Posted on 11/27/2021 10:53:49 PM PST by blueplum
CAMDEN, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina sees the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution as a chance to remind people that the state played a huge part in winning the nation’s independence, even if it did try later to tear the United States apart in the Civil War.
The state has opened a new Revolutionary War center, and released an app for mobile devices that explores some 200 sites of battles and other key events, including remote swamps where patriots and loyalists skirmished in the War of Independence....
...Congress commissioned the America250 Foundation five years ago to throw the “biggest, most inclusive commemoration in our nation’s history” on July 4, 2026, 250 years after the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia....
...There are thousands of stories to tell, and Good said the center’s goal is to open the door to as many of them as possible, by combining battlefield heroics with stories of common men and women who had to decide whether to join the revolution...
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Just the only one that'll admit it! lol
I’ve often wondered why they were Tories. The only thing I can figure is that the first ancestor came to Virginia from England in the late 1600s and probably had a land grant from the Crown. And the families remained loyal.
I’ve also read that a significant number of the Colonists were Tories, but we hear little about them.
At least I haven’t found any horse thieves on my family tree. ;O)
I went to Ancestry and looked him up. He is full French at least for 4 generations. Both his paternal and maternal lines are French. Not an Irish among them!
A lot of French people imigrated to Ireland earlier on back in the 1600s, But I agree with you that his line is French but the idea that he lineage is somehow Irish lingers.
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