that a vessel may he rowed or sent up with poles.
When the river is in its natural state, large canoes, that will carry five or six thousand weight or more, may be worked against the stream by four hands, twenty or twenty-five miles a day; and down a good deal more, The Indians who are very dexterous, even their women, in the management of canoes, have their hunting camps and cabins all along the river, for the conveninence of transporting their skins to market. In the fall, so soon as the hunting season comes on, they set out with their families for this purpose; and in hunting will move their camps from place to place, till by the spring they get two or three hundred or more miles from their towns; then catch beaver on their way up, which frequently brings them into the month of May, when the women are employed in planting. The men are at market, and in idleness, till the autumn again, when they pursue the same course. During the summer months they live a poor and perishing life.
The Indians who reside upon the Ohio, the upper parts of it at least, are composed of Shawanese, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little part of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlements of the people upon their river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say, that they must be compensated for their right if the people settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations. On the other hand, the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable, not only on the Redstone and other waters on the Monongahela, but along the Ohio as low as the Little Kenhawa; and by next summer I suppose they will get to the Great Kenhawa, at least.
How difficult it may be to contend with these people afterwards, is easy to be judged, from every day’s experience of lands actually settled, supposing these settlements to be made; than which nothing is more probable, if the Indians permit them, from the disposition of the people at present. A few settlements in the midst of some of the large bottoms, would render it impracticable to get any large quantity of hand together; as the hills all the way down the river, as low as I went, come pretty close, are steep and broken, and incapable of settlement, though some of them are rich, and only fit to support the bottoms with timber and wood. The land back of the bottoms, as far as I have been able to judge, either from my own observations or from information, is nearly the same, that is, exceedingly uneven and hilly ; and I presume there are no bodies of flat, rich land to be found, till one gets far enough from the river to head the little runs and drains that come through the hills, and the sources of the creeks and their branches. ‘This, it seems, is the case with the lands upon the Monongahela and Youhiogheny, and I fancy holds good upon this river, till you get into the flat lands, below the falls. The bottom land differs a good deal in quality. That highest up the river in general, is richest, though the bottoms are neither so wide nor so long, as those below. Walnut, cherry, and some other kind of wood, neither tall nor large, but covered with grape-vines, with the fruit of which this country at this instant abounds, are the growth of the richest bottoms; but on the other hand, these bottoms appear to me to be the lowest and most subject to floods. The soil of this is good, but inferior to either of the other kinds; and beech bottoms are objectionable on account of the difficulty of clearing them, as their roots spread over a large surface of ground, and are hard to kill.
Crawford to Washington[3]
November 17th 1770 letter. “Indians will not run any farther until they are paid for their land. The Indians who lived upon the Ohio (the upper parts of it, at least) are composed of Shawnees, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little paid of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlement of the people on the river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say that they must be compensated for their right of the people to settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations thereto. On the other hand the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable not only on the Redstone and other waters of the Monongahela, but along down the Ohio, as low as Little Kanawha.”[4]
November 17, 1772:Attended a marriage, where the guests were all Virginians. It was a scene of wild and confused merriment. The log house which was large, was filled. They were dancing to the music of a fiddle. They took little or no notice of me, on my entrance. After setting a while at the fire, I arose and desired the music and dancing to cease, I requested the Bride and Bridegroom to come forward. They came snickering and very merry. I desired the company who still appeared to be mirthful & noisy, to attend with becoming seriousness, the solemnity.
As soon as the ceremony was over, the music struck up, and the dancing was renewed. While I sat wondering at their wild merriment. The Lady of a Mr. Stevenson, sent her husband to me, with her compliments requesting me to dance a minuit with her. My declining the honor. On the principle that I was unacquainted with it, was scarcely accepted. He still politely urged, until I totally refused. After supper I rode about 3 miles to the house of a friend. The manners of the people of Virginia, who have removed into these parts, are different from those of the Presbyterians and germans. They are much addicted to drinking parties, gambling, horse race & fighting. They are hospitable & prodigal. Several of them, have run through their property in the old settlements, & have sought asylum in this wilderness.[5]
November 17, 1775: Brigadier-General Richard Prescott had been captured November 17, 1775, and exchanged September 4, 1776, for General Sullivan.
General Prescott was again captured near Newport, Rhode Island, July
10, 1777, and exchanged April 21, 1778, for Major-General Charles Lee. [6]
November 1776
With the ratification, by the people, of the Maryland Bill of Rights, in November, 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland became radically and permanently changed. The Anglican Establishment and all supremacy were swept away and the Church was left without organization, authority or support. The natural prejudice, then existing against all things English, bore with particular wight upon the clergy of the English Church, whether of English or American birth, for all had taken as a part of their ordination vows the oath of allegiance to the British Government and by their real or supposed adherence to this oath were classed as "Tories", so that a number of them were subjected to proscription or persecution. The result of this was an exodus of those of English birth and, while the departure of Mr. Allen can not be considered a deprivation, it left the parish of All Saints' without a nominal rector. Mr. McKennon, the curate in charge of the Frederick congregation, of English birth, left the parish at some time during the Revolution and, after a short period of service as curate at Annapolis sailed for England but was lost at sea, leaving his family in Maryland. [7]
November 1776
With the ratification of the Bill of Rights in November 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland, became radically changed. The natural prejudices then existing against all English-born, especially, caused an exodus of such. The Governor, Sir Robert Eden was forced to return to England. The Reverend Allen left All Saints' Church without a nominal recotr, the Reverend McKinnon having been sent to preach at St. Margaret's.
"Daniel McKinnon living in Maryland counties and parishes...list of Clergy, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, St. Margaret's, Westminster." [8]
Ernest Helfenstein recites practically the same version as heretofore quoted, and stated to the compiler that his information was from the manuscript "History" by the Rev. Ethan Allen, in 1872. He added, "Mr McKinnon remained here until 1774, when Governor Eden presented him to Westminster Parish; about the beginning of, or during, the Revolution, he sailed for England, and was lost at sea. The Reverend McKinnon has now (1872) five descendants in the ministry, among whom are the Rev. Joseph Rogers Walker, of South Carolina, and his brother E. Tabb Walker, of Virginia."[9]
Educational facilities in earlier days were very meager, hence, the Reverend Daniel McKinnon had to rely upon his own ingenuity to supply milling needs. Mrs George Rogers, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has a valued relic, much faded and worn, a text book, prepared by the Reverend Daniel McKinnon, containing arithmetic tables, trammar rules, humns, prayers, and quotations in his own writing, for use in teaching his children. A page from this book is reproduced here. (Add copy from Torrence.)
November 1777: The Continental Congress took this action in November, 1777; “Resolved, that General Washington be requested to send Colonel William Crawford to Pittsburgh to take command, under Brigadier General Hand, of the Continental troops and militia in the Western Department.” He left Whitemarsh[10], near Philadelphia, where he conferred with Washington; then stopped at York for instructions; and proceeded to Pittsburgh. There is little record of his actions there, except the building of Fort Crawford at the mouth of Puckety Creek (at present New Kensington). He seems to have returned home to the Youghiogheny River where he resumed his duties as a land officer for the new Yohogania County, Virginia. He appears many times in the Yohogania court where he was a gentleman justice, as the Virginians called their judges. His last military service was in the ill-fated expedition to Sandusky, where the Indians burned him at the stake.[11]
November 17, 1778:
17th Continued to Rain which confined the Army to their Tents
and prevented marching[12]
November 17, 1778:
Brigade Orders Camp N 11th Novr. 47th 1778
No person to pass the Militia line without leave in writing from
the Commanding Officer of the Brigade and all that may happen
to be Already Out to be taken as prisoners in their Return to Camp
And report made to the Commanding officer by the Officers of the
Several Guards Respectively as must Expect to Account for their
Neglects and if any Gun is fired Near the lines the Officers of the
Guards most Convenient Are to send A file of men to Aprehend
Any person that may be found in the Breach of Orders, which none
Can plead Ignorance[13]
November 17, 1778:
Head Quarters Camp N° 11 Nover 17th 1778
Parole Poland C.Sign Prudence
Field Officers of the Day—Col° Harrison And Major Scott[14]
November 1779 the grenadiers were among the troops that accompanied General Clinton to Charleston.[15]
November 1780: Finley, Samuel. General Samuel Finley had a varied career. He was born April 15, 1752. He was educated by his uncle, Dr. Samuel Finley, who was a Presbyterian minister, born in Ireland. He taught an academy at Nottingham, Maryland, until 1765, when he was elected President of Princeton College. He died in 1766, when his nephew, Samuel, was only fourteen. At the time of the Revolution Samuel Finley was a clerk in a store in Martinsburg kept by Capt. Charles Morrow. In 1775 Finley enlisted as a sergeant in Capt. H. Stephenson's company. In 1776 he re-enlisted as first lieutenant in Captain Shepherd's company. On the fatal day of the battle around Fort Washington, often called the battle of King's Bridge, Finley commanded Captain Shepherd's company. He was taken prisoner and confined on Long Island for four years. He was exchanged in November 1780, with Capt. Henry Bedinger, Capt. Nat. Pendleton and others. These three young officers purchased a horse on which they rode, alternately, back to Virginia. Afterwards he served in a cavalry regiment, and rose to the rank of major. After the war he moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he had a great deal of property. He was paid for his services by land in Ohio. In the war of 1812 he commanded a troop of horse against the Indians of the border. He died in Philadelphia, April 2, 1829.[16]
November 1780: Pendleton, Nathaniel. Captain Nathaniel Pendleton joined Captain Stephenson's riflemen in 1775 as a private. He was an intimate friend of H. Bedinger, who frequently mentions him in his journal of the campaign. January 1st, 1776, he wrote: "Nat Pendleton Returned from on Board a Privateer." In 1776 he enlisted as first lieutenant in Captain Gabriel Long's riflemen, which was Company 6 of the eight companies of riflemen raised in Virginia and Maryland for the Rifle Regiment. At the battle around Fort Washington Lieutenant Pendleton was taken prisoner, and, with the other officers, first billetted in empty houses in New York. Afterwards all the officers were quartered on Long Island, where most of them remained until November 1780, when they were exchanged. After his exchange Nat. Pendleton was a captain in Colonel Rawlings Regiment. After the Revolution he moved to New York, and practiced law. He was Alexander Hamilton's second in the duel with Aaron Burr. His descendants lived in Cincinnati. Mr. Edmund Pendleton, his great-grandson, now lives in Maryland. [17]
November 17, 1793:
July 20, 1791:Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye, that by virtue and in consideration of Land Office Military Warrant No. 906, there is granted by the Commonwealth unto Vallentine Crawford heirs, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one thousand acres by survey bearing the 20th day of July 1791, (July 20) lying and being in the County of Bourbon adjoining James Craig’s Survey on Indian Creek on the east and recorded as followeth to wit: Begining at a buckeye hickory and elm corner to said Craig’s land thence south seventy degrees east two hundred and eighty three poles to a blue ash hackberry and sugar tree on the north side of a ridge thence north twenty degrees east 565 1/2 poles, to a white oak and two sugartree saplings thence north seventy degrees west,two hundred and eighty poles to two white oaks and blue ash trees, corner to Craig’s Survey, thence south 20 degrees west 565 1/2 poles to the begining with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Vallentine Crawford heirs and their heirs forever, in witness whereof the said Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hath hereunto set his hand and caused the feat of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Lexington on the 18th day of February in the year of our Lord 1793 and of the Commonwealth the first.
Isaac Shelby
L. S. By the Governor, James Brown
On the other side of the Ledger— Examined and delivered to Benjamin Harrison, November 17, 1793.[18]
November 1794: Jay Treaty, also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, the Treaty of London of 1794, and officially the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America,[1][2] was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war,[3] resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution,[4], and facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792.
The terms of the treaty were designed primarily by Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, strongly supported by the chief negotiator John Jay; and support from President George Washington. The treaty gained the primary American goals, which included the withdrawal of units of the British Army from pre-Revolutionary forts that it had failed to relinquish in the Northwest Territory of the United States (the area west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River). (The British had recognized this area as American territory in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.) The parties agree that disputes over wartime debts and the American-Canadian boundary were to be sent to arbitration—one of the first major uses of arbitration in diplomatic history. The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with British possessions in India and colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on the American export of cotton.
The treaty was hotly contested by the Jeffersonians in each state. They feared that closer economic ties with Britain would strengthen Hamilton's Federalist Party, promote aristocracy and undercut republicanism. Washington's announced support proved decisive and the treaty was ratified by a 2/3 majority of the Senate in November 1794. The treaty became a central issue of contention—leading to the formation of the "First Party System" in the United States, with the Federalists favoring Britain and the Jeffersonian republicans favoring France. The treaty was for ten years' duration. Efforts to agree on a replacement treaty failed (in 1806) when Jefferson rejected the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty as tensions escalated toward the War of 1812.[5] The treaty was signed on November 19, 1794, the Senate advised and consented on June 24, 1795; it was ratified by the President and the British government; it took effect on the day ratifications were officially exchanged, February 29, 1796.
The historian George Herring notes the "remarkable and fortuitous economic and diplomatic gains" produced by the Jay Treaty.[6][19]
November 1795
Theophilus McKinnon born November 1795, in Harrison County, Kentucky.[20]
In November 1799 Napoleon was in Paris leading the coup d’etat from which he became Consul. Christmas 1799 he became 1st Consul.
As for his bodyguard, there was his personal one “the Guides a cheval”, [Company of mounted guides] formed in May 1796 following a raid by Austrian Hussars at [disputed depends what you read] from which he only just evaded capture.
Once he became 1st Consul he merged the Guides with the Gard du Directoire [Guard of the Directory] and others to become a single unit consisting of infantry and cavalry the Gards des Consuls [Guard of the Consulates] that would later became the foundation of the Imperial Guard. Following the merger the Guides were renamed as the Escadron de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de La Gard Consulair [Company of light cavalrymen of the Consular Guard] then later the Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale [light cavalrymen of Imperial Guard], one of several cavalry units of the Imperial Guard. Early in 1800 Napoleon started his Italian campaign and the Gardes des Consuls would be involved [infantry and cavalry] in the Battle of Marengo(June 14, 1800) from which the Guard became famous and it appears it was the renamed “the Guides a cheval” company that was present during the battle and led one of the final cavalry charges that contributed so much to Napolean’s victory. Perhaps that is the battle your ancestor was involved in. [21]
November 17, 1818: Wife of King George III: Princess Sophia Charlotte (b. May 19, 1744, m. September 8, 1761, d. November 17, 1818).[22]
November 17, 1822: Andrew Jackson left Florence to return to Tennessee. [23]
November 17, 1823: Andrew Jackson attended public dinner in Knoxville. [24]
November 17, 1834 – The Treaty Party holds its own council at Running Waters, the plantation of John Ridge nor far from Oothcaloga (now Calhoun, Georgia).[25]
1835
In 1835, Jackson managed to reduce the federal debt to only $33,733.05, the lowest it had been since the first fiscal year of 1791.[20] President Jackson is the only president in United States history to have paid off the national debt. However, this accomplishment was short lived. A severe depression from 1837 to 1844 caused a ten-fold increase in national debt within its first year.[[26]
1835:
William PLUM
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Father: Walter Scott PLUM
Mother: Myrta BUNKER
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The 1835 Census of the Cherokee Nation, East (not including the Oconaluftee Cherokee under Yonaguska in Haywood County, North Carolina, who were considered citizens of that state) showed—Georgia: 8946 "Indians", 776 slaves, 68 whites; North Carolina: 3644 "Indians", 37 slaves, 22 whites; Tennessee: 2528 "Indians", 480 slaves, 79 whites; and Alabama: 1424 "Indians", 299 slaves, 32 whites. This made a total of 16,542 "Indians", 1592 slaves, and 201 whites living in the Cherokee Nation East, for a grand total of 18,335 persons overall. This total includes 376 Muscogee living in the Cherokee Nation East, since the Creek War. The estimated number of Cherokee in the West was about 5000.[28]
1835
David Friedrich Strauss published ‘The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, in which he treated the gospels as “mytho-poetic” writings. Soon after, Bruno Bauer, a German theologian , maintained that Jesus never existed at all in his Critique of the Gospels and History of Their Origin.[29]
1835 - The first Colt revolver.
Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms. Various revolving designs had been around for centuries, but precision parts couldn't be made with available technologies. Colt was the first to apply Industrial Age machining tools to the idea. Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen.[30]
1835–1842 – The Second Seminole War between the U.S. Army and the St. Augustine Militia versus the Seminoles under Osceola.[32]
November 17, 1862: On the 17th of November an expedition was sent out under
command of Brig. Gen. A. P. Hovey, of which the 24th Iowa formed a part. After being out three days and going to the mouth of White River, it returned without having been disembarked or having seen the enemy. [33]
November 17, 1863
President Lincoln meets with the Gettysburg architecht William Saunders at the White house. The cemetery was only for the Northern Army who fought for freedom. The Southern army was buried where they fell.[34]
Thurs. November 17, 1864
In camp got orders to fix up camp
All quiet to day[35]
November 17, 1938
Racial legislation introduced in Italy. Anti Jewish economic legislation in Hungary.[36]
November 17, 1944: U.S.S Morrison Under repair at Hunters Point November 17,1944– February 9 1945[37]
On November 17, 2007 I was on my way to my niece Lauren Goodlove’s basketball tournament in Rock Island, Illinois when I remembered that William Harrison Goodlove mentioned something about Rock Island in his diary. I had about 30 minutes of light left in the day so I went to the Rock Island Historical Society, (another reason to have GPS, which directed me to the address listed) where they directed me to the Rock Island Arsenal. The last thing she said was “Do not go over the speed limit at the Arsenal! After waiting 10 minutes for a train to passed I was crossing the bridge to the Arsenal and saw a white car coming my way. I looked at my speed, 35, I looked at the speed limit, 15!! I hit the breaks, look at the officer in the car, he looks at me, he drives on. Check point at Arsenal, heavily guarded. Drivers License out, purpose of visit, “family history, confederate cemetery”, as official as I can sound. “Up and and to your left, he smiles. I wonder, to myself, how many people even know about this place.
The Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island Illinois.
The only tangible remains of the Rock Island Barracks is the Confederate Cemetery. The Rock Island Barracks was one of 21 prison camps operated by the Union. From December 1863 to July 1865, 12,192 Confederate prisoners were held at the prison camp. A total of 1,960 prisoners died. Each gravestone identifies the individual soldier, his company, and his unit.
The National Cemetery Administration maintains the Confederate Cemetery. [38]
Among the Confederates who were imprisoned at Rock Island were Anthony Baker (23rd Va. Cavalry) and Lemuel Brill (18th Va. Cavalry), grandsons of Francis Godlove (Franz Gottlob).[39]
The entrance to the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island
Confederate Cemetery, December 9, 1863 to June 11, 1865
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In a small box, at the entrance of the cemetery I find a book that list those who are buried at the cemetery, and their location. I find an R B Vance listed as #1440.
I do not know the relationship of R. B. Vance, Co. A, 18 Tenn. Reg. C.S.A. I hope to find out in the future. Zebulon Vance, my third cousin, 6 times removed was the Governor of North Carolina during the Civil War.
VANCE, R.B.
PVT
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Died, August 23, 1864
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Flag of the St. John Guards, captured at Fort Donelson. It was made by the ladies of Woodbury and presented to a group of local volunteers, commanded by H. J. St. John in May 1861.[40] I saw the original flag at the Tennessee State Museum in 2010.
18th Tennessee Flag[41]
Captains Milton R. Rushing, John G. McCabe, Co. "A". Men from Cannon County.
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R. B. Vance, 3rd from the bottom row, 8th from the left, a small ribbon I carried that day is barely visible.
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[1] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/parliament-repeals-the-stamp-act
[2] Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, 1652---1781, Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, Arranged and Edited by Wm. P. Palmer, M. D. Volume 1 pgs. 277-282.
[3]
This letter was not in the Washington-Crawford Letters by C. W. Butterfield.
[4] Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, Vol. I , pg. 357.
[5] Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity 1748-1820 with notes by Franklin B. Dexter, M.A. 1899. pg.105-106.
[6]
[7] (History of All Saints' Parish, b Ernest Helfenstein 1991)
[8] (William Stevens Perry, D.D. Historical Collections of American Colonial Churches, p. 345).
[9] (Ernest Helfenstein, The History of All Saints' Parish in Frederick Co., Maryland, 1742-1932, pp. 21-25.) Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett, pp. 224.5-224.6
[10] At a 1977 engagement at Whitemarsh, Pa., “The moment [the riflemen] appeared,” a British witness reported, “[Howe] ordered his troops to charge them with the bayonet, not one man out of four had time to fire, and those that did had no time given them to load again; the light infantry not only dispersed them instantly but drove them for miles over the country.” The rifles snugpfitting bore was sensitive to black-powder residue. (American Rifleman, Riflemen of the Revolution, May 2009, Page 42.)
[11] Annals of Southwestern Pennsylviania by Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A. M. Volume II pg. 62.
[12] AN ORDERLY BOOK OF MCINTOSH's EXPEDITION, 1778 11Robert McCready's Journal
[13] AN ORDERLY BOOK OF MCINTOSH's EXPEDITION, 1778 11Robert McCready's Journal
[14] AN ORDERLY BOOK OF MCINTOSH's EXPEDITION, 1778 11Robert McCready's Journal
[15] Jim Funkhouser
[16] http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/revwar_bios.html
[17] http://genealogytrails.com/wva/jefferson/revwar_bios.html
[18] In the Kentucky Land Office at Frankfort, Book 1, page 107; Surveyed July 20th, 1791. The number of acres were 1,000, listed for Valentine Crawford’s heirs. County, Military and watercourse on Indian Creek. From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser. 1969. pp. 98-99.
[19] Wikipedia
[20] Theohilus McKinnon, August 6, 1880. Letter to the Members of the Pioneer Association, History of Clark County, Ohio, 1881, page 382.
[21] Bill LeClere, Genforum.genialogy.com/napoleonicw…
[22] Wikipedia
[23] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824
[24] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824
[25] Timeline of Cherokee Removal.
[26] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
[27] http://jonathanpaul.org/silvey/graham/d0000/g0000144.html#I3839
[28] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[29] US New and World Report, Secrets of Christianity, April 2010. Page 6.
[30] http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline/
[31] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[32] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[33] http://www.mobile96.com/cw1/Vicksburg/TFA/24Iowa-1.html
[34] Gettysburg: Speech, Military, 12/06/2008
[35] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove
[36] www.wikipedia.org
[37] http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussmorrison/
[38] Rock Island, Arsenal, National Historic Landmark brochure, Rock Island Historical Society, Rock Island, Illinois
[39] Jim Funkhouser email,
[40] Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
[41] http://www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/military/flags.htm
[42] Photo By Jeff Goodlove
[43] http://heritagespec.com/page7.html
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