This Day in Goodlove History, November 17

This Day in Goodlove History, November 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.
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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.
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• A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com
• and that will take them right to it.

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/

Birthdays on this date: Roger L. Wolf, James L. Soupene, Mark M. Sackett, Harold Godlove, Muriel D. Brittain, Martha L. Adams.

Weddings on this date; Ruth Connell and James Ross, Mary Crawford and James Kenard, Nellie E. Grey and Bert F. Hitchell.

I Get Email!


In a message dated 11/7/2010 7:11:54 A.M. Central Standard Time, :
Hi, Jeff,

While you are at Spertus, you might be able to find the name of the person who translated for us 15+ years ago. He was at that time a professor (or assistant professor) there. I contacted him after seeing that he was teaching Yiddish classes. If I heard his name I would recognize it at once because he shared a last name with someone with whom I went to graduate school, and I learned eventually that they were cousins. (Unfortunately, that name has now escaped me.) I'll try to do a few searches, too, to find this fellow.

Also, there is a fellow (out East, I think) who started an organization to save Yiddish books, wrote a book about this project, and is fairly well-known in the Jewish/Yiddish academic circles for this. I would most certainly think that through him you could find someone to do the translating for you. [I just googled and found him. Here's the site to his book: http://www.amazon.com/Outwitting-History-Amazing-Adventures-Rescued/dp/1565125134)

As I find any other contacts for you, I'll send them your way. Meanwhile, as I think about it, F M might be a very good source for you in this search. He has an large, large network of friends and acquaintances throughout the "Jewish world." Perhaps you should email or call him, telling him that I suggested that you do so. [He prefers not to use the phone/email on shabbat (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown).

Best,
Nancy

Nancy, Thank you for your continued interest and support in helping me with this Abraham Baer Gottlober Russian Yiddish/English project. I will circle back to the Dean at Spertus and see if there is still a Russian/Yiddish instructor there. As to the fellow out east who recently started an organization to save Yiddish Books, I just ordered his book from Amazon and I hope to learn something from that. Thank you for sending me the contact info for F M. I hope to contact him today. Coincidently I met an author also said he might be able to help as there is a Yiddish school out east where he lives. We had a nice chat at lunch and he was interested in the project. His name was R R S.

Jeff Goodlove

This Day…

November 1738: A number of Harrison’s settled in Virginia in the early Seventeen Century. The connections between them are difficult to establish.
In this sketch, an effort’ has been made to trace the family connection of those Harrison’s who are known to have first settled in the region the Rappahannock River, and who later removed from there, making several stops in other places in Virginia, and finally reaching that part of Pennsylvania which was, at the time they settled there, still considered part of the “Old Dominion’.‘.
This section of then unknown territory, was called the Virginia County of Augusta, or West Augusta, and since it was here, that the Harrison family, who were the ancestors of the Torrences, decided to settle, it may be of interest to give a brief history of its formation. The Virginia County: of West Augusta was erected in November 1738, and embraced all of the western and northern parts of that colony including an immense tract which is now Pennsylvania, west of the meridian of the western boundary of Maryland. ,
Virginia claimed jurisdiction, for thirty-eight years~ after its formation, over all the present county of Fayette, except a strip on its eastern side, and all the territory between the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers.
1738: Jews expelled from Wurtemburg.
1738: Pope Clement XII issued his famous Bull, “In Eminenti”. Clement reacted to the threat against his throne by excommunicating all Masons, banning all intercourse with them, and commanding that they be suppressed and punished.

1738-43
Frederick VA formed 1738-43 from Orange.


November 1753
November, (GW) leads Virginia expedition to challenge French claims to the Allegheny River Valley.


The American Pageant, Bailey, Kennedy, Cohen.

The Late War is the French and Indian War which ended c1763. This is the form of the fort begun c1759 and the foundations and a surviving blockhouse can be seen today at Point State Park in Pittsburgh. Brown shows a sequence of plans dating from a manuscript sketch of Fort Duquesne in 1754 up to the 'Plan of the New Fort at Pittsburgh', November 1759, which is almost identical to this image. The history of the forts at Pittsburgh is complex. The first fort was a rudimentary one built by Virginians in 1754 and called Fort Prince George. It was destroyed the same year by the French who built Fort Duquesne (see 1761). On December 1, 1758, the ruins of Fort Duquesne were officially renamed and from then on the Forks of the Ohio was called Pittsburgh. A temporary fort was built c1758-59 near the Monongahela River to house troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Mercer, and was called Mercer's Fort, see Brown, No. 35. This was followed by Fort Pitt begun c1759, which took several years to build. It was abandoned by the British in 1772, taken over by Virginians in 1774 and renamed Fort Dunmore. It was again abandoned when the new Fort Fayette was constructed in 1791-92. This newer fort was used by General Anthony Wayne during the Indian wars in the Northwest Territory.


(George Washington’s diaries while on canoe trip with 6th great grandfather William Crawford and 5th great grandfather William Harrison):

November 17: 1770. Reachd the Mingo Town about 13 Miles more.

November l7th, 1770.—By this morning the river had fallen in time whole, twenty-two or twenty-three feet, and was still lowering. About eight o’clock we set out, and passing the lower Cross creek, we came to a pretty long and tolerably wide and good bottom, on time east side of the river: then came in the hills, just above which is Buffalo creek. About three o’clock we came to the Mingo town, without seeing our horses, the Indian who was sent express for them, having passed through only the morning before ; being detained by the creeks, which were too high to ford.
Here we resolved to wait their arrival, which was expected tomorrow; and here then will end our water voyage along a river, the general course of which from Beaver creek to the Kenhawa is about southwest, or near as I could determine ; but, in its windings through a narrow vale, extremely serpentine; forming on bottom sides of the river alternately necks of very good bottoms, some exceedingly fine, lying for the most part in the shape of a half moon, and of various sizes.
There is very little difference in the general width of the river from Fort Pitt to Ken hawa; Out in the depth I believe the odds are considerably in favor of the lower parts, as we found no shallows below the Mingo town, except in one or two places where the river was broad, and there, I do not know but there might have been a deep channel in some parts of it. Every here and there are islands, some larger and some smaller, which, operating in the nature of locks or steps, occasions pretty still water above, but for the most part strong and rapid water alongside of them. However, none of these so swift but that a vessel may he rowed or sent up with poles.
When the river is in its natural state, large canoes, that will carry five or six thousand weight or more, may be worked against the stream by four hands, twenty or twenty-five miles a day; and down a good deal more, The Indians who are very dexterous, even their women, in the management of canoes, have their hunting camps and cabins all along the river, for the conveninence of transporting their skins to market. In the fall, so soon as the hunting season comes on, they set out with their families for this purpose; and in hunting will move their camps from place to place, till by the spring they get two or three hundred or more miles from their towns; then catch beaver on their way up, which frequently brings them into the month of May, when the women are employed in planting. The men are at market, and in idleness, till the autumn again, when they pursue the same course. During the summer months they live a poor and perishing life.
The Indians who reside upon the Ohio, the upper parts of it at least, are composed of Shawanese, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little part of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlements of the people upon their river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say, that they must be compensated for their right if the people settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations. On the other hand, the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable, not only on the Redstone and other waters on the Monongahela, but along the Ohio as low as the Little Kenhawa; and by next summer I suppose they will get to the Great Kenhawa, at least.
How difficult it may be to contend with these people afterwards, is easy to be judged, from every day’s experience of lands actually settled, supposing these settlements to be made; than which nothing is more probable, if the Indians permit them, from the disposition of the people at present. A few settlements in the midst of some of the large bottoms, would render it impracticable to get any large quantity of hand together; as the hills all the way down the river, as low as I went, come pretty close, are steep and broken, and incapable of settlement, though some of them are rich, and only fit to support the bottoms with timber and wood. The land back of the bottoms, as far as I have been able to judge, either from my own observations or from information, is nearly the same, that is, exceedingly uneven and hilly ; and I presume there are no bodies of flat, rich land to be found, till one gets far enough from the river to head the little runs and drains that come through the hills, and the sources of the creeks and their branches. ‘This, it seems, is the case with the lands upon the Monongahela and Youhiogheny, and I fancy holds good upon this river, till you get into the flat lands, below the falls. The bottom land differs a good deal in quality. That highest up the river in general, is richest, though the bottoms are neither so wide nor so long, as those below. Walnut, cherry, and some other kind of wood, neither tall nor large, but covered with grape-vines, with the fruit of which this country at this instant abounds, are the growth of the richest bottoms; but on the other hand, these bottoms appear to me to be the lowest and most subject to floods. The soil of this is good, but inferior to either of the other kinds; and beech bottoms are objectionable on account of the difficulty of clearing them, as their roots spread over a large surface of ground, and are hard to kill.


Crawford to Washington
November 17th 1770 letter. “Indians will not run any farther until they are paid for their land. The Indians who lived upon the Ohio (the upper parts of it, at least) are composed of Shawnees, Delawares, and some of the Mingoes, who, getting but little paid of the consideration that was given for the lands eastward of the Ohio, view the settlement of the people on the river with an uneasy and jealous eye, and do not scruple to say that they must be compensated for their right of the people to settle thereon, notwithstanding the cession of the Six Nations thereto. On the other hand the people of Virginia and elsewhere are exploring and marking all the lands that are valuable not only on the Redstone and other waters of the Monongahela, but along down the Ohio, as low as Little Kanawha.”

November 17, 1772

Attended a marriage, where the guests were all Virginians. It was a scene of wild and confused merriment. The log house which was large, was filled. They were dancing to the music of a fiddle. They took little or no notice of me, on my entrance. After setting a while at the fire, I arose and desired the music and dancing to cease, I requested the Bride and Bridegroom to come forward. They came snickering and very merry. I desired the company who still appeared to be mirthful & noisy, to attend with becoming seriousness, the solemnity.

As soon as the ceremony was over, the music struck up, and the dancing was renewed. While I sat wondering at their wild merriment. The Lady of a Mr. Stevenson, sent her husband to me, with her compliments requesting me to dance a minuit with her. My declining the honor. On the principle that I was unacquainted with it, was scarcely accepted. He still politely urged, until I totally refused. After supper I rode about 3 miles to the house of a friend. The manners of the people of Virginia, who have removed into these parts, are different from those of the Presbyterians and germans. They are much addicted to drinking parties, gambling, horse race & fighting. They are hospitable & prodigal. Several of them, have run through their property in the old settlements, & have sought asylum in this wilderness.

November 1776
With the ratification, by the people, of the Maryland Bill of Rights, in November, 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland became radically and permanently changed. The Anglican Establishment and all supremacy were swept away and the Church was left without organization, authority or support. The natural prejudice, then existing against all things English, bore with particular wight upon the clergy of the English Church, whether of English or American birth, for all had taken as a part of their ordination vows the oath of allegiance to the British Government and by their real or supposed adherence to this oath were classed as "Tories", so that a number of them were subjected to proscription or persecution. The result of this was an exodus of those of English birth and, while the departure of Mr. Allen can not be considered a deprivation, it left the parish of All Saints' without a nominal rector. Mr. McKennon, the curate in charge of the Frederick congregation, of English birth, left the parish at some time during the Revolution and, after a short period of service as curate at Annapolis sailed for England but was lost at sea, leaving his family in Maryland.

November, 1776
With the ratification of the Bill of Rights in November 1776, the status of the Church in Maryland, became radically changed. The natural prejudices then existing against all English-born, especially, caused an exodus of such. The Governor, Sir Robert Eden was forced to return to England. The Reverend Allen left All Saints' Church without a nominal recotr, the Reverend McKinnon having been sent to preach at St. Margaret's.

"Daniel McKinnon living in Maryland counties and parishes...list of Clergy, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, St. Margaret's, Westminster."

Ernest Helfenstein recites practically the same version as heretofore quoted, and stated to the compiler that his information was from the manuscript "History" by the Rev. Ethan Allen, in 1872. He added, "Mr McKinnon remained here until 1774, when Governor Eden presented him to Westminster Parish; about the beginning of, or during, the Revolution, he sailed for England, and was lost at sea. The Reverend McKinnon has now (1872) five descendants in the ministry, among whom are the Rev. Joseph Rogers Walker, of South Carolina, and his brother E. Tabb Walker, of Virginia."

Educational facilities in earlier days were very meager, hence, the Reverend Daniel McKinnon had to rely upon his own ingenuity to supply milling needs. Mrs George Rogers, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has a valued relic, much faded and worn, a text book, prepared by the Reverend Daniel McKinnon, containing arithmetic tables, trammar rules, humns, prayers, and quotations in his own writing, for use in teaching his children. A page from this book is reproduced here. (Add copy from Torrence.)

November 1777

The Continental Congress took this action in November, 1777; “Resolved, that General Washington be requested to send Colonel William Crawford to Pittsburgh to take command, under Brigadier General Hand, of the Continental troops and militia in the Western Department.” He left Whitemarsh , near Philadelphia, where he conferred with Washington; then stopped at York for instructions; and proceeded to Pittsburgh. There is little record of his actions there, except the building of Fort Crawford at the mouth of Puckety Creek (at present New Kensington). He seems to have returned home to the Youghiogheny River where he resumed his duties as a land officer for the new Yohogania County, Virginia. He appears many times in the Yohogania court where he was a gentleman justice, as the Virginians called their judges. His last military service was in the ill-fated expedition to Sandusky, where the Indians burned him at the stake.




November 17, 1793: Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings: Know ye, that by virtue and in consideration of Land Office Military Warrant No. 906, there is granted by the Commonwealth unto Vallentine Crawford heirs, a certain tract or parcel of land containing one thousand acres by survey bearing the 20th day of July 1791, (July 20) lying and being in the County of Bourbon adjoining James Craig’s Survey on Indian Creek on the east and recorded as followeth to wit: Begining at a buckeye hickory and elm corner to said Craig’s land thence south seventy degrees east two hundred and eighty three poles to a blue ash hackberry and sugar tree on the north side of a ridge thence north twenty degrees east 565 1/2 poles, to a white oak and two sugartree saplings thence north seventy degrees west,two hundred and eighty poles to two white oaks and blue ash trees, corner to Craig’s Survey, thence south 20 degrees west 565 1/2 poles to the begining with its appurtenances to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurtenances to the said Vallentine Crawford heirs and their heirs forever, in witness whereof the said Isaac Shelby, Esquire, Governor of the Common¬wealth of Kentucky hath hereunto set his hand and caused the feat of the Commonwealth to be affixed at Lexington on the 18th day of February in the year of our Lord 1793 and of the Commonwealth the first.
Isaac Shelby


L. S. By the Governor, James Brown
On the other side of the Ledger— Examined and delivered to Benjamin Harrison, November 17, 1793.

November 1795
Theophilus McKinnon born November 1795, in Harrison County, Kentucky.

In 1796 William Moore bought from Robert Hinkson this one half acre lot on the North West corner of Main and Pleasant streets in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky. It being lot number 34 when the towen site was sold off in lots. Moore built a two story brick house here on the corner in 1805. Moore sold the house to William Turtoy who owned it until 1887. Cox Brothers had a grocery here until 1885 selling Garnett and Lancaster. Will Collier and W.lA. Parrish were here in 1898 with a grocedry. D. M. Howard lived here in 1905, Dr. W. F. McNees had an office in part of the house. About 1918 (Ant) Rena Withers was here with a Racket Store for some ten years or logner. Later Dr. Mann, an Optometrist, had his office on the first floor and lived on the second for about ten years. The building was razed and the present Ashland station built in 1943.

1796
The court for Monongalia County was held at the home of one Theophilus Phillips, on George’s Creek (in southern Pennsylvania) and those records are known to have been destroyed in the burning court house at Morgantown in 1796. The Monongalia county records covered many of the problems of what is now Fayette County, PA.

In 1796, Andrew Jackson (2nd cousin, 8 times removed) was a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention. When Tennessee achieved statehood that same year, Jackson was elected its U.S. Representative.

November 1799
Question by Bill LeClere: Can anyone help me find the name of the cavalry (horse) regiment which was bodyguard to Napoleon in 1799 in Austria? My ancestor Joseph was one of the few to survive the defeat of this regiment when it was sent forward and cut off by the Austrians in December 1799. The name of the regiment is needed if I am to locate his military records. All help is appreciated.

Answer by Jeff Hannan: In November 1799 Napoleon was in Paris leading the coup d’etat from which he became Consul. Christmas 1799 he became 1st Consul.
As for his bodyguard, there was his personal one “the Guides a cheval”, [Company of mounted guides] formed in May 1796 following a raid by Austrian Hussars at [disputed depends what you read] from which he only just evaded capture.
Once he became 1st Consul he merged the Guides with the Gard du Directoire [Guard of the Directory] and others to become a single unit consisting of infantry and cavalry the Gards des Consuls [Guard of the Consulates] that would later became the foundation of the Imperial Guard. Following the merger the Guides were renamed as the Escadron de Chasseurs-a-Cheval de La Gard Consulair [Company of light cavalrymen of the Consular Guard] then later the Chasseurs a Cheval de la Garde Imperiale [light cavalrymen of Imperial Guard], one of several cavalry units of the Imperial Guard. Early in 1800 Napoleon started his Italian campaign and the Gardes des Consuls would be involved [infantry and cavalry] in the Battle of Marengo(June 14, 1800) from which the Guard became famous and it appears it was the renamed “the Guides a cheval” company that was present during the battle and led one of the final cavalry charges that contributed so much to Napolean’s victory. Perhaps that is the battle your ancestor was involved in.

Thurs. November 17, 1864
In camp got orders to fix up camp
All quiet to day



On November 17, 2007 I was on my way to my niece Lauren Goodlove’s basketball tournament in Rock Island, Illinois when I remembered that William Harrison Goodlove mentioned something about Rock Island in his diary. I had about 30 minutes of light left in the day so I went to the Rock Island Historical Society, (another reason to have GPS, which directed me to the address listed) where they directed me to the Rock Island Arsenal. The last thing she said was “Do not go over the speed limit at the Arsenal! After waiting 10 minutes for a train to passed I was crossing the bridge to the Arsenal and saw a white car coming my way. I looked at my speed, 35, I looked at the speed limit, 15!! I hit the breaks, look at the officer in the car, he looks at me, he drives on. Check point at Arsenal, heavily guarded. Drivers License out, purpose of visit, “family history, confederate cemetery”, as official as I can sound. “Up and and to your left, he smiles. I wonder, to myself, how many people even know about this place.

The Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island Illinois.

The only tangible remains of the Rock Island Barracks is the Confederate Cemetery. The Rock Island Barracks was one of 21 prison camps operated by the Union. From December 1863 to July 1865, 12,192 Confederate prisoners were held at the prison camp. A total of 1,960 prisoners died. Each gravestone identifies the individual soldier, his company, and his unit.
The National Cemetery Administration maintains the Confederate Cemetery.


Among the Confederates who were imprisoned at Rock Island were Anthony Baker (23rd Va. Cavalry) and Lemuel Brill (18th Va. Cavalry), grandsons of Francis Godlove (Franz Gottlob).







The entrance to the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island

Confederate Cemetery, December 9, 1863 to June 11, 1865










In a small box, at the entrance of the cemetery I find a book that list those who are buried at the cemetery, and their location. I find an R B Vance listed as #1440.

I do not know the relationship of R. B. Vance, Co. A, 18 Tenn. Reg. C.S.A. I hope to find out in the future. Zebulon Vance, my third cousin, 6 times removed was the Governor of North Carolina during the Civil War.
VANCE, R.B. PVT A TENN Died, 8/23/64 #1440


18th Tennessee Flag
Captains Milton R. Rushing, John G. McCabe, Co. "A". Men from Cannon County.


R. B. Vance, 3rd from the bottom row, 8th from the left, a small ribbon I carried that day is barely visible.







November 17, 1938
Racial legislation introduced in Italy. Anti Jewish economic legislation in Hungary.


1939
The “Voyage of the damned”: S.S. St. Louis, carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned back by Cuba and the United States.