Posted on 03/28/2022 8:51:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I guess it was fairly common?
The earliest Lurkins came over in 1640. Don’t know what ship and it never occurred to me that they might have made the trip in something that small.
“Sparrowhawk! Makes me think of that enjoyable sequence of books!”
Or Three Days of the Condor!
Thanks Red Badger and 21twelve for the pings. The ship that carried my surname ancestors only made a couple more west to east crossings and one less east to west crossing, sinking on its last return trip. Given that the general locale of the sinking is recorded, I'd guess that there was enough traffic that the survivors got picked up by another returning vessel.
The story of Benedict Arnold's fleet on Lake Champlain 150 years later is quite fascinating. He built ships on the lake. The British disassembled their warships and hauled them to the head of the lake where they reassembled them. One of the best books about that episode and the battle is Rabble in Arms write in 1933 by Kenneth Roberts. The book concerns the events leading up to the Revolutionary War Battle of Saratoga, but a a memorable part of the story is devoted to Benedict Arnold’s construction of a fleet of American ships on Lake Champlain that engaged a more powerful British fleet at the Battle of Valcour Island and bought needed time for the American forces. The naval battle delayed the British one season and enabled the victory at Saratoga.
Interesting. Stonehenge rocks are part of the older houses surrounding the area of Stonehenge.
The little scavengers!
When I was there in 2015 the actual stones are all fenced off. I guess peeps were chiseling off to much for souvenirs.
Same thing happened to Elvis’ grave marker.
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