This Day in Goodlove History, December 24

• This Day in Goodlove History, December 24

• 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; Chester L. Tessendorf, John of Lackland, Susan L. McKinnon, Fannie E. McKinnon, Addie O. McKee, Mary Jackson, Isaac E. Godlove,







Weddings on this date; Martha Davidson and William B. Walterson, Rachel Patterson and William Vance, Nancy Godlove and Edwin B. Taylor, Mabel E. Bishop and Merle O. Newman, Louis Peacock and Glenn Hitchell, Elizabeth D. Crawford and David R. Corns, Alan Burnette and Frank B. Bateman






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Sherri, Very Cool!, Jeff



In a message dated 12/19/2010 3:31:52 P.M. Central Standard Time,



Wow --Mazal tov. My youngest son, Scott, graduated in 09 with his degree in Electrical Engineering. You have a great looking family. And you should be proud



Susan





Susan, Thanks for your kind words. I am proud, as I am sure that you are too. It has been a busy year with the “This Day” project and you have been a source of inspiration and help. Thanks for being a part of it. Jeff









This Day…in the news…



DNA Shows Newly Discovered Human Relative Roamed Widely in Asia

Dec 23, 2010 – 8:59 AM

Malcolm Ritter

AP

NEW YORK -- Scientists have recovered the DNA code of a human relative recently discovered in Siberia, and it delivered a surprise: This relative roamed far from the cave that holds its only known remains.

By comparing the DNA to that of modern populations, scientists found evidence that these "Denisovans" from more than 30,000 years ago ranged all across Asia. They apparently interbred with the ancestors of people now living in Melanesia, a group of islands northeast of Australia.

There's no sign that Denisovans mingled with the ancestors of people now living in Eurasia, which made the connection between Siberia and distant Melanesia quite a shock.



David Reich, Nature/AP

This undated photo provided by the journal Nature shows two views of an upper molar tooth found in a Siberian cave from a recently discovered relative of humans that lived more than 30,000 years ago. DNA revealed that this creature is more closely related to Neanderthals than to modern humans. That indicates that both this creature and Neanderthals sprang from a common ancestor on a different branch of the evolutionary family tree than the one leading to modern humans. (David Reich, Nature/AP)

It's the second report in recent months of using a new tool, genomes of ancient human relatives, to illuminate the evolutionary history of humankind. In May, some of the same scientists reported using the Neanderthal genome to show that Neanderthals interbred with ancestors of today's non-African populations. That might have happened in the Middle East after the ancestors left Africa but before they entered Eurasia, researchers said.

As for the Denisovans, the new work is probably just the start of what can be learned from their genome, said one expert familiar with the research. Eventually, it should provide clues to traits like eye and skin color, said Todd Disotell of New York University.

"We're going to be able to piece these people together in the next few years from this genome," he said.

The existence of a new human relative was first revealed just nine months ago from a sampling of DNA recovered from a finger bone discovered in the Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. Researchers proposed the informal name Denisovans for them in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, where they report the new results.

There's not enough evidence to determine whether Denisovans are a distinct species, the researchers said.

The genome, recovered from the finger bone, showed that Denisovans are more closely related to Neanderthals than to modern humans. That indicates that both they and Neanderthals sprang from a common ancestor on a different branch of the evolutionary family tree than the one leading to modern humans.

Scientists have no idea what Denisovans looked like, said David Reich, a Harvard University researcher and an author of the new paper.

Apart from the genome, the researchers reported finding a Denisovan upper molar in the cave. Its large size and features differ from teeth of Neanderthals or early modern humans, both of which lived in the same area at about the same time as the Denisovans.

Neither the finger bone nor the tooth can be dated directly, but tests of animal bones found nearby show the Denisovan remains are at least 30,000 years old, and maybe more than 50,000 years old, Reich said.

Scientists found evidence that in the genomes of people now living in Melanesia, about 5 percent of their DNA can be traced to Denisovans, a sign of ancient interbreeding that took researchers by surprise.

Did Abe Lincoln's Assassin Escape? DNA May Solve Mystery
Dec 23, 2010 – 2:01 PM



David Lohr Contributor

Descendants of John Wilkes Booth have agreed to exhume his brother's body for DNA testing in an attempt to determine whether the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln escaped capture and eluded justice, as the family has been told.

"I'm absolutely in favor of exhuming Edwin," Joanne Hulme, a Booth family historian, told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Let's have the truth and put this thing to rest."



Library of Congress

The descendants of John Wilkes Booth hope to answer the question of whether he escaped after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

Booth, an actor from Maryland, shot and killed Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Most believe he was tracked down 10 days later and shot inside a tobacco barn in rural Virginia by Union soldiers and buried in an unmarked grave in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.

That, however, is not the story that has been passed down in the Booth family. According to family members, Booth escaped capture and lived for 38 more years.

That story was also made popular in the 1907 book "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth," written by Finis L. Bates. In the book, Bates suggested a Booth look-alike was mistakenly killed at the farm. Booth then assumed the name John St. Helen and committed suicide in 1903 in Enid, Okla.

In an effort to end the speculation, Hulme and her family want to compare DNA from Booth's brother, Edwin, to that of a bone specimen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington. The bone is from the man who was gunned down inside the barn.

Before an exhumation of Edwin Booth in a cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., the family wants to get permission from the museum to obtain the DNA sample from the bone specimen. A panel of judges will make the final decision.

The museum's public relations department did not immediately returned a message today to AOL News.

Historian Nate Orlowek is also eager to get to the bottom of the story. He's spent decades investigating the case.

"If the man who killed our greatest president got away, and a giant hoax was perpetrated on the American people, then we should know about it," he told the Inquirer. [1]



This Day…



December 24, 1166: Birthdate of King John of England. King John is known to history as the brother of Richard the Lionhearted whom he followed to the throne in 1199. He is also the monarch who was so rapacious that the English nobles banned together and forced him to sign the Magna Charta, which placed limits on the power of the King. John’s record in dealing with the Jews was uneven, to say the least. Since Jews fell outside of the norms of the feudal world of the Middle Ages, special provisions were needed to deal with them. Two years after coming to power, King John issued a special charter guaranteeing the rights of the Jews while he reigned as long as they conformed to all laws and decrees i.e. provided a steady flow of funds to the royal treasury. In essence, the Jews were “the king’s possession” to do with as he pleased. So this same King John, when he needed more money, imprisoned several wealthy Jews in a castle at Bristol in 1210 and held them until they paid a ransom of 66,000 marks. John’s son followed his father’s pattern of behavior in dealing with the Jews. His grandson would expel the Jews from England after squeezing them of all their financial value.[2] John of Lackland is the compilers 24th great grandfather.



December 24, 1294: Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope. In 1298, four years after Boniface came to power, 628 Jews are killed after a priest Nuremberg, Germany, spreads a story that Jews drove nails through communion hosts, "thereby crucifying Christ again". There are those who hold Boniface accountable for this murderous act, if for no other reason that it took place during his “undistinguished” papal rule.[3]



December 24, 1491: Birthdate Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order. Loyola was born one year before the Jewish expulsion from Spain. He lived during a period dominated by the Inquistion and Church sanctioned anti-Semitism. “It is accordingly much to their credit that the Jesuits were firmly opposed (particularly under Ignatius and his first three successors as Superior General of the Jesuits) to ecclesiastical anti-Semitism and to the Inquisition's persecution of suspected Jews. When Ignatius was accused of having partly Jewish ancestry, he replied, ‘If only I did! What could be more glorious than to be of the same blood as the Apostles, the Blessed Virgin, and our Lord Himself?’”[4]







[Gen. Edward Hand to the Secretary of War. 3NN89-94—

Transcript.]

FORT PITT, December 24th. 1777



SIR—When I wrote you last, I acquainted you of my intention of visiting Fort Randolph. You will find by the enclosed letters from Capt. Arbuckle that before my arrival there he had confined some Shawanese Indians, & his reasons for so doing. On the IOth. ulto., the day I left this post to go to Kanawha, three men, one of them an ensign of the Bottetourt Militia. straggled over the Kanawha to hunt. The Ensign was killed & scalped within a small distance of the fort, which exasperated the militia to such a degree that a party of them rushed into the fort, & put the Cornstalk, his son, the Red Hawk’s son, & another Indian to death, notwithstanding Capt. Arbuckle’s endeavors to prevent it. From this event we have little reason to expect a reconciliation with the Shawanese, except fear operates on them; for if we had any friends among them, those unfortunate wretches were so. Though from information brought me from the Seneca country, which Lt. Col. Gibson has already communicated to you, we have little reason to expect that will be the case. * * *

Col. Wm. Crawford has arrived.[5] I hope his activity and influence will have a very good effect. If Major John Stephenson[6] could have any appointment worth his acceptance, I think he also would be a valuable acquisition. I wish much to be permitted to lay my proceedings here before Congress. I assure you that I have fully exerted my poor abilities to accom­plish the end fOr whch I was ordered here, yet am sorry to say that little advantage has arisen from it; & unless some other measures can be fallen on, I have little reason to promise myself better success for the time to come.

I think that as it is now winter, & Col. Crawford present, my absence for some time would not be at­tended with inconvenience. If Congress have no par­ticular objection, would esteem it as a most singular indulgence to be recalled & suffered to join the grand army, with them to share the honors & fatigues of the field. Indeed, unless our affairs will admit of the assistance of a regular force, I had rather resign my office than continue here in command of militia.

Capt. Willing[7] had arrived here a few days before my return from Fort Randolph. I have in the best manner I could supplied him with such things as he wanted, but am afraid the river will be shut up before he gets away. * * *





EDW. HAND[8]

To Rhd. Peters, Sec. of Bd. of War





December 24, 1777



The Court met according to Adjournment December 24th • 1777.



Present: Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeates, Benjamin Keykendal, Gent. Justices.

Ordered that the Clerk set tip a Copy of the Rates of Sale for ordinary Keepers within the County at different public places so as to make it as public as possible.



Ordered that the Sheriff William Harrison retain in his hands the sum of Seventeen pounds Seven Shillings part of the County Collection for Conveying John Millegan a Criminal to the Public Goal and other contingencies.



Upon the motion of William Harrison, Gent, ordered that the Clerk issue a Summons to Call John Stephenson, Thomas Gist, Joseph Beeler and Edmund Rice before the Court, to testify and the truth say what they know respecting the marriage of Catherine Harrison with Isaac Mason, on the part of the said Catherine.’ [9]



Ordered that the Sheriff detain the Sum of six pounds out of the County Collection for his Public Services as by Law allowed. [10]



December 24, 1784

James Madison publishes Remonstrances Against Religious Assessments, advocating separation of church and state.[11]



December 24, 1784

The Methodist Church is formed in Baltimore.[12]



Hay Battaile was justice of Caroline County in 1785.[13]



1785 - Benjamin Harrison signed a petition to the Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates of Virginia - Request of the inhabitants of the County of Fayette for a division of the county. [14]

1785

John Vance4 (David3, William2, Andrew1, , born 1785 at Vance's Fort PA, died at Vanceburg, Lewison Co. KY. He married Sara Perkins in Greene Co KY.[15]

Bourbon County, Kentucky created 1785 from Fayette County to commence May 1, 1786. [16]



1785: The Virginia State Capitol was made, in Richmond, designed by Thomas Jefferson. The Mason Carray, and ancient Roman Temple in Neme in the south of France is the idea behind Jeffersons plan for the capital. [17]



December 24, 1799: William Vance, born 1776 (or November 30, 1775 in Washington Co PA), died April 8, 1856. William inherited Joseph's homestead at Cross Creek, was a captain in the war of 1812, a member of the PA legislature in 1815-1816. His first wife was Rachel, daughter of William Patterson. She was born June 3, 1778 in Washington Co PA and died January 9, 1817. She died in Washington Co PA. William and Rachel were married December 24, 1799. William and Rachel had nine children.[18]



December 24, 1808

The Last Will and Testament of William McCormick, husband of Effie Crawford, daughter of Col. William Crawford.



In the Name of God Amen, I William McCormick of Bullskin Township of the County of Fayette in the State of Pennsylvania yeoman do hereby make and Ordain and Constitute this Instrument of writing my Last Will and Testament revoking all others. First and principally I recommend my Soul into hands of the Almighty God the Creator preserver of all things and my Body to the Earth to be interred in a decent Christian like manner at discretion of my hereafter named Executors and after my funeral expenses and other Just debts shall be paid out of my Estate I dispose of the residue in the following manner that is to say To my worthy and dearly beloved wife Effie McCormick I give and bequeath the sole use and benefit and possession of the plantation whereon I now dwell containing about two hundred and thirty Acres be the same more or less together with all my moveable Estate Household Goods and Kitchen furniture, for and during the term of her natural life, if she shall so long remain my widow. Item to my well beloved son William McCormick Igive and devise all my said plantation whereon I now dwell together with the said moveables Household Goods and Kitchen furniture bequeathed to my wife Effie during her natural life as aforesaid all which I devise and give to my son William McCormick from and after the decease of my wife Effie to him and his heirs and Assigns forever I also devise and grant to my said son William McCormick a tract of land situate on the bank of the South Fork of Licking in Pendleton County in the State of Kentucky containing five hundred Acres which tract of Land was confirmed unto me by a Commissioners deed on the twenty seventh day of July One thousand Eight hundred & three to hold the said tract of Land Unto my said son William McCormick to his heirs and assigns forever I also devise to my said son William the undivided moeity of the Saw Mill I hold in copartnership with John Gibson to hold the same to my son William to his heirs and assigns forever. In Consideration of all which I order and direct my said son William after the decease of my said wife Effie to Keep, clothe and maintain my unfortunate Idiot son Jack McCormick for and during the term of his natural life; and over and above also to pay after the expiration of one year after the decease of my said wife Effie the sum of Sixty pounds lawful money of Penn­sylvania for the use of my six daughters, that is to say, to my daughters Sarah, Nancy, Molly, Hannah, Jane and Ephelia ten pounds each money aforesaid. Item to my beloved son James McCormick I give and devise a tract of Land situate on Little Kennawa containing five hundred acres more or less to him and his heirs and Assigns forever. Item to my son Charles McCormick, who when a boy of fifteen years old disobediently went away and left my family to which he has hitherto not returned, I bequeath the sum of five shillings and no more. Item in event, that after my decease my said wife, and then widow should think proper to marry again then in that case, it is my Will and I Order that all the foregoing bequest shall immediately cease become void and of none effect and she in that event to content herself with her dower of one third according to law and the aforesaid plantation whereon I now dwell together with two thirds of all the said moveable Estate Household goods and furniture shall go into the hands and imme­diate possession of my said son William McCormick anything herein contained to the Contrary in anywise notwithstanding Lastly, I do hereby constitute and Appoint my said wife Effie McCormick and my said son William McCormick the Executors of this my last Will anc~ Testament whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the TWENTY FOURTH day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight.

Signed Sealed and declared by the William McCormick (SEAL) -aforesaid Testator as his last Will

and Testament in the presence of us who at this particular request Respectively Subscribed our names as Witnesses to the same. Thomas Gibson, John Gibson, Jr., James Martin.[19]



1811: Conrad could have told his grandchildren how William Henry Harrison with 3000 men had defeated Tecumseh in 1811. [20] Many Indian councils were called in Champagne County and Tecumseh was located was located for a time near Deer Creek.[21]



December 24, 1814

The Treaty of Ghent, signed and sealed on December 24, 1814 a full two weeks before the Battle of New Orleans officially ended the War of 1812. [22] In the Age of Sail, the treaty wasn’t fully ratified until February 17, 1815.[23]



At the age of fourteen Abraham Baer Gottlober married the daughter of a wealthy "Hasid" in Chernigov, and settled there. When his inclination for secular knowledge became known, his father-in-law, on the advice of a ?asidic rabbi, caused the young couple to be divorced, and Gottlober, who had joined the Hasidim after his marriage, now became their bitter enemy.[24]



December 24, 1851: Two thirds of the books at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., are destroyed in a fire.[25]

1852: Theopolis McKinnon voted for Scott for president.[26]



December 24, 1852: The deaths of people badly cared for, undernourished, and exposed to the elements during the rigorous winters of 1940, 1941 and 1942, were in fact deliberate assassinations. The Vichy government, “anti-France”, in the words of Dr. J. Weil, whose work on concentration camps is considered authoritative, has shown itself guilty of these crimes. What other name can be given, for example, to the mortality in the camp of Gurs? There were 15 deaths in October, 1940; 180 in November; 270 in December; 140 in January, 1941…



At Gurs on November 26, 1940, Julius Gottlieb, born December 24, 1852 from Ebernburg, died.



Also at Gurs on March 23, 1941 Johanna Gottlieb born May 24, 1859, from Ebernburg, died.[27]



December 24, 1865: The most adverse criticism of these "Galvanized Yankees" came from a high ranking Confederate source, Lt. Gen. W. J. Hardee. On December 24, 1864 he informed Gen. S. Cooper, Insp. General of the Confederacy, that at Savannah such troops had proved "to be utterly untrustworthy. The men deserted in large numbers and finally mutinied and were narrowly prevented from going over in a body to the enemy. The ring leaders were shot, and the remainder sent back to prison. These men were selected with great care, and were principally foreigners, and this is, therefore, a fair test of of such troops. I recommend that all authority to organize similar commands be revoked." [28]



James Oxley, (Iowa Infantry?) a POW at Salisbury, told of a group of about a hundred prisoners who had gone with the recruiter who had promised them plenty to eat. They were all eventually returned to the prison according to Confederate authorities, because they had failed a physical exam. The real reason may have been that they were about to disavow their oath to the Confederacy and defect to the Union lines at the first opportunity. Upon their return to Salisbury they were greeted by much hostility from their fellow prisoners and , according to Oxley, were all dead within a short time.( Mr and Mrs Donald W. David of Marion, Iowa, provided the excerpts from James Oxley's letters. This is one of Oxley's comments. Some of these men may have been killed outright, but Oxley implied the denial of food by their fellow prisoners was the cause of their death. These POWs were not wearing uniforms when they returned. They presented such a spectacle that Oxley exclaimed that they would "make a dead man laugh." [29]



December 24, 1865: The Klu Klux Klan is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.[30]





December 24, 1894: Alois Brunner, one of Eichmann’s most effective lieutenants. In June, 1943, he took over the administration of Drancy. Convoy 55 was the first he sent to Auschwitz. He organized a special commando that arrested Jews all over France, but especially in Nice where Jews had been protected by the Italians until September, 1943. Brunner was located in Damscus, Syria and his presence was protested there in June, 1982.[31]



On board Convoy 55 was Albert Gottlieb, born December 24, 1894 from Fridlda, (Stateless), and Aurelie Gottlieb, born June 11, 1892 in Lwow. (Polish for Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine. [32]





• December 24, 1942:

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• Pacelli, Pope Pios XII, broadcasts to the world with Giovanni Montini, the future Paul VI, at his left shoulder. His 1942 Christmas Eve broadcast trivialized and denied the Nazi Final Solution.[33]





• Adolf Frohlich was born in Wien. He was a merchant and married to Elsa nee Gotlob. Prior to WWII he lived in Wien, Austria. During the war he was in Wien, Austria. Adolf perished in 1943 in Auschwitz, Camp at the age of 55. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 15-May-1999 by his niece





• Elsa Gotlob nee Frohlich was born in Wien. She was married to Adolf. Prior to WWII she lived in Wien, Austria. During the war she was in Wien, Austria. Elsa perished in Auschwitz, Camp at the age of 45. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 15-May-1999 by her nephew.



• Karl Gottlieb, born March 13, 1898 in Fulda. Resided Frankfurt am Main

• Deportation: from Drancy Marz 1943, Majdanek/Lublin. Declared legally dead.[34]



• 1943: The Catholic Church decides that Moses did not write the bible. It decides it is composed of texts of many different authors.[35]



December 24, 2009



I Get Email!



Jeff,



Alas, the descendents I've contacted have not gotten back to me.

I guess the ball is in their court.



I know if it were MY ancestor I would want the

skull reburied and not sitting in a cardboard box

in a Library.



The Count's wishes were to be buried with his men.

I think the skull should be returned to Red Bank

and some sort of monument/marker put up.



But it's not up to me.



Unfortunately, his men have been moved a few times and now reside in unmarked

graves here:



http://www.nj.searchroots.com/Gloucesterco/deptfordcem.html







Bob





Bob,



From my experience in DNA research, it required a lot of patience in getting DNA tests. There is a certain amount of apprehension with anything like this. My father took a very direct approach and was successful, but there needs to be a reason for someone to want to do it. Frankly, I don't think it is necessary anyway. If the person or organization that has the skull believes it is Von Donop's then it would be the right of that individual to be reburied as it was stolen in the first place. It may not be anything the family needs to get involved in anyway. The press coverage alone would be a bit of a sensation as the whole Hessian impression is somewhat mythical in its proportion. I know that grave robbing is a crime in this country and this is an unacceptable behavior in our culture. I believe there is a legal precedence that would apply here. This would be I believe a sensible approach that would, with gathering the right people together would come to a sensible conclusion. I would and I believe others would support such an effort. Jeff









Graveyard View of The Old Deptford Strangers Burial Ground - Photograph by J. Brown, September 2005



According to the current caretaker of the Ann Whitall House in National Park, after the "Battle of Red Bank," the Hessian soldiers involved in that battle were buried in the trenches at the site of the battle and they were later moved to the Strangers Burial Ground at Woodbury, New Jersey. She stated that, even later (when their remains were "just bones,") they were removed to this Strangers Burial Ground in Deptford. The site at both Woodbury, and later Deptford, was called "Strangers Burial Ground," because those buried were not members of any of the local religious communities. [Read about Count Donop's grave].



In Glendora, New Jersey, in the Ashbrook Burial Ground are additional Hessian soldiers, who died during their retreat from the "Battle of Red Bank," however they are not the remains of the original soldiers who fell on that battlefield.



*Source Information: HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF GLOUCESTER, SALEM, AND CUMBERLAND NEW JERSEY by Thos. Cushing, M.D. & Charles E. Sheppard, Esq. PHILADELPHIA: EVERTS & PECK. 1883 PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT & SONS, PHILADELPHIA.



October 22, 1777, the battle of Red Bank was fought, and many of the wounded Hessians were brought to Woodbury, and cared for in the old brick school-house on Delaware Street, where many of them died, and were buried in the northerly part of the grounds known as the "Strangers' Burying-Ground."

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1779

The Town Orders, That the Strangers Buryal Ground be enclos'd with Oak Posts and Ceder Rails. Samuel Thompson is appointed to that Service, & to draw upon the Overseers of the Poor for Defraying the Expense thereof. Also to have the Care of it.

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1780

The Town orders also, that the Overseers of the Poor provide Cedar Rails and oak Posts, in order to Enclose the Strangers' Burial Ground, and that they get it done as Soon as convenient may be. Also that Job Kimsey have the Care thereof when completed.

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Notes on old Gloucester County, New Jersey : historical records published by the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania

New Jersey: unknown, 1917, 982 pgs.

page 217

"The Strangers Burying Ground, which was for more than a century one of the landmarks of Woodbury, occupied about an acre of ground on the south side of Cooper Street west of Broad. In this cemetery many of the Hessians killed at Red Bank were buried. Buttons of uniforms and bayonets were found when the cemetery was vacated. It was condemned about two years ago [about 1915], and a new street known as Lupton Avenue marks the site. The bodies and remaining stones were removed to the Paupers' Burying-Ground, which is located on the old road, now little used, leading from a point near Almonesson to North Woodbury.

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[1] http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/23/did-abraham-lincoln-assassin-john-wilkes-booth-escape-dna-may-s/

[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[4] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[5] 60 For a biographical sketch of Col. William Crawford see Dunmore’.c War, p. 103, note 48; his early Revolutionary service is sketched in Rev. Upper Ohio, p. 250, note 94. After joining the Continental army in August, 1777, Crawford served with efficiency, commanding a detachment of scouts and skirmishing with the British under Howe. November ~q Congress resolved “that General Washington be requested to send Col. William Crawford to Pittsburg to take command under Brigadier General Hand of the Continental troops and militia of the Western department.” In this way Crawford lost his place and rank in the Continental line, and it was never restored to him. He seems to have spent part of the winter of 1777-78 at his own home on the Youghiogheny. In March and April he was present at Yohogania County court, acting as magistrate and commissioner to lay out prison bounds. His subsequent career will be outlined in later documents in this volume.—ED.

[6] 61 Maj. John Stephenson was a half-brother of Col. William Crawford, and was born in Virginia about 1737. He was out in the French and Indian War, and about 1768 removed to the West, settling on Jacob’s Creek, in Fayette County. There in 1770 he was visited by Washington, who was thenreturning from viewing Western lands. In 1774 Stephenson commanded a company under Dunmore, and was active on the Virginia side during the troubles between that state and Pennsylvania. In 1775 Stephenson enlisted a company for the colonial cause, and joined Col. Peter Muhlenberg as captain in the 8th Virginia; this regiment saw service at Charleston and Savannah. In the summer of 1777 Stephenson contracted disease, and returned home that autumn. He did not again enter the Continental army, but served as a volunteer on Hand’s campaign (1778), and that of Mcintosh (1778-79). About ?i~o he removed to Kentucky, where he lived and died on the South fork of the Licking, leaving no children. He was a large, active man, brave, kind, and popular. For Samuel Murphy’s reminiscences of Stephenson, with whom he lived, see Draper MSS., 3S1-10, 5S1-9.—ED.

[7] Capt. James Willing, youngest son of Charles and his wife Anne Shippen Willing, was born in Philadelphia Feb. 9, 1751. The Willing family were prominent in colonial affairs, and James’s oldest brother, Thomas, was a partner of Robert Morris, and aided in financing the new nation. James removed in 1774 to Natchez, where he dissipated his patrimony. In 1777 he returned to Philadelphia, and received from Congress a commission as captain in the navy, with permission to proceed to the Mississippi River to secure the neutrality of the inhabitants along its banks and to bring back provisions to the states. He enlisted a company for this purpose (see roll in Penna. Archives, 2nd series, xv, p. 658), and in an armed boat christened “Rattletrap” left Pittsburgh Jan. 10, 1778. Arrived at Natchez he succeeded in securing a pledge of neutrality from the chief inhabitants (see Almon’s Remem­brancer, vi, p. 343), but was accused of having in a wanton manner pillaged and inflicted damages on their property. Having proceeded to New Orleans, Willing captured a small British vessel at Manchac, and used this for further depredations on the property of British sympathizers. In the following year he sent his troops back oup the river under charge of Lieut. Robert George, who placed them under the orders of Gen. George Rogers Clark. Willing himself proceeded to Mobile, where he was captured and narrowly escaped being hung. He was finally shipped as prisoner to New York, and Kept on Long Island, under parole, with other American officers. Having resented an insult offered by a British officer, Willing was incarcerated in New York City and loaded with irons, where he remained for three months . One of his sisters, wife of a British officer, interceded for him with Sir Henry Clinton, who finally permitted him to return to Philadelphia on parole until exchanged. He is said to have been exchanged for Henry Hamilton, governor of Detroit. Willing was never married. He made his home in Philadelphia, where he died Oct. 13, 1801

[8] Draper Series, Volume III, Frontier Defense of the Uper Ohio, 1777-1778 Wisconsin Historical Society

[9] ‘See the record of this matter made April 28, 1778, post.

[10] MINUTE BOOK OF THE VIRGINIA COURT HELD FOR YOHOGANIA COUNTY, FIRST AT AUGUSTA TOWN (NOW WASHINGTON, PA.), AND AFTER­WARDS ON THE ANDREW HEATH FARM NEAR WEST ELIZABETH; 1776-1780. EDITED BY BOYD CRUMRINE, OF WASHINGTON, PA. pg. 118-121.

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

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

[13] Moore Harrison Papers Cynthiana/Harrison Public Library, Ref. from Conrad and Caty, by Gary Goodlove, 2003 Author Unknown. Pg. 84

[14] (Robertson, p. 85) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[15] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 1820.16

[16] BENJAMIN HARRISON 1750 – 1808 A History of His Life And of Some of the Events In American History in Which He was Involved By Jeremy F. Elliot 1978 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[17] Save our History, Jefferson’s Other Revolution, 5/9/2008.

[18] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 1820.14

[19] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, pp. 277-279.

[20] Gerol “Gary” Goodlove:Conrad and Caty, 2003

[21] History of the State of Ohio.

[22] Military History Magazine, May/June 2008 page 32.

[23] Military History Magazine, May/June 2008 page 32.

[24] By : Herman Rosenthal Peter Wiernik

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

[26] Theopolis McKinnon, August 6, 1880, London, Ohio. History of Clark County, page 384

[27] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 612, 619.

[28] Official Records, 2, VII, 1268.) (The Salisbury Prison, by Louis A. Brown, page 103.)

[29] (Oxley Diary). (What clothes were they wearing.) Need date of diary entry. Contact David in Marion, Iowa. JG 7/25/2006.

[29] http://www.usgennet. org/usa/ia/county/linn/civil war/24th/24 history

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

[31] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, pages 426-427.

[32] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 429.

[33] Hitler’s Pope, John Cornwell.



















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[34] [1] Gedenkbuch, Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945. 2., wesentlich erweiterte Auflage, Band II G-K, Bearbeitet und herausgegben vom Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, 2006, pg. 1033-1035,.

[2] Memorial Book: Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National socialist Oppression in Germany, 1933-1945. Gedenkbuch (Germany)* does not include many victims from area of former East Germany).

[35] Who wrote the Bible? The Naked Archaeologist. 2/13/2006