This Day in Goodlove History, October 21

This Day in Goodlove History, October 21
By Jeffery Lee Goodlove
jefferygoodlove@aol.com

The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
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The William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove is available at the Farmer's Daughter's Market , (319) 294-7069, 495 Miller Rd, Hiawatha, IA , http://www.fdmarket.com/

I spoke with my father, Gary Goodlove briefly yesterday to remind him about Jillian’s birthday and Jane and Brian’s anniversary. He was giving a hayrack tour to the Jefferson High School Marketing class. I got to thinking how many thousands of students had listened to the “Story of the buffalo” . I hope he writes these stories down someday. This trait of educating people about our heritage must come from something in our past. Jeff Goodlove


Birthdays on this day: David Roccchio, Celiea E. Neal, James F. Kirby , John M Davidson,

Weddings on this day:Sally A. Payton and Charles A. Sherman, Myra Bishop and George Schrigley, Myra McKee and Richard Farrell, Mary L. Quinte and Dennis A. Edaburn, Lois an. Comer and James Donley, Laura G. Crawford and Dougloas R. Burgess
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• Fall 1096
• A second, better prepared group of crusaders set out in the fall of 1096, and they were more successful.[1]
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• October 21, 1096
• During the First Crusade, the Turks destroyed the portion of the Crusader army led by Peter the Hermit. Peter escaped and joined the main crusader army. The main body took Jerusalem in 1099. [2] Many Jews committed suicide rather than fall into the hands of the murderous bands. Some of the authorities-the local bishops and citizens (burghers) tried to give some protection but often half-heartedly and not effectively. [3]
• The Crusaders slaughtered the Jews of Europe as they made their way to the Holy land. When they got to Jerusalem, they continued their bloody behavior as they slaughtered the Jews living in David’s City.[4]

• 1096-1192
• Migration of Jews from North Eastern Germany to Grodno, Poland.[5] Six FTDNA matches earliest known point of origin is from Poland.


George Washington Diaries (Canoe trip with 6th gr grandfather William Crawford and 5th gr. grandfather William Harrison.)
October 21st., 1770—Left our encampment about six o’clock, and breakfasted at Logstown, where we parted with Colonel Croghan and company about five o’clck. At eleven we came to the mouth of the Big Beaver Creek, opposite to which is a good situation for a house, and above it, on the same side, that is the west, there appears to be a fine body of land. About five miles lower down, on the east side, comes in Raccoon Creek, at the mouth of which, and up it, appears to be a body of good land also. All the land between this creek and the Mohongahela, and for fifteen miles back. is claimed by Colonel Croghan, under a purchase from the Indians. which sale he says is confirmed by his Majesty. Ott this creek, where the branches thereof interlock with the Waters of Shuitee’s Creek, there is, according to Colonel Croghan’s account, a body of fine, rich, level land. This tract he wants to sell, and offers it at five pounds sterling per hundred acres, with an exemption of quit. rents for twenty years ; after which, to be subject to the payment of four shillings and two-pence sterling per hundred acres ; provided he can sell it in ten thousand acre lots. At present, the unsettled state of this country renders any purchase dangerous. From Raccoon Creek to Little Beaver Creek, appears to me to be little short of ten miles, and about three miles below this, we encamped ; after hiding a barrel of biscuit on an island, to lighten our canoe.

Sunday October 21, 1770. Left our Incampment abt. 6 Oclock & breakfasted at the Logs Town, where we parted with Colo. Croghan&a. abt. 9 Oclock. At 11 we came to the Mouth of big Bever Creek,1 opposite[6]


George Washington to George Croghan, October 21, 1771, Account Book 2

Mount Vernon, October 21, 1771.

Dear Sir: Your favour of the 18th. of August, never came to my hands till about the middle of this month. In answer to it, I shall beg leave to observe that, the Township contain’d in the Plat you sent me, includes more Land than I shou’d choose, or that would be convenient for me to purchase; and I suppose by your laying the Grant off in that manner, and offering me a Loll, instead of 15,000 acres which I proposed to buy, that you do not icline to sell less in a parcel, for which reason I must decline the purchase altogether, unless I can get some person to join me, and at present I know of none that chooses to be concerned; but as I am going to Williamsburg in a few days, it is possible I may meet with some Gentlemen there who may incline to engage in this Scheme, in which case, I will write to you by the first opportunity after my return, and let you know more of my Sentiments on the subject of your offer, than at present I am able to do, in the mean while I have only to request that you may not disappoint yourself of a Bargain on my account.

I am much obliged to you for your kind assurances in favour of Captn. Crawford, and shall add nothing more at present than that I am with very great esteem, Dr. Sir, etc.[7]


George Washington Diary
October 21st. 1771 Set of for Williamsburg. Dined at Colchester & lodgd in Dumfries. Mrs. Washington Mr. & Miss Custis with me. [8]

October 21, 1774
Last Friday was two weeks [October 21] Logan a famous Chief[9] went home with a little boy a son of Roberts on Holston & two of Blackmores Negroes. He said He had taken them on the Fronteers next the Cherokee Country & had killed I think either 5 or 7 people. The boy and Negroes will be soon in.
It is a general opinion in the Govrs. Army that the peace with the Shawnese will be lasting.[10]
Many of our wounded men died since the Accounts of the battle came in, I think there are near 70 dead. Capt. Buford & Lieut. Goldman & 7 or 8 more died whilst we were over Ohio & more will yet die.
Colo. Fleming is in a fair way to recover and I think out of danger if he don’t catch cold. Him & Capt. Dickeson sett of[f] Monday was a week from the Point in a Canoe & will come from Elk or Kellys on horseback. All the wounded are coming in who Can ride, some must Stay until they get better.
I dare say the Army is now scattered from Elk to the levels, perhaps from Point pleasant to the Warm Springs, all in little Companys. Many of the Fincastle men crossed at Pt. Pleasant & intended to steer for Clinch. Others at Kellys. I beg of you if you can get any Oppy. To inform Mrs. Fleming of her husbands being on his way, He walks about constantly all day. He had plenty of people to take care of him.
Colo. Lewis I think will be in the first of next week, perhaps some longer. When I saw the Govr. He said he would hasten to Wm.burg to meet the Assembly whom he expected would adjourn from day to day, until he could get there. He will go very quick.
Pray show this to Mr. Madison. I will see him the last of this week I hope on my way to Hanover. If I knew certainly of yr. coming up Catawba I would go that way to meet you. I wish the other road may please you as well.
I am Sir as usual Yours Ever[11]

WM Christian


Plan of the Attack on the Fort at Red Bank, October 21, 1777


October 21, 1777
Reedy Island was on the Jersey shore, and Fort Mercer stood on it. Col. Christopher Green, a very capable officer, had been sent there by Washington, with a force of Continental troops.
Opposite, on the Pennsylvania side, was Fort Miffin, on Mud Island, separated from the main land by a narrow channel, and strengthened by war vessels, floating batteries, etc. Some works were thrown up against it and manned by Hessians.
The Americans made several attacks, but were always repulsed by Capt. v. Stamford, with the Grenadier battalion of v. Linsingen.
The English commander determined to seize Red Bank, and gave the order to Donop, an intelligent and bold soldier, and his force included the three Grenadier battalions of v. Linsingen, v. Minnigerode and v. Lengerke, Mirbach’s regiment, which had been ordered up from Wilmington, four light companies, including Wangenheim’s[12], a dozen cavalrymeu, some artillery and two English howitzers.[13]

October 21, 1777

Early on 21 October Donop’s fated brigade crossed the Delaware on fourteen flatboats. ‘As I crossed the Delaware with Donop,’ wrote O’Reilly, ‘and saw the brigade alone at daybreak, without an Englishman, without guides, without heavy artillery, and without one English general, I shuddered for the consequences.[14] The first wave started at six o’clock, but the artillery carts were not across until two in the afternoon. An hour later, the Jáger having scouted the route to Redbank down the Haddonfield road, Donop set off, Ewald and some sixty Jáger leading. Captain Lorey and another Jáger detachment were left behind to bring on the last ammunition wagons. The brigade leaguered for the night in Haddonfield, the troops lying on their arms in a square. The next morning they resumed their march at four o’clock, and after a delay at Newton’s Creek, where the bridge had been broken, they reached a point within two miles of Redbank at one o’clock in the afternoon. A captured rebel officer informed them that the garrison numbered 800, roughly 200 more than its actual strength.
Both Adam Ludwig Ochs and Quartermaster Ungar of Minnigerode’s battalion he after wrote that Donop, having neared the fort unseen by the garrison, should have stormed it promptly rather than alerting them to his presence by a summons. A letter of Major Sam. Ward to Washington shows that the Americans were, in fact, aware of Donop’s approach, a point which they tried to conceal by leaving their washing hanging out.[15]
Donop had three hours for his reconnaissance. Every indication is that it was inadequate. He did not appreciate that an outlying work to the east of the fort had been abandoned. According to his ADC, Lieutenant Carl von Heister, he did not even observe the enemy rowing galleys in the Delaware, their powerful armament able to enfilade an attacker’s flanks.[16] He did however realize that the works were complete and Howe’s instructions based on outdated information. Why did he not retire, or at least send for heavy artillery? Münchhausen does not hesitate to point out that Donop thought his orders were preemptory. Major Charles Stuart accompanied Donop on his reconnaissance, and both agreed on the impropriety of attacking without heavy guns. Donop said that if Stuart would advise him he would delay the attack, to which Stuart replied that he was too young (i.e. junior) and had not sufficient authority to have delay of the commander-in-chief’s orders rest on him.[17]
Stuart can hardly be blamed for this. Donop, an officer of experience and high reputation, should have been able to take the decision himself. Probably he wanted an Englishman to agree to the delay. Concepts of honour were then very strong, Donop commanded the elite of the Hessians, and was thirsting to achieve something for the honour of his corps. By O’Reilly’s account, he had also talked himself into a position where withdrawal would be personally humiliating. These reasons do not excuse his fatal [18] decision to attack. Nor is Howe blameless for failing to provide artillery because of bad intelligence.
The fort, a simple pentagonal redoubt with a sound earthen rampart, ditch, and abatis, was held by good Rhode Island troops under Colonel Christopher Greene. The too-extensive works had been converted by the French engineer Mauduit du Plessis into an ingenious trap: he abandoned the outlying defences, causing only one part, a salient angle, to be occupied by American sharp shooters, giving the impression that it was still held in its entirety.
The traditional summons to surrender, accompanied by a threat of no mercy to the survivors, possibly a bluff by Donop, was returned unflinchingly by Greene. The interval had been employed in making fascines, to be borne by one hundred men at the head of each battalion. Donop deployed his regiments in line, Minnigerode’s on the right, Mirbach’s in the middle, Linsing’s on the left. Lengerke’s battalion secured the line of retreat; the Jager protected the artillery and the flanks. Immediately upon the messenger returning to the corps with Greene’s reply to the summons, a brisk fire was begun upon the fort from the battalion guns and howitzers. Ewald and sixteen Jager marksmen peppered the top of the parapet making gravel and dust fly up with their good shooting; Donop and his officers placed themselves at the head of their men, and brought them on at a quick step. Minnigerode on the right entered and secured the detached work, Mauduit’s riflemen taking refuge in the main fort.[19] All three battalions were in the ditch when struck by a tremendous fire from the fort and in particular from the row-galleys on their flanks. These made particularly good execution, communicating to the garrison with ‘speaking tubes’. Hessian observers and participants described the galleys’ fire as decisive.[20] Within the fort, officers went about striking with rifle butts and hangers anyone who flinched from his post.[21]
All accounts agree that the attack was pressed with remarkable courage. Some of the grenadiers were actually killed in the embrasures. Others, realizing how hopeless the assault was, took refuge on the parapet below the walls, where they were captured. The loss in officers was heavy. Captain von Stamford, gallant as always, was the first to reach the embrasures before he fell, thrice wounded.[22] Donop himself had his hip shattered, and Lieutenant von Toll of Mirbach’s was shot down with several grenadiers trying to drag him off. Toll was only grazed, but his best friend Carl von Wurmb was killed, never having found his wealthy American heiress.[23] Colonel von Schieck of that regiment was also killed and Minnigerode wounded. After nearly forty minutes’ slaughter, the shattered remnants fled, leaving nearly 400 comrades killed, wounded, or captured.[24]
Donop was found beneath a pile of dead and dying, and taken to a Quaker’s house where he died after three days. Chastellux reported his last words as, ‘I die the victim of my ambition and of the avarice of my sovereign.’ This contrasts oddly with the enthusiasm Donop had previously shown for the America expedition, but is supported by the testimony of von Kalb.[25] Certainly he died unhappy, a sadly tragic figure, his unrealized ambitions the cause of his fate. Colonel von Loos reported him as saying, ‘I have done my duty as a soldier, but as a brigadier I have conducted affairs like a novice (wie em Fáhnrich gehandelt). What will the Landgraf say when he hears that I have lost so many men? For that I am greatly afraid.[26][27]


October 21, 1777

The 21st of October. About three o’clock in the morning the Jager Corps marched to Cooper’s Ferry118 on the Delaware. The Corps crossed the Delaware in flatboats with the three Hessian grenadier battalions, Linsing, Minnigerode, and Lengerke, along with the Mirbach Regiment under Colonel Schieck, and landed about eight o’clock in the Province of Jersey. I had the advanced guard with sixty jagers, followed by the Corps, the Minnigerode battalion, the Mirbach Regiment, two 6-pounders, two howitzers, the Lengerke and Linsing battalions, and Captain Lorey with twenty mounted jägers. This corps, under Colonel Donop, was ordered to seize by force Fort Red Bank,12° through which the garrison on Mud Island maintained its communication with the mainland. Colonel Donop had volunteered for this expedition.
This corps was still less than a half an hour away from the Delaware when it ran into an enemy party in the vicinity of Newton Township, which withdrew over Cooper’s Bridge toward Burlington. I pursued it up to the end of a wood, where I discovered several hundred men on both sides of Cooper’s Creek, with whom I skirmished until about four o’clock in the afternoon, after which time they withdrew. The colonel, who continued his march with the corps, had ordered me to occupy myself with the enemy until nightfall, and then to follow the corps to Haddonfield. He wanted to mislead the enemy and conceal his march. At eight o’clock in the evening I arrived at Haddonfield, where I found the corps encamped in a quadrangle on the heights.[28]


Fri. October 21, 1864
Moved back to the old camp on battlefield[29]
The dead not all buried yet enemy still
Retreating cold rain at night
Drawed clothing a & rations[30]

• October 21, 1941
• Thousands of Jews are murdered at Kraljevo, Yugoslavia.[31]
• October 21, 1941
• Residents of the Jewish community at Koidanov, Belorussia, are murdered.[32]
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October 21, 1942
At Szczebrzeszyn, the final Jews remaining were rounded up in a night of fierce and deadly slaughter. Those who were not shot were taken to Belzec. In Zwierzyniec, more Jews were rounded up. [33]

• October 21, 1943
• During the final Aktion in Minsk, 2,000 Jews are killed at Maly Trostinets.[34]
[1] Introducing Islam, by Dr. Shams Inati, page 100.
[2] This Day in Jewish History
[3] The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism, From Ancient Times to the Present Day, by Walter Laqueur, page 52
[4] This Day in Jewish History
[5] Tracing your Jewish DNA for Family History and & Ancestry, by Anne Hart, page 19,
[6] The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. 2. Donald Jackson, ed.; Dorothy Twohig, assoc. ed. The Papers of George Washington. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.
[7] The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, Editor.--vol. 03
[8] George Washington’s Diaries, An Abridgement, Dorothy Twohig, Editor 1999
[9] The following brief biography of Logan is abridged from a manuscript life in the Draper MSS., 2D, chap. 12. The father of Logan was a French child who, captured when quite young, had been adopted into the Oneida tribe, and became a chief of much influence among the Indians of the Susquehann. Logan’s mother was a Cayuga, hence this was his tribe. For many years he lived at Shamokin (now Sunbury), in the Susquehanna valley, and was usually known as John Shikellimo, his appellation Logan being in honor of James Logan, secretary of the province; his Indian name was Tachnechdorus (branching oak of the forest). During the French and Indian War he maintained a strict neutrality, even seeking refuge in Philadelphia from the wiles of the savage allies of the French. Obliged to abandon his ancestrial home, he lived in various places in Pennsylvania, for several years in the Kishacoquillas valley, whose pioneers later told tales of his kindness, generosity, and general goodwill except when under the influence of liquor. About 1772, he removed to the Ohio, and it was at his town on Yellow Creek that the affray occurred on April 30, 1774, that has been cited as the occasion for Dunmore’s War. Having glutted his vengeance by four prolonged raids, during the summer after the negotiations with Lord Dunmore for peace had begun. The date of his arrival, as here given by Christian, is proof that he was not in the battle at Point Pleasant. Noticing his absence, Lord Dunmore sent his interpreter, John Gibson, to bring him to the conference. Logan refused to go, and upon that occasion delivered the now famous speech, so generally quoted as an example of Indian eloquence, to which Jefferson paid high tribute in his “Notes on Virginia”. There grew up an animated controversy concerning the genuineness of this speech, and its attribution of the murder to Cresap. It is now admitted that the substance of the speech, as it has come down to us, was actually delivered by Logan, but that he was mistaken in attributing the murder of his family to Cresap. See Jacob, Life of Cresap; Mayer, Logan and Cresap (especially documents in appendix to edition of 1867); Roosevelt, Winning of the West, I, pp. 236-239, 347-352. The rest of Logan’s life is sunk in obscurity. He removed to Pluggy’s Town, on the Scioto, then to the watersof Mad River, in Logan County, and later to the neighborhood of Detroit. He saved Kenton from the stake in 1778, and the next year was recognized in a savage raiding party in southwest Virginia. See Draper MSS., 5QQ11. He was killed by one of his own relatives on his way home from Detroit in 1780. His epitaph may be given in his own statement, that “he knew he had two souls, the one good and the other bad; when the good soul had the ascendant, he was kind and humane, and when the bad soul ruled, he was perfectly savage, and delighted in nothing but blood and carnage.” See Amer. Pioneer, I, p. 350. Dunmore’s War, Thwaites and Kellogg pp. 305-306
[10] See letter of Arthur St. Clair, Dec. 4, 1774 in Penna. Archives, iv, pp. 386, 387. p. 306.
[11] Dunmore’s War, by Thwaites and Kellogg, pp. 301-307
[12] (Wangenheim of the v. Linsing Battalion was on Franz Gottlops recruit ship JG)
[13] The German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1779-1783 by Max v. Eelking
[14] Schweinsburg, ‘Briefe eines hessischen Olfiziers’, p. 309. O’Reilly was not strictly accurate: the expedition was accompanied by Major Charles Stuart and two British howitzers.
[15] Ochs, Betrachtungen uber die neuere Kriegslcunst (Kassel, 1817), p. 38; StaMarburg 12.111 Ba15 (Journal of Minnigerode’s battalion), fols. 101—2; Washington, Wrztzngs, ix, p. 422 n.
[16] Heister, ‘Tagebuch eines vormaligen kurhessischen Offiziers’, p. 262; see also Ewald, Belehrungen, II, p. 16.
[17] Stuart-Wortley, Prime Minister and Son, p. 117. A somewhat different account of this is given by Samuel S. Smith, Fight for the Delaware 1777 (Monmouth Beach, NJ, 1970), pp.20—l, based on Ewald’s journal. He mistakenly refers to Stuart as ‘Stewart’.
[18]The Marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North America in the year 1780, 1781 and 1782 (2 vols.London, 1837), I, p. 261.
[19] Hence American accounts all speak of an attack made in two columns.
[20]Smith, Fight for the Delaware, p. 22; Feihtzsch, fol. 27; Heister, ‘Tagebuch eines vorma­ligen kurhessischen Offiziers’, p. 263; StaMarburg 12.11 i Ba 15, fol. 103; ibid, 4h.412. nr. 4, fol. 87; and Johann Carl Buettner, Buettner der Amerikaner: ezne Selbstbzographze (Camenz, 1828), p. 52.
[21]Smith, Fight for the Delaware, p. 23.
[22]Ditfurth, Das Leibgarde-Regzrnent, p. 42.
[23]Hammer, Frlederzke von Wurmb, pp. 150—2.
[24]The official return in StaMarburg 4h.410. nr. 2, fol. 107 gives 371 as the total loss, but both O’Reilly and Lt Rueffer of Mirbach’s give a higher figure. Col George Osborne gave 127 as the number killed. Eelking, Hilfstruppen, i, pp. 222—3; CO5/95, fol. 438, Osborne to Germain, 26 Oct. 1777. Besides sources in previous footnotes, my account of the battle is based on StaMarburg 4h.410. nr. 2, fols. 109—10, Lt Werner’s account, 25 Oct.; 4h.412. nr. 5, fol. 64, Baurmeister to the Erbprinz; and Evelyn M. Acomb, The Revolutionaiy Journal of Baron Ludwig von Closen 1780—1781 (Chapel Hill, 1958), PP. 121—2.
[25] Chastellux, Travels in America, ~, p. 266 (also quoted in Kapp, Soldatenhandel, pp. 222—3); Huth, ‘Letters from a Mercenary’ p. 489; Stevens, Facsimiles, VIII, nr. 757, de Kalb to the Comte de Broglie, 2 Nov. 1777.

[26]Jungkenn 1:55, Loos to Jungkenn, 30 Nov. 1777. Dr Fischer of Stadtarchiv Frankfurt kindly gave me this last information.

[27] The Hessians by Rodney Atwood 123-127
[28]Diary of the American War A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald
[29] The whole division returned to its former camp on Cedar Creek. (Cedar Creek Report, Commander, Second Division, 19th Corps (OR, 43, 322-5, http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/staff-rides/cedarcreek/2D19C.htm)
[30][30] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary annotated by Jeff Goodlove

[31] This Day in Jewish History
[32] This Day in Jewish History.
[33] This Day in Jewish History
[34] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1777.