• This Day in Goodlove History, July 17
• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove
• jefferygoodlove@aol.com
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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
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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) 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, and Thomas Jefferson.
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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
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• This project is now a daily blog at:
• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/
• Goodlove Family History Project Website:
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/
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• 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.
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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Birthdays on this day; Emily Truax, Florence Reasoner, Thomas Meason Benjamin F. McKinnon, Everett McKinnon, Verlene E. Kruse, Jennifer Kruse.
Weddings on this day; Jane Dixon and Richard Crawford, Sasanna Duchessne and Phillipe Truax
I Get Email!
In a message dated 7/8/2011 5:49:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, JPT@donationnet.net writes:
Dear Jeff,
The representatives of the Quartet—US, UN, EU and Russia—meeting in Washington DC next week are foolishly hoping to bring peace to the Middle East by forcing Israel to give up much of the Holy City of Jerusalem and surrender the land that God promised to Abraham's children forever. This plan has no chance of actually bringing peace, but these world powers are working hard to make sure it happens.
But it's not just about land. The regions of Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem, which are coveted by Palestinian terrorists, are home to more than half a million Jews. It would be a humanitarian tragedy of unspeakable proportions to force them from their homes and lands. No fair-minded observer could support such a plan...yet that is the very basis of the Obama Administration's plan for peace in the Middle East.
Dr. Michael Evans
Herman Cain: Americans Have The Right To Ban Mosques In Their Communities
Herman Cain said Sunday that Americans should be able to ban Muslims from building mosques in their communities.
"Our Constitution guarantees the separation of church and state," Cain said in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” "Islam combines church and state. They're using the church part of our First Amendment to infuse their morals in that community, and the people of that community do not like it. They disagree with it."
Last week, the Republican presidential candidate expressed criticism of a planned mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, telling reporters at a campaign event that "This is just another way to try to gradually sneak Sharia law into our laws, and I absolutely object to that."
“This isn't an innocent mosque," Cain said.
On “Fox News Sunday,” Wallace pressed him about those comments.
"Let's go back to the fundamental issue," Cain said. "Islam is both a religion and a set of laws -- Sharia laws. That's the difference between any one of our traditional religions where it's just about religious purposes."
"So, you're saying that any community, if they want to ban a mosque..." Wallace began.
Yes, they have the right to do that," Cain said.
Cain has made a number of controversial comments about Muslims, including a vow to be cautious about allowing a Muslim to serve in his administration.
On Sunday, Cain defended his position, telling Wallace that it's not discrimination.
"Aren't you willing to restrict people because of their religion?" Wallace asked.
"I'm willing to take a harder look at people who might be terrorists, that's what I'm saying," Cain replied. "Look, I know that there's a peaceful group of Muslims in this country. God bless them and they're free to worship. If you look at my career I have never discriminated against anybody, because of their religion, sex or origin or anything like that."
"I'm simply saying I owe it to the American people to be cautious because terrorists are trying to kill us," Cain said, "so yes I'm going to err on the side of caution rather than on the side of carelessness."
Freedom of Religion…Someone needs to read the Constitution. His name is Herman Cain. JG
This Day…
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• July 17: 1203: The Knights of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople forcing the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus to flee from his capital into exile. Unlike other Crusades, the focus of the Fourth Crusade was the Byzantine Empire and its capital Constantinople rather than Jerusalem. The Fourth Crusade was really a clash between two different groups of Christians and a fight over commercial interests. Unlike the other crusades, the Fourth did not produce any great overt anti-Semitic activities. But it did keep the crusading spirit alive and subsequent crusades did result in more harm to various Jewish communities. The most significant leson of the Fourth Crusade was that it was a classic example of religion being manipulated for reasons that had nothing to do with God or His teachings; something that haunts the Jews of the world down to modern times. [1]
• July 17: 1392: King Pedro I (1357–67) of Portugal ordered the compliance of the bull of Pope Boniface IX protecting Jews from forced baptism. He also extended it to Spanish Jewish Refugees. [2]
• July 17, 1414: A new edict was issued by the regent in the name of her infant son Don Ferdinand that offered some slight improvement to the conditions of the Jews of Castile. [3]
July 17, 1529:
Richard Smyth2 [William1] (b. abt. 1460 in Wiltshire, England / d. March 27, 1527 in Wiltshire, England) married Alice.
More about Richard Smyth:
The following is an inquisition of the Will of Richard Smyth:
Location: Fryday and Watlyng Streets, London, Parish of St. John the Evangelist:
On 22 March (March 22) 1524 London (Inquisition Post Mortem). Died on 27 March 1527, London (Ibid). IPM on July 17, 1529 Guildhall 21 Henry VIII. "Inquisition taken at the Guildhall, 17 July, 21 Henry VIII (1529) before John Reston, Mayor, John Hales and John Scott, Baron to the exchequer, and John Baker, recorder of the City of London, by the oath of William Cummings, Thomas Knight, Richard spar, George Hughes, Paul Alexander, William Oxley, Henry stickle, Robert Harrison, John Baxter, Robert here, Stephen Township, we in December, Thomas Osmond, Roger Hennings, Antony Elderton, John Grande and Richard rate, who say that: "Richard Smith, late of London, merchant tailor, William Fytzwyllyan, Knight, John Bylsdon, Richard Conhille, Wm. Skrynen, John Hall and John Fulwode, were seised of eight messuages, 2 tofts, and one garden lying in Fryday Street and Watlyng Street in the parish of John the Evangelist, in the ward of Bredstrete, to the use of said Richard Smith and his heirs "So seised, they enfeoffed William Wylford, senior, John Goone, Tho Cole, Tho Lee, Robt. Patchett, Paul Wythixoll, John Wylford, Jas Mychell and Robt Fell, of the premises: to hold to them and their heirs to the use of Richard Smith and his heirs, and for the fulfilment of his will. "So seised the said Richard Smith at divers times after declared to the said Wm Wylforde and his co-feoffees that it was his will that the Master and Wardens of the company of the Merchant Tailors of London and their successors should after his death have the said premises to the intent that they should find forever one priest to celebrate in the said parish church of St. John the Evangelist for the souls of the said Richard, expending upon the same 52 shillings, 5 pence. Also 13 shillings 4 pence year forever to find 2 wax candles to be burned on Sundays and festivals and one light called a Trenell before the crucifix in the said Church forever. Also 4 shillings yearly to be expended forever for the Paschal light in the said church, and 3 shillings 4 pence to be paid to the Chamberlain of the said city if present at the said anniversary. "On the 22nd March 1524, the said Richard Smythe made his will, whereby he declared that John Smythe, his son and heir, should have all the said premises, and revoked all other wills by him made.”After the death of the said Richard Smythe, the said Wm. Wilforde and his co-feoffees were seised of the said premises to the use of the said John Smythe. "So seised the said Thomas Lee and Robert Fell died, and William Wilforde, John Gone, Thomas Cole, Robert Pachett, Paul Wythixoll and John Wylford survived them.”The said John Smyth being so seised enfeoffed thereof Thomas Crumwell, John Bylsdon, Richard Ryche, Guy Crafforde, William Gynkes, Richard Holte, John Bodnam, and John Stukley: to hole to them and their heirs to the use of the said John Smyth and Joan, his wife, and heirs of the said John Smythe forever. "One of the said eight messages, in which Thomas Nixon now lives, is held of the Master of the Rolls of the Court of Chancery by fealty, and the yearly rent of 53 shillings 4 pence. The residue of the said premises are held of the Abbott of the Monastery of St. Peter's Westminster, in right of the said monastery, by fealty, and the yearly rent of 12 shillings, 6 pence. "All the said premises are worth per annum, clear 29 pounds. Richard Smyth died at London, 27 March, 18 Henry VIII (1527); John Smyth is his son and heir and was then aged 31 years and more." Inquisition, p.m. 21 Henry VII, No. 21 (London).
It seems that two years after Richard's death, his will and estate were still not settled. It took and inquisition to settle the matter and carry out the terms. In the 1400s and 1500s, the Law was carried out in two ways: the criminal issues were handled and settled by the Sheriff and the civil matters were handled by the Inquisition, which sound bad but was merely a judge who acted on behalf of the Crown. The inquisitioners of the 1100s and 1200s were given autonomy of the same judge and jury, but as religion was high theme amongst the people, the greed of the church controlled the judges and used them or misused them to try heretics (anyone who opposed the church); but just 200 yrs later their control had been diminished. And through this inquisition, we find that Richard was a Merchant Taylor (and apparently a good one from the amounts of money being dispersed. These sums at this day an age would amount to thousands of dollars). We also find out that his only son was named John Smyth who at the age of his father's death was 31, which means he was born about 1495/1496. Knowing that Literacy was rarely amongst the poor in this time, to have a will of such would indicate that Richard was of some standing in the community and with the Crown. The Crown belonged to the Tudor Family, of which at this time was Henry VIII.[4]
Richard Smythe is the 12th great Grandfather of the compiler.
July 17, 1549: All Jews and Marranos were expelled from Ghent, Belgium. [5]
July 17, 1617
On July 17th, 1617, Sir Lauchlan MacKinnon of Strathordell and the rest appeared before the council in July (he with MacLeod, Gorme, and Vic Ian having been knighted A.D. 1613), when the practice of taking “calps " (sort of tithe) of vassalage, was abolished. At this appearance, Sir Lauchlan exhibited his uncle, John MacKinnon. (ancestor of Kyle), and in the following year, on July 23rd, he again appeared before the council with his uncle John. [6]
Lauchlan MacKinnon is the 7th great grandfather of the compiler.
1619 Jews expelled from Kiev.[7]
1619
[8]
1619
Some of the tribesmen continued to fight for their territory, but they were quickly overwhelmed and taken into captivity, placed aboard ships and sold as slaves in the West Indies. At the same time the whites were bringing to America their own slaves whose skins were black. The first shipments of these unfortunates were brought to Jamestown for sale by the Dutch in 1619.[9]
Charles Taliaferro (b. July 17, 1735)[10]
July 1748: In July, 1748, the Twightwees or Miamis, pledged themselves to an English alliance atLancaster. English traders are said to have been employed along the Wabash as early as1723, and this treaty gave them additional security. As a result the pack men of Pennsylvania and Virginia pushed forward into the valley of the Ohio, the first coming
along the wagon roads through Lancaster to Harris‘ Ferry, now Harrisburg, thence by
bridle path to Will‘s Creek on to the Potomac, from which an Indian trail led to the forks
of the Ohio; from this point they took another trail to the towns of the Miamis.
In the preceding passage, ―the forks of the Ohio‖ is the site of present-day Pittsburgh. Although the above quote is not clear about the date that the ―…pack men of Pennsylvania and Virginia pushed forward…‖, page 57 of Greve‘s book indicates that it was in 1748, stating:
The English traders had already founded their most advanced post at the Great Miami or
Twightwee town, Pickawillany, in 1748; this was on the Big Miami, one hundred and fifty
miles up the stream from the Ohio. It is said that at this time, during a single season,
three hundred English traders led their pack horses and dragged their boats from the
mountains across the portages into the Ohio Valley.
Greve‘s ―three hundred English traders‖ statement suggests research independent of Goodman.
On page 42 of his 1871 book, Goodman presents a list of 59 individuals he was able to identify who were ―persons engaged in traffic with the Miamis in Ohio between 1745 and 1753‖. After the list, Goodman states:
The traders‘ goods were carried on pack-horses, along the old Indian trails which led toall the principal towns and villages. The articles of traffic on the part of the whites werefire-arms, gunpowder, lead, ball, knives, flints, hatchets, rings, rum, medals, blades,
leather, cooking utensils, shirts, and other articles of wearing apparel; tobacco, pipes,
paint, etc. In return for these the Indians gave skins of various animals, which were made
into valuable furs by Eastern merchants. It was very seldom that an Indian got the
advantage of a white man in these barterings. Some of the traders would run regular
―caravans‖ of fifteen or twenty horses, making several trips during the year. It is
impossible to give any definite account of the extent of this traffic, but it must have
amounted to great value. Thousands of skins were doubtless furnished by the Indians at
Pickawillany and their other Ohio towns.[11]
1748/49
In the winter of 1748-1749, George Washington met William Crawford and his half brothers. Washington was at the time still a young man, and while engaged in running the surveys for Lord Fairfax in the Shenandoah region he often stayed at Widow Stephenson's home. [12] The men were the same age (Washington and Crawford), and Washington was a boarder in the Crawford family at the time.[13] Both he and Crawford were 17 years old and struck up a friendship that would last a lifetime. When Washington was done with his daily work he often visited Crawford’s home where all the boys would take part in games like running, jumping and wrestling. The long, lean Washington usually won the track events while Crawford and his broad, burley brothers excelled at contests of strength.[14] Wm. Crawford became the intimate friend of Washington and learned surveying under him and followed it as a vocation until 1755 when he joined Forbes expedition, raised a company of militia and was commissioned Ensign under Washington.[15] The relationship between Washington and Crawford became so close that they sent scores of letters back and forth, many of which have been preserved. Crawford eventually became Washington’s land agent.[16] William Crawford is the compilers 6th great grandfather.
1749
c1749 Sarah (Sally) Crawford born.[17]
1749
In 1749, Captain Celeron, an officer in the French King’s service, with three hundred men, penetrated to the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, placing metallic markers, or plates, to describe the occupation. (Few of these markers remain, as souvenir-hunters have taken them)[18]
On page 24 of his book, Goodman indicates that several of the colonies did help the Twightwee
Indians improve their trail. He states:
1749:
1749.4 CARTE D'UN VOYAGE FAIT DANS LA BELLE RIVIERE ENLA NOUVELLE FRANCE M DCC XLIX, by Father Joseph Pierre de Bonnecamps. In 1749 the French sent Celoron de Blainville down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers as a show of force to the British. Blainville buried lead plates at major river junctures along the way as proof of French ownership. Bonnecamps accompanied the expedition and prepared this manuscript map which is now at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It shows 'Lac' Ontario and Erie and the route down the Allegheny, the Ohio, up the Great Miami River and then down the Maumee back to Lake Erie. Bonnecamps' journal and map appear in the Jesuit Relations and the map is reproduced in Smith's Mapping of Ohio and in Hanna, which is the image shown here. [19]
1749.1 A MAP OF PENSILVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, AND THE THREE DELAWARE COUNTIES by Lewis Evans, MDCCXLIX. L. Hebert Sculp. This may be the first map of Pennsylvania published in America. Evans followed this map with his more famous one of 1755, but this is an iconic map of the middle Atlantic and much copied. The county of Lancaster was created in 1729 and is shown along with the founding counties of Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester. York County, created in 1749, is not shown although the town appears. This map originated the phrase 'Endless Mountains' which is still used as an advertising slogan. This image is from a reproduction in the Pennsylvania Archives 3rd Series, Appendix I-X, c1894-99. A 1752 version is reproduced in Schwartz & Ehrenberg and it is in Swift (2001). A 1750 German version can be seen at the Library of Congress. Gipson reproduces all of Evans' important maps along with some of his writings. Listed in Phillips, page 672, Wheat & Brun No. 295. Longitude from Philadelphia at top, west from London at bottom. Blank verso. Scale: 1" = 15 miles. Size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches.[20]
The earliest recorded “road” heading west from “Wills Creek” was the circa 1749 Twightwee Indian road to Pickawillany at or near the present town of Piqua, Ohio.[21]
Early 1749: Early in the year 1749, the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia rendered the Ohio Indians much service in clearing the trail which ran from the Miami country tothe forks of the Ohio, and from thence to the mouth of Willis (sic) creek at the Potomac.
This road, leading directly to the forks, was easy of access to the Pennsylvanians, who
had a good horse path from that point to Harris‘ Ferry, where Harrisburg now stands.
From thence to Lancaster and Philadelphia was a wagon road. It was very expensive to
the Virginians to be obliged to carry their goods north to the forks, and from thence to
the Great Miami and the Wabash. The result was the Pennsylvanians sold their goods
cheaper.
Presumably39[22], Goodman had evidence to support this statement, even though he did not share it with his readers. Goodman clearly was a student of colonial history. If he were aware of records indicating that Maryland and Virginia helped with the Twightwee Road, those records would be a strong indication that the road indeed came to Wills Creek from Pickawillany by way of the forks of the Ohio.
In the above quote, ―that point‖ appears to be a reference to the forks of the Ohio; i.e. Goodman evidently meant that the Pennsylvanians came to the forks by a different route, and then traveled along the Twightwee Road from there to Pickawillany. Greve may have possibly read and misunderstood Goodman‘s statement when (as previously quoted) he wrote ―the pack men of Pennsylvania … pushed forward into the valley of the Ohio, the first coming along the wagon roads through Lancaster to Harris‘ Ferry, now Harrisburg, thence by bridle path to Will‘s Creek on to the Potomac‖. Greve‘s sentence appears to be an attempt at rephrasing Goodman.
Goodman‘s phrase ―clearing the trail‖, if literally interpreted, means clearing an existing trail.
Although it might be possible that Goodman actually meant ―clearing a trail‖ and was careless
in word selection, the most likely scenario is that some sections of the trail already existed. After all, Indians had been in North America for thousands of years, and had extensive trading routes long before the arrival of Europeans. Goodman, however, is not an original source, and this is merely an appraisal of his statement.[23]
On July 17, 1751, representatives of five Lodges gathered at the Turk's Head Tavern, in Greek Street, Soho, London — forming a rival Grand Lodge — The Most Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons. They believed that they practiced a more ancient and therefore purer form of Masonry, and called their Grand Lodge The Antients' Grand Lodge. They called those affiliated to the Premier Grand Lodge, by the pejorative epithet The Moderns. These two unofficial names stuck.[27] Laurence Dermott wrote a new constitution for the Ancients, the Ahiman Rezon as an alternative for the Constitution of the Moderns.
An illustration of how deep the division was between the two factions is the case of Benjamin Franklin who was a member of a Moderns' Lodge in Philadelphia. During his stay in France, he became Master of the Lodge Les Neuf Sœurs in 1779, and was re-elected in 1780. Upon returning from France it transpired that his Lodge had changed to (and had received a new warrant from) the Antients Grand Lodge; no longer recognizing him and declining to give him "Masonic Honours" at his funeral.[28][24]
July 1752:
According to Sherman Day‘s 1843 book ―Historical collections of the State of
Pennsylvania…‖:
In July 1752, Mr. Gist on the part of the company, and Col. Fry, with two others, on the
part of Virginia, concluded a treaty with the Indians at Logstown, (14 miles below the
Forks of the Ohio,) by which the Indians agreed not to molest the settlements of the
company southeast of the Ohio…
Soon after the treaty at Logstown in 1752, Mr. Gist made a settlement and built a cabin
on the tract of land since called Mount Braddock, and induced eleven families to settle around him on lands presumed to be within the company‘s grant.[25]
Wednesday July 17, 1754
George Washington and James Mackay reach Williamsburg, Virginia after their retreat from the Great Meadows. Lt. Governor Dinwiddie receives Washington with impersonal courtesy. After giving his report, Washington is ordered to return to his regiment in Alexandria, Virginia. [26]
• July 17, 1762: Catherine II becomes tzar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. Known to history as Catherine the Great, Russia’s ruler participated in the partition of Poland along with Prussia and Austria. In acquiring her section of Poland, Catherine acquired a large Jewish population. Although her first reaction to these new Jewish subjects was retraisned but comparitvely enlightened, in the last years of her reign, Catherine took the first measures which would lead to what became known as the Pale of Settlement. [27]
July 17, 1764: Thomas Smith’s will in WB B Pages 374-375, Fairfax Co., VA., dated March 15, 1764, proven July 17, 1764, devises all land to son William, except for the land involved in the suit against Fielding Lewis, which land (in Spotsylvania Co., VA) is to be sold by William and the proceeds then given to son William, and Thomas' daughters, Susannah and Mary. It also devises 7 slaves, Lucy, Frank, Sally, young Nell, Lawrence, Charity and Robin to daughter Mary Smith. These slaves are later in the possession of Simon Hancock as shown in The 'Index to The Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia and to Slaveholders and Slaves (1758-1786),' which lists the following slaves owned by Simon Hancock: Fan, Frank, Lawrence (Lall), Lucy, Robin (Bob), and Sarah (Sall). Frank, possibly Lall, Lucy, and Sall were still owned in said last tax year. Frank (a female) was sold to John Butcher by Deed from Simon and Mary in 1789, DB R P 237-238, Loudoun Co., VA., witnessed by Mary's brother, William Smith; and are likely the same people named in the Deed from Simon, dated 1806, DB 2 P 403, Henry Co., KY., which conveys slaves to his children. Said deed names 'negro slaves, Milly, Davy, Abraham, Grace, Lucy, Sall, Lett (illegible, also possibly Lell or Lall???), and Washington.[28]
July 1774, From George Washington to John Harvie: It may be well to observe here that Col. Crawford was only acting the part of a friend to me; for at that time, tho’ he was a Surveyor by regular appointment from the College of Wm, and Mary, it was for the local purpose of surveying the 200,000 acres granted by Dinwiddie’s Proclamation of 1754 to the Troops of the State, who were entitled to it as a bounty: but as I proposed to cover this survey with a military warrant as soon as circumstances would permit, these steps were preliminary to obtain the Land. Accordingly, a Warrant which I obtained in consequence of a purchase from one Captain Posey (who under the British Kings proclamation of 1763 was entitled to 3000 acres) whose Bond I now have bearing date the 14th. of Octr. (October 14) 1770, assigning to me all his right to land under it, was located thereon; and Col. Crawford, after receiving a commission to act as Deputy to Mr. Thos. Lewis, made a return of this survey to his principal, who returned it to the Secretary’s office, from whence a Patent issued signed by Lord Dunmore in June or July 1774, for 2813 acres, reciting under what right I became entitled to the Land. Hence, and from the repeated warnings, which it is said can be proved were given at the time my opponents were about to take possession of the Land, and afterwards, comes my title. [29]
July 1775: Even at this late date, in July 1775, the Continental Congress adopted the “Olive Branch Petition,” professing American loyalty to the crown and begging the king to prevent further hostilities. But following Bunker Hill, King George III slammed the door on all hope of reconciliation. [30]
July 1776: April 1775 to July 1776—before the fateful plunge into independence was taken.
Gradually the tempo of warfare increased. In : 1775 a tiny American force, under Ethan Allen Benedict Arnold, surprised and captured the ~the garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, ~ one the scenic lakes of upper New York. A priceless store of gunpowder and artillery for the siege of Boston was thus secured. In June 1775 the colonials seized a hill, now known as Bunker Hill (actually Breed’s Hill), from which they menaced the enemy in Boston. The British, instead of cutting off the retreat of their foes by flanking them, blundered bloodily when they launched a frontal attack with three thousand men. Sharpshooting Americans, numbering fifteen hundred and strongly entrenched, mowed down the advancing Redcoats with frightful slaughter. But the colonials’ scanty store of gunpowder finally gave out, and they were forced to abandon the hill in disorder. With two more such victories, remarked the French foreign minister, the British would have no army left in America.
July 1776: Abandoned again, Dunmore returned to England after the publication of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. The county named in his honor in 1772 was renamed Shenandoah County in 1778. His hunting lodge, Porto Bello, where he first fled the Patriot uprising, remains on the National Register of Historic Places for York County, Virginia.[31]
Marque De Lafayette TO MADAME DE LAFAYETTE.
Petersburg, July 17th, 1777.
I am very happy, my dearest love, if the word happiness can truly be
applied to me, whilst I am separated from all I love; there is a vessel
on the point of sailing for France, and I am enabled to tell you,
before setting out for Philadelphia, that I love you, my dearest life,
and that you may be perfectly tranquil respecting my health. I bore the
fatigue of the journey without suffering from it; although the land
expedition was long and wearisome, yet the confinement of my melancholy
ship was far more so. I am now eight days' journey from Philadelphia,
in the beautiful state of Virginia. All fatigue is over, and I fear
that my martial labours will be very light, if it be true that General
Howe has left New York, to go I know not whither. But all the accounts
I receive are so uncertain, that I cannot form any fixed opinion until
I reach my destination; from thence, my love, I shall write you a long
letter. You must already have received four letters from me, if they
have not fallen into the hands of the English. I have received no news
of you, and my impatience to arrive at Philadelphia to hear, from you
cannot be compared to any other earthly feeling. Conceive the state of
my mind, after having passed such an immense length of time without,
having received a line from any friend! I hope all this will soon end,
for I cannot live in such a state of uncertainty. I have undertaken a
task which is, in truth, beyond my power, for my heart was not formed
for so much suffering.
You must have learnt the particulars of the commencement of my journey:
you know that I set out in a brilliant manner in a carriage, and I must
now tell you that we are all on horseback,--having broken the carriage,
according to my usual praiseworthy custom,--and I hope soon to write to
you that we have arrived on foot. The journey is somewhat fatiguing;
but although several of my comrades have suffered a great deal, I have
scarcely myself been conscious of fatigue. The captain who takes charge
of this letter will, perhaps, pay you a visit; I beg you in that case
to receive him with great kindness.
I scarcely dare think of the time of your confinement, and yet I think
of it every moment of the day. I cannot dwell upon it without the most
dreadful anxiety. I am, indeed, unfortunate, at being so distant from
you; even if you did not love me, you ought to pity me; but you do love
me, and we shall mutually render each other happy. This little note
will be short in comparison to the volumes I have already sent you, but
you shall receive another letter in a few days from me.
The farther I advance to the north, the better pleased am I with the
country and inhabitants. There is no attention or kindness that I do
not receive, although many scarcely know who I am. But I will write all
this to you more in detail from Philadelphia. I have only time to
intreat you, my dearest love, not to forget an unhappy man, who pays
most dearly for the error he committed in parting from you, and who
never felt before how tenderly he loved you.
My respectful compliments to Madame d'Ayen, and my affectionate regards
to my sisters. Tell M. de Coigny and M. de Poix that I am in good
health, in case some letters should miscarry which I shall send by
another opportunity, by which I shall also send a line to you, although
I do not consider it so secure as this one.
July 1778 (Franz Gotlop) arrived back in New York
July 1780
Joseph McKinnon mentioned in court records of Yohogania Co. VA (which later became part of Fayette Co. PA.).[32]
July 1780
In July, 1780, Col. George Rogers Clark organized a force of 1,000 Indian fighters at the mouth of Licking River.[33]
July 17, 1782
“Exract of a letter from a gentleman at Quebec, to his friend at Edinburgh, dated July 17, 1782. ‘The resolutions of parliament to put an end to the American war, are, I am afraid, not transmitted to Canada, for the bloody butchery is still carrying on in the upper parts of this province. A Colonel Clark, commanding a large party of Americans in the illinois country, has been for some years meditating an attempt upon Fort Detroit, but hitherto has always been defeated by the vigilance and activity of the Indians. This year Clark had assembled about 4,000 men, and by late letters we have heard, that he was on his march to Detroit. He had ordered a Major Crawford to advance before his main body, with about 500 men, and they had actually reached St. Douskie, in the neighborhood of Detroit, when intelligence was brought to Major De Peyster, the commanding officer at the fort. He instantly collected all the Indians he could, and sent a Mr. Caldwell, a young American, with them, and a party of regulars, to surprise Major Crawford, before he was joined by Clark; he did so effectually, for he completely routed the party, and took about two hundred prisoners. The Indians, who were the chief actors in this scene, gave over the prisoners to their women, who instantly tomahawked every man of them with the most horrid circumstances of barbarity. It is unusual for the Indians to put their prisoners to death, but the Americans had this spring destroyed an Indian village, and put their women and children to the sword, for which inhuman act the indian nations are resolved to take full revenge, as Crawford and his party wofully experienced.”— [34]
William Crawford is the 6th great grandfather of the compiler.
Marshel to Irvine
No date.[35]
Dear Sir: Your favor of the 18th, I have received. I am much surprised indeed at the account you have received form [John] Slover [pilot to the expedition against Sandusky]. The intelligence he have me was bad, but nothing equal to what he has reported to you. He told me that the Indians expeted we would carry another expedition against them this summer, and that, at their council, they had determinded on two expeditions, one of which was designed against Wheeling; the other, they were not fully determined whether this country or Kentucky should be the object; that, in the meantime, they would keep out spies on our frontier in order to watch our motions and take a prisoner to know our determination. He did not mention a word to me either of their number or of bringing artillery. He said the Indias informed him that the night our people left the field at Sandusky, ther were some British troops from Detroit within a few miles of them (I think seven); that they had two field pieces and one mortar. This I think is nearly what he told me on his arrival.[36]
betw July 1783 and November 1789
(Franz Gotlop)unknown
Franz does not appear in lists of those taking the oath of allegiance to Pennsylvania.[37]
In reading of the published church registers for Berks, Lancaster, and York Counties in Pennsylvania and published birth and baptismal records for churches in Bucks, Chester, Lebanon, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania and some for city of Philadelphia, I have found only:
JF
Both Franz Gotlop and the compiler has the Cohen DNA, but their common ancestor is before the American Revolution.
I want more evidence, but it looks like Francis Godlove/Franz Gottlob of Hardy and Hampshire Counties was the Johan Franz Gottlob who deserted in July 1783 from Mallet's Company of the Linsing Regiment of Hessian Grenadiers shortly before they left New York after the American War for Independence. This Franz Gottlob was born in Werneck, principality of Würzburg (now in Bavaria). The military records give his year of birth as variously 1751-1753. An 1805 court record says Francis of Hampshire County he was 61 at that time, so born 1744. Jim Funkhouser
July 1783
07/1783 Lee of William Robinson vs. Zachariah Connell with William McCormick ejectment. Also on jury: David Lindsy. [38]Jury found for the dfdt. (4)
July 17, 1783
The 17th. News was received that 150 Hessian prisoners had been hired out for work by the Congress to the inhabitants in return for hard money, and that the inhabitants now demand thirty dollars for each man. Major Faesch,6 a German by birth, has thirty of them working in his iron mines. General Lossberg, who has commanded the Hessians since General Knyphausen returned to Hesse, has ordered those men redeemed who could be induced to return in exchange for the thirty dollars. Meanwhile, it is presumed that many a German soldier will remain hidden.7[39]
July 1784: ‘Gilbert Simpson’s plantation or farm covered about 6oo of the 1,644 acres GW owned at Washington’s Bottom. Included on it were 152 acres of fenced meadow, “a good Dwelling House, Kitchen. Barn, Stable, and other necessary Buildings. ito bearing Apple Trees &c.” (GW’s advertise-ment, in Va. Journal, i~ July 1784). The gristmill stood about a mile from the farm on the bank of Washington’s Run, a small stream that flowed into the Voughiogheny River about three-fourths of a mile below the mill.
GW had spared little expense in making this large stone gristmill as line as possible. Its construction, which had taken nearly two years, cost him bc~ tween £1,000 and ~i,soo (GW’s land memorandum. a~ May 1794, DLC: [40]
• July 17, 1793: Second of the three partitions of Poland takes place as Russia, Prussia and Austria divide this once proud kingdom home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities. As a result of the partitions, Russia, which had worked to remain Jew free would find itself home to millions of Jews. [41]
• July 17: 1815: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces. Napoleon’s final defeat would lead him to permanent exile on St. Helena. His final defeat brought a wave of reaction as the remanants of the old regieme in France and Europe sought to regain their old power and undo the changes wrought by the French Revolution. This reactionary wave would have a negative effect on the Jewish people and would be one of the driving forces that led to next wave of Jewish immigration to the United States.[42]
July 17, 1863: At Honey Springs, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, the 1st Kansas
Sun. July 17, 1864
Got a letter from wildcat
answered it and wrote one home
get a photograph[43]
July 17, 1865: Since they were without money, the impatience over red tape became almost unbearable. Finally on July 17 1865, the 24th Iowa officially ceased to exist as part of the United States Army. The last casually had been an unfortuanate corporal in Company B, struck by lightning the day before while he slept. [44]
July 17, 1865
According to discharge papers (Ref#45) William Harrison Goodlove was 5 ft. 7 inches tall at age 27, of light complexion, gray eyes, dark hair and was a farmer by occupation when enrolled; he was discharged the 17th day of July, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia.[45]
Mustered out at Savannah, Ga., July 17, 1865.[46]
July 17, 1865: Iowa 24th: Wagoner Jas. A. Rollins, enlisted August 13, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Carl, H. L., enlisted August 15, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Crisman, F. A., enlisted March 9, 1864, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Scott, H. W. W., enlisted August 7, 1862, wounded April 8, 1864, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Brent, Theo. R., enlisted August 19, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Millitt, George S., enlisted August 22, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.
Neidig, Samuel, enlisted October 6, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.[47]
William T. Rigby;
Born in Red Oak Grove, Iowa, on November 3, 1841. He was appointed 2d Lieutenant in Company B, 24th Iowa Infantry on September 18, 1862 and was promoted to captain on October 2, 1863. He was mustered out as a captain on July 17, 1865. After the war he entered Cornell College (Iowa). He was a farmer for a number of years and in 1895 was appointed Secretary of the Vicksburg National Military Park Commission on March 1 1899 and was subsequently elected Chairman on April 15, 1902. Rigby served in that capacity as the 1st resident commissioner of Vicksburg National Military Park until his death in Vicksburg on May 10, 1929. Captain Rigby and his wife are intererred in the Vicksburg National Cemetery.[48]
Henderson, Justus. Age 28. Residence Yatton, nativity Pennsylvania. Enlisted August 19, 1862.
Mustered September 4, 1862. Mustered out July 17, 1865, Savannah, Ga.[49]
William Harrison Goodlove will visit Justus Henderson during the war. Samuel Goodlove/Godlove and Justus H**enderson are in the same regiment and enlist at about the same time, from the same town.
Goodlove, William H. Age 27. Residence Cedar Rapids, nativity Ohio. Enlisted Dec. 30, 1863. Mustered Dec. 30, 1863. Mustered out July 17, 1865, Savannah, Ga.[50]
Enlisted December 30, 1863 H Company 24th IA Infantry .
July 17, 1865:
Epilogue
The surviving members of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry assembled in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on December 17, 1865. (1885) Twenty years had passed since the Temperance Regiment had been mustered out of service. Nostalgia enveloped the proceedings as the veterans gathered in front of a large oil portrait, draped with the tattered and worn battle flag of the regiment, of Colonel John Q. Wilds. Ed Wright was the guest of honor. Wright had been breveted brigadier general prior to the mustering out, and distinguished officer had continued his career of public service in civilian life. General Wright had been elected to the Iowa’s State General Assembly, where he was chosen Speaker of the House. Although every company was represented at the evening roll call, fewer than 200 members were present. nThe aging survivors tole a glowing story of their three years of service. Not until three o’clock in the morning was the glorious record of the old 24th completely recounted. While the reminiscences suffered from the clouded memories of veterans proud of difficult service, the historic record of the fighting regiment needed no embellishment. [51]
The soldiers who had served in the 24th Iowa, in many respects, mirrored the image of most Iowa soldiers in the Civil War. The recruits were small farmers or mechanics, merchants, lawyers, students, and teachers who lived in Iowa’s small rural villages. The average age of the regiment was 25 years. This average is nearly a year younger than the one Wiley gives for 1862 in Life of Billy Yank. The large number of Cornell College student s who enlisted in Company B accounts for part of the youthful average. The younhgest member of the regiment was Colonel Byam’s son, Commodore Perry Byam, who was listed on the muster rol as being twelve, As with many Civil War drummer boys, Commondore becamke a legendary figure to the regiment, and a Des Moines Tribue artivle of his death in February, 1922, reported he was the youngest drummer boy to serve in the Civil War. If Commodore was indeed sixty nine when he died in 1922, he would have been only nine years old when hi enlisted in the 24th Iowa. As Wiley pointed out, however, the claim to “Youngest Yank” would be impossible to establish. Young Byam was discharged for disability on July 26 1863, at Vicksburg, Mississippi.The date corresponded with the similar discharge of his father and older brother Charles, the regiment’s adjutant, thougnh only Colonel byam’s third son, William, enlisted at seventeen as a drummer in Company G and served untgil he was musgtered out on July 17, 1865, in Savannah, Georgia.[52]
The honor of being the oldest recruit was jointly shared by Dr. John M. Witherwax and First lieutenant Thomas Green. Both men were fifty-one when they resigned for disability. Green resigned during the Vicksburg Campaing, and Witherwax resigned while the regiment was serving in the Shenandoah Valley. Fifty four men who enlisted in the Temperance Regiment were between forty and forty five years old. The number whose age fell in the thirty’s range totaled 244. Volunteers between twenty and twenty nine comprised the largest number, totaling 607. Teenagers enlisting numbered 296. Mirroring Wiley’s figures, the eighteen year olds were the largest age group, nbumbering 168; twenty one year olds followed with a total of 112[53]
Despite its youthful statistics, the regiment had many men leave wives and children to enlist, and several fathers served together with their sons. Ovwer eighty per cent of the regiment listed their nativity as Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, or one of the New England States, reflecting the recent patternj of settlement in Iowa. Scotland, Germany, Ireland, England, and Cananda accounted for most fo the foreign born in the regiment. However, Switzerland, Belgium, Nova Scotia, Bohemia, Norway, and South wales were also listed.[54]
Most of the men of the 24th had not been caught up in the first emotional appeal for troops. Some experienced veterans did, however, join the regiment. Appointed Lieutenant Cololnel, John Q. Wilds, a former dcaptain in the 13th Iowa, had been wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. Colonel Byam’s son Charles, the regimant’s adjutant, had had his leg shattered while serving with the 6th Iowa. Private Ezra Webb had seen service with the 11th Iowa in Missouri[55], and he had been discharged for disability after the Battle of Shiloh. When these battle-tested veterans joined the 24th, they no longer held a romantic view of warfare.[56]
Although many Civil War regiments were religiously inspired, the 24th Iowa was the only known Methodist “Temperance Regiment.” The unit’s organizer, Reverend Eber Byuam, was a respected temperance worker in east-central Iowa. He was probabloy correct in his claim that the regiment’s termerance ideals caused many to volunteer woul would not have otherwise. The popularity of a Temperance Regiment was evidenced by the fract that more than twice the number of companies sought acceptance than were needed. With the aid of Governor Kirkwood, Colonel Byam selected ten companies which they felt represented the Methosist ideazls of temperance. The selection was done apparently more on the basis of company commanders than on any real scrutiny of individual recruits. Governor Kirkwood was apparently thwarted in his attempt to organize a second temperance regiment from the companies that Byam had rejected. Secretary of War Stanton, in correspondence with the governor in the Official Records, stated that a new temperance regiment would not be entitiled to the federal bounty unless all the other regiments were full and replacements had been recruited for those Iowa regiments already in the dfield. To avoid the humiliation of a draft for replacements and to insure the companies that had already been raised received their bounty, Kirkwood apparently divided these companies among the regiments still forming which lacked a full roster of ten companies.
Of the ten companies accepted by Byam, five were captained by Methodist ministers. And two were headed by ministers’sons. Unlike Byam who was absent much of the time and who faltered under fire in the Vicksburg Campaing, these men of the cloth proved able field officers and were revered by the men who served under them. Of the original company commanders, only two survived to be mustered out at Savannah. Captain Leander Clark had attained the rani of lieutenant colonel, and Captain James Martin was acting as major. Both officers had been ministers prior to joining the regiment. Twenty three officers resigned form the 24th Iowa. Most resignations were due to illness; however, Captain Henderson resigned to accept a position lieutenant colonel in the 44th Iowa after the Battle of Vicksburg. Nine officers were killed in the line of duty and died of wounds; three died of disease. Five officers were captured. Although the change in commanders was substantial, such transition was not uncommon, especially among regiments that saw as much action as sdid the 24th Iowa.
The temperance rules forbidding drinking of any alcoholic bereages were strickly enforced by Colonel Byam. Temperance cventered around the prohibition of all intoxicatin liquors to insure an atmosphere of good moral character in the regiment. Drunkards were often bucked and gagged, and even card players suffered fines, extra duty, and demotion. Byams resignation tempered the rules but certainly did not change the chacter of the 24th. Although Lieutenant Colonel Wilds, who succeeded the first commander, was not known as a termperance worker, he did expel a sutler for openly selling liquor to some of the regiments backsliders. At least one private was court-martialled for repeatedly returning to camp intoxicated. Occasionally a whiskey ration was distributed on long marches or during tiring construction of fortification. On holidays beer was sometimes sold to the enlisted men, but the problems with alcohol which plagued some Union commands were never prevalent in the 24th. It would not be proper, however, to claim that the 24th Iowa was any better or any worse, because of its temperance, that the other fighting regiments in the Civil War.
The temperance characteristic was probably retained more because of the Methodist background of most of the men in the 24th Iowa, than because of the rules and regulations imposed by the officers. Through out their three years of service, Sunday church services and weekly prayer meeting were always well attended by the men. When a chaplain was not present or a local preacher would not speak, one of the captains would assume his old civiliam role of preaxcher and deliver the sermon. Captain James Martin was probably most remembered for gathering the survivors of the terrible Battle of Champion’s Hill for a customary prayer after the sad calling of the roll. These men were fundamentalist who took their religion seriousxly. Although the pious among them were often shocked by sertain indiscretions, the rogues of the temperance regiment were probably far from exceptional problem.
The 24th Iowa was one of only three Iowa regiments to serve in botyh the Western and Eastern Theaters. The 22nd, 28th, and 24th Iowa shared a similar fate of fighting in a number of departments under a variety of commanders. The 24th viewed General Grant as their most able commander., followed almost equally by General Sherican General Sherman. General McClernand, the regiments’s first corps commander, was well liked, but the men did not seem to be overawed by this political general and adjusted readikly to his replacement by Genreal Ord. Western commanders were readily accepted, by eastern generals were viewed with disfdain. The most detersted commander that the regiment served under was General Banks, uneder whose command the 24th suffered its first defeat in battle. The XIII Corps wasz disbanded after the Red River Campaing, and the 24th was one of the few western regiments transferred to tnhe XIX Corps, which was comprised mostly of eastern regiments.
The harshest criticism by the regiment was reserved for commanders who protected Confederate property while profiting from cottn confiscation and speculation. The Vicksburg Campaign made the 24th master foragers, and wherever they marched, Confederate property suffered. The marching ability of the Iowans rivaled any regiment with which it served, and the hawkeyes rarly complained as long as the pace of the march was not too rapid to allow occasional jayhawking.
The courage of the regiment stood the test of battle. Though superior forces occasionally broke the 24th’s ranks, the scattered elemnts remained on the field, often fighting with other units or rallying once again around it own banner until the enemy fire took a heavy tol in officers and men. The original colonel was broken physically, and his courage was criticized. Lieutenant Colonel Wilds proved an able replacement when Colonel Byam resigned. Wilds lost his life in the regiment’s final battle at Cedar Creek. Major Wright, the regiment’s last commander, was himself wounded three times in battle. Com[pany officers paid a heavy price for their courage, as evidenced by Second Sergeant Charles Lucas’ rise to the rank of captain due to the death or resignation for disability of his superiosr. Seven captain and four first lieutenants were killed or died of wounds suffered in combat. The number of killed and wounded amounted to 10.6 per cent of the regiments total enrollments. The total number of battle casualties equaled 476. In the toal deaths due to wounds, disease, accidents, and imprisonment, the 24th ranked third highest among Iowa regiments.[57]
As disease and battle took their toll, the attitudes of the Iowans hardened against the South. Political feeling which had run the gamut from Peace Democrat to Radical Republican, became more radical and less moderate. The Union party candidates in eashelection reflected the sentiments of those still in Iowa. The men’s nineteenth century attitude toward Negroes remained, however, one of freedom but not equality.
Like most norther soldiers, the Iowans had had little contact with Negroes prior to their arrival in the South. The first encounters produced marvel and awe at the “foreign” creatures. The regiment delighted in freeing the Negroes from the bonds of slavery, but at the same time they saw nothing wrong with relegatin many to the sevant class for little more than room and board. Supporting the sentinement in Governor Kirkwood’s desire to have “some dead niggers as well as dead white men,” the 24th enthusiastically approved the use of black troops, and a few even applied to command these new Negro regiments.[58]
They generally discounted the ability of black regiments and were thoroughly amazed at the quality of the South Carolina Colored Regiment that relieved the 24th at Augusta, Georgia. After being shoked by such aspects ofr slavery as the auction block and master’ cruelties, many felt that black reconstruction was perfect justice. The Iowans also returned home with bitter memories of their treatment by southern whites in Louisiana and Georgia.
With little fanfare these citizen soldiers returned to Iowa and returned to their civilian occupations. Officially, only recorded troop movements, battle reports, and company rosters noted the history of one of Iowa’s most interesting regiments. The story of the 24th was preserved most appropriately in the diaries and letters of the common soldiers who served their country, not for adventure of glory, but out of a deep sense of duty to their country.[59]
July 17, 1877: From: C. Michael Watson [mwatson@freemason.com]
Sent: Monday, January 3, 2011
To: mwatson@freemason.com
Subject: Grand Lodge of Ohio: Masonic History of Ancestors
Goodlove, W. M. (William M.)
Bellefontaine
Lodge No. 209
Initiated February 10, 1873
Passed December 1, 1873
Raised May 17, 1875
Dimitted June 25, 1877
Affiliated July 17, 1877
Susp. N.P.D. July 1, 1793
Reinstated December 3, 1895
Died December 26, 1915[60]
July 17, 1916
President Wilson signs the Federal Farm Loan Act, establishing a banking system for loans to farmers.[61]
July 17, 1936
1936: The Spanish Civil War began as the armed forces, eventually to be led by Francisco Franco rose up against the recently elected Popular Front Government. Franco’s rebellious army was a fascist force and the received active help from both Mussolini and Hitler. Anti-fascist forces rallied to the support of the French Republicans. For reasons of their own, the French, British and U.S. governments provided no support to balance that being provided by Germany and Italy. While thousands of volunteers from these western countries took up the cause of the Republic, the Soviet Union was the only government to provide aide. And that aide helped to what had begun as a broad left-wing coalition into Communist dominated fighting force. The Left saw Spain as a place to stop the march of fascism. The Fascists saw Spain as an easy victory and testing ground for the weapons that they would later employ in World War II. One of the most famous volunteer groups supporting the Spanish Republicans was the Lincoln Brigade, a fighting force that had a disproportionately large Jewish Population. For a vivid, yet fictional picture of Jewish involvement in the Lincoln Brigade and left-wing causes in the 1930’s, read Davida’s Harp by Chaim Potok.
July 17, 1940
Vichy government regulations limit Civil Service employment to persons whose fathers are French. The regulations are not limited to Jews, but Jews are nevertheless a large proportion of those affected by the regulations.[62]
On July 17, the French police representatives knoweingly and sysytematically sabotage any possibiltity that the children might be saved, including Darquier’s proposal that they be lodged in Paris area children’s hjomes. Darquier is fanatically anti-Jewish, but he shows more uneasiness at clamoring for the children’;s deportation than the police officials, who, seemingly little touvched by anti-Semitic ideaology, surpass even Laval in their cowardice.[63]
Convoy 6, July 17, 1942
On Convoy 6 was Israel Gotlib, born December 3, 1905 and Josef Gotlib, born April 6, 1908 from Varsovie (Warsaw, Poland.)
Also on board Convoy 6 Israel Gotlieb born June 23, 1904 from Sosnowice, (13 miles southwest of Krakow, Poland.)
This convoy left the camp of Pithiviers with 809 and 119 women, a total of 938 deportees. A July 18 telex from the Kommando of the Nazi police of Orleans to the anti-Jewish section of the Paris Gestapo confirms this. It also specifies that among the deportees, 193 Jews (men and women) were sent by the Kommando of the Nazi police from Dijon, and and that the other 52 came from the Orleans Kommando itself. The telex adds that two original lists were given to the head of the convoy, Police Lieut. Schneider.
The list of names is almost completely illegible. It was typed on onionskin with a purple carbon, and the names are almost impossible to decipher. Family name, first name, place and date of birth, profession and city of residence are given. The spelling of names is extremely capricious. A majority of the deportees came from the Parisian area. The nationality is not specified, by the great majority were born in Poland.
The greatest age concentration was between 33 and 42 (550 out of 928 deportees). Adolescents between 16 and 22 were accompanied by their parents; there were 141 of them. There were even some young children, such as 12 year old Marie-Louise Warenbron, born in Paris on April 27, 1930, and Rebecca Nowodworkski, born in Luxemburg on September 13, 1928, who was not yet 14. [64]
Most of the deported had just been arrested in the Occupied Zone and sent to Pithiviers. With this transport, Pithiviers and Beaunela-Rolande, the Loiret camps, were emptied, in preparation for the arrival of the 4,000 children and their parents who had been arrested in the infamous Paris roundups of July 16 and 17 and placed temporarily in the Velodrome d’Hiver, Vel d’Hiv, the large indoor witner sports stadium in Paris.[65]
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• [1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
• [2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
• [3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[4] http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ja7smith/Genealogy_of_William_Smyth.html Proposed Descendants of William Smyth (b. 1460)
[5] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[6] 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
[7] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm
[8] The Field Museum, Chicago, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, February 7, 2010.
[9] That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert, xxi
[10] http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ja7smith/Genealogy_of_William_Smyth.html Proposed Descendants of William Smyth (b. 1460)
[11] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 27.
[12] Forrest P. Wood of Seattle, Washington,. which appeared in the April, 1967, issue of Kentucky Ancestors (Vol. 2, No. 4).
[13] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 454.46.
[14] DAN REINART
[15] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 454.46.
[16] DAN REINART
[17] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995
[18] Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence pg 310
[19] http://www.mapsofpa.com/antiquemaps24.htm
[20] Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, A History of Frederick County, Virginia, T. K. Cartmell pg. 25
[21] In Search of Turkey Foot, page 6.
[22] 39 One of the resources Goodman used was relevant papers from the English archives. In his book on Trent,
Goodman wrote: ―Regarding the establishment of Pickawillany and its subsequent capture by the French as events
of peculiar interest to every student of Ohio history, and believing that papers existed among the English Archives
which would throw light upon the same, we applied to the American minister at London to extend his good offices in
procuring copies of all such papers. How cheerfully the request was complied with is shown by the following letter
[23] In Search of the Turkey Road, page 29.
[24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Freemasonry
[25] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 23
[26] http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/1754.htm
[27] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com
[28] http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ja7smith/Genealogy_of_William_Smyth.html Proposed Descendants of William Smyth (b. 1460)
[29] The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor, Volume 28.
[30] The American Pageant, Bailey, Kennedy, Cohen pg. 143
[31] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lord-dunmore-dispatches-note-of-inexpressible-mortification
[32] JoAnn Naugle, January 24, 1985
[33] HISTORY OF HARDIN COUNTY. - 243
[34] The Remembrancer (Lond. 1782), Part II, pp. 255, 236.
Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield pages 377-378.
[35] The above letter was written about the 20th of July, 1782.
[36] John Slover, one of the guides upon the expedition under Crawford against Sandusky, after his arrival on the frontier and while on his way to fort Pitt, seems to have had an interview with Marshel. It is evident also form the above letter that what he told him was in brief what he had heard and seen in the wilderness up to the time of his excape form the savages as afterward given more fully to Irvine, and at considerable length to H.H. Brackenridge, who wrote out his narrative. He gave to the latter, however, no information concerning the presence of British troops on the Sandusky (as he mentioned to Marshel and Irvine) or relative to artillery being brought so near the battle field; at least, nothing is said of either in his published account; nevereles his relation concerning whem was strickly true.
The following from “The Short Biography of John Leeth” (pp. 15, 16) is, probably, the only account extant of incidents transpiring at Upper San-dusky immediately before the arrival of Crawford’s army; it has information also concerning the bringing of cannon by the rangers:
“The spring following, I was married to a young woman, seventeen or eighteen years of age, also a prisoner to the Indians, who had been taken by them when about twenty months old. I was then in ray twenty-fourth year. Our place of residence was in Moravian Town [Gnadenhuettenj for about two years; about which time Col. Williams [Col. Daniel Brodhead], an American
regard to his character, I am altogether unacquainted; but I think there is reason to suspect his veracity.’ I could wish he
officer, took possession of Coshocton [in the spring of 1781]; and shortly after, the British and their Indian allies took Moravian Town, with me, my wife and children, and all the Moravians, prisoners and carried us to [Upper] Sandusky.
“After arriving at [Upper] Sandusky, the British would not suffer me to trade on my own footing and for myself; but five of them having placed their funds into one general stock, employed me to attend to their business for them; and two of them being my old employers, they gave me the same wages as before. Whilst in this employ, Cols. Williams [Williamson] and Crawford marched with an army against Sandusky, at which time I was closely watched by the Indians and had to make my movements with particular regularity, though I had spies going to and fro by whom I could hear every evening where the ‘army was encamped, for several days.
“One evening I was informed the army was only fifteen miles distant [neat the present village of Wyandot, Wyandot county, Ohio], when I immediately sent the hands to gather the horses, etc., to take our goods to Lower Sandusky. I packed up the goods (about £1,500 worth in silver, furs, powder, lead, etc.) with such agility that by the next morning at daylight we started for Lower Sanclusky. I also took all the cattle belonging to the company along. After traveling about three miles, I met Capt. [Matthew] Elliott, a British officer; and, about twelve miles farther on, I met the whole British army, composed of Col. Butler’s Rangers [a company from Detroit, under the command of Capt. William Caldwell]. They took from me my cattle and let me pass.
“That night I encamped about fourteen miles above Lower Sandusky, when, just after I had encamped and put out my horses to graze, there came to my camp a man who was a French interpreter to the Indians [Francis Le Vellier]. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘I believe I will stay with you to-night and take care of
~ I told him he could remain there for the night, but I intended starting early in the morning. Next morning, after we had got our horses loaded ready to start and the Frenchman had mounted his horse, we heard a cannon fire at Upper Sandusky. The Frenchman clapped his hand to his breast and said, ‘I shall be there before the battle is begun;’ but, alas, poor fellow! he got there -too soon. Without fear or any thought but victory he went on to where a parcel of Indians were painting and preparing for battle; put on a ruffled shirt, and painted a red spot on his breast, saying,—’ Here is a mark for the Virginia riflemen;’ and shorLly after marched with the Indians to battle, where in a short time he received a ball in the very spot and died instantaneously.
“I arrived at Lower Sandusky on the second day, and remained there three days to hear the event. At length the Americans under Col. Williams [Williamson] stole a retreat on the Indians who were gathering around them in great numbers; but Col. Crawford, with most of his men was taken by them. They tomahawked all his men and burnt him alive.”
(Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield pages 304-305.)
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[38] http://doclindsay.com/spread_sheets/2_davids_spreadsheet.html
[39] Diary of the Amirican War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald
[40] The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. 1V. 1784-June 1786. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig
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[41] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com
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[43] William Harrison /Goodlove Civil War Diary by Jeff Goodlove
[44] Longley, Annals of Iowa (April, 1895), pp. 54-55/ ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 208.)
[45] Gerol “Gary” Goodlove Conrad and Caty, 2003
[46] UNION IOWA VOLUNTEERS, 24th Regiment, Iowa Infantry: http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/template.cfm?unitname=24th%20Regiment%2C%20Iowa%20Infantry&unitcode=UIA0024RI
[47] http://iagenweb.org/muscatine/biographies1879/civilwarvolroster.htm
[48] (Photo Album: First Commissioners, Vicksburg NMP.) http://www.nps.gov/vick/scenic/h people/pa 3comm.htm
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[51] William T. Rigby, compiler, “Proceedings and Roster of the Second Reunion of the Twenty-forth Iowas Volunteers, held at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thursday, December 17, 1885” 9PRINTED BY Chas. L. Longly at Tipton, Iowas, 1886, pp. 1-33.
[52] Roster and Record, Vol. AIII, p. 795-0899; Wiley, Life of Billy Yank, pp. 296-303.
( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 212.)
[53] Roster and Record, Vol. AIII, p. 795-0899; ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 212.)
[54] Roster and record, Vol. III, p. 795-899.
[55] Neither the Union nor the Confederacy was able to dominate Missouri and lower Kansas, so lawlessness reigned. Amon the infamous men who rose to partisan leadership at this time was William Anderson, known as “Bloody Bill,” a murderer, cattle rustler, and highwayman. The Civil War 2010 Calendar.
[56] Roster and Record, Vol. AIII, p. 795-0899; ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 213.)
[57] Fox, Regimental Losses in the Civil War, p. 412 ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 214-218.)
[58] Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors, p. 203 ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 218-219.)
[59] ( The History of the 24th Iowa Infantry by Harvey H Kimball, August 1974, page 219-220.)
[60] Grand Lodge of Ohio, January 10, 2011
[61] On this day in America, by John Wagman.
[62] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial, by Serge Klarsfeld, page 9.
[63] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, pages 39-43.
[64] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 50.
[65] French Children of the Holocaust, A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, page 380.
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