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Again, I thank you for filling in more gaps. When one stops to think that the Recent Unpleasantness was a mere 150yrs ago, it becomes easier to realize that the history of the colonization of the Americas had been underway for 2 to 3 centuries prior. One could almost say that slavery had existed here for 300 years, and only stopped 150 years ago.

But to reply to everything you have provided would be a daunting task! A couple of comments. Fort Sumter, prior to it being surrendered, seems to have been like Grand Central Staion. Everybody of the times seems to have had some connection to it. From the time during the Buchanan Administration when Anderson decided to move from Ft Moultrie to Ft Sumter, there were nonstop visitors from north and south. Dispatches, telegrams, official and unofficial, couriers, US mail (!), food from the local markets, spy's and counter spy's, etc. It was definitely a hub of activity and all eyes were on it.

As far as my ancestors, on my mothers side, who settled "Strawberry Banke" in Portsmouth, NH in 1623, their troubles were with the Piscataqua (Algonquin) tribes. The Pequot were more down towards Connecticut. I've never done a DNA test, but it is family lore that we have "Blackfoot " in us. You may have heard of Hannah Dustin from Haverhill. Her family was kidnapped and the Indians took off north. She followed them for days, and then one night came upon them sleeping and killed them with a hatchet and rescued her family. I am related to her on both sides of my family. In any event, I am more Irish than anything else now, with a lot of other stuff mixed in.

I think King Philip was buried near to where I live now. From vague memory, his gravesite was desecrated by some high school students some time back, when they played stickball with his skull or some such.