Richardson believes one of his other discoveries, the largest of the Skillagalee wreck sites with the greatest amount of artifacts present, is the wreck of the 150-foot brig Julia Dean. The captain blamed the ship's 1855 sinking on Beaver Island pirates. The three other wrecks remain unidentified.The community of avowed Mormons led by James J. Strang on the Beaver Island in Lake Michagan broke up soon after Strangs death at the hands of disenchanted followers in 1856. The ambush and killing of Strang followed a punishment of 79 lashes meted out against a follower whod been caught in bed with another followers wife. From published accounts of the islands history, we know that Strang, who reportedly struggled with Brigham Young for control of the LDS Church following the death of Joseph Smith, moved with a group of followers from Nauvoo, Ill., to Voree, Wis., and finally Beaver Island in the late 1840s. There, Strang declared himself King of the Kingdom of God on Earth and presided over a community of up to 230 devotees, imposing strict rules of behavior that included an edict that all women wear bloomers instead of dresses and that all men take up polygamy.
-- from the thread James Strang, "King of the Kingdom of God on Earth" The New York Times reported on people in the area around Saugutuck, Mich., "thrown into the most intense excitement by the operations of a gang of marauders, who are reported to be Mormons from Beaver Island"....Beaver Island is located toward the north end of Lake Michigan between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan, and it has its own bizarre history. In the 1850s, James Jesse Strang crowned himself the king of the island and declared it a separate country from the United States. Strang was eventually assassinated.
-- from the thread Arrrr! Real Pirates Once Sailed On Lake Michigan [and avast! They be Mormons!]
To: Alex Murphy
Beaver Island is where I’m going when the zombie apocalypse hits.
2 posted on
11/11/2014 2:31:11 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
Strang was eventually assassinated. I guess he wasn't faithful enough,.................
3 posted on
11/11/2014 2:31:41 PM PST by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
4 posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:02 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
” imposing strict rules of behavior that included an edict that all women wear bloomers instead of dresses “
So he wasn’t all bad! Eh? 8^)
5 posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:09 PM PST by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Alex Murphy
Hmmm didn’t know two things: #1 that coral reefs were possible in lake Michigan, and #2 that there were pirates in Lake Michigan.
6 posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:36 PM PST by
JSDude1
To: Alex Murphy
Today’s PSA: Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19.
7 posted on
11/11/2014 2:33:56 PM PST by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Alex Murphy
Very informative and interesting-I’d have thought “Mormon pirates” was an oxymoron...
10 posted on
11/11/2014 2:38:48 PM PST by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: Alex Murphy
Heh heh... Saugutuck, Mich... more like Sausagetuck. It’s the Providence of the North.
12 posted on
11/11/2014 2:43:08 PM PST by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: Alex Murphy
On July 4, 1850, a drunken mob of fishermen vowed to kill the "Mormons" or drive them out, only to be awed into submission when Strang fired a cannon (which he had secretly acquired) at them.
HOLY CRAP They got a cannon!
14 posted on
11/11/2014 2:48:06 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Alex Murphy
with island names like Fox and Beaver, some cartographer was a little pre-verted.
15 posted on
11/11/2014 2:53:29 PM PST by
llevrok
(I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
To: Alex Murphy
[victims of Mormon pirates off Beaver Island]
Well, there's a headline for the ages.
17 posted on
11/11/2014 3:01:14 PM PST by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: Alex Murphy
Beaver Island, for the real 3 hour tour!
To: Alex Murphy
Say what you will, Mormons make good neighbors!</sarc>
30 posted on
11/11/2014 3:32:12 PM PST by
Gamecock
(USA, Ret. 27 years.)
To: Alex Murphy
Weren’t many Mormons slaughtered on Beaver Island and then they moved west to Independence, MO?
To: Alex Murphy
so... mormon butt pirates were trying to keep people off of beaver island?
ROFL
35 posted on
11/11/2014 4:03:33 PM PST by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: Alex Murphy
41 posted on
11/11/2014 4:58:44 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: babygene
43 posted on
11/11/2014 6:18:08 PM PST by
ebb tide
To: Alex Murphy; Scoutmaster
Stuff right up yer alley here!
48 posted on
11/13/2014 11:26:06 AM PST by
Elsie
( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Alex Murphy
63 posted on
11/13/2014 8:10:23 PM PST by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Alex Murphy
The sea, it is said, never gives up her dead when the Witch of November comes early.
75 posted on
02/18/2015 3:16:06 PM PST by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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