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OverTheHill · 61-69, M
4meAndyou · F
@OverTheHill Happy 250th to you, too!!!
It's so much fun and interesting to discover who the ancestors were, both the famous and the infamous. Also for a peek at who our 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. cousins are today. I'm mostly Acadian driftwood and Spanish Grenadier under Galvez that financed, fed and fought alongside Washington. And my few German ancestors came over with the Law migration. They accounts for why so many towns and communities surrounding New Orleans have German names.
There were supposedly some British Maritime colonies that attempted to join the revolution but there was also a movement by British loyalist to migrate north to escape the revolution and the swelling loyalist population made resistance difficult. That possibly also accounts for Maine's delay in joining the original 13.
As interesting are who our ancestors were before they migrated. Check the history books for what was going on in Europe or wherever in the year that they decided to leave.
There were supposedly some British Maritime colonies that attempted to join the revolution but there was also a movement by British loyalist to migrate north to escape the revolution and the swelling loyalist population made resistance difficult. That possibly also accounts for Maine's delay in joining the original 13.
As interesting are who our ancestors were before they migrated. Check the history books for what was going on in Europe or wherever in the year that they decided to leave.
4meAndyou · F
@Heartlander I DO have one distant ancestor, also, who actually LEFT Massachusetts to try to escape from the property confiscations that the British inflicted upon us during the days before the revolution, and moved down to Connecticut rather than fight. Not ALL were brave.
4meAndyou · F
@ReptilianFromPlanetCrush Probably. People move around a lot these days, though. I am descended from John Lackland, youngest son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. HE was a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.
William the Conqueror (c.1028–1087)
His son, King Henry I (c.1068–1135)
His daughter, Empress Matilda (1102–1167)
Her son, King Henry II (1133–1189)
His son, King John Lackland (1166–1216)
William the Conqueror (c.1028–1087)
His son, King Henry I (c.1068–1135)
His daughter, Empress Matilda (1102–1167)
Her son, King Henry II (1133–1189)
His son, King John Lackland (1166–1216)