It's all fun and games until your office building is attacked.
Posted on 06/30/2019 2:04:43 AM PDT by Windflier
Btw, my family has had at least one servicemember in every war that the USA has fought since the 1620s. - When my time came, I did my bit.
Yours, TMN78247
It's all fun and games until your office building is attacked.
My 5th great-grandfather was a Lieutenant in a NY County militia regiment. He's listed in the DAR Patriot Index. I've recently started researching my family via Ancestry.com. It's a bit difficult as my mother was born in Canada, and my father born in Holland. There are no birth certificates available for her, or any of her family members, so I'm coming across different dates quite frequently. My mother never knew about her Patriot ancestor, or that her part of the family actually settled in the U.S. from England before one of them headed to Canada. Had Patriots and Tories on her side. I found a lot of info I never knew when I went to Canada to do research after she died in 1990. Her uncle, my great uncle, was killed in France in WWI, 2 months before the Armistice. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, was only 25, and hadn't yet married. He's buried in France.
Trying to track family makes my head spin at times. I never knew any of my grandparents. They were all dead before I was born in 1947. My immediate family is all gone too, so I have no one to ask questions, and I have no idea what my two sons will do with all of it when I'm gone. There's still too many unanswered questions, even after joining Ancestry.com.
NOT on the Mayflower. = Our family was BANISHED “to his Majesty’s colonies in the Carolinas” about 1622-23 for “running off English livestock” & driving the stock into the lowlands of Scotland. - The were told that if they ever returned to the UK, that they would be beheaded.
Fwiw, we had ONE known person in the AWI, a 3rd LT who was elected as a LT & served only about 2 weeks, before he was thrown from a horse, shattered his pelvis & died of that was likely blood poisoning several days days later. = LT James Bankhead is buried at Mt. Vernon estate, as it was too far to return his corpse home to what is now Marshall County, MS.
Fwiw, I have researched MOST, though NOT all, of our extended family back to the late 16th Century.= STRANGE & NOT a “real law-abiding clan”, either.
(I suspect that much of the time that a lot of “our crowd” was about 2 steps ahead of the sheriff. = CHUCKLE.)
Yours, TMN78247
LOL!! Thanks for sharing your family’s very interesting history.
Many Scots who were transported to the Carolinas for cattle reeveing or rebellion against the Crown were made to make a loyalty oath to the Crown. Many of these families honored these oaths during the Revolution even if the oath taker had died. Oaths were a serious matter back then.
Many of these Loyalist Scots went to Canada, the Bahamas, and West Florida when the war ended.
My DIL has both English and French Canadian ancestors. The early English families came from Massachusetts, they were the Loyalists. The Patriots in the family stayed in Massachusetts. Among her French Canadian ancestors, there was one member of the French Militia who helped the Americans who attacked Quebec in the American Revolution. They are considered American Patriots. It’s complicated.
WELCOME.
Btw, I’m one of the FEW living direct descendants of the REAL Pocahontas, daughter of Deep Stream & Little Fawn. - I’d sooner have her as my 12th Grandmother than a houseful of kings & queens.
Yours, TMN78247
Fyi, Jacob R. “Scarface” Bankhead (the “NOTORIOUS” border reiver) was one of those who was to be banished but he was murdered in an ambush before they could ship him to the Carolinas.
(He was EASY to recognize, as he had an UGLY, white, saber scar from hairline to chin.)
Yours, TMN78247
Call in Clint Eastwood. He'll bring in the napalm.
We could certainly use more Patriots in Massachusetts these days. I don’t know what happened to that State over the years. I think the only Conservatives I ever met from Massachusetts, was when I was in London back in 2006. We met on a nighttime Jack the Ripper walking tour. If I remember correctly, they were from Springfield, and were big Rush Limbaugh fans.
My mother’s family, the Way or Waye family came from Dorset, England and settled first in Newtown, Long Island, which is now part of Queens. The later generation moved to Fishkill, Dutchess County, NY. The son of my 5th great-grandfather (Patriot), moved to Canada after the Revolutionary War, and his father wrote him out of his Will. He married the daughter of a Loyalist Family (Fox) who had moved from Newtown, L.I. New York to Sophiasburg, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada. I haven’t been able to go any farther back than the mid 1700’s in the Fox Family. I’m assuming they came from England at some point, but can’t prove it.
I’m supposed to be related to the Hockey Hall of Famer Tim Horton...probably a cousin, but I haven’t tracked that yet on Ancestry.com.
I had my DNA tested years ago, but it wasn’t as detailed as it is now, so I’m going to do it again in the near future.
Bounty land warrants for Revolutionary soldiers encouraged Patriots to move west. For Massachusetts veterans it was mostly Upstate NY and Ohio. In addition, Americans rejected the British inheritance practice where the oldest son got the land. In the USA, the land was divided among all the sons. Before long, they didn’t have enough land to support a family. You could sell your 25 acres, go west and buy 100 acres with the money and you were back in business.
So most of the Patriots ended up in the Midwest and the more recent imigrants populated the northeastern states. My DIL Canadian ancestors did a left flank march at the Great Lakes and ended up in Michigan. No fence or Border Patrol back in those days, no free lunch, health care, or unemployment back then either. Work or starve.
The worst tarantula infestation I ever saw was near Zapata in the 1960s. There must have been millions that crawled onto the roads at night to stay warm, even though it was summertime. As we drove from fishing camp to town at dawn, we saw that cars had run over thousands. It was a strange sight that I have never seen since.
No Darlin' that's an armadillo....
I think they’re kind of cute. I would much rather see these than the giant Texas cockroaches.
The Brown Recluse Spider is migrating to the Northeast - more than a few reports of bites, kinda a flesh eating disease, bursts Red Blood cells causing big Black skin area.
Moved from LA to an Arizona ghost town called MIAMI many years ago. When I would drive home...I could see the tarantulas crossing the street before I got to the driveway.
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