Category: American History

Rhodes, Roade, and Roads in the Virginia 1783 Personal Property Tax or 1783 Land Tax List

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Rhodes Benjamin Surry Dist 5 – Nicholas Faulcon
Rhodes Charles Amherst
Rhodes Henry Hampshire List 15 – Michael Stump
Rhodes James Shenandoah
Rhodes John Hampshire List 10 – Michael Gresap
Rhodes John Mecklenburg Cluverius Coleman
Rhodes John Orange Benjamin Grymes
Rhodes John Surry Dist 5 – Nicholas Faulcon
Rhodes Joseph Loudoun Third Battalion
Rhodes Robert Rockbridge
Rhodes Thomas Hampshire List 10 – Michael Gresap
Rhodes William Lunenburg
Roade Henry Rockingham Capt. George Chrisman
Roads Abraham Berkeley Henry Whiting (2nd Bat)
Roads George Berkeley Henry Whiting (2nd Bat)
Roads Jacob Frederick M. Williams
Roads Sholemish ? Berkeley James Nourse (2nd Bat)

Categories: Rhoades, Rhoads, Rhodes, Rhodus, Roads, de Rodes, Rodes Family Genealogy The American Revolution

Civil War Uniforms of Blue & Grey – The Evolution

This is Volume 1, of a series of video on this subject, featured by the YouTube channel LionHeart FilmWorks. It’s a look at the fascinating, & diverse history of uniforms worn by the participants that served in the Civil War.

This is Volume 2, of a series.

This is Volume 3, of a series.

Categories: The American Civil War

Samuel Whittemore, the Revolutionary War’s 78-year-old Badass

On April 19, 1775, after Whittemore killed three of the redcoats, other British soldiers left 78-year-old Samuel Whittemore in a pool of blood alongside a stone wall in Menotomy, Mass. As they retreated from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, they had shot the old farmer in the face. Then they bayoneted him at least six times and clubbed him, apparently, to death, but this is not the end.

Whittemore was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1696, the second son by that name of Samuel Whittemore and Hannah Rix, also of Charlestown. He served as a private in Col. Jeremiah Moulton’s Third Massachusetts Regiment, where he fought in King George’s War (1744–48).[2] He was involved in the capture of the French stronghold, the Fortress of Louisbourg in 1745. He moved to Menotomy, Massachusetts (present-day Arlington). Recent sources suggest he fought in the French and Indian War (1754–63) at the age of 64, once again assisting in the capture of the Fortress of Louisbourg, and later in a military expedition against Chief Pontiac in 1763. None of them offer documentation to support such claims, though a nineteenth century reference mentions that he had served as a “Captain of Dragoons.”


Battles of Lexington and Concord


On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning to Boston from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the war. On their march they were continually shot at by American militiamen.
Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British Grenadiers of the 47th Regiment of Foot from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols, killed a second grenadier and mortally wounded a third. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment had reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked. He was subsequently shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found by colonial forces, trying to load his musket to resume the fight. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore recovered and lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98

~ In part from wikipedia.org

Categories: The American Revolution

Revolutionary War Vocabulary

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Here are two examples taken from the post:

Aide-de-camp: a military officer acting as secretary and confidential assistant to a superior officer of general or flag rank.

Jaeger corps: in the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army. Sharpshooter. Also Yager and Jager.

Source: www.karenfurst.com/blog/revolutionary-war-vocabulary/

Categories: American History British History The American Revolution

President Abraham Lincoln’s size 14 Goat Slippers

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President Abraham Lincoln’s Slippers

Abraham Lincoln wore these size 14 goat slippers while relaxing at home, right up until the day he was assassinated. Soon to be displayed at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C., the slippers are on loan from the President Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, where they are part of a permanent exhibit. Replicas of the slippers were used in Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln.Alex Williamson, tutor to William and Tad Lincoln, presented the slippers to President Hayes, a collector of historical artifacts, after Lincoln’s death. Williamson attached a note that read, “Sir, Please accept the accompanying slippers. They were worn by the late President Lincoln up to the day of his murder.”

Source: www.neatorama.com/2014/07/01/President-Abraham-Lincolns-Slippers/

Categories: American History Just for fun'

The Boston Coffee Party of 1777

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Alvan Fisher - Coffee clap
The following was recorded in the journal of John Boyle on that date: A Female Riot. ~ About 100 Women from the North-Part of the Town, getting information of a Quantity. of Coffee being in the Store of Thos. Boylston, Esqr. which he refused to sell at the regulated Price, attacked him in King-Street, and demanded the Keys of his Store, which he refusing to deliver, they immediately placed him in a Cart, and threatened to Cart him out of Town, upon which he delivered them the Keys. — A Committee was appointed to keep him Custody while the Body was employed in getting the Coffee out of the Store, which they speedily effected, and went off with their booty.
Writing from Boston, on July 31, 1777, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, away attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia wrote on the account:
“There is a great scarcity of sugar and coffee, articles which the female part of the state is very loath to give up, especially whilst they consider the great scarcity occasioned by the merchants having secreted a large quantity. It is rumored that an eminent stingy merchant, who is a bachelor, had a hogshead of coffee in his store, which he refused to sell under 6 shillings per pound.
“A number of females—some say a hundred, some say more—assembled with a cart and trunk, marched down to the warehouse, and demanded the keys.
“Upon his finding no quarter, he delivered the keys, and they then opened the warehouse, hoisted out the coffee themselves, put it into a trunk, and drove off. A large concourse of men stood amazed, silent spectators of the whole transaction.”

Categories: American History British History The American Revolution

Persecution of Quakers by the Puritans

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The Rev. John Norton was born at Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, where he was ordained. He joined the Puritan movement, and sailed in 1634 to New England, arriving Plymouth. In 1638 at the age of 38, he was called to become the “teacher” for the congregation in recently-settled Ipswich.

In 1652 Norton left Ipswich and later succeeded John Cotton as minister of First Church in Boston. Cotton Mather wrote in his eulogy of the Rev. Rogers, “Here was a Renowned Church consisting mostly of such illuminated Christians, that their Pastors in the Exercise of their Ministry, might His Colleague here was the celebrious Norton, and glorious was the Church of Ipswich now, in two such extraordinary persons, with their different Gifts, but united Hearts, carrying on the Concerns of the Lord’s kingdom in it!”‘

For the Puritans, the “Lord’s Kingdom” did not include Quakers, and the Rev. Norton is known as the chief instigator of the persecution of Quakers in New England. He is quoted as saying, “I would carry fire in one hand and faggots in the other, to burn all the Quakers in the world.” The punishment for a Quaker to set foot in Massachusetts in 1660 was death by hanging.

Follow this link to read the compete post: storiesfromipswich.org/2015/10/13/persecution-of-quakers-by-the-puritans/

Categories: American History