The Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton
The Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton

Author: Carolyn Crosser Volpe

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton who was born 11 April 1855 in Michigan. She was the daughter of Amos Alcott Gorton (born ca. 1831 in New York) and Candance Martha Hale. Amos was a dascendant of Samuel Gorton who was born ca. 1592 in Manchester, England and innigrated to America ca. 1636. Candance was a descendant of Thomas Hale who was baptized 15 June 1606 in Watton, Herefordshire, England and immigrated to America ca. 1637. Minnie Hale Gorton lived in Stoddard Co., Missouri. She married three times and was the mother of five sons and four daughters. Ancestors were from England, New York, Kentucky, Missouri and elsewhere. Descendants lived in Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, California and elsewhere.

Albion's Seed
Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Dragoon Diary
Dragoon Diary

Author: C.F. William Maurer

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2005-06-14

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1420831461

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The Bergen Record reported that the remains of a Revolutionary War cavalry unit were unearthed in River Vale, NJ. This was the Third Continental Light Dragoons, nicknamed, Mrs. Washingtons Body Guard. The accompanying text read provided bayonet practice for the British in Old Tappan, NY. This has come down to us as the Baylor Massacre of September 28, 1778. Who were the officers and men of the Third Dragoons? Did they play more of a part in the American Revolution than provide bayonet practice? How did, and how could, a massacre take place? A military unit must have a history. Was the massacre the end of the dragoons? What was a Virginia unit doing in Bergen County, New Jersey in the first place? How could a cavalry unit be so surprised and then massacred with almost no shots fired in return? This is not a conventional history, in that there is little attempt to re-write history. History writes itself from letters, diaries, public records and newsprint.