This Day in Goodlove History, November 20

This Day in Goodlove History, November 20

• 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 day: William H. McKinnon, Frank Lorence, Mary Hernandez, Clark R. Harrison, Frank B. Armstrong.

Weddings on this day; Julia A Connell and William Q. Adams



This Day…

On November 20th, 1634, a complaint is registered as follows: John Charleach, alias McKynnon, Neill McEwin, McConneill bayne, alias MacKinnon, Donald M’Connel Oig, son and others, tenants and servants to John McKynnon of Strathordaill and luin for his interest, and Lauchlan McCharles Ve Kynnon in Torveh, and McNeill, McKynnon Parsen of Slate, against Ross of Auchnacloich. In 1639 (temp. Charles I ) a court was held at Iona and all the former enactments confirmed.[1]



George Washington Diaries of Canoe trip with William Crawford (6th great grandfather) and William Harrison (5 th great grandfather):

November 20, 1770. Our Horses arriving about One Oclock at 2 we set out for Fort Pitt & got about 10 Miles.

November 20th, 1770.—About one o’clock our horse arrived, having been prevented from getting to Fort Pitt by the freshets. At two we set our and got about ten miles; the Indians travelling with us.





November 20, 1776, Hugh Stephenson will[2] (Berkeley Co. 1772-1815.)

November 20, 1776 Colonel William Crawford severed relations with the command of the Seventh Regiment of Virginia.[3]



The Landing of the British Troops in the Jerseys, a drawing by Captain Thomas Davies (1776). This scene shows the second division of Cornwallis’s force landing with artillery on the morning of November 20, 1776. Emmet [4]

November 20, 1777. The commissioners appointed were Colonel Samuel Washington, Colonel Joseph Reed and Gabriel Jones. General Washington was also directed to send Colonel William Crawford to Pittsburgh to take command under General Hand of the continental troops and militia in the Western Department.[5] [6]

November 20, 1781: Marshel had become tired of “volunteer plans.” [7]

November 20, 1802:

In early 1776, Benjamin Harrison and Thomas Moore were among a party of explorers and settlers that entered Kentucky and occupied lands in and around what is now Cynthiana, the county seat of Harrison County KY. (The town was named for Cynthia and Anna, daughters of an early settler; the county was named for Benjamin Harrison.)

The 1776 expedition is confirmed by a deposition Thomas Moore made “on the west bank of Stoner’s Creek near James Patton’s house in Clark county, on November 20th 1802 before D. Harrison and H. Chiles, J.P” (recorded in the Circuit Court of Fayette County PA) In this document, Thomas Moore swears, “Early in the spring of 1776 this deponent in company with Benjamin Harrison, John Morgan, Belles Collier and one [Robert] Keene came down the Ohio to mouth of Licking River and from thence up Licking to Hingston station and from thence we proceeded up this stream now called Stoner’s Fork, being pilated by John Morgan, who had been in this country the year before, till he informed us we were aboyut [Christopher] Gist’s military survey and sometime, as this deponent thinks, in the month of April we built a cabin covered it over and made it fit for habitation. At this spot we cleared about a half an acre or ¾ of an acre of land and planted corn. This improvement we made for John Morgan and after making several other improvements on the right hand fork, which puts in about 300 yards above this place, Harrison, and this deponent returned up the river, leaving Morgan and Collier at Morgan’s cabin, who were to remain there and to endeavor to prevent others from making improvements to interfere with ours, and we were to return the ensuing fall, and bring to Morgan and Collier such necessaries as they had sent for. The spring near this spot had the appearance of a lasting one was intended by Morgan as his using spring.” [8]

Thomas Moore’s 1802 deposition supported the claims of those who had arrived in and made improvements on lands in territory, which was under the authority of the governor of Vierginia Colony. This region became the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1792.[9]

1811

Ancestor and future President, General William Henry Harrison[10]’s victory at Tippecanoe in 1811. It began the opening of the Northwest Territory.[11]

November 20, 1811

Construction of the Cumberland Road, to connect Cumberland, Maryland, with Wheeling, West Virginia, begins.[12]



November 20, 1863: Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove (1st cousin, 3 times removed) and the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Moved to Memphis, thence march to Chattanoogo, Tenn., September 27-November 20.[13]

At the age of 15 years, Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove (1st cousin, 3 times removed) enlisted as a soldier in the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close of the war in the 15th Army Corps, under Gen. John A. Logan, “Sherman’s Army,” and was discharged at Little Rock, Arkansas.

Sun. November 20, 1864

At work all day building a shanty

Cloudy dul day report that the rebs

Have fell back to Staunton[14]

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• November 20-25, 1940: Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become members of the Tripartite Pact.[15]

• November 20, 1941: Twenty thousand Minsk Jews are killed at Tuchinka.[16]

• November 20-December 7, 1941: Thirty thousand Jews are killed in the Rubula Forest outside Riga, during the so-called Jeckeln Aktion including Flora and Sidonie Gottlieb.[17]

• November 20, 1942: Nine hundred and eighty Jews from Munich are deported to Riga.[18]

November 20, 1945: The trial of 21 German war criminals begins in Nuremberg, Germany.[19]

• November 2001: “The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.”

• Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. [20]



• 2002: Egypt

• “The Jews are Jews. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed.”

• Palestinian media

• 2002: Switzerland. Work begins on the Codex. Written in Coptic, it is in fragments and it will take years to piece them together. It will tell a story that early church fathers denounced as heresy. Even in this condition one line stands out, it is the title. It says “The Gospel of Judas.” [21]

• November 2003: President George W. Bush said at a November 2003 press conference that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Many evangelical Christians publicly displayed their outrage.[22]



November 20, 2009:

I get Email!

From FTDNA: Match #51



An exact 12 marker match has been found between you and another person in the Family Tree DNA database.

You and the other person match in all 12 loci. If you share the same surname or variant, this means that there is a 99% likelihood that you share a common ancestor in a genealogical time frame. If you match another person without the same surname or variant, you still probably share a common ancestor, but this ancestor most likely lived in the time before surnames were adopted.



Ernest Brodsky **



I Get More Email!:

November 20, 2009:

Hello Mr. Goodlove

My name is Bob McDonough. Amateur historian and Hessian reenactor and member of Infantry Regt. von Donop.

www.vondonop.org

I have been engaged in a two year search for
the Count's skull. My search is layed out below in an email to a Mr. Carl von Donop who claims to be a direct descendent of the Count.

Unfortunately, Mr. von Donop has not responded to my email which I find a bit surprising.

Today, I came upon this entry on your Blog:

October 29, 1777
Colonel von Donop (Franz Gotlop’s commander) was removed from the Whitall house to the Low house across the dam at Woodbury Creek, where he died on October 29; he was buried with military honors at the lower end of the fort. His grave was later despoiled and his remains reportedly scattered as relics and souvenirs. The Rutgers University Library displays a skull which a New Jersey physician claimed was the colonel’s. But the Rev. Schroeder states that the government of Hesse-Cassel removed von Donop’s remains for reinterment in his own country.

I am curious where the above citation derives from?

This is the first I had heard of the Count's remains being sent back to Hesse-Cassel.

Please let me know what you think of my findings.

Regards
Bob

Note on the citation: The Rutgers Skull was donated by a Mr. Hugh Mehorter who was President of the Gloucester Co. NJ Historical Society. The "doctor"
mentioned was the son of the Whitall family who presumably donated to the Historical Society.

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From: fenian98@hotmail.com
To: cv4511@gmail.com
Subject: RE: history
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:17:29 -0500

Hello Carl
I have some very interesting news about your namesake.

My search started while I was researching the Battle of Fort Mercer, NJ. I came upon an interesting image of Count von Donop's grave (see attached).

This description followed the illustration:

A little below, and in the path leading to the house of Mr. Whitall, is the grave of Count Donop, marked by a small, rough sandstone, about fourteen inches in height. Vandal fingers have plucked relic-pieces from it, and so nearly was the rude inscription effaced that I could only decipher a portion of the words, DONOP WAS LOST, as seen in the sketch. Even his bones have not been allowed to molder in his grave, but are scattered about the country as cherished relics, his skull being in possession of a physician of New Jersey!

That perked my interest so I dug a bit further:

An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
By James Thomas Flexner

Any family saga is spiced by a haunted house, and when was there a better candidate than the Whithall homestead at Red Bank? More than 150 Hessian bodies, grotesque with their waxed pigtails, had been dumped from carts into shallow ditches. In military grandeur, Count von Donop was laid near the house under a crudely lettered stone. None would stay still. As pelting thunderstorms eroded the ground, thin arms emerged to sun their finger bones in the lightning, and with ponderous jocoseness whole skeletons went swimming during spring freshets. Although Louis Whithall, then inhabiting the farmhouse, refused to have any monument glorifying the battle raised on his land, he could not resist, when Donop’s skull kept popping up, keeping as a souvenir this relic of the royal aide-de-camp who had so mourned dying in the house of an obscure Quaker.
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Reminisences of Old Gloucester or Incidents in the History of the Counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and Camden New Jersey
By Isaac Mickle

The Hessian slain were buried in front of the fosse, south of the fort. The wounded were carried to Philadelphia by Mauduit, and exchanged. Count Donop was interred near the spot where he fell, and a stone placed over him with the inscription "Here lies buried Count Donop" The epitaph has ceased to be true — all that was left of the poor Hessian having been dug up and scattered about as relics. We doubt not that the Philadelphians who resort to this place in great numbers in the summer, began this outrage; but candor compels us to own that some Jerseyman have been guilty of exhibiting canes, the heads of which are set with teeth taken from the Count's jaw!

Then I came upon this:

Early in his career as a Rutgers University professor, Richard P. McCormick discovered treasure in an unlikely place. Speaking for perhaps the hundredth time to a local historical association about the importance of knowing state history, McCormick soon learned that his comments had affected at least one member of the audience, a prominent New Jersey legislator. Speaker of the Assembly Hugh Mehorter, told McCormick that he had “a considerable stash” of papers and other historical items in his house, and “he insisted on giving me all this material.” In addition to rare pamphlets from early New Jersey history and a scattering of documents, the boxes contained a well-preserved human skull—which Mehorter assured McCormick was the skull of Count von Donop, Hessian commander at the Battle of Redbank. The skull was subsequently transported back to Rutgers, where it was stored in the Department of Special Collections and remains to this day one of its distinctive artifacts.

____________________________

I recently had the opportunity to visit to Rutgers and photograph the artifact. I believe it is indeed the Count's skull from the written record and the fact he was buried separately from his men.

The other Hessian dead were removed from Red Bank (Ft. Mercer) in the early 1800's and reburied elsewhere. This seems to be when the son of the Whitall's took posession of the Count's skull.

I had been in contact with Mrs. Vicki von Donop of Washington, DC concerning the skull. Unfortunately I learned her husband Paul had passed away so that's why I decided to contact all the von Donop's I could find on Facebook.

Was Paul von Donop an uncle perhaps?

So that's my story. I am currently a Grenadier in I.R. von Donop, a Revolutionary War reenacting group.
Hence my interest in this story.

I am trying to undo some of the desecration meted out to the Hessian dead who never left the shores of the thirteen colonies.

I would like to speak with you more concerning your ancestors skull.

Regards
Bob McDonough


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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:37:40 -0600
Subject: history

yes. a direct descendant, I was named after him, I have signed the visitor registry, where his statue is in NJ


From Jeff Goodlove:

To: Bob McDonough



Bob,

The citation that you are inquiring about comes from “Diary of the American War , A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald” pgs. 97-102

The complete citation reads as follows:

Lieutenant Berner recovered. Colonel von Donop was removed from the Whitall house to the Low house across the dam at Woodbury Creek, where he died on October 29; he was buried with military honors at the lower end of the fort. His grave was later despoiled and his remains reportedly scattered as relics and souvenirs. The Rutgers University Library displays a skull which a New Jersey physician claimed was the colonel’s. But the Rev. Schroeder states that the government of Hesse-Cassel removed von Donop’s remains for reinterment in his own country (Heston, South Jersey, I, 167-68; Barber and Howe, Historical Collections.., of New Jersey, p. 210; Lossing, Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, II, 84; John F. Schroeder, Life and Times of Washington, 2 vols. [New York, 1857], I, 597).



I hope this helps with your search. I have the complete chronology of the events at Redbank if you are interested from this and other sources. My interest stems from my ancestor Franz Gotlop who I believe was in the Von Linsingen regiment. He deserted after the war and stayed in America. I believe he had already started a family while a prisoner in America. This sounds odd but things were much different then. If you know of any regimental information or have suggestions on how I may obtain information on this regiment I would appreciate anything you might have.

This photo was taken January 2, 2005 in Trenton New Jersey. Perhaps you were there that day? I spoke with several reenactors that day and have more photos if you are interested. I was in Boston this past weekend doing research on ancestor Sgt Jason Winch who fought at Bunker Hill. Our connection to Franz Gotlop of Werneck, Bavaria is through DNA research. This DNA research also determined that the Goodlove/Godlove/Gotlop ancestors were of Jewish ancestry. My suggestion is to see if it is possible to do a DNA test on the skull and compare it with a known Von Donop descendant. My understanding is that a tooth is the more reliable vehicle for determining this but the results would hopefully be conclusive.

TheVon Donop Reenactment Regiment is given a final inspection by Hessian ancestor Gary Goodlove and his wife Mary “Winch” Goodlove (Mary’s GGGGG Grandfather Jason Winch was a minuteman, and responded to the alarm on April 19, 1775. He fought at the Battle of Lexington, and his name is listed officially as one of the men on the field on that day. He also served at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and remained in the

service for 8 months during the successful seige of Boston. He was given a pension for service, and he remembered seeing Gen. Washington.)



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[1] 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

[2] W. VA. Estate Settlements, Library of Congress #76-53168, International Std. Book #8063-0755-2 (Rosella Ward Wegner)

[3] The Brothers Crawford



[4] Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer.

[5] Journals Cont. cong., Ix., 942, 944.

[6] George Rogers Clark Papers, Vol. III 1771-1781, James Alton James, Editor. Pg. xiv

[7] (See Appendix J,— Marshel to Irvine, November 20, 1781.) Washington-Irvine Correspondence by Butterfield.

[8] John Moreland’s book, page, 262.

[9] John Moreland’s book, page, 262.

[10] William Henry Harrison

H O M E S T A T E Ohio P A R T Y Whig T E R M I N O F F I C E March 4, 1841- April 4, 1841 V I C E P R E S I D E N T John Tyler _ Harrison became the first president to die in office when he died of pneumonia 32 days after his inaugural celebration. S I G N I F I C A N T A C T S Harrison died only 32 days after taking office and carried out no significant acts. C A R E E R 1791 Left medical school to fight in the Indian Wars. 1800-1812 Served as territorial governor of Indiana. 1811 Defeated Native American forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, earning the nickname "Old Tippecanoe." 1813 Recaptured the city of Detroit from the British during the War of 1812. 1816-1819 Represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1825-1828 Represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate. March 4- April 4, 1841 President of the United States. _ Harrison's father signed the Declaration of Independence and his grandson became the 23rd president of the United States. _ Harrison's 8578-word inaugural address is the longest on record.

"William H. Harrison Quick Facts," Microsoft’ Encarta’ Encyclopedia 2000. b 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All

[11] Ci.springfield.us/profile/history.html

[12] On This Day in America by John Wagman.

[13] William Harrison Goodlove diary by Jeff Goodlove

[14] Staunton played a pivotal role during the Civil War years when the Shenandoah Valley served as the "Breadbasket of the Confederacy". While most of the battles were being fought north or west of the town, it was the presence of the Virginia Central Railroad that provided a vital link between the Valley and eastern Virginia, making Staunton an important supply depot for the Confederacy.

http://www.staunton.va.us/default.asp?pageID=90F8F592-A0AB-43EF-8DB5-1E7199264360

• [15] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1764.

• [16] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1769

• [17] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1769

[18] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1774

[19] On This Day in America by John Wagman.

• [20] The Taliban. History.com 01/05/2006

• [21] The Gospel of Judas, NTGEO, 4/09/2006

• [22] Introducing Islam, Dr. Shams Inati, pg 105-106.