This Day in Goodlove History, May 9

• This Day in Goodlove History, May 9

• 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.



“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.

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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 details for the GOODLOVE FAMILY REUNION were mailed Apr 9, 2011. If you haven't received the information and want to attend, please e-mail 11Goodlovereunion@gmail.com to add your name to the mailing list. RSVP's are needed by May 10.

Goodlove Family Reunion

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, Iowa

4729 Horseshoe Falls Road, Central City, Iowa 52214

319-438-6616

www.mycountyparks.com/County/Linn/Park/Pinicon-Ridge-Park

The plans at the 2007 reunion were to wait 5 years to meet again. But hey, we are all aging a bit, so why wait: Because it was so hot with the August date, we are trying June this year. We hope that you and your family will be able to come. This is the same location as 2007 and with the same details. The mailing lists are hard to keep current, so I’m sure I have missed a lot of people. Please ask your relatives if they have the information, and pass this on to any relative who needs it.

Horseshoe Falls Lodge 8 AM to 8 PM. We will set up and clean up (although help is nice).

Please sign the Guest Book. Come early, stay all day, or just for a while.

Food- Hy-Vee will cater chicken & Ham plus coffee/iced tea/lemonade. Please bring a vegetable, appetizer, salad, bread or dessert in the amount you would for any family dinner. For those coming from a distance, there are grocery stores in Marion for food and picnic supplies.

Dinner at Noon. Supper at 5 PM. Please provide your own place settings.

Games-Mary & Joe Goodlove are planning activities for young & ‘not so young’. Play or watch. The Park also has canoes and paddle boats (see website for more information).

Lodging- The park does have campsites and a few cabins. Reservations 319-892-6450 or on-line. There are many motels/hotels in Marion/Cedar Rapids area.

The updated Family tree will be displayed for you to add or modify as needed.

Family albums, scrapbooks or family information. Please bring anything you would like to share. There will be tables for display. If you have any unidentified Goodlove family photos, please bring those too. Maybe someone will bhe able to help.

Your RSVP is important for appropriate food/beverage amounts. Please send both accepts & regrets to Linda Pedersen by May 10.

Something new: To help offset reunion costs (lodge rental/food/postage), please consider a donation of at leat $5 for each person attending. You may send your donation with your RSVP or leave it ‘in the hat’ June 12.

Hope to hear from you soon and see you June 12.

Mail

Linda Pedersen

902 Heiler Court

Eldridge, IA 52748

Call:

563-285-8189 (home)

563-340-1024 (cell)

E-mail:

11goodlovereunion@gmail.com

Pedersen37@mchsi.com

In a message dated 4/28/2011 10:23:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time, action@honestreporting.com writes:

5 Myths of Palestinian Unity
April 28, 2011 9:33 by Pesach Benson





Hamas and Fatah finally reconciled with a national unity deal bringing Hamas into the government. The deal they inked calls for an interim government of technocrats until presidential and legislative elections take place within a year.

The tea leaves were there to be read. A month ago, Khaled Abu Toameh noted that Mahmoud Abbas’s unity efforts “designed to send a message to the Americans and Europeans that unless they step up pressure on Israel he will have to join forces with Hamas.”

Abbas also said he was willing to give up US aid for Palestinian unity. Partnering up with Hamas didn’t happen out of nowhere, and the PA chairman clearly knows the risks he’s taking.

Here are a five media myths to beware.

Myth: Hamas is pragmatic about peace.

Fact: Hamas still wants to destroy Israel. It has always defied calls to renounce violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and honor past negotiating agreements. The Hamas charter remains unchanged.

Myth: Ruling Gaza has moderated Hamas.

Fact: Quite the opposite. Hamas is emboldened, imposing Islamic law, smuggling sophisticated weapons, and watching the Muslim Brotherhood’s gains in Egypt. No goodwill gestures for Gilad Shalit from a new and improved PA are on the horizon. Need I go on?

Myth: Palestinian unity paves the way for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Fact: It remains to be seen how durable this unity will really be. The two sides will bury their squabbles till September, but all bets are off afterwards. Remember, Hamas and Fatah already reconciled in 2007, only to see Hamas take over Gaza as Fatah supporters like Mohammed Sweirki ?were literally thrown off the rooftops. And both sides have other calculations. Fatah lost its biggest patron, Hosni Mubarak, while Hamas faces losing Bashar Assad. Now, they need each other, for better or for worse.

Myth: Abbas is displaying real statesmanship.

Fact: Salam Fayyad’s state-building efforts were the PA’s main source of credibility in the West. The closer we get to September, the more the PA needs to tout Fayyad’s program. Instead, Abbas is throwing Fayyadism under the bus. That’s stupidity, not statesmanship.

Myth: Israel must prove its willingness to make peace by negotiating with a unified Palestinian government.

Fact: What’s to negotiate when the other side wants to destroy you?


This Day…
May 9, 1457 BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence into Canaan and Syria which might help explain some of the events described in the last chapters of Genesis and the opening portion of Exodus. According to one source, the Exodus took place in 1456 which would not be consistent with the information surrounding the battle. Other sources indicate that Joshua and the Israelites crossed the Jordan around 1200 BCE. Based on archeological evidence, Megiddo was a site of military importance during the time of King Solomon and he kept a chariot force stationed there. The Judeans lost a battle with the Egyptians in 609 BCE and the British scored a significant victory over the Turks at the same site in 1918. Fighting at Megiddo would play a significant role during the War of Independence as both sides sought to control the Jezreel Valley. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. According to Christian doctrine, there is supposed to be a battle between the forces of good and evil in th end of days. The battle is known as Armageddon which is Greek form of the Hebrew Har-Megiddo (Mt of Megiddo).[1]
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1450 BC
• Canaan falls to Pharaoh Thutmose III, who pushes his army up to the Euphrates River.[2]
(c. 1400 BCE- c. 1277 BCE)

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Aaron was Moses older brother. He was born in 2365 (of the Jewish calendar), three years before Moses, before the Pharaoh's edict requiring the death of male Hebrew children. He was the ancestor of all koheins, the founder of the priesthood, and the first Kohein Gadol (High Priest). Aaron and his descendants tended the altar and offered sacrifices. Aaron's role, unlike Moses's, was inherited; his sons continued the priesthood after him (Num. 20:26).

Aaron served as Moses's spokesman. Moses was not eloquent and had a speech impediment, so Aaron spoke for him (Ex. 4:10-16). Contrary to popular belief, it was Aaron, not Moses, who cast down the staff that became a snake before Pharaoh (Ex. 7:10-12). It was Aaron, not Moses, who held out his staff to trigger the first three plagues against Egypt (Ex. 7:19-20; Ex. 8:1-2 or 8:5-6; Ex. 8:12-13 or 8:16-17). According to Jewish tradition, it was also Aaron who performed the signs for the elders before they went to Pharaoh (Ex. 4:30).

Aaron's most notable personal quality is that he was a peacemaker. His love of peace is proverbial; Rabbi Hillel said, "Be disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving people and drawing them near the Torah." According to tradition, when Aaron heard that two people were arguing, he would go to each of them and tell them how much the other regretted his actions, until the two people agreed to face each other as friends.

In fact, Aaron loved peace so much that he participated in the incident of the Golden Calf (Ex. 32), constructing the idol in order to prevent dissension among the people. Aaron intended to buy time until Moses returned from Mount Sinai (he was late, and the people were worried), to discourage the people by asking them to give up their precious jewelry in order to make the idol, and to teach them the error of their ways in time (Ex. 32:22).

Aaron, like Moses, died in the desert shortly before the people entered the Promised Land (Num. 20). [He was 123 years old.][3]

The Cohen Modal Haplotype DNA is said to descend from Aaron, the patriarch of the Priestly line which is quoted in the Bible. The DNA was proven to be a unique line that continues today in those who claim to be descendants of the Cohens or priestly line. The Goodloves also have the unique Cohen DNA.



Moses

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Along with God, it is the figure of Moses (Moshe) who dominates the Torah. Acting at God's behest, it is he who leads the Jews out of slavery, unleashes the Ten Plagues against Egypt, guides the freed slaves for forty years in the wilderness, carries down the law from Mount Sinai, and prepares the Jews to enter the land of Canaan. Without Moses, there would be little apart from laws to write about in the last four books of the Torah.

Moses is born during the Jewish enslavement in Egypt, during a terrible period when Pharaoh decrees that all male Hebrew infants are to be drowned at birth. His mother, Yocheved, desperate to prolong his life, floats him in a basket in the Nile. Hearing the crying child as she walks by, Pharaoh's daughter pities the crying infant and adopts him (Exodus). It surely is no coincidence that the Jews' future liberator is raised as an Egyptian prince. Had Moses grown up in slavery with his fellow Hebrews, he probably would not have developed the pride, vision, and courage to lead a revolt.

The Torah records only three incidents in Moses' life before God appoints him a prophet. As a young man, outraged at seeing an Egyptian overseer beating a Jewish slave, he kills the overseer. The next day, he tries to make peace between two Hebrews who are fighting, but the aggressor takes umbrage and says: "Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses immediately understands that he is in danger, for though his high status undoubtedly would protect him from punishment for the murder of a mere overseer, the fact that he killed the man for carrying out his duties to Pharaoh would brand him a rebel against the king. Indeed, Pharaoh orders Moses killed, and he flees to Midian. At this point, Moses probably wants nothing more than a peaceful interlude, but immediately he finds himself in another fight. The seven daughters of the Midianite priest Reuel (also called Jethro) are being abused by the Midianite male shepherds, and Moses rises to their defense (Exodus).

The incidents are of course related. In all three, Moses shows a deep, almost obsessive commitment to fighting injustice. Furthermore, his concerns are not parochial. He intervenes when a non-Jew oppresses a Jew, when two Jews fight, and when non-Jews oppress other non-Jews.

Moses marries Tzipporah, one of the Midianite priest's daughters, and becomes the shepherd for his father-in-law's flock. On one occasion, when he has gone with his flock into the wilderness, an angel of the Lord appears to him in the guise of a bush that is burning but is not consumed (see next entry). The symbolism of the miracle is powerful. In a world in which nature itself is worshiped, God shows that He rules over it.

Once He has so effectively elicited Moses' attention, God commands-over Moses' strenuous objections-that he go to Egypt and along with his brother, Aaron, make one simple if revolutionary demand of Pharaoh: "Let my people go." Pharaoh resists Moses' petition, until God wreaks the Ten Plagues on Egypt, after which the children of Israel escape.

ca. 1446 B.C.

The Exodus.[4]

Ca. 1445 B.C.

God gives Moses the Ten Commandments.[5]





May 9, 1712: The Carolina Territory is separated into two colonies, North Carolina and South Carolina.[6]





Thursday May 9, 1754

The Regiment reaches the Little Meadows. This is a clear valley in the mountains of Maryland. "The great difficulty and labour, that it requires to amend and alter the Roads, prevents our March'g above 2, 3, 4 Miles a Day, and I fear (tho no diligence shall be neglected), we shall be detained some considerable time before it can be made good for the Carriage of the Artillery with Colo. Fry."(George Washington) [7]



May 9, 1760: Friday May 9th. Set out on my return Home. The Morning drizzling a little. Called at the Bloomery and got Mr. Wm. Crawford to shew me the place that has been so often talked of for erecting an Iron Work upon.



William Crawford (1732—1782), brother of Valentine Crawford, entered the Virginia Regiment in 1755 as an ensign and scout and later served with GW on the Forbes Expedition in 1758. He lived in Frederick County until 1765, when he moved to the Youghiogheny country in western Pennsylvania. During the 177os he acted as GW’s land agent. Despite Crawford’s approval of this site for an ironworks, GW did not join in the venture.



The Convenience of Water is great--first it may be taken out of the River into a Canal and a considerable Fall obtained--& (then) a Run comes from the Mountain on which the largest Fall may [be] got with Small Labour and expense. But of the constancy of this Stream I know nothing nor Coud Crawford tell me. I saw none of the Ore but all People agree that there is an inexhaustable fund of that that is rich--but Wood seems an obstacle not but that there is enough of it but the Gd. is so hilly & rugged as not to admit of making Coal or transporting it.



I did not examine the place so accurately myself as to be a competent



THE BLOOMERY: a primitive means of turning iron ore into iron, consisting of a hearth rather larger than that of a blacksmith. Iron ore and charcoal were fed into a fire fanned by a bellows that was powered by a waterwheel. When the heated iron formed a lump, or ‘bloom,” it was lifted to an anvil and beaten into a bar by a hammer, also powered by the waterwheel. The product was an impure wrought iron used by local artisans and blacksmiths. A bloomery for making bar iron was begun in 1742 by a group which included William Vestal and Crawford’s stepfather, Richard Stephenson. It was located on John Vestal’s land about four miles above Key’s (later Vestal’s) ferry, on the right bank of the Shenandoah River and the mouth of Evitt’s Run.



IRON WORK: a more sophisticated process producing a high grade of iron for commercial sale. Such a work, using limestone for flux, needed a much greater amount of capital to finance a 25- to 30-foot-high furnace, a large bellows (often 25 feet long) for the blast, a waterwheel over 20 feet in diameter, and a minimum of 10 to 12 full-time workers. But it could turn out 20 tons of relatively pure pig iron per week, which would either be worked in the colonies or shipped to England for sale (BINING, 76--84). Vast amounts of firewood were needed to produce charcoal for the iron furnace.



May 9, 1781: The British surrender Pensacola, Florida, leaving the Spanish to conquer all of West Florida.[8]



IRVINE TO MOORE.



FORT Pitt, .May 9, 1782.



Sir:— Since my letter of the third instant to your excellency Mr. Pentecost[9] and Mr. Canon[10] have been with me. They and every intelligent person whom I have conversed with pn the subject,[11] are of opinion that it will be almost impossible ever to obtain a just account of the conduct of the militia at Muskingum.[12] No man can give any account except some of the party themselves; if, therefore, an inquiry should appear serious, they are not obliged nor will they give evidence. For this and other reasons, I am of opinion further inquiry into the matter will not only be fruitless, but, in the end, may be attended with disagreeable consequences.





[II.]

“PITTSBURGH, May 9, 1782.



“Dear Sir:—Since writing the letter that accompanies this, I have had another and more particular conversation with General Irvine on the subject of the late excursion to Kushacton [the Tuscarawas]; and, upon the whole, I find that it will be impossible to get an impartial and fair account of that affair; for, although sundry persons that were in [the] company may disapprove of the whole or every part of the cond act [of those engaged in the killing], yet from 13 their connection they will not be willing, nor can they be forced to give testimony,as it affects themselves. And the people here are greatly divided in

sentiment about it; and on [an] investigation may produce serious effects, and at least leave us as ignorant as when we began, and instead of rendering a service may produce a confusion and ill will amongst the people; yet I think it necessary that [the supreme executive] council [of Pa.] should take some cognizance or notice of the matter and in such a time as may demonstrate their disapprobation of such parts of their conduct as are censurable; otherwise, it may be alleged that [the Pennsylvania] government, tacitly at least, I have encouraged the killing of women and children; and in a proclamation of this kind, it might be well not only to recommend but to forbid that, in future excursions [expeditions], that women, children, and infirm persons, should not be killed, so contrary to the law of arms as well as Christianity.

‘I hope a mode of proceeding something like this would produce some good; effects and perhaps soften the minds of the people; for it is really no wonder that those who have lost all that is near and dear to them, go out with determined revenge and extirpation of all Indians. . .

“Dorset PENTECOST.” -



May 9, 1785

John Crawford: Vol. 4 No. 957. 666 2/3 a. Military. N. Fk. Tradewater. 5/9/1785. Bk. 2 125-126. Same and Heirs 9/12/1795. Bk 5, p. 176.[13]



May 9, 1813: Procter abandoned the siege on May 9. Harrison did not pursue. Once the British had departed, Harrison left Clay in command of the fort with about 100 militiamen. Tecumseh urged Procter to make a renewed effort to capture the fort in July. Tecumseh's warriors staged a mock battle in the woods to make it appear as if they were attacking a column of American reinforcements to lure Clay out of the fort. However, Clay knew no reinforcements were coming, and the ruse failed. Procter quickly abandoned the second siege.[14]

May 9, 1832: The Seminole Indians sign the Treaty of Payne’s Landing, accepting resettlement west of the Mississippi River.[15]

May 9, 1835 (Francis Godlove)estate was appraised. The inventory contains household goods appraised at $27.71, but no livestock and no farming implements.[16]



Mon. May 9[17], 1864

Cloudy and cooler

Got orders to march at noon but did not go

Laid still in camp nothing of importance transpired

May 9, 1902: State of Ohio authorizes a state flag.[18]

May 9, 1941: The Allies capture the Enigma, the German’s master coding machine, allowing the ionterception of secret messages.[19]



• May 9, 1944: Twenty-five hundred men in Oradea are assembled for forced labor.[20]

May 9, 2010

I Get Email!

Greetings Jeffery, I hope all is well with you and your family. Please give my regards to your parents when you see them next. If you remember, I am John Moreland and we have corresponded regarding Thomas Moore our common ancestor and SAR membership. I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy receiving your daily newsletter “This Day in Goodlove History” and the interesting information and correspondence provided within. To keep you up to date, I am still making some contacts regarding the Lindsey-Moore Cemetery and a possible restoration project. It will be a lengthy process, but I believe doable in time.

If you find it acceptable, I did want to ask you a few questions regarding your research into DNA and more specifically the Cohen Modal Haplotype genetic marker. Given your interest and research, do you carry one or more of the 17 markers that constitute the Cohen Modal Haplotype? If so, in you expert opinion, would that suggest I might also be predisposed to carry one or more of the 17 markers given we are distantly related to Thomas Moore via our fathers? Is this even a logical leap of assumption for me to make? I understand a DNA test would be needed to substantiate the marker’s existence. I do not have any evidence that my family is of Jewish ancestry but to find out find would be both fascinating and exciting. I would in no way be offended or put off knowing I have Jewish ancestry in my family history but, in fact, proud to know. Please let me know your thought on this matter when possible and what I might do to confirm the Cohen Modal Haplotype marker exists in me, provided you feel it would be a logical step to take.



Thanks for sharing and best wishes,

John



John, How is the SAR going? Have you heard anything yet? I spoke with my dad yesterday about the Lindsey-Moore cemetery as recently I have been corresponding with a direct descendant of the Lindseys. I forwarded some of the info you had sent me. Do you know any connection between the Lindsey's and Moore's or Lindsey's and Harrison's. I actually think I remember a chapter in a book about the Lindseys and Crawfords. When I get back to the Newberry Library I will see if I can find it again. I hope to publish my correspondence about the Lindsey's next week so keep checking in.

I appreciate your comments about and the blog and I really hope that something can come of the preservation of the Lindsey Moore cemetery. It is truly an important American landmark as well as an important family treasure. I wonder if the SAR or DAR can come forward on this?

About the Cohen Modal Haplotype. A DNA match told it to me this way. "Because Jewish priestly families keep genealogies and measure descent, uniquely from fathers to sons, early DNA researchers went ‘fishing’ among known priestly families to see whether there were any common genetic patterns on the Y chromosome. Voila. They found 12 markers which were shared by nearly all Jewish priestly families and by almost no one else the world." Those are the 12 markers that we carry.

Interestingly only 3 to 5 percent of all Jews carry this unique DNA. Since this is passed down from my fathers fathers fathers father etc. this DNA would not be passed to the Moores. That said, I recommend that you get a DNA test anyway and see what happens. It will tell you where your ancestors came from 10,000 years ago and more. That in itself is truly amazing. I recommend that you go to Familytree.com and pay the hundred dollars to get yourself tested and see what happens. Your family tree is bigger than you ever imagined.



Sincerely, Jeff Goodlove



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

[2] The Time Tables of Jewish History, A chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 8.
[3] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Aaron.html

[4] The One Year Chronological Bible NIV

[5] The One Year Chronological Bible NIV

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

[7] http://www.nps.gov/archive/fone/1754.htm

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

[9] Dorsey Pentecost; a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and, at the above date, a member of the supreme executive council of his state. His borne was about six miles a little to the east of north of the present town of Washington, the county seat of that county.

[10] John Canon; a prominent citizen of Washington county, at the above date, a member of the assembly. (For a notice of him, see Appendix J,— Marshel to Irvine, April 2, 1782, note.)

[11]Among those talked with by Irvine was John Carpenter, who had escaped from the savages, as hereafter mentioned. (See Cincinnati Commercial, May 24, 1873.)

[12]The following official letters sent by Pentecost to Moore give information concerning the “Gnadenhuetten affair:”



[13] Index for Old Kentucky Surveys and Grants in Old State House, Fkt. KY. (Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett, Page 454.50

[14] Antal, Sandy (1997). A Wampum Denied: Proctor's War of 1812. Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-87013-443-4.

Berton, Pierre (2001). Flames Across the Border. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0385658386.

Elting, John R. (1995). Amateurs to Arms: A military history of the War of 1812. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80653-3.

Hitsman, J. Mackay; Donald E. Graves (1999). The Incredible War of 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941-13-3.

Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812: War with America''. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67402-584-9.


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

[16] Hardy County Wills 6:171.

[17] It held (the dam) all night then blew at 5:30 a.m. when two of the barges shifted, first tentatively, then with a rush and went with the boom and rush of current through the recreated gap. Porter was on the scene. He had paid Bank’s warning no mind last evening but know that it’s validity was being demonstrated so cataclismicly he reacted in a hurry by leaping on a horse for a fast ride upstream to order the boats above the upper falls to start their run before the water, rushing Niagra like between the unplugged wings of the dam fell too low for them to try it… Lexington got under way at once, passing scantly over the rocks of the upper falls and headed directly for the sixty six foot opening between the two remaining barges. Encouraged by the Lexington’s example, the skippers of the three boats that had passed the upper falls the day before decided to try their hand at making the run before the massive water had drained away and left them stranded in the shallows of the rapids. Natoches led off advancing bravely under a full head of steam. At the last minute however the pilot lost his nerve and signaled for the engine to be stopped. It was, but not the Monitor herself. She went with the sucking rush of the current out of control. Her low hull plunged from sight as she went beneath the spume as she went into the gap, careening through at an angle so steep it was nearly a dive and struck bottom with an iron clang loud against the baited silence on both banks then reappeared at last below taking cheers from the watchers and water through the holes the stones had punched along her keel. This last was slight and soon repaired. A small price to pay for deliverance from a months captivity not to mention the risk from self destruction or surrender. The other two warship’s , Osage and Hindman made it through in a more conservative style with less excitement for the troops on shore but also with less damage to themselves. Four boats were now below the double falls assured of freedom and continuing careers in their old allegiance. But the remaining six were trapped as completely as before the water having fallen to low for them to cross the upper falls by the time they got enough steam up to risk the run. (The Civil War, by Shelby Foote, cassette 3, side 2.)




“The U.S. Civil War Out West.” The History Channel.




“The U.S. Civil War Out West.” The History Channel.


“The U.S. Civil War Out West” The History Channel.



[18] The chronology of Xenia and Greene County Ohio. http://fussichen.com/oftheday/otdx.htm

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

[20] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1778.