that and the Intolerable Acts
When you don’t know where to start, go back to the beginning, that was something told to me when learning how to tie fishnet, just never forgot it.
44 Billion is the amount they are wanting
USPS has notified the Postal Regulatory Commission of mailing services price changes to take effect Sunday, July 14
The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 , was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America.
The anger then, the anger now isn’t really very different
Stay with me, you be fine.
This was Grampa’s rocking chair and his coffee mug, one of his standard sayings was
” G’damn yankees”
if you know baseball, you’ll understand the reference
We hid him out in the basement for 2 weeks before the VA in Grand rapids found him, (he ran away). that’s story for another time. He never talked of his time in France during the Great War, when he went shirtless, you could see the damage done. Was 103 when he was called home.
A name you may not know, but you’ll understand why I shared the rocking chair.
James Caldwell, the ‘Fighting Parson’
a Presbyterian minister so hated by the British they burned down two of his churches. The story of James and Hannah Caldwell would make a fantastic movie,” Arminio said. “They made ‘The Patriot’ with Mel Gibson. Well, James Caldwell was more than a patriot, he was an American hero. He and his wife gave their lives for the cause.” The 100 Revolutionary War soldiers from the church included Jonathan Dayton, the youngest person to sign the U.S. Constitution, newspaper publisher Shepard Kollock and Stephen Crane, a member of the Continental Congress and the great-great-grandfather of the “Red Badge of Courage” author. Crane was 71 when he was bayoneted by a British soldier.
Hannah, Wife of James
In January of 1780, the British burned down the Elizabeth church and Caldwell’s home. Caldwell moved his family four miles west to Connecticut Farms, then joined the army at Jockey Hollow
His wife was there during a British attack five months later and was shot while in a room with her two youngest children and her live-in nanny. The Union County seal depicts the shooting but places her outside the house. After removing her body, they burned it down. The current parsonage was built in 1782.
Hannah Caldwell was Assassinated aa was her husband’s murder 18 months later.
History is never dusty or boring
Thinking about how much of this stuff I’ll need for the rocking chair
