This Day in Goodlove History, December 26

This Day in Goodlove History, December 26

• 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; Wayne T. Wood, John A. Squires, Betty M. Null, Louis McKinnon, Chloe McKinnon, Jesse J. Hoglan, Molly Harrison, Winton D. Goodlove, Hazelton File, Barbara J. Brown



Weddings on this date; Mary R. Miles and William J. Rowley, Laura V. Brown and Edwin W. Godlove, Yvonne E. Kruse and Bernard F. Beranek





Gilbert Simpson to George Washington, December 26, 1772



DECEMBER: 26 the: 1772



SR



I Received yours of the 18 of this instant by the hand of Mr Crawford and I am agreable to your perposeal in makeing of Corn the next Summer prvided there Could be Corn got to Live on which I doubt of at that time of year but you and I Shall be more able to judg of that in the month of Febuary if Mr Crawford Coms in as he Say he will and if any goos out there must goe more than two for I perpose to goe my Self and my Negro fellow and you must Find one fellow and one wench I shall stand good in labor against one [of] them for one Summer for I should not Care to trust a thing of that Conciquin C with any Common person and there mu[s]t [be] a wagon imployd for to go out for I should Chuse to take tools of Every Sort Sutable for plantation business and to Carry Two of my horsses and two Cows and Calves and other NesCesryes Sr there is one thing in the artickels of your ag[rlement and mine which is not as I perposed to you or Elce I mistake the mening of it which is that my Family was to hold the plantation 21 years after my decees but it looks to me as tho it was but for that Teerm in my hf and theres which is not according to my Expectation and the Shortnes of your Leeses has put the people much out of heart of Setling your Lots which they was very intent to have don but Sr I hope you will Consider that the time is two Short as the Rents is high Sr I should be glad to see you or to Receive a line or two from you the First opertunity I shall Com down to you when Mr Crawford Corns if I should not Chance to see you before So no more but Remain your humble



Servant GILBT. SIMPSON

LOUDOWN[1]





December 26, 1776: Fifth Regiment General Stevens Brigade, William Crawford was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He served until August 14, 1776. He was promoted to colonel at Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776, of the Seventh Regiment which he headed 1776-1778. It was raised largely by William Crawford in the district of West Augusta. It was accepted by Congress February 29, 1776 and was taken on the Continental Establishment June 17, 1776. It seems to have been attached to General Woodford’s Brigade during its entire term of service. The Regiment was nearly cut to pieces in the defeat at Brandywine. Evidently it was largely recruited after that date, as the rearrangement in September 1776. The Seventh Regiment alone of the first nine regiments maintained its separate existence, not being combined with any other. It was renumbered the Fifth Regiment under the following commands. Colonel William Dangerfleld, February 19, 1776 - August 13, 1776, resigned. Colonel William Crawford, August 14, 1776 - March 4, 1777, resigned. Colonel Alexander McClenhan, October 7, 1776 - May 13, 1778, resigned. Thirteenth Regiment 1776-1778. This was the fourth of the six regiments of October 1776. It was raised in West Augusta District, largely through the efforts of Colonel William Crawford of the Seventh Regiment. It formed part of Muhlenberg’s Brigade in September 1778, it was renumbered the Ninth Regiment.[2]







[3]



Hessian soldiers prior to the battle at Trenton.

Von Donop Reenactment Regiment.



January 2nd, 2005:Reenactment of the Battle of Trenton

Photo JG





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.)



The Von Donop Regiment “goosesteps” through Trenton prior to the reenactment of the “Battle of Trenton”, January 2, 2005.







Standing on the spot where George Washington and William Crawford crossed the Delaware, December 26, 1776. Taken January 1, 2005. JG





Continental Lane: Road over which Washington’s Army began its march to Trenton, December 26, 1776

Photo taken January 1, 2005 by JG.







Washington crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze. The flag hasn’t hasn’t been designed yet, the boat style is incorrect, and it is doubtful that Washington would have been able to stand up, however the impact of the painting is in the intensity of the moment and it’s ability to convey the determination of the General in one of the greatest surprise attacks in military history. JG.



The Hessian Garrison at Trenton, December 26, 1776



Brigade Rall (Col. Johann Gottlieb Rall)

1,354 effective men “on duty” plus 28 officers; total effectives 1,382





Grenadier Regiment Rall (Col. Johann Gottlieb Rall)

Lt. Col. Baithasar Brethauer, acting commander

Maj. Johann Jost Matthaeus

Reported strength on December 26: 512 “effective men under arms,” 28

and 40 sick in hospitals at New York, 23 sick at Trenton



Fusilier Regiment von Lossberg (also Alt von Lossberg, after Lt. Gen. Baron Ft Wilhelm von Lossberg, commander of a brigade in Rhode Island)

Lt. Col. Francis Scheffer, acting commander Maj. Ludwig August von Hanstein

“Last Report,” 34 effective men “on duty”; no report of ineffectives



Fusilier Regiment von Knyphausen (after Lt. Gen. Wilhelm von Knyphausen commander 2d Division, Landgraflich Hessischen Corps in America)

Maj. Friedrich Ludwig von Dechow, acting commander

Strength on December 26, 1776: 429 men effective “on duty,” 45 wounded sick at New York, 8 sick at Trenton



Artillery (6 guns)

Lt. Friedrich Fischer

Lt. Johann Engelhardt

Strength included with regiments



Jagers, one company [50 men]

Lt. Friedrich Wilhelm von Grothausen

Estimated effectives, 50 men



Cavalry, British 16th Light Dragoons, [20 men]

Estimated effectives, 18 men[4]





December 25, (William Crawford) crossed the Delaware River with Washington.[5]



WILLIAM CRAWFORD, my 5th Great Grandfather

*Crossed the Delaware in retreat and again in victory on Christmas Day, 1776. [6]





Christmas Eve, 1776





December 26, 1776

He was promoted to colonel at Trenton, NJ, December 26, 1776, of the Seventh Regiment which he headed 1776-1778. It was raised largely by William Crawford in the district of West Augusta.

1776 December 26, Battle of Trenton, New Jersey.[7]



[8]

Colonial troops attack…

[9]

The Hessian’s are caught off guard…

[10]

The Battle continues…



[11]

Ready…



Aim…

[12]

Fire!!!




Battle of Trenton - December 26, 1776[13]



December 26, 1776

Sketch of the engagement at Trenton, given on the 26th of December (December 26) 1776 betwixt the American troops under command of General Washington, and three Hessian regiments under command of Colonell Rall, in which the latter a part surrendered themselves prisoner of war. [By] Wiederhold Lieut: from the Hessian Rgmt of Knÿphauss. (Below)




PLAN of the affair which took place on the 26th of December, 1776, at Trenton, between a corps of six thousand rebels, commanded by General Washington, and a brigade of Hessians, commanded by Colonel Rall.



A. Trenton.

B. Picket of an officer and twenty-four men. (Wiederhold.)

C. Captain Aitenbocum’s company of the Lossberg regiment, which was quartered in the neighborhood, and which formed in front of the captain’s quarters, while the picket occupied the enemy.

D. Picket of one captain, one officer, and seventy-five men.

E. One officer and fifty Jagers, who immediately withdrew over the bridge. (Grothausen.)

F. Detachment of one officer and thirty men, which joined Donop’s corps.

G. Place where the regiments stopped after leaving the town, and where Colonel Rall attempted to make an attack on the town with his own regiment and that of Lossberg, but was violently driven back to

I. and taken prisoner with the regiments; meanwhile the Regiment von Knyphausen should have covered the flank.

K. Place where the Regiment von Knyphausen had likewise to surrender, after trying to reach the bridge. The cannon of the Lossberg regiment were with the Knyphausen regiment, and unfortunately stuck in the marsh; and while they were being extricated the moment for gaining the bridge was lost, and the bridge strongly occupied by the enemy.

L. Cannon of the Lossberg regiment.

M. Cannon of the Knyphausen regiment, which were not with the regiment during the affair.

N. Cannon of Rall’s regiment, dismounted in the beginning.

0. Attack of the enemy from the wood.

P. The enemy advance and surround the town.

Q. Two battalions of the enemy following the Knyphausen regiment.

R. Last manceuvre and attack upon the Knyphausen regiment.

S. Cannon of the rebels.

T. Place where General Washington posted himself and gave his orders.











Christmas Eve 1776 to January 3, 1777

Another verification which Butterfield made on page 104 of Chapter 5 is that “He (Crawford) was one of the heroic band that crossed the Delaware with Washington on Christmas Day (1776), participating in the Victory at Trenton on the next day, and at Princeton on the third of January, 1777.”[14]



December 26, 1776

December 26 1776 - In Jersey (New Jersey), part of the British and Hessian units have posts at Amboy (Perth?), Elizabethtown, Bergen, Powles Hook, Princeton, Bordentown, Pennington, Burlington, Maidenhead, and Trenton. The Hessian Battalions including the Von Minnigerode, Von Linsing Battalions and Hessian Jägers are at Bordentown. General Washington and his American troops cross the Delaware River, surpising and capturing three Hessian regiments at Trenton, New Jersey. Colonel Rall, commanding the three regiments is killed in the attack. In Cassel it was reported that of the 8,000 men, only 800 had escaped, and the whole of Germany was stirred up by the news.(False report, about 900 were captured at Trenton). [15]

Strength Estimates of American Forces

December 26, 1776: committed to the Delaware Crossing, 6,500 men

About 2,400 officers and men crossed the Delaware River at McConkey’s Ferry. Three other forces were ordered to cross the river: 8oo men under General James Ewing at the South Trenton Ferry, 1,8oo men under Colonel John Cadwalader at Bristol Ferry, and 1,ooo men under General Israel Putnam at Philadelphia. Putnam’s men were to join 500 militia who had been under Colonel Griffin in South Jersey. All three forces were unable to get across to NewJersey on Christmas night, except a few light infantry under Cadwalader and 300 men from Philadelphia who had crossed earlier. The total number of men committed to the operation was 6,500, of which only 2,400 were able to cross the river and engage at Trenton.[16]





“December 26, 1777- The (Hessian) regiment still spent this day aboard ship.”[17]





On December 26th, 1779: the fleet sailed right into the teeth of a storm which made the poor soldiers very wretched, and soon scattered the ships, which met a succession of storms, and finally reached a harbor only on the 28th of January, and the point fixed for disembarkation on the 3ist. There, at Tybee Island, lay the transport “Polly,” with two companies of the Grenadier battalion v. Linsingen, which had been safely landed for two weeks, and were comfortably encamped on the shore.[18]

On the morning of the 26th at eight o’clock the signal was given to weigh anchor. The fleet set sail under a favorable northwest wind and passed the Hook and the Middle Ground where the men-of-war were anchored, under whose escort the entire fleet under Admiral Arbuthnot’1 sailed to the east in the following formation.

Perseus frigate, 32 guns, Captain Elphinstone,’2 an excellent and celebrated naval officer who was very familiar with the southern coast of North America.

Roebuck, The transport EEurope, The transport Romulus,

44 guns, ships with 64 guns,] ships of 44 guns,

Captain the English Principal the light Captain

Hamond,’3 grenadiers. Agent, infantry. Clinton

a very Captain [Gayton].15

meritorious Tonken.’4 The

naval officer, Commander

where Lord in Chief,

Cornwallis General

was aboard. Clinton was

aboard here.

Transport Second Transport

ships with Agent, ships with

the Hessians. Captain the English

Chads.’6 infantry.

Robust, Defiance,

74 guns.17 64 guns.’8

Ordnance Third Agent, Transport

ships with Captain ships with the

the artillery Winter.’9 engineers,

and all that pontoniers,

belonged to and pioneers,

it. including the

equipment

and horse

transports.

Renown, Raisonnable,

50 guns.2° 64 guns.2’

Provisions ships.

Provincial corps ships.

Russell, 74 guns.22

Richmond frigate, 32 guns, Captain Hudson,23

a very courageous and experienced seaman.

The entire fleet consisted of one hundred and thirty-three sail, among which were a number of one-masters which had on board the horses for the dragoons, the mounted of the Legion, and the artillery.

On the morning of the 27th we lost sight of the coast and sailed SSE. Toward noon the wind turned NE and became stronger hour by hour, so that a very severe storm arose which continued until the 30th. The wind turned SE and the fleet had to tack about.[19]



December 26, 1812

The British announce a naval blockade of Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, during the War of 1812.[20]

December 26-28, 1862: At the age of 15 years[21], Dr. William McKinnon Goodlove (1st cousin, 3 times removed) enlisted as a soldier in the 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The 57th was at Sherman’s Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 3, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862. [22]



Sunday Morning, December 26, 1915

Dr. William Goodlove, about seventy years of age, Civil war veteran and a man well known in Logan county, died Sunday morning at his home in Washington, D.C., after an illness of some months duration of kidney trouble. Dr. Goodlove was at one time located in Rushylvania and engaged in the practice of medicine. Although he had been away from this community for many years, he cherished a love for the people here that was often manifested. Not long ago he sent a collection of valuable books to the Bellefontaine Public Library and he also sent some rose bushes to be planted in the Library lawn.

For some years Dr. Goodlove has held a good position in the treasury department at Washington, D.C. and was so engaged when illness overtook him.

Among the staunch friends of Dr. Goodlove in this community are General Robert P. Kennedy and Walter S. Roebuck

Mrs. Goodlove, who survives, is a sister on Hon. Benj. Lefevre, who is prominent in this section of Ohio and who resides near Sidney.

The body of Dr. Goodlove will be brought to Sidney where funeral service will be held Tuesday. General Kennedy and Mr. Roebuck will attend the service. Interment in Port Jefferson cemetery.

Dr. Goodlove was the son of John Goodlove who died at Quincy in 1856. Dr. Goodlove’s mother later married D. H. McKinnon, then of Logan county, but they later moved to Clay county, Illinois. Dr. Goodlove was born October 15, 1846, near Springfield, O. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the Civil war in the 57th O. V. I. and served until the close of the war in the Fifteen Army corps. Under General John A. Logan, “Sherman’s Army,” and was discharged at Little Rock, Ark. In the fall of 1865 entered Medical College at Cincinnati, where he took a progressive course and graduated the same year. He began practice in Montra, Shelby county, O. In 1874 he became a member of the State Medical Society at Toledo, and also of the National Medical Society at Detroit in the same year. On May 23, 1869, Dr Goodlove married Miss Mary L. Lefevre…(missing section).[23]





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[1] Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers. Published by the Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Edited by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton.--vol. 04

[2] The Brothers Crawford

[3] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[4] Other estimates vary in detail. Smith estimates the Hessian strength at ? this is extrapolated from prisoners plus a rough guess of escapees plus killed and ? Dwyer variously estimated “1,400 hessians in crowded Trenton,” and repeated ? estimate of 1,6oo Hessians (The Day Is Ours! [New York, 1983], 264, 276).

SOURCES: Rall regiment, testimony in Hessian Court of Inquiry by Maj. Joha Matthaeus, New York, 17 Aug. 1778; Lossberg regiment, Corp. William Hartung, P phia, 22 April 1778; Knyphausen regiment, Lt. Christian Sobbe, regimental adjutan delphia, 25 April 1778; all LT, ML 591, 200, 377. Secondary accounts include Wi Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton (Boston, 1898), 316, 378, 388—94, 408; bi data from Samuel Stelie Smith, The Battle of Trenton (Monmouth Beach, N.J.), 30. R tal reports do not include officers. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer pg. 396





[5] The Brothers Crawford

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

[7] The Brothers Crawford



[8] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[9] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[10] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[11] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[12] Photo by Jeff Goodlove

[13] http://historicalartprints.com./hap/cmd?CMD=BROWSE&parent=17&catid=24

[14] Gerol “Gary” GoodloveConrad and Caty, 2003



[15] http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Schilling.html

[16] Sources include a report from Washington to John Hancock, December 27, 1776:

“I ordered the troops intended for this service which were about 2400 to parade back of McConkey’s Ferry.” GW, 7:454. Henry Knox’s estimate was a little higher: “a part of the army consisting of about 2500 or three thousand pass’d the River on Christmas night with almost infinite difficulty, with eighteen field pieces.” The source is a letter from Henry Knox to Lucy Knox, 28 Dec. 1776, in William S. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton (Boston, 1898), 371. Cadwalader wrote to Washington, probably on December 27, “we had about 1800 rank and file including artillery.” Cadwalader had first written 1,700, then crossed it out and wrote 1,800. GW, 7:445. In another letter dated December 26 at nine o’clock he wrote that “General Putnam was to cross at Philada to day, if the weather permitted. with 1000 men; 300 went over yesterday & 500 Jersey militia are now there as Col. Griffin informs me to day.” The source is a letter from Cadwalader to Washington, 2[7?] Dec. 1776. The date of this letter is mutilated in manuscript; editors of the Washington Papers believe that it was sent on December 26; I think that it would have been December 27, 1776. GW, 7:442. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer pg. 381



[17] Lieutenant Rueffer, Enemy Views by Bruce Burgoyne, pgs. 244-245.

[18] The German Allied Troop in the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783 by Max Von Eelking pg. 176.





[19] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.

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

[21] There were more than 10,000 soldiers serving in the Union Army who were under the age of eighteen. Civil War 2010 Calendar

[22] History of Logan County and Ohio, O.L. Basking & Co., Chicago, 1880. page 692.

[23] Weekly Index-Republican, Bellefontaine, Ohio, Thursday, December 30, 1915, page 1.