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To: the OlLine Rebel
Quick answer ~ I hope you came back and read all the posts on this thread.

I suspect that your amateur interest in the Revolution keeps you focused on the Ol Line ~ mine is on 150 years earlier in what are now called Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

95 posted on 08/28/2010 7:29:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I did - well, almost all. LOL - well, I do have an interest in the wonderful MD Line (and hence my name - it’s NOT the overplayed Civil War I refer to, ugh!), but really I have no more knowledge of them than the war in general.

Of course, I haven’t read much on it since...well, I guess since I married. My memory is foggy and so some things have started escaping me about the RevWar. But 1 thing I remember well is the aforementioned SIMCOE coming upon a ferry(?) house in NJ occupied by local rebel militia sleeping, with his loyalist militia, and while some of the opponents apparently knew each other as “neighbors” and acknowledged so, the Simcoe troops slaughtered the rebels there though they had them caught sleeping without a fight.

Thus was I cringing a bit when I saw that he had a statue in Niagara, CAN, (he was governor up there) when I briefly visited there - OMG, that’s the guy that slaughtered those militia!

So you have interest in the early colonies of DelMarPa? I think part of my ancestors were originally in DE before moving to MD - the Ogles.


100 posted on 08/28/2010 8:06:11 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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