His words in English were superb too.
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Posted on 04/20/2013 7:36:49 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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Francis Marion translated British into ‘gurgle, gurgle’ ~ quite adept with ye olde hatchet!
I am looking for any book written in German that tells the true story of the bamster. I go to Amazon.de and none of the books we conservatives are familiar with are listed there.
All the books are either his own two books or pro-bamster books.
I wish Dinesh D’Souza’s book or film was in a German version.
I need to straighten out some relatives I have over there.
CC
Lots of Germans from the colonial period, mostly in the mountainous regions from PA through VA. What is known as the KY rifle is actually the PA rifle, as it was PA German (not Amish) gunsmiths who developed this firearm.
I didn’t know they were so stubborn. Later USA immigrants didn’t seem to be so, thus do I think we never hear about our huge German roots in our American culture.
But there are a lot of us here. Michigan and much of the Midwest is primarily of German descent. I grew up in a town called Hanover (MI.) after Hanover Germany. There is also a Hanover in PA. and another in IA..
I can’t think of a single German-speaking Loyalist down here in NC. There were several notable Patriots with the majority remaining studiously neutral, rendering medical aid and providing spritual assistance to all who needed it.
Survived the indian wars that way, the Cherokee knew them as the kind Dutch fort people with much bread. Surrounding English settlements weren’t so inclined to peaceable coexistence and were thus perceived as enemies. The fort was there to protect settlers until the raid subsided, mostly English settlers.
My direct paternal line fifth great grandfather was of those English but he married a German (German speaking but of Alsatian origin by way of Pennsylvania). His neighbor Joseph Winston had a “blockhouse” that served the same purpose as the fort, protection from raids, but it couldn’t accomodate everybody when the Cherokee came a-calling again.
So, those who couldn’t be accomodated in the blockhouse fled to Bethabara, to the paling fort, to the German speaking Moravians who regarded them with a little disdain, thought they were spritually dead actually, but helped them anyway as they were commanded by God to do it. Tbey regarded their relationship to governments similarly. Render unto Caesar.
New Hanover County, NC. The famous Plott Bear Hound is descended from the Hanoverian Hound.
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CC
Long before that, beginning in 1638 and lasting until the 1700s, Scandinavians by the boatload were sent to America to the British colonies to do work related to naval stores (pine tar, lumber, metal mining). That first group are actually the largest simply because their ancestors arrived so early, but they are little known. For the majority of them today they frequently misidentify their own surnames as of German origin, or just 'plain American'.
A great example is the Lancaster county PA experience. First settled in the 1600s by Swedes, Finns and Sa'ami, by 1700 they all relocated to York county PA on the other side of the river to get away from the Quakers who were attempting to convert them from Lutheranism by force.
The Quakers in short order began importing Germans to do the work in Lancaster county. Later, other Germans from various communal orders came there and replaced the original German farmers and Quaker landowners.
Doing genealogy on any early Pennsylvania ancestor is very difficult if he has a Germanic name ~ or what you think is just a misspelled Germanic name. Hovås is a good example. Three generations down the road most Hovås ancestors spelled it Hovis and 7 generations down some of them got the idea it was Hofius.
They imagine it to be German yet it started out as a common Swedish name.
You realize that was fiction, don’t you?
Manuel McConnell ~ one of the ancestors, was with him from beginning to end. I think they used his pension application in the background of the script ~ see: http://revwarapps.org/s2773.pdf
Thanks ProgressingAmerica.
I’m talking about the hatchet thing (though your joke was pretty funny).
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1812 on the Indiana frontier ~ “What must she
do ? At this critical moment the baby began crying and the poor
mother hastilv stuffed a corner of her woolen shawl into its
mouth. Baby-like it reimlsed this and noise issued. Suddenly
the Indians stopped as if they had heard a sound. Can we for a
moment imagine how long time must have been to this over-bur-
dened, over-anxious, helpless mother? One minute was an eter-
nitv while the Indians passed out of sight. When she wnthdrew
her hand the child was silent, was motionless, yea dead.” ~ That was my 3 times Great Grandmother ~ the baby ~ but she survived ~ the narrative of the thread is driven by ancient Indo-European story telling requirements ~ into which are dropped real names and places. Another gentleman, also an ancestor, married to a Collins (or Khalins) sister kills 7 Indians with one blow of his razor sharp hatchet. All in the family history called The Collings-Richie Book (also Collins-Ritchy). It’s not on the net but this is http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofpigeonr00cole/historyofpigeonr00cole_djvu.txt
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