Posted on 11/10/2015 3:56:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Quakers were the worst.
yes I have documents of relative being recruited by Myles Standish for a posse to track down somebody that was a fugitive
My parents were here legally. Anchor babies are not.
It’s called America after Americus Vespucci for the same reasons that Maxwell’s Equations are NOT named after their discoverer, Oliver Heaviside. Heaviside wrote the equations, and since he was not college educated, Albert Einstein looked down upon him and named the equations after Maxwell, whose work inspired Heaviside in the first place; they’ve been Maxwell’s Equations ever since. It’s the same for naming our land America instead of Columbia. Columbus was in disfavor and Americus was seen as enlightened.
It can never be changed now, so we live in America.
Yes. And I’m predominantly germanic, anyway. Germanic on my Swiss paternal side. And germanic on my mother’s side, Schtumpf and Schlag, from the Darmstadt area. The only admixture to it is my paternal grandmother, Ida Burke, to blend in a little Irish protestant blood. Maaaan, she could cook and bake! Mmmmm-Mmmm!
In those days large families “farmed out” some of their children to farmer acquantances to earn money for the family. Ida was farmed out to a plantation in MD that had owned slaves.
Many of the emancipated slaves had stayed on with their former owners and worked for wages. Ida lived with those black ladies, and learned to cook and bake from those former slaves, who couldn’t READ a recipe. But their cooking and baking was fabulous, anyhow; as was Ida’s by learning from them!
Great memories.
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