My Promised Land

When my grandson, Tyler Hunt, was six months old, I got a telephone call from Josef de Mattos. He had come across my blog and said;

“You know more about my family than I do.”

He ended up offering me an acre of land he bought, part of parcel I wrote about that was on the “Jew’s land”. One of Josef’s kin tutored Vincent Van Gogh.

Reform Judaism abolished the RETURN TO ZION desire.

John

Rosamond of Charleston | Rosamond Press

John Hodges Rosamond | Rosamond Press

“With warfare all around them, the Rosamond and Hodge family conducted weddings, and from their unions sprang a Nation. The city of Hodges South Carolina was built on what was called “the Jews land”. Then Dorothy Hodges was taken away by an Indian chief, and a child was born in the wilderness.

“The story of Dorothy being taken by Indians was so interesting…