This Day in Goodlove History, July 3, 2014

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The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), Jefferson, LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.

The Goodlove Family History Website:

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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

• • 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







Adna M.A. Cole Naugle

Melvin Dubishar

Thomas M. Hope

Mary E. Pyle

Mary E. Smith Warren

Alberta Wesley Langley



July 3, 323: Constantine the Great defeated Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople. Constantine ruled the western half of the Roman Empire. Licinius ruled the eastern half. In 313 the two rulers had issued the Edict of Milan which opened the Roman Empire to Christianity. In 320, Licinius reject the edict. These led to a clash of political and religious power that was settled at the Battle of Adrianople. When the war ended, Constantine and Christianity were secure in their respective positions of power and the history of the Jews of Europe would take a turn for the worse. [1]

September 18, 323: Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire. This victory came between the Edict of Milan (313) which legalized Christianity and the Council of Nicea (325) which was designed to bring conformity to Christian doctrine and practice. This victory by the first “Christian Emperor” would help in the drive to make Christianity the only acceptable religion throughout the Roman Empire.[2]

324 CE: Constantine transferred the capital of the entire empire to New Rome, Constantinople, the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantum.[2][3] Under Bysantine rule (324-640CE), Christianity is introduced in Israel and many anti-Jewish laws are enacted.[1][4] The Holy Roman army swept into Jerusalem to claim the origins of the faith and established Bysantine rule.[5]

July 3, 987: Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty. “The Capetian dynasty lasted for more than 300 years. Capetian rule was weak, especially during the first hundred years. Thus each duchy decided for itself how to treat its Jews. The Church gained enormous influence over local affairs and promoted the idea that the Jews were in league with the Devil - declaring them the antichrist". [6]

988: AL-KUHI
Abu Sahl Wijan (or Waijan) ibn Rustam al-Kuhi. Of Kuh, Tabaristan, flourished in Bagdad c. 988. Mathematician, astronomer. Many mathematical and astronomical writings are ascribed to him. He was the leader of the astronomers working in 988 at the observatory built of the Buwayhid Sharaf al-dawla. He devoted his attention to those Archimedian and Apollonian problems leading to equations of a higher degree than the second; He solved some of them and discussed the conditions of solvability. These investigations are among the best of Muslim geometry.
M. Steinschnieder: Lettere intorno ad Alcuhi a D. Bald. Boncompagni (Roma, 1863). Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (75-76, 1900).[7]

July 3, 1035: Robert I, Duke of Normandy


Robert "The Magnificent"


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Robert the Magnificent as part of the Six Dukes of Normandy statue in the town square of Falaise.


Duke of Normandy


Reign

1027–1035


Predecessor

Richard III


Successor

William II



Issue


William I "the Conqueror" of England (illegitimate)
Adelaide of Normandy (illegitimate)


House

House of Normandy


Father

Richard II, Duke of Normandy


Mother

Judith of Brittany


Born

June 22, 1000
Normandy, France


Died

July 3, 1035 (aged 35)
Nicaea


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Family tree

Robert the Magnificent (French: le Magnifique)[a] (June 22, 1000 – July 1-3, 1035), was the Duke of Normandy from 1027 until his death. Owing to uncertainty over the numbering of the Dukes of Normandy he is usually called Robert I, but sometimes Robert II with his ancestor Rollo as Robert I. He was the father of William the Conqueror who became in 1066 King of England and founded the House of Normandy.

Life

He was the son of Richard II of Normandy and Judith, daughter of Conan I, Duke of Brittany. He was also grandson of Richard I of Normandy, great-grandson of William I of Normandy and great-great grandson of Rollo, the Viking who founded Normandy. Before he died, Richard II had decided his elder son Richard III would succeed him while his second son Robert would became Count of Hiémois.[1] [8]

July 3, 1565: The conspirators seek to arrest Mary near Beath, on the road from Perth to Callendar. But having had intelligence of this design, she escaped them by passing much sooner than was expected. [9]



July 3, 1571: Ridolfi, arrived at Madrid, sent to the King of Spain the letters and credentials with which he had been charged by the Queen of Scotland and the Duke of Norfolk.^[10] But Philip II, prejudiced against Ridolfi by the Duke of Alva (who had always shown himself opposed to the marriage of the Duke of Norfolk with Mary), hesitated a long time before he came to a decision regarding the assistance which was demanded from him. After having deliberated several times with his council, he ended by declaring that, at that time, he could only contribute twelve thousand crowns on behalf of Mary, and that for the rest he left it to the prudence of the Duke of Alva. [11]



July 3, 1579: The Duke of Anjou leaves Paris for Boulogne-sur-Mer ; he remains a long time in this town, waiting for the letters of safe conduct which he had asked from Queen Elizabeth, to enable him

to go into England. [12]



July 3, 1642: Marie de' Medici


Marie de' Medici


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Portrait of Marie de Medicis by Frans Pourbus the Younger


Queen consort of France and Navarre


Tenure

December 17, 1600 – May 14, 1610


Coronation

May 13, 1610



Spouse

Henry IV of France


Issue

Louis XIII of France
Elisabeth, Queen of Spain
Christine, Duchess of Savoy
Gaston, Duke of Orléans
Henrietta Maria, Queen of England and Scotland


House

House of Medici (by birth)
House of Bourbon (by marriage)


Father

Francesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany


Mother

Joanna of Austria


Born

April 26, 1573
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Tuscany


Died

July 3, 1642(1642-07-03) (aged 69)
Cologne


Burial

Basilica of St Denis, Paris, France


Signature

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Religion

Roman Catholicism


Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; April 26, 1573 – July 3, 1642) was Queen of France as the second wife of King Henry IV of France, of the House of Bourbon. She herself was a member of the wealthy and powerful House of Medici. Following the assassination of her husband in 1610, which occurred the day after her coronation, she acted as regent for her son, King Louis XIII of France, until he came of age.[1] She was noted for her ceaseless political intrigues at the French court and extensive artistic patronage.[2][13] [14]

July 3, 1733: Spotsylvania Co., VA DB B (1729-1734), dated July 3, 1733, is a conveyance of Lots 21 and 22 in Fredericksburg, from Thomas Smith of Spots. Co., Gent., to Thomas Hill of same co. Anne Smith wife of Thomas Smith acknowledged her dower, etc. [15]



Wednesday July 3, 1754

Before dawn, de Villiers pushes his men towards the Great Meadows. They pass the glen where Jumonville (his brother) and nine of his men were killed on May 28. Later, in his report, he wrote, "Here I saw some bodies still remaining." About 11 o'clock in the morning they arrive at the Great Meadows. Fighting starts and continues off and on until dark. According to Washington, it was an "unequal fight, with an enemy sheltered behind the trees, ourselves without shelter, in trenches full of water, in a settled rain, and the enemy galding us on all sides from the woods." De Villiers decides not to take the fort by assault but to ask the British to surrender. After four hours of negotiation a document is drawn up and then signed by de Villiers, Washington, and Captain Mackay. The British army is allowed to return to Virginia but cannot come west again for a year. Two hostages, Captains Jacob Van Braam and Robert Stobo, also had to stay with the French to guarantee the return of the prisoners Washington took on May 28. [16]















Monday, January 17, 2005 (4)

Gary and Mary Goodlove visit the Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Pennsylvania late December, 2004.

It was 20 minutes before the park closed and the light was fading fast. We arrived to the center and Spoke with Mary Jane Mcfadden from the National Park Service. On a publication in the center it indicated that the original owner of the land that Fort Necessity is on was William Brooks. We informed Mary that according to our records the original owner was Lawrence Harrison, who purchased it for George Washington. We left our sources with her at the desk, and with some feeling of accomplishment and reverence we visited the battlefield. It was a good day. JG



Tuesday, January 18, 2005



Mary and Gary Goodlove demonstrate the “swivel gun” outside the walls of Fort Necessity. JG.



Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (2)

Gary Goodlove stands by a small building inside of Fort Necessity late December, 2004



Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (3)

Gary Goodlove studies artifacts from Fort Necessity late December, 2004



FROM CAPTAIN ROBERT STEWART.



MAIDSTONE July 3rd 1756



SIR!

I recd your favours by Capt Gist and agreeable thereto Capt Bell, he, their Ensigns & Men Marches

1 Of these forts but one or two were built before the project was abandoned.



this day for Fort Cumberland. Capt Gist could no get ready sooner there now remains here only them Sick and my own Men, who till within these few days have been all well and are now turning Sick when the Duty is become hardest, theres 3 of them Sick 2 lame and 1 Confined for Mutiny, I have sent off Corporal Winterbottom & have sent for the Deserters at Carlyle all which has vastly diminish’d my small Number I’m under a necessity of having three Centrys viz 1 at the Guard House Door, 1 on the Store & 1 on the rising Ground above the Intrenchment therefore can’t mount less that a Corporl. and 9 Men So that very few will remain to Range with however will make the most of those few and. punctually obey your Orders I have spoke to several of the Country Men and endeavor’d to procure some of them to go as guides, Ensign Crawford who is well acquainted with them has likewise spoke to them & wrote amongst his Acquaintances and many of them say they would chearfully go were it not for their Harvest which makes it impossible for them to leave home at this Juncture So that we can’t expect the least Assistance from them the few I have fit for Duty must be constantly on Guard or Command — The Inhabitants are alarm’d at the Troops Marching from hence and say that if this place should be evacuated they must abandon their Plantations, I assure them that what now Marches will return again and that you will keep men here as long as their safety requires it. The Enemy may easily pass Govenor Sharpe and come down here, its true there are but few Stores left But I should think myself as much concern’d in making a good Defence if attack’d as if the Royal Bank of England were deposited here tho’ I don’t apprehend much Danger at present but should anything happen I’m certain you’ll do me the Justice to remember the trifling Number I have fit for Duty with which I have the Guard House Hospital and Intrenchments to Defend & perhaps a small Party out at that time — It gives me great Joy to hear of your Intention of coming this way for several reasons, I ‘m persuaded that this will appear a place of more Importance than is generally imagin’d as it & Mendenhalls Covers a well Inhabited Country I am with Great Respect

Sir

Your Most Oht hble Servt





Since writing the above one of Capt Woodford’s Men came here and informs me that all their Men except 11 Desertd in two Bodies — The night before last one Martial a Blacksmit hand his Family in all 8 Persons were Kill’d & Captivated by the Indians several Circumstances concur in making it certain the Enemy are return’d this way Martial lived on Connegocheige Six Miles below Governor Sharpe’s Fort[17]



The Companies of the Virginia Regiment, are formed as follows; and are to continue so, without a particular Order to the contrary.

First Company: Colonel Washington

Captain Lieutenant John McNiell Ensign

2d Compy. Lt Colonel Adam Stephen Lt John Blagg

Ensign James Roy




3d. Company. (captain Peter Hogg Lt. Thomas Bullett

Ensign Fleming

4th Company. Captain George Mercer Lt. Bryan Fairfax

Ensign Denis McCarty

5th Company. Captain Thomas Waggener Lt Walter Stewart

Ensign Charles Smith

6th Company. Captain Robert Stewart Lt John Campbell

Ensign Henry Russell

7th Company Captain Thomas Cocke Lieutenant Buckner

Ensign Weedon

8th Company. Captain William Bronaugh Lieutenant Eustace

Ensign Sumner

9th Company. Captain Joshua Lewis Lt. John King

Ensign Duncanson

10thCompany. Captain Henry Woodward Lt. Brockenbrough

Ensign Dangerfield

11th Company. Captain Robert Spotswood Lieutenant Lomax

Ensign Milner

I2th Company. Captain Charles Lewis Lt Steenbergen

Ensign Hubbard

3th Company. Captain William Peachy Lt. John Williams

Ensign Pert

I4th Company. Captain David Bell Lt John Lowry

Ensign Deane

15th Company. Captain Robert McKenzie Lieutenant Baker

Ensign Price



16th Company. Captain Henry Harrison Lt. John Hall

Ensign Thompson

17th Company. Captain Christopher Gist

Lt Nathaniel Gist

Ensign Crawford (Scouts)[18]



July 3, 1759: Because of the smallpox epidemic in Frederick County, the county court was moved, by order of the governor July 3, 1759, to Stephensburg, “during the time the small pox rageth in the town of Winchester.” Stephensburg (later Newton, later Stephens City), founded by Lewis Stephens in 1758, was competing with Winchester to become the seat for Frederick County. By October 1759 the smallpox, according to a petition of the inhabitants of Winchester, “was raging at Stephensburg,” and the court did not meet at all until February 1760 (NORRIS [1], 121--22). GW is here noting the court’s move back to its regular seat.[19]





July 3, 1777

On the 3d of July it was ordered that the following corps and regiments should hold themselves ready for embarkation:

1. The Jager Corps, which now consisted of three Hessian, one Anspach, and one mounted company, each being made up Qf 173 men.’

2. Two battalions of light infantry.

3. Two battalions of English grenadiers and the English Guards.

4. The three Hessian grenadier battalions, von Linsing, Lengerke, and Minnigerode.

[Number 5 is missing.J

6. The English Guards.

7. The Queen’s Rangers, and Ferguson’s sharpshooters, which had recently arrived from England.

8. Five English brigades.

9. Two Hessian brigades.

10. A part of the heavy artillery.

11. The two light dragoon regiments.

12. The 71st Scottish Regiment. Note: Is already counted as the 5th Brigade.

In all, these troops amounted to about fifteen thousand men, and the generals accompanying them, besides General Howe, were Lord Cornwallis, Grant, Grey, Agnew, Knyphausen, and Stirn.5

Today the recall of General von Heister came from Hesse, and General von Knyphausen received the command of the Hessian troops.[20]

July 3, 1778: Winch, Joseph.Private, Capt. John Homes's co., Col. Jonathan Reed's (1st) regt. of guards same co. and regt.; entered service April 1, 1778; service to July 3, 1778, 3 mos. 3 days, at Cambridge.[21]



July 3, 1778: Wyoming Massacre. [22]





July 3, 1782

…next day came to Newcomer’s town, where I got about seven raspberries, which were the first thing I ate from the morning on which the Indians had taken to burn me until this time, which was now about three o’clock the fourth day. I feldt hungry very little, but was extremely weak. I swam Muskingum river at Oldcomer’s town, the river being two hundred yards wide; having reached the bank, I sat down, looked back and thought had a start of the Indians if any should pursue. That evening I traveled about five miles…[23]



June 20 to July 3, 1782

There are a great many white oaks, ash and hickory trees that grow among the beech timber; there are likewise some places on the ridge, perhaps for three or four continued miles where there is little or no beech, and in such spots, black, whiteoak, ash, and hickory abournd. Sugar trees grow there also to avery great bulk- the soil is remarkably good, the gourne a little ascending and descending with some small rivulets and a few springs. When I got out of the beech ridge and nearer the river Muskingum, the lands were more broken but equally rich with those before mentioned, and bouaning with brooks and springs of water; there are also several small creeks that empy into that river, the bed of which is more than a mile wide in many laces; the woods consist of white and black oad, walnut, hickory and suar trees in the greates abundance. In all parts of the country through which I came the game was very plenty, that is to day, deer, turkeys and pheasants; I likewise saw a great many vestiges of bears and some elks.

I crossed he river Muskingum about three or four miles below Fort Lawrence, and crossing all paths aimed for the Ohio river. All this time my food was gooseberries, young nettles, the juice of herbs, a few service berries, and some May apples, likewise two yound blackbirds and a terrapin, which I devoured raw. When my food sat heavy on my stomach, I used to eat a little wild ginger which put all to rights.

I came upon the Ohio river about five miles below Fort McIntosh, in the evening of the 21st day after I had made my escape….[24]

July 3, 1824: Andrew Jackson attended an Independence Day celebration in Nashville. [25]

July 3, 1829: Mary Elizabeth Smith (b. July 3, 1829 in GA / d. October 20, 1910 in GA).[26] Mary Elizabeth Smith12 [Gabriel D. Smith11 , Gabriel Smith10, John “LR” Smith9, Ambrose J. Smith8, Christopher Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. July 3, 1829 in Franklin co MS / d. October 20, 1910 in Carroll Co. GA) married Walter Tillman Warren (b. March 5, 1830 in Henry Co. GA / d. May 14, 1915 in Carroll Co. GA) on August 14, 1853 in Carroll Co. GA. [27]



July 3, 1834

Episode 804, Story 2: Andrew Jackson’s Mouth

Elyse Luray: Our next case investigates what this fragment of wood can tell us about a daring

19th century act of vandalism against a national symbol. July 1834, the citizens of Boston swell with pride. Sheltered in the Charlestown navy yard is a hero from the war of 1812. Boston-built and battle tested, U.S.S. Constitution – Old Ironsides – defeated four British ships during America’s second War of Independence. The frigate represents the pride of the city…and of the nation …but on the morning of July 3rd, Boston wakes to shocking news: vandals have attacked Old Ironsides. The figurehead of President Jackson attached to the ship’s bow has been decapitated. And the head…vanishes. More than 175 years later, a body part from that tumultuous night may have surfaced in the trunk of a stranger’s car.

P. J. Whelan: I’ve been wondering what the secret of this mouth is for 30 years. But his lips are sealed.

Elyse: I’m Elyse Luray, and I’ve come to Bethlehem, Connecticut, to meet P. J. Whelan and find out about her strange object. So you have a box for me?

P. J. Whelan: I do have a box. And inside is a mouth.

Elyse: Oh, you really do have a mouth.

P. J. Whelan: I do have a mouth.

Elyse: What’s the story behind this?

P. J. Whelan: About 30 years ago, my dad who was an avid collector was approached by a man who had a car full of collectibles. And the gentleman told him that this was actually the mouth of Andrew Jackson and it was part of the original masthead on the U.S.S. Constitution.

Elyse: The famous ship?

P. J. Whelan: Old Ironsides, yes.

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Elyse: P. J. says her father couldn't pass up the opportunity to own what might be a piece of this celebrated frigate, so he made the trade.

Elyse: What exactly do you want me to find out?

P. J. Whelan: I would really like to know if this is the original mouth of the original masthead of the

U.S.S. Constitution.

Elyse: Do you have anything else for me to go on?

P. J. Whelan: Only some old newspaper clippings that talk about a night in the 1800s when

sailors supposedly rowed out to the ship and chopped this mouth off the masthead.

Elyse: If you don’t mind I’d love to sit here and just look through some of these old newspapers

and do an evaluation. And then I’ll start.

P. J. Whelan: That would be great.

Elyse: All right. I’ll see you soon.

P. J. Whelan: thank you.

Elyse: This is definitely one of the stranger investigations. I mean it really is a mouth. It looks

hand carved. It’s very light. The wood is probably pine, which would have been used during that

time period. It has great patina. It’s been painted and the patina is still very shiny. And it doesn’t

look very weathered to me. It actually looks like it’s in pretty good shape. There is a label on the

back. Now, I don’t really like to look at labels for authenticity. Anybody could put a label on any

object, and I say that all the time. But it is a good reference point. And this says, “Part of Fig”,

which I’m assuming is figure. “Frigate Constitution, cut off in Boston Harbor” I guess that says

1830. Okay the newspaper article is January 9th, 1977. So it’s much, much later. It’s an article

about figureheads, and how these carved wooden sculptures adorned ships from the 16th to 20th

centuries. The account says that in the 1830’s, U.S.S. Constitution was being restored in the

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Boston Navy Yard. Originally, the plan had been to restore a figurehead of Hercules – the same

figurehead Constitution had carried from her launching. Ahhh… listen to this. “Then in 1834 the

politically minded people of Boston demanded a likeness of General Andrew Jackson.” Ok, so I

know that Andrew Jackson was definitely on Constitution. But I don’t know if this was a part of it. I

think the best place for me to start is the scene of the crime. U.S.S. Constitution earned her

nickname “Old Ironsides” during the war of 1812, because British cannonballs seemed to bounce

off her oak hull, as if she were made of iron. In anticipation of the celebration of the war’s

bicentennial, she is undergoing a major overhaul, but still welcomes visitors…firing her cannons

every evening. Well, there certainly isn’t a figurehead on the ship now, there’s just a scroll there.

I’m meeting Margherita Desy, official historian for U.S.S. Constitution. She has been a keeper of

Constitution’s history for more than a decade.

Margherita Desy: Welcome aboard, Elyse, U.S.S. Constitution.

Elyse: Wow, she’s beautiful.

Margherita Desy: Thank you very much.

Elyse: Unbelievable. So, I have this piece and the people that own it believe that it might be part

of a figurehead of Andrew Jackson that adorned this ship. Do you know of that story?

Margherita Desy: Yes I do. Yes the ship did carry a figurehead of Andrew Jackson. It was placed

aboard the ship in 1834 as part of a major restoration of Constitution. Part of the restoration

involved putting a new figurehead on the bow of the ship. Andrew Jackson was President at the

time that the ship entered dry dock in 1833. And he was actually a very popular President.

Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott is the person who oversees the restoration of Constitution. And

he thought it would be probably a politically correct thing to do to put a figurehead of Jackson on

the bow of the ship.

Elyse: However, President Jackson’s populist politics were seen as favoring western interests.

This earned him enemies, especially in the maritime cities of the northeast, such as Boston.

Regardless, Elliott pressed ahead with his plan.

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Margherita Desy: So he hired Laban Beecher who was a ship carver here in Boston to carve

really quite a large figure. The Andrew Jackson figure is about 10 to 12 feet tall because

Constitution is a big ship.

Elyse: Wow. And what happens? Margherita says that the best way for me to find out more is to

talk to curator Sarah Watkins just across the navy yard in the archives of the U.S.S. Constitution

museum. Sarah confirms that Commodore Elliot’s choice of President Jackson for their beloved

Old Ironsides was met with near unanimous hostility from the people of Boston, who took to the

streets in protest.

Sarah Watkins: Well, first, I have a reproduction of a handbill from a period book. It’s a handbill

that was distributed on the streets and the title is “Freemen Awake or the Constitution will Sink.”

“It is in fact that the old glory President has issued special orders for a colossal figure of this royal

self in roman costume to be placed as a figure head on Old Ironsides.” And it ends with a call to

action. “For god’s sake, save the ship from foul disgrace.” It was seen as a desecration on an

almost sacred ship.

Elyse: Huh, and why is that?

Sarah Watkins: Well, number one, Andrew Jackson is the President of the United States who

closes the bank, the Second Bank of the United States.

Elyse: Sarah explains that, in the winter of 1833, Jackson had removed federal deposits from the

Second Bank of the United States. Jackson viewed that private institution as an unconstitutional

concentration of financial power. But removing funds from the bank shut down the flow of credit to

businesses, angering Boston merchants. On July 2nd 1834, one Cape Cod sailor, named Samuel

Dewey, decided to take action.

Elyse: So what happened that night?

Sarah Watkins: Well it was a dark and stormy night and our daredevil, Samuel Dewey, steathfully

rows across Boston harbor and reaches Constitution undetected. He shimmies up nearly 25 feet

in the air with his saw and attempts to behead this figurehead, but reaches an obstruction, an

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actual rod that’s attaching the figure to the ship. And so instead of cutting at the neck, he actually

had to cut right below the nose. And succeeded in severing it there.

Elyse: So that means that the mouth was still attached to the ship.

Sarah Watkins: Exactly.

Elyse: So what happens to Constitution?

Sarah Watkins: Well, Constitution’s beheaded figure is draped in canvas, and the ship sails to

New York to have a New York carver replace the damage.

Elyse: And what does Dewey do with the head?

Sarah Watkins: Well, Dewey soaking wet and elated rows back to shore and hides his prize in his

mother’s shed. And eventually he actually tries to take the head to Washington, D.C., and return it

to Andrew Jackson himself. Jackson, unfortunately, is ill, and not able to receive him, so instead

with navy property, he actually returns it to the Secretary of the Navy, Dickerson.

Elyse: So he becomes this hero.

Sarah Watkins: Dewey was known for this for the rest of his life.

Elyse: Sarah says that after the attack, the mostly decapitated President, Constitution – and

possibly our mouth – sailed out of Boston for safer waters in New York harbor. Here’s a picture of

the severed head. The book calls it the Beecher cranium, after the Boston sculptor who made it.

It’s tiny, it’s in black and white. So unfortunately I can’t tell if the patinas are the same.

Stylistically, they look pretty similar. But, unfortunately, it says here “the Beecher cranium, present

whereabouts unknown.” It seems the head Dewey had severed went missing long after he

returned it to the navy. And what happened to the damaged remains of the figurehead when Old

Ironsides got to New York? I’m enlisting the help of New York art historian and author Ralph

Sessions. He’s an expert on ship carvings from the 19th century, and has written on this

figurehead specifically. Do you think that this piece could have been part of the figurehead?

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Ralph Sessions: If this actually were the original mouth, it would be historically very important, but

I’m skeptical.

Elyse: Official navy correspondence from the period indicates that the repairs preserved the

existing mouth.

Ralph Sessions: We have some letters. And actually I have a copy of one in the navy department

that essentially says that “no more is wanted than that so much of the figurehead as has been

removed should be restored.”

Elyse: So this could not be part of the original figurehead, because according to the

documentation they just replaced the cranium.

Ralph Sessions: Yes, that would mean that. However, in thinking about it since you contacted

me, it’s also true that from a carving point of view, it would be easier for a ship carver to cut off

the rest of the head at the neck and carve the entire piece. In which case this would have been

cut off in New York and then the new head would be affixed.

Elyse: Did the New York team create an entire new head for the President? If so, what happened

to the damaged mouth? Where do you think I should take it from here?

Ralph Sessions: Well there certainly is a way you could investigate it further.

Elyse: What’s that?

Ralph Sessions: Because the figurehead is now at the Museum of the City of New York. It’s on

exhibition, in fact. The original piece with the replaced head.

Elyse: Ralph is being a little coy, but he says that, while I’m there, I should ask the museum about

another object they have in storage that could help me solve the case. I’m meeting Dr. Sarah

Henry, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Museum of the City of New York. She’s arranged

for me to take a close look at Andrew in the gallery. So this is him.

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Dr. Sarah Henry: Yeah, here is Andrew Jackson.

Elyse: He’s huge.

Dr. Henry: Yes, in all his glory. This is the original body the Beecher body, and, the replacement

head.

Elyse: So I have this piece and if you don’t mind, I wanted to make a comparison to see if our

mouth could have been attached to that head.

Dr. Henry: Okay.

Elyse: It’s clear that our mouth never belonged to this head. And Ralph’s speculation appears on

target – the New York repair team gave the President an entirely new head. Sarah doesn’t know

what happened to Jackson’s mouth, but she has a surprise. Incredibly, the head that Dewey cut –

and which had long been missing from the navy property lockers – has been found.

Dr. Henry: It’s actually downstairs in our brand new collections storage center. So if you’d like to

take a look we could go down.

Elyse: I’d love to see it. Sarah says that, after Dewey handed it off, Jackson’s head – the socalled

‘Beecher cranium’ – remained in the family of the Secretary of the Navy for generations. At

one point, they emigrated to France, and its whereabouts were then unknown for more than fifty

years.

Dr. Henry: It was tracked down by a curator from the Museum of the City of New York in the

1990’s.

Elyse: Well how did she do that?

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Dr. Henry: Well she went and looked up, she knew the married name of the family member it had

gotten down to and she went and looked up everybody with that last name in Paris and called

everybody.

Elyse: She’s like a History Detective.

Dr. Henry: Well she was, she was a History Detective.

Dr. Henry: So, there it is.

Elyse: All right, this is the moment of truth. Let’s check it out.

Dr. Henry: Okay.

Elyse: This mystery has been around for a long time, but it was a hard one to crack. It wasn’t until

I went to the Museum of the City of New York, where I was able to find some answers, and I think

you might want to take a look at some of this footage.

Elyse: Well the first thing I notice is that the patina is the same. And it’s to scale. I mean the

mouth and the chin aren’t bigger or smaller. It’s definitely to scale as it should be. So that’s a

good sign. Now let’s see if it matches.

Dr. Henry: Let’s see if it fits that together, okay?

Elyse: You got it?

Dr. Henry: Come, on, Andy.

Elyse: Okay, here we go.

Dr. Henry: Let’s see. Look at that!

Elyse: Yep, it’s a match! So after 150 years, they’re finally together.

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Dr. Henry: Together again.

Elyse: Oh, P. J.’s going to be thrilled.

P. J. Whelan: Oh my gosh. Absolutely amazing. I’m speechless. I really can’t believe that it’s

actually real.

Elyse: So your dad’s trade really was for a treasure. What are you going to do with it?

P. J. Whelan: It’s always been in the back of my mind that he could be reunited with Andrew. That

to me is the fitting end to the story, is that Andrew gets his mouth back and history gets back an

important piece of the puzzle.

Elyse: Samuel Dewey – the Bostonian who decapitated the figurehead – slipped from public view

after that fateful night in 1834. Despite becoming a gem seeker, and discovering both the largest

known American diamond and ruby at the time, he died poor, at the age of 93, in a tenement

house. U.S.S. Constitution never fired her cannons in battle again. Upon returning to the U.S. in

1855 from her final voyage around the world, Old Ironsides was readied for her new role as a

stationary school ship for the naval academy. Today, the oldest commissioned warship still afloat continues to serve as an historic ship, welcoming aboard half a million visitors each year.[28]



July 3, 1841: Sarah Preston (b. may 3, 1767 / d. July 3, 1841),[29]





July 3, 1842: Two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, John William Bean also tried to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it was loaded only with paper and tobacco and had too little charge.[70] Edward Oxford felt that the attempts were encouraged by his acquittal in 1840. Bean was sentenced to 18 months in jail.[71] In a similar attack in 1849, unemployed Irishman William Hamilton fired a powder-filled pistol at Victoria's carriage as it passed along Constitution Hill, London.[72] In 1850, the Queen did sustain injury when she was assaulted by a possibly insane ex-army officer, Robert Pate. As Victoria was riding in a carriage, Pate struck her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. Both Hamilton and Pate were sentenced to seven years' transportation.[73]

Melbourne's support in the House of Commons weakened through the early years of Victoria's reign, and in the 1841 general election the Whigs were defeated. Peel became prime minister, and the Ladies of the Bedchamber most associated with the Whigs were replaced.[74]

In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight.[75] In the next four years over a million Irish people died and another million emigrated in what became known as the Great Famine.[76] In Ireland, Victoria was labelled "The Famine Queen".[77][78] She personally donated £2,000 to famine relief, more than any other individual donor,[79] and also supported the Maynooth Grant to a Roman Catholic seminary in Ireland, despite Protestant opposition.[80] The story that she donated only £5 in aid to the Irish, and on the same day gave the same amount to Battersea Dogs Home, was a myth generated towards the end of the 19th century.[81]

By 1846, Peel's ministry faced a crisis involving the repeal of the Corn Laws. Many Tories—by then known also as Conservatives—were opposed to the repeal, but Peel, some Tories (the "Peelites"), most Whigs and Victoria supported it. Peel resigned in 1846, after the repeal narrowly passed, and was replaced by Lord John Russell.[82][30]

July 3, 1848: John Connell b May 22, 1768 in what is now Fayette County, PA. d March 28, 1831, Wellsburg, VA (now WV) m 2nd March 4, 1802 Brooke co. VA (now WV) Eleanor Swearingen b January 28, 1786 in Penn. Dau of John and Eleanor Dawson Swearingen d July 3, 1848, Wellsburg, VA (now WV). [31]

Sun. July 3, 1864

Rained very hard wrote a letter for

H. Winans[32] for his wife[33] wrote one home

(William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary, 24th Iowa Infantry)[34]



July 3, 1866: Prussia defeats Austria at the Battle of Königgratz. The victory seals the victory of the Prussians over the Austrians during Austro-Prussian War which lasted as scant six weeks. This little known battle is one of the most decisive in modern history because of all the major events that flowed from it. The victory removed Austria as a power among Germanic states. This opened the way for German unification under Prussian dominance which lead to the Franco-Prussian War, which led to World War I which led to the Shoah. The defeat of Austria led the Austrians to turn to the rest of the empire and create the Austro-Hungarian Empire which gave empowered the Hungarian nationalist which led to granting of full rights to the Jews of the empire who gave the world everybody from Freud to Herzl and a whole lot more. And this only scratches the surface of the impact of this one brief battle. [35]



July 3, 1869: 1869: In Germany (Prussia), all restrictions against Jews were lifted. After the war of 1866 Prussia increased its territory to include Hanover, Hesse-Kassel Saxony, and other territory that became part of the North German Confederation. Under the initiative of the Liberal party, full rights were extended to Jews including serving in public positions. By April 16, 1871 it became Imperial Law and was extended to the entire empire. Although later reaction revoked most of this freedom, the discrimination never returned to the level existing in the "Middle Ages" - until the rise of Hitler. [36]



July 3, 1898:

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Original title: "Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders at the top of the hill which they captured, Battle of San Juan Hill." US Army victors on Kettle Hill about July 3, 1898 after the battle of "San Juan Hill(s)." Left to right is 3rd US Cavalry, 1st Volunteer Cavalry (Col. Theodore Roosevelt center) and 10th US Cavalry. A second similar picture is often shown cropping out all but the 1st Vol Cav and TR. (pictured above to the left)[37]



July 3, 1900: Valerie Gottlieb, born July 3, 1900 in Frankfurt a. M., resided Frankfurt a. M. Todesdaten: May 8, 1942, Suicide. [38]



July 3, 1903: 1903: Pogrom began in Bialystok.[39]



July 3, 1908: The Young Turks revolt breaks out in the Ottoman empire, and is eventually led by Enver Pasha; Sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid II is forced to restore the constitution of 1876, entailing the creation of a new parliament, and indirect representative elections. ‘Abd al-Hamid is then deposed (27Apr 09), and his brother Mehmet V installed. Policies for the ‘Turkification’ of the Ottoman territories promulgated through 1909, resulting in the creation of societies promoting pan-Arab ideas,[40]



July 3, 1930

President Hoover signs the Veterans Administration Act, establishing the Veterans Administration.[41]



July 3, 1932:


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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, July 3, 1932




[42]

July 3, 1941: German forces occupy Novogrudok.[43]



July 3, 1941: In Vilna, all the Jews were required to wear identity badges. [44]



July 3, 1941: One hundred Jews are murdered at Bialystok, Poland. [45]



July 3, 1941: 1941: In the Ukraine, 3500 Jews are killed at Zloczow and hundreds die at Drohobycz. [46]



July 3, 1941 : 1941: Fifty Jews in Novogroduk, Belorussia, who volunteer for a German-organized Jewish council, "disappear." Another 50, selected at random, are shot in the town square to the accompaniment of music played by a German band. [47]



July 3, 1941: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin orders the establishment of partisan units to harass German troops in occupied Soviet territory. Jews would play an active role in these units. There were also units made up exclusively of Jewish partisans. [48]



July 3, 1944

The First and Third Russian Armies take Minsk, isolating units from the German Fourth Army, during World War II.[49]



July 3, 1944: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration. [50]



July 3, 1961 FBI agent John W. Fain prepares a second report on Lee Harvey

Oswald. According to the report, much of the information comes from the district office of the

Office of Naval Intelligence in New Orleans.

Also in July, Carlos Marcello aide David Ferrie presents a speech before the New Orleans

Military Order of World Wars, entitled “Cuba -- April 1961 Present, Future.” As he is addressing

the group he is asked to step down when the vehemence of his criticism of JFK becomes

excessive.

In late summer of this year, a party girl begins to appear at the exclusive Quorum Club,

partially founded by Bobby Baker, near the Capitol in Washington, DC. Her name is Ellen

Rometsch -- a lovely young refugee from East Germany who has come to the USA with her

husband, a West German army sergeant on assignment to his country’s military mission in

Washington. Bill Thompson, a wealthy railroad lobbyist and an intimate friend of JFK sees Ellen

and says: “Boy, that son of a bitch is something. D’you think she’d come down and have dinner with me

and the President?” She does. She and JFK have sex and JFK sends back word that it is the best

time he has ever had in his life. Rometsch is loose-lipped, however, and soon begins to talk about

her relationships with men in Washington. Someone will eventually tip off the FBI about her,

and she will be questioned in July 1963. [51]





July 3, 1979: Jimmy Carter secretly authorizes the CIA to give $500,000 in covert support to the Afghan opposition.[52]



July 3, 1979: Jimmy Carter cancels energy speech and begins meetings at Camp David on state of the administration.[53]



July 3, 1979: Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations on murder. [54]



July 3, 2006: 2006: In the following review of “Up, Up and Oy Vey!” by Simcha Weinstein, Louis Parks describes “the obvious parallels” between the origins of Superman and Biblical depiction of Moses.
A loving parent tries to save the life of a child by placing him in a basket—or space capsule—and sending him floating/blasting to safety. Found and adopted into a new family in his new world, Moses/Superman is still guided by the wisdom and counsel of his parent. He lives a double life with a secret identity. Moses eventually leads people from abuse to freedom. Superman rescues people from disasters and crime. Superman's creators, Jewish immigrant sons Jerry Siegel and Joel Shuster, invented the superhero in 1938 Cleveland, Ohio. They never declared Superman was Jewish and their ambiguity was probably intentional. Though they didn't give their hero a specific ethnicity or religion, there are hints at his Jewishness. In some of his earliest stories, Superman sometimes foiled the plans of thinly disguised German Nazis, whose persecution of Jews already was infamous. Americans may not have noticed, but apparently the Nazis snapped to the implications, quickly blasting the new comic. Weinstein writes that in 1940, Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels denounced Superman as Jewish. Weinstein also "recounts the Jewish influence on superheroes such as Batman, Captain America, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and X-Men, most of whom were created by Jewish artists." [55]



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


[3] [2] [1] http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/english/04.html


[4] [1] Your People, My People by A. Roy Eckardt, page 16.


[5] Fascinatin Facts about the Holy Land, by Clarence H. Wagner, Jr.


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


[7] http://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam16.html


[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I,_Duke_of_Normandy


[9] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt


[10] * See Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia, torn. vii.

p. 360 et seq.




[11] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt


[12] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt


[13]


[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici


[15] Proposed Descendants of William Smith.


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


[17] Letters to Washington and Accompanyng Papers by Stanislaus Murry Hamilton Vol. 1 pgs. 307-309




[18] From Washington’s Letters, Orders, and Instructions, July 12, 1756.

Letters to Washington and Accompanying Papers by Stanislaus Murray Hamilton VOL. V pgs. 297-299


[19] George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: The Diaries of George Washington. The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. 1. 1748-65. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976.


[20] Diary of the American War; A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pg. 71


[21] Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.


[22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kemp%27s_Landing




[23] Narrative of John Slover.


[24] Narrative of Dr. Knight.


[25] The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume V, 1821-1824


[26] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe


[27] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe.


[28] http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/static/media/transcripts/2011-05-22/804_jacksonsmouth.pdf


[29] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe


[30] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom


[31] http://www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/CONNELL.html


[32] Winans, Hiram W. Age 33. Residence Cedar Rapids, nativity Ohio, Enlisted December 30, 1863. Mustered December 30, 1863. Mustered out July 17, 1865, Savanna, Ga.

http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil508.htm


[33] He married May 27, 1852, to Priscilla A., daughter of John B. and Elizabeth Persinger Hollingshead; she was born November 24, 1832, in Shelby Co., Ohio; moved here in 1852, have four children-Moses W., born January 8 1854; Ella E., born May 16, 1856; Myrtle May, born May 1, 1867; Ivy D., born November 10, 1872; the first was born in Johnson Co., Iowa, and the others here. Brown Township, Page 735 (Dont know the name of this Book, page found at Mary and Gary Goodlove archives.) I wonder if it is the History of Linn county.


[34] Annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove


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


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


[37] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt


[38] [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,.


[39] This Day in Jewish History


[40] http://www.zionism-israel.com/his/Israel_and_Jews_before_the_state_timeline.htm


[41] On this Day in America, by John Wagman.


[42]


Series 8: Clippings, 1858-1952, bulk 1907-1948


This series consists of clippings of newspaper and magazine articles that either mention Harrison or were about subjects of particular interest to him. Clippings of articles primarily about Harrison's life rather than Harrison's connection to another person or matter are arranged in Series 1 (Biographical Materials). In some cases, Harrison clipped only a portion of the article, cutting it off part way through.


Several of the articles in this series are stories of graft, corruption, prostitution, gambling, and other illegal activities in Chicago, which Harrison apparently saved to favorably compare his record as mayor to that of some of his successors, such as William Hale Thompson and Edward J. Kelly. Others relate to Harrison's books, or to historic Chicago people, places, or events to which Harrison had some connection. A number of the clippings are about people whom Harrison or his father knew. This series also includes two copies of the Chicago Times from 1858 and 1861 which may have been saved by Harrison's father.


Some of the clippings are accompanied by Harrison's handwritten or typed notes providing his thoughts on the subject of the article, or explaining how the subject of the article related to him. These annotations generally range from one sentence to a couple of paragraphs in length.


See also clippings in five bound volumes, cataloged separately as Case + E5 H24608.


This series is arranged alphabetically by the primary subject of the clippings. Multiple items within a folder are then arranged chronologically.





[43] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1766.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


[51] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf




[52] The Taliban History.com 1/05/2006


[53] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 498.


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


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