On tis day, January 23, 2024 – the day Nicky Haley loses the primary, announce to the world, that Jesus was a Slave. His mother was not the Levite cousin of Elizabeth, and thus there was no transfer of the Holy Spirit from John ‘The Unborn Infant’ to Jesus. With this announcement, all forms of Christianity – and Judaism – cease to exist. I highly suggest all interested parties, begin anew. This time, think about what God wants.
My Rosamond ancestors owned slaves that worked their plantations in South Carolina. They were Patriots. I am a member of the South Carolina Historical Society were Truthful History prevails. It is 12:22 A.M.
Everything has changed and is now making sense. Above is a photograph of Dorothea Witherspoon and myself taken in 1971. We have just flown from Columbia South Carolina to Los Angeles. I wanted Dottie to meet my mother. We talked about getting married. I had just met about twenty members of the Witherspoon family, down South, a place I swore I would never go. However, Meher Baba’s first home in America is in South Carolina, and I wanted to see where the Avatar walked the earth. I praise the vote in this state to remove the Confederate flag. For years I have called for this, followed by “Repent!”
The Real President and Commander In Chief spoke to the Nation last night, and NAMED who the real enemies of the United States – ARE! President Biden NAMED the ELECTION DENIERS whose base is in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida – where the Racist Confederates Traitors grew like fruit bats on magnolia trees. and who resorted to extreme violence in order to – KEEP THEIR SLAVES.
Oregonians have the privilege to VOTE DOWN SLAVERY in Oregon, however, many are voting for Red State Fruit Bats, when they cast a vote for Christine Drazan, who employs a cookie-cutter tactic other Treacherous Fruit Bats employ – TO WIN YOUR VOTE! The Batties USE the homeless and criminals to become Lawmakers and hold a seat in our Government. I am wise to THEIR TRICK. When in power – Republican’s NEVER offer Secular Solutions to our Social Needs, but hang in the trees – waiting for the Democrats TO FAIL, then, swoop down and suck the blood of Good Democrats – WHO DID NOTHING WRONG! The Election Deniers – KNOW THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT STEAL ANY ELECTION! The Bloody Batties – KNOW THE DEMOCRATS DID NOTHING WRONG!
The ED BATS are Parasites on Society! They use our Constitution and Jesus to get in office so they can end Social Security and Medical. Do you know about the Faith based Initiative. Some churches have applied and received FEDERAL FUNDING? How many preachers in our Democracy give Anti-Government Sermons – then pocket thousands? These Ministers of Treachery – hand out FAKE PATRIOT BADGES – and want to be called Heroes of God and Jesus! Incist that they sign The Iron Clad Oath!
The Real President of the United States REMINDED true citizens – that Real People fought Real Battles in order to Found this Democracy. My great grandfather fought in the War of Independence, along with his brother, Captain Samuel Rosamond. They fired their rifles at The Soldiers of the Crown, as did their commander, FRANCIS MARION. In Oregon, there is a County named after him, as well as a County named after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, whose son-in-law was JOHN FREMONT the first candidate for the Republican Party – he help found – along with the Real Radical Republicans. Fremont founded the Radical Democracy Party – to force Lincoln’s hand!
On this day, November 3, 2022…..I am asking Betsey Johnson, and Christian Drazan…TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR, for the reason they USE the Homeless and Criminals to propel themselves into office. As of yet, these two have not published a concise plan on how they will END homelessness, and STOP crime. I get $850 a month to live on. I am disabled and on SSI. I have taken on criminals – most of my life! I helped the homeless and stood up to radicals – who preyed upon the homeless. I got very littl help.
On this day, I refound Fremont’s Radical Democracy Party – that will REPRESENT every criminal -and all the homeless in the United States of America. With a team of attorneys we will hold every politician accountable for every promise they make to end homelessness, and stop crime. The Radical Democracy Party will work with all groups in prison.
Jesus ministered to a criminal while – dying on the cross! My ancestor was a Highwayman, who got arrested – and sent to America as an indentured slave. William Rose was kidnaped – and sold into slavery. Seventy percent of white folks in America, were poor indentured slaves who depended upon their master – for a roof over their head. These are THE PEOPLE who did most of the fighting. They fought the wealthy church-going Loyalists – who treated them like chattel. The descendants of these True Americans, are not the Political Slaves of the MAGA ED BATTY!
Freedom! Here comes THE FREEDOM WAVE! I am going to make sure The Highwayman becomes Oregon’s State Song! Our history – has just begun to fight! Our future – will always look bright!
((birth was between 1750 and 1760 when John and Sarah were still in Virgin ia)) James Rosamond, R255, M. Born ca 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. Jam es died in Abbeville District, SC bef 10 Jul 1806, he was about 52. Occup ation: Farmer. James served in the Revolutionary War in the Ninety-Six District before a nd after the fall of Charleston. The Siege of Charleston occurrend in 17 80 by the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. James furnished 150 lb s. of pork to the militia in 1782. He obtained land grants as a result of his service in the war. An abstract of his service in the Revolution army War is on file at the Historical Commission in South Carolina. James may have been married to a Dorothy/Norah Hodges (daughter or John Ho dges and Elizabeth ?) prior to marrying Mary Daugherty. No one has been ab le to find any record of this. Barbara Morgan lists a Lettice Jones as a p ossibility for James’ first wife. Much depends on when his first wife die d, and the date he married Mary. In the first national census in 1790, James, his brother Samuel, and his m other Sarah were the only Rosamond Heads of Household listed in South Caro lina. From info received from Ruth: “The census listing shows him as living in t he Ninety-Six District 1 male & 1 female age 40-50, 2 males under 16 yea rs and 9 slaves.” This can’t be the 1790 census data as that census didn ‘t break down the ages except the males, and that only younger and older t han 16. Also, there is no 40-50 age group for the 1800 census.
The Red State President want to deny due process of law to those who tried to enter the U.S. illegally. John Rosamond was tried in England and sent to America as a indentured slave. William Rose was sold and put on a ship to America. More than half the white people living in this freedom land, were indentured slaves brought here against their will. It’s time for Good Americans to confront fellow Americans who take the false patriotism Trump hands them in order to divide this nation, and this world.
Name: John ROSAMOND “The Highwayman”· Surname: Rosamond· Given Name: John· Suffix: “The Highwayman”· Sex: M· Birth: ABT. 1710 in County Leitrim, Ireland (?)
“In 1724, my ancestor John ROSAMOND and his friend William Ray were arrested in Abingdon, Berkshire, England for stealing a hat, periwig, 30 pounds British sterling, five pairs of shoes, and a brown gelding. They were held in the gaol in Reading, Berkshire, after their trial where they were sentenced to be exiled to the colonies for 14 years hard labor.
In January 1865, Marx wrote to Lincoln on behalf of the International Workingmen’s Association, a group for socialists, communists, anarchists and trade unions, to “congratulate the American people upon your reelection.”
House Bills 616 and 327 would bar teachers from discussing racism — a national sickness that officials say led to the massacre of Roberta A. Drury, Margus D. Morrison,Andre Mackneil,Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young and Ruth Whitfield May 14 at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo.
House Bill 327 would also restrict how public colleges and other public entities such as police departments and libraries offer training or instructions to employees, contractors or outside groups about so-deemed “divisive concepts” such as racism, sexism, inequality and religious intolerance.
Christians claim God – IS TRUTH – and they uphold this and most family and political traditions. They claim they follow the Bible and it is the pure word of God. They insist secular government and secular culture must be destroyed so they can construct the delusional kingdom of God – here on earth. Millions of Christian lunatics claim – TRUMP WON! If John Fremont and the founders of the Republican party – were alive – they would order these lunatics out of THIER PARTY, and insist they form THEIR OWN PARTY that would resemble A CHURCH.
Consider the Parable of the Sower. There were Marxists and Socialists in the first Republican Party. Most Christian leaders, and Fox News – hate Socialists! Build the Party of Jesus – on good ground! Followers of Prosperity Gospel may be wondering why they have been having – BAD LUCK!
My kindred, Samuel Rosamond, Lemuel Benton, and Gavin Witherspoon, fought under the Francis Marion ‘The Swamp Fox’ in the War of Independence. John Witherspoon is a Signer and is kin to the Preston family, as are the three Patriots above. These four men are kindred to the Stewart family, and thus William and Harry Windsor. Add to this roster, the Hart and Hull family, then here is America’s most illustrious and Patriotic Family.
He sent Lt. Col. Lemuel Benton with sixteen men to seize the pass over Horse Creek. Horry’s men stumbled over a sentry who fired a shot, and they quickly rushed Sumter’s home with Col. Marion’s remaining 134 men closely behind them. In a brief fight, they killed or captured 22 British Regulars and two Loyalists. One of the Continental prisoners, Capt. Perry Benson of the 5th MD Regiment, was wounded as well.
Rosamond, Samuel Ninety-Six District Regiment 1777 1782 A Captain under Col. Robert Anderson at Siege of Ninety-Six (1781) (Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment). A Lieutenant under Capt. Adam Crain Jones during 1782. Also at battle of Kettle Creek (GA). Aka Samuel Roseman.
Benton, Lemuel Cheraws District Regiment 1775 1777 Promoted to Major in 1777. Promoted to Lt. Col. In 1780, then Colonel in 1781.
Witherspoon, Gavin Berkeley County Regiment 1780 1782 From Williamsburg District. A Captain under Col. Richard Richardson, Jr. (aka Richardson’s Regiment) Pee Dee Swamp w/4 men, Tearcoat Swamp, Halfway Swamp #1, Georgetown #6, Wiboo Swamp, Witherspoon’s Ferry, Fort Motte, Quinby’s Bridge, Shubrick’s Plantation, Eutaw Springs, Videau’s Bridge, Wadboo Swamp
Witherspoon, James SC Light Dragoons 1779 1782 1779-1780, a Captain under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, Col. Daniel Horry. 1781-1782, a Captain under Lt. Col./Col. Peter Horry (Kingstree Regiment, Horry’s Light Dragoons, and SC 4th Regiment of State Dragoons). From Williamsburg District. Georgetown #6, Eutaw Springs
Witherspoon, John Lower Craven County Regiment 1777
From Williamsburg District. Earlier, a Lieutenant. A Captain under Col. Hugh Giles.
Terry Lipscomb, “South Carolina Revolutionary Battles – Part Ten (MS H-2-2)”, unpublished, p.29:
Benton personally led his troops in a second skirmish higher up on Black Creek, which is believed to be the Battle of Williamson’s Bridge mentioned in local tradition; this corresponds to the present bridge on state secondary road 35 in Darlington County, four miles southeast of Darlington. Alexander Gregg, D.D., History of the Old Cheraws, Richardson And Company, 1867, pp.387, Another skirmish took place about this time, higher up on Black Creek, Colonel Benton commanding. The Tories were routed and fled, but being overtaken and surrounded, were forced to make a hand to hand fight, suffering very severely. Colonel Benton had no fire arms except his pistols. One man, pressed by the colonel, turned about, and was in the act of firing his musket, but, before he could do so, Benton discharged his pistol at him, missing him, however, then threw it at him and knocked him from his horse to the ground. JP: Black Creek Skirmishes 1 & 2 seem to have taken place in the last half 1781 or early 1782
Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” ABT 1720 – 1770 ID Number: I99600
RESIDENCE: England and Granville Co. NC BIRTH: ABT 1720, Worcester, England DEATH: 1770, Granville Co, North Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S3615]
Family 1 : Francis KIMBROUGH MARRIAGE: Craven County, (now Johnston Co.) North Carolina 1. +Lemurel BENTON 2. +Jesse BENTON Sr. Notes
Native of England (probably Worcester County). Was appointed Justice of Granville County Court in 1746. Sheriff in 1764. Member of House of Commons from 1760 to 1768. Registrar of the County from 1761 until his death in 1770. Clerk of Court of Common pleas and Quarter Sessions from 1764 to 1770. Lt. Col. of militia under Gov. Wm. Tyron in 1768 during some of the Regulator troubles. Gave land for new courthouse at Oxford Plantation – part of 1,000 acres he owned. Before 1763, was responsible for erecting St. George’s Chapel in Granville, South Carolina. Buried in family cemetary on plantation, Oxford Granville Co SC.
Children: 2 Samuel BENTON , Jr. b: ABT 1740 + UNKNOWN b: ABT 1740 2 Lemuel BENTON b: 23 Oct 1754 d: 18 May 1818 + Elizabeth KIMBROUGH b: ABT 1774 d: ABT 1855 2 Jesse BENTON , Sr. b: 1747 d: Aug 1791 + Ann (Nancy) GOOCH b: 1758 d: 3 Jan 1838 2 Joseph BENTON b: ABT 1740
Jesse BENTON Sr. 1747 – Aug 1791 ID Number: I99602
RESIDENCE: Granville and Orange Cos. NC BIRTH: 1747, Granville Co. North Carolina DEATH: Aug 1791, Orange Co. North Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S3615] Father: Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” Mother: Francis KIMBROUGH
Family 1 : Ann (Nancy) GOOCH 1. +Thomas Hart BENTON Notes
Member of the Assembly 1781. Owned a plantation on Eno River (Hartford) which was purchased from Thomas Hart III. See info. in Patriot Index, Vol. I (DAR Papers p. 55). Children: 2 Mary BENTON b: 1780 d: 1817 2 Thomas Hart BENTON b: 14 Mar 1782 d: 10 Apr 1858 + Elizabeth MCDOWELL b: 1794 d: Sep 1854 2 Jesse BENTON , Jr. b: 1783 d: Sep 1843 + Mary CHILDRESS b: ABT 1783 + Barnissa BENSON b: ABT 1783 2 Samuel BENTON b: 1785 + Mary HUNTER b: ABT 1785 2 Nathaniel BENTON b: 1786 + Unknown BRANCH b: ABT 1786 2 Margaret BENTON b: 1788 d: 1806 2 Ann “Nancy” BENTON b: 1788 d: 1807 2 Susannah BENTON b: 1791 d: 1811
Col. Lemurel BENTON 23 Oct 1754 – 18 May 1818 ID Number: I45174
TITLE: Col. OCCUPATION: Rev War Marion’s Brigade RESIDENCE: NC and Cheraw Dist. Darlington Co. SC BIRTH: 23 Oct 1754, Granville Co. North Carolina DEATH: 18 May 1818, Stoney Hill Estate, Darlington Co. South Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S1631] [S3615] Father: Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” Mother: Francis KIMBROUGH
Family 1 : Elizabeth KIMBROUGH 1. +Penelope BENTON 2. +Gilly Hinton BENTON Notes
Lemuel Benton, (1754-1818), served in Marion’s Brigade until the close of the war. In 1783 he was a delegate from St. David’s Parish to the Legislature. He was born in Granville Co., N. C.; died in Darlington District, S. C. Children: 2 John BENTON b: ABT 1794 2 Lemuel BENTON , Jr. b: ABT 1794 2 Buckleigh (Buckley) K. BENTON b: abt 1794 d: 1836 + UNKNOWN b: abt 1794 2 Alfred BENTON b: ABT 1794 2 Clarissa BENTON b: ABT 1794 + William Little THOMAS b: ABT 1794 2 Gillie Hinton BENTON b: ABT 1794 + Isaiah DUBOSE b: ABT 1794 2 Charlotte BENTON b: ABT 1794 + Laurence PRINCE b: ABT 1794 2 Elizabeth BENTON b: ABT 1794 + George BRUCE b: ABT 1794 2 Penelope BENTON b: ABT 1794 + William BROCKINTON b: ABT 1794
“Married his first cousin on his mother’s side. He and his brother, Jesse, signed the “Redressor Papers” in protest of the Regulator movement in NC before emigrating to SC. Then he moved to SC and settled in section of Cheraw District that is now Darlington Co SC. There he became a planter and acquired extensive landholding. During the Revolution, he attained the rank of Colonel and served under General Francis Marion as commander of the PeeDee force, retaining his commission until he resigned in 1794. He was a member of the legislature in 1781-84 and 1787.
He was Darlington Co Court Justice 1785-1791. He was Escheator of Cheraw District 1789-91. He was delegate to State Constitutional Convention in1790 and the 1788 Convention in Charleston that ratified the federal Constitution. He was elected the first congressional representative from the PeeDee District. He served as a Democrat in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Congresses 1793-99. He opposed the administration of John Adams and was defeated for re-election. He was buried on his estate, Stoney Hill. He and Elizabeth had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Only 1 son survived to reach manhood.”
Lemuel Benton (1754 – May 18, 1818) was an American planter and politician from Darlington County, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1799. Colonel Benton resided on Stoney Hill Farm, located in Darlington County near Mechanicsville. Stoney Hill is currently owned by the Burns family.
Other names: Williamson’s Bridge What: Skirmish, *Lt. Col. Lemuel Benton vs. unknown British (or allied) commandeer. Unknown date, 1780 (last half 1781?). Where: 34.2707096 -79.7867283 Black Creek 2, Williamson’s Bridge Maps: [map notes] 34.2707096 -79.7867283 Black Creek 2, Williamson’s Bridge ACME Mapper. National Map Google GNIS record for Williamsons Bridge. Note mapping options. Confidence: 5 Sources:
Terry Lipscomb, “South Carolina Revolutionary Battles – Part Ten (MS H-2-2)”, unpublished, p.29: Benton personally led his troops in a second skirmish higher up on Black Creek, which is believed to be the Battle of Williamson’s Bridge mentioned in local tradition; this corresponds to the present bridge on state secondary road 35 in Darlington County, four miles southeast of Darlington. Alexander Gregg, D.D., History of the Old Cheraws, Richardson And Company, 1867, pp.387, Another skirmish took place about this time, higher up on Black Creek, Colonel Benton commanding. The Tories were routed and fled, but being overtaken and surrounded, were forced to make a hand to hand fight, suffering very severely. Colonel Benton had no fire arms except his pistols. One man, pressed by the colonel, turned about, and was in the act of firing his musket, but, before he could do so, Benton discharged his pistol at him, missing him, however, then threw it at him and knocked him from his horse to the ground. JP: Black Creek Skirmishes 1 & 2 seem to have taken place in the last half 1781 or early 1782
of Granville County, North Carolina As a young man he moved to the Pee Dee section of Cheraw District, South Carolina. In 1789, he was granted 1,940 acres in Cheraw where he established his plantation, Stony Hill. Later he received grants for 659 acres at the fork of Saltketcher River in Colleton county and 89 acres on the Great Pee Dee River in Darlington District, South Carolina. [2, 6]
MILI He was commander of Pee Dee Reg’t., Francis Marion Brigade His first public service was in the militia during the American Revolution. He was commissioned a lieutenant (1775-1776), served as a captain (1776) and a major (1777), and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in command of the Cheraw militia (1781-1782). His regiment was allied with Francis Marion’s Brigade from 1781 until the end of the war, and his unit often confronted Tories in Black Creek skirmishes. After Yorktown, he continued to serve as colonel of the Cheraw Regiment until 1794 when he resigned his commission due to the appointment of Tristram Thomas as brigadier general of the Cheraw Brigade. [2, 6] Occupation 1st member of Congress (1790’s) elected from Upper Pee Dee; planter; sheriff of Cheraw District (1789, 1791); Darlington County court judge (1785, 1791), and commissioner, to superintend the opening of navigation of the Great Pee Dee River (1805) [2, 7] http://www.singletonfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I11821&tree=1
Lemuel Benton
Note for: Lemuel Benton, 23 OCT 1754 – 18 MAY 1818 Index
Residence: Place: Cheraw Dist. (Darlington County, SC)
Individual Note: Married his first cousin on his mother’s side. He and his brother, Jesse, signed the “Redressor Papers” in protest of the Regulator movement in NC before emigrating to SC. Then he moved to SC and settled in section of Cheraw District that is now Darlington Co SC. There he became a planter and acquired extensive landholding. During the Revolution, he attained the rank of Colonel and served under General Francis Marion as commander of the PeDee force, retaining his commission until he resigned in 1794. He was a member of the legislature in 1781-84 and 1787. He was Darlington Co Court Justice 1785-1791. He was Escheator of Cheraw District 1789-91. He was delegate to State Constitutional Convention in1790 and the the 1788 Convention in Charleston that ratified the federal Constitution. He was elected the first congressional representative from the PeDee District. He served as a Democrat in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Congresses 1793-99. He opposed the administration of John Adams and was defeated for reelection. He was buried on his estate, Stoney Hill. He and Elizabeth had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Only 1 son survived to reach manhood.
FROM: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000396 BENTON, Lemuel, (great-grandfather of George William Dargan), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Granville County, N.C., in 1754; as a young man moved to that section of Cheraw District which is now Darlington County, S.C.; engaged as a planter and subsequently became an extensive landowner; elected major of the Cheraw Regiment in 1777 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, being promoted to the rank of colonel in 1781; resigned his commission in 1794; member of the State house of representatives 1782-1788; county court justice of Darlington County in 1785 and 1791; escheator of Cheraw District (composed of what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Counties) in 1787; delegate to the State convention at Charleston that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; sheriff of Cheraw District in 1789 and 1791; delegate to the State constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790; elected to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1798 to the Sixth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Darlington, Darlington County, S.C., May 18, 1818; interment on his estate, “Stony Hill,” near Darlington, S.C.
Even though he was a Continental officer Marion had been elected to the South Carolina General Assembly as the senator for the Parish of St. John Berkeley. He left Horry in charge of his brigade while he was at the general assembly in Jacksonboro. Hezekiah Maham still considered his unit totally independent and would only take orders from General Greene, not Peter Horry. On the advice of Marion, Horry moved the brigade to Wambaw Creek near the Santee River. The forage was more available there and it had better protection from the British troops. Colonel Benjamin Thompson, a Loyalist from Massachusetts, learned that Marion was at the general assembly and that there was a breakdown in communications between Marion’s two colonels. Thompson decided to attack the partisans while their guard was down. Thompson had put together a cavalry force that consisted of all the mounted units in Charlestown. He wrote that “the principal objects of the expedition were to practice the Cavalry in marching in Regular order in the Enemy’s Country, and to accustom them to act with the mounted militia, who will be very useful in covering our flanks. They are all armed with rifles as well as Swords, and are perhaps the best marksmen in the world for shooting on horse back.” Horry was on the other side of the Santee River visiting his plantation and had left Colonel Archibald McDonald in command while he was gone. Marion had told Horry that if he had to absent himself for any reason the command should go to Maham, however Maham was with Marion at the assembly. On the morning of February 24th Colonel Thompson set out from Daniel’s Island and rode towards Marion’s camp. Colonel Lemuel Benton held a position at Durant’s Plantation. Benton’s men 33 Patrick O’Kelley consisted of two regiments of “six month’s men” and were made up of “reformed Tories.” These men had come in under Governor Rutledge’s amnesty proposal. Major William Benison commanded the scouts in St. Thomas’s and told Benton that the British were approaching his position. Benison proceeded to Colonel McDonald’s headquarters and also told him of the approaching enemy. Many of the officers there were eating dinner and most of the Patriot officers did not believe that the British were going to attack. Colonel Benton was one of the few who did believe the reports and rode to Durant’s plantation only to encounter the advance of Thompson’s army. Major John Doyle did not wait for the rest of the cavalry force to arrive and charged Marion’s men at Wambaw Bridge. Major William Young wounded Benton as he was about to cut down Lieutenant Simon Jones, Thompson’s adjutant. Benton’s dragoons fled and raced across the Wambaw Bridge. The stress was too much for the old bridge and it broke under the weight of men and horses. Many of Benton’s men tried swimming across and a few drowned. The men who had not fled across the bridge hid themselves in thickets. This saved them from capture and death because the British were giving no quarter. Major James had two British dragoons try to cut him down, but he kept them at a distance with his pistols. He leapt the twenty foot chasm in the bridge and rode to safety. The rest of Marion’s Brigade fell back to Mrs. Tydiman’s Plantation in between Echaw and Wambaw. Thompson continued to raid the countryside and was able to capture and parole Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.25 Beaufort, South Carolina Skirmish 24 February 1782 Colonel Robert Barnwell and his St. Helena Volunteer Militia Company attempted to cross the Savannah River at Beaufort to burn the British stores in Georgia. He was attacked by the Beaufort Loyalist militia under the command of Major Andrew Deveaux and
If I had become Governor of Oregon I was going to reach out to Democratic Voters of South Carolina and create a Cultural Exchange. Disney should have another go with a new Swamp Fox show.American History is not going away.
The theme song (“Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat…”[3]) was sung by Nielsen as well.[4]Myron Healey played Marion’s top aide, Maj./Col. Peter Horry. One of the Swamp Fox’s adversaries was Colonel Banastre Tarleton, played by John Sutton. Patrick Macnee played a British captain, Tim Considine played Marion’s nephew Gabe Marion and Slim Pickens played Plunkett, one of the Swamp Fox’s men. Hal Stalmaster appeared in three of the eight episodes as “Gwynn.” The Swamp Fox did not bring to Disney the commercial success that had been achieved by Davy Crockett.
The series encompassed eight intermittent episodes running from 1959 to 1961 as part of Walt Disney Presents.[5] Episodes were presented on Sundays on ABC from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and were also broadcast by CBC Television.
The Disney Channel reran Swamp Fox episodes in the 1980s and 1990s,[6] while Nielsen was at the height of a second career as a white-haired comedy movie star. The first three episodes of the series were also released in 2005 on DVD (in a set including three episodes of The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca).
American Merchant Marine and Privateers in War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought over the Merchant Marine. The British were seizing American ships on the high seas, and forcing seamen to join the British navy or merchant navy. In addition, Britain seized vessels bound for Europe that did not first call at a British port. France retaliated, confiscating vessels if they had first stopped in Britain. Together they seized nearly 1,500 American vessels between 1803 and 1812.
The War was fought by merchant ships, because the U.S. had almost no Navy. The battle cry was; “Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights!” During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy and Privateers together captured 30,000 prisoners, while the American army captured 6,000 British prisoners. Privateers captured British prizes worth almost $40,000,000.
A year ago I discovered there was a ship named Rosamond that was a Privateer. I wonder if she was owned by Captain Samuel Rosamond of Charleston. She was sunk with all hands lost. She was carrying $100,000 in plunder. Captain Samuel Rosamond was a true Patriot who fought alongside the Swamp Fox who was depicted in the movie ‘The Patriot’ starring Mel Gibson.
Samuel owned two lots on Bay Street in Charleston that was spelled Charles Town. Two days ago I saw ‘Black Sails’ for the first time. When I saw Flint’s ship sailing into Charles Town that was located on New Providence, my jaw dropped. I was looking at the replication of real history as lived by my Rosamond kindred. When I saw the moody look of Bonny Ann, I whispered…….”Rena”.
When she came at me out of the darkened doorway at the Venice Pier at 2:3o A.M. I restrained my gasp! Rena became my muse, and later Christine’s after she saw the large painting I did of her. Rosamond lived in Pacific Grove where Robert Lewis Stevens took haunting walks. Point Lobos was his model for ‘Treasure Island’ that Black Sails is based upon. My kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, starred in ‘The Sandpiper’ a movie about a artist who lives by the sea near Rocky Point at Pfeiffer Beach. Did Liz ever star in a Pirate movie – with Richard Burton?
Below is the reply I got from my Congressman. I sent his a e-mail almost two weeks ago. I included some of the history of Samuel and James Rosamond. The latter is the great, great, great grandfather if Liz, and myself.
It has all come together, my struggle and long journey. I have immortalized my family. They will forever be in the Congressional Record, and forever known as Patriots. It remains to be discovered whether we were Privateers. John Rosamond was titled ‘The Highwayman’. He served in the militia and had two sons, Samuel and James.
When David Pressly was born on January 12, 1764, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, David, was 34 and his mother, Esther, was 33. He immigrated to America c.1767 arriving in Charleston, South Carolina[1] and in the autumn of 1776, volunteered as a Patriot from Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, USA (Yes, he was really about 12 years old!).[2] David married Ann Edmiston (1763–1848) on November 16, 1784, in Abbeville, South Carolina. Their known children are:
The Greatest Movie Never Made is…….GONE WITH THE ROSE!
Starring….Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and, Elvis Presley.
Synopsis: Private Jimmy Rosamond Purvis of the Pennsylvania Union Rifles, volunteers to be a Union Spy and spy on the Confederacy in South Carolina. Taking a bullet to the shoulder, he is caught hiding in a barn located on the Rosemont Plantation by Rosalynd Louisiana Rosemont, a Southern Belle if there ever was one. It is love at first sight. Rosalynd nurses Jimmy back to health. She shows him a photograph of her brother who was killed in a battle with General Sherman.
“That’s my aunt Polly. She went to a family reunion of our Pressley kin, and never came home! Shouts Jimmy!
“Are you lying to me, Jimmy? Are you saying we are cousins?”
When Jimmy confesses, he is a Union Spy, they are both torn down the middle. Where do, or should, their family loyalty, lie. Jimmy writes Rosalynd a poem.
“Jimmy. Tell me the truth. Did you plagiarize this poem – from Shakespeare?”
“Kind of. You see, I’m kin to Shakespeare through my Webb kinfolk! It’s – in my genes!”
“Oh my God! General Webb is riding here now to see my father. You got to hide. If he spots you he’s going to want to do your family tree, because – you look just like my brother, William!”
If this movie was made in 1962, and, Elvis sang four Southern-like songs, it would have been the biggest hit – of all time! Every drive-in would be filled.
John Presco
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Love me forever my tender rose never let me go. You have made my life complete, and I love you so.
Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfilled. For my darlin’ I love you, and I always will.
Love me tender, love me long, take me to your heart. For it’s there that I belong, and we’ll never part.
Love me tender, love me dear, tell me you are mine. I’ll be yours through all the years, till the end of time.
(When at last my dreams come true Darling this I know Happiness will follow you Everywhere you go).
An American man who was captured and held by Russian forces in Ukraine has said Russian authorities acted as if they believed he was “007” during his detention.
Tyler Jacob, a 28-year-old who had been teaching English in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, told CNN‘s Don Lemon on Tuesday that the Russians believe in the “myth” of fictional British spy James Bond and suspected Jacob was using English teaching as a cover story.
Jacob was taken off a bus by Russian soldiers in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and was detained at a jail in the city of Simferopol where he was questioned. His phone, laptop and tablet were also searched.
Some Russian military units suffering heavy losses in Ukraine have been forced to return to Belarus and Russia to resupply, placing additional pressure on Russia’s already strained logistics, the British Defense Ministry said in an assessment Wednesday.
Lemon spoke to Jacob and his mother, Tina Hauser, on Tuesday night and asked him about his experience and Russian suspicions that he was a spy.
[fn p. 8:in August 1845 in Anderson district South Carolina, Mrs. Ann Pressley, 84, submitted the record of the births of her children in support of her assertion that she was acquainted with Samuel Rosamond a Captain in the war of the revolution and Colonel Anderson’s Regiment and his wife Sarah Hodges before their marriage; that they were married prior to the birth of her 2nd child, James Pressley in August 1787 and that they lived together as husband and wife during her acquaintance with them. That family record reads as follows: David Pressley & Ann Edmiston was maried Novr 16th 1784 Pressley Junior was born January 29th 1786 and departed this life March 21st Insuing James Pressley was born August 7th 1787 Mary Ann Pressley was born June 26 1789 David Pressley Junior was born March 26 1791 Abner Edmiston Presley was born January 27th 1793 Esther Brown Presley was born May first 1795 Janet Pressley was born December 8th 1796 and died October 8th 1797 Jean Miller Presley was born March 15th 1799 Elizeth Pressley was born April 3rd 1800 Agnes Pressley was born February 17th 1802 Rachel [illegible] Presley was born December 10th 1803 A Daughter born October 3rd 1805 and departed this life on the 25th day of her age being 3 weeks & 4 days old
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Biography
When David Pressly was born on January 12, 1764, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, his father, David, was 34 and his mother, Esther, was 33. He immigrated to America c.1767 arriving in Charleston, South Carolina[1] and in the autumn of 1776, volunteered as a Patriot from Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, USA (Yes, he was really about 12 years old!).[2] David married Ann Edmiston (1763–1848) on November 16, 1784, in Abbeville, South Carolina. Their known children are:
David Pressly, Jr. (1786–1786)
James Alexander Pressley (1787–bef.1830)
Mary Ann Pressly (1789–)
David Pressly, Jr. (1791–)
Alexander Edmiston Pressly (1793–1863)
Esther Brown Pressly (1796–)
Jean Pressly (1796–1797)
Jane Miller Pressly (1800 – unknown)
Elizabeth Pressly (1800–)
Nancy Agness Pressly (1802–1872)
Rachal Miller Pressly (1803–)
He died on May 11, 1834, in Anderson, South Carolina, at the age of 70.[3]
American Merchant Marine and Privateers in War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought over the Merchant Marine. The British were seizing American ships on the high seas, and forcing seamen to join the British navy or merchant navy. In addition, Britain seized vessels bound for Europe that did not first call at a British port. France retaliated, confiscating vessels if they had first stopped in Britain. Together they seized nearly 1,500 American vessels between 1803 and 1812.
The War was fought by merchant ships, because the U.S. had almost no Navy. The battle cry was; “Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights!” During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy and Privateers together captured 30,000 prisoners, while the American army captured 6,000 British prisoners. Privateers captured British prizes worth almost $40,000,000.
A year ago I discovered there was a ship named Rosamond that was a Privateer. I wonder if she was owned by Captain Samuel Rosamond of Charleston. She was sunk with all hands lost. She was carrying $100,000 in plunder. Captain Samuel Rosamond was a true Patriot who fought alongside the Swamp Fox who was depicted in the movie ‘The Patriot’ starring Mel Gibson.
Samuel owned two lots on Bay Street in Charleston that was spelled Charles Town. Two days ago I saw ‘Black Sails’ for the first time. When I saw Flint’s ship sailing into Charles Town that was located on New Providence, my jaw dropped. I was looking at the replication of real history as lived by my Rosamond kindred. When I saw the moody look of Bonny Ann, I whispered…….”Rena”.
When she came at me out of the darkened doorway at the Venice Pier at 2:3o A.M. I restrained my gasp! Rena became my muse, and later Christine’s after she saw the large painting I did of her. Rosamond lived in Pacific Grove where Robert Lewis Stevens took haunting walks. Point Lobos was his model for ‘Treasure Island’ that Black Sails is based upon. My kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, starred in ‘The Sandpiper’ a movie about a artist who lives by the sea near Rocky Point at Pfeiffer Beach. Did Liz ever star in a Pirate movie – with Richard Burton?
Below is the reply I got from my Congressman. I sent his a e-mail almost two weeks ago. I included some of the history of Samuel and James Rosamond. The latter is the great, great, great grandfather if Liz, and myself.
It has all come together, my struggle and long journey. I have immortalized my family. They will forever be in the Congressional Record, and forever known as Patriots. It remains to be discovered whether we were Privateers. John Rosamond was titled ‘The Highwayman’. He served in the militia and had two sons, Samuel and James.
Thank you for contacting me regarding your concerns with the outcome of the presidential election. I appreciate hearing from you on this important topic.
Following the November 8 election I have heard from hundreds of my constituents who are worried about their personal safety, civil rights and freedoms and that of their children and communities under the Trump Administration.
I signed on to a letter with over 160 of my colleagues to President-elect Trump urging him to rescind his appointment of Stephen Bannon as White House Chief Strategist. As the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, Bannon repeatedly published stories that promote racism, xenophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism. The appointment runs counter to Trump’s election night promise to be a president to all Americans and sets a troubling precedent for his administration.
I plan to fight any attempts to weaken, privatize or dismantle Social Security or Medicare. I will continue to push for a reversal of Citizens United, so the voice of American citizens is no longer drowned out by dark corporate campaign cash. I will push back on any proposals to undo consumer financial protections that allow big banks to prey on working Americans.
We live in a constitutional representative democracy. The President does not possess dictatorial powers. There is a need to bring the country back together. In the coming years, Congress and the Trump Administration will have to work to find common ground. I n particular, I look forward to working with this administration on a new trade policy. I have voted against each and every so-called “free trade agreement,” which have exported quality American jobs to seek out the cheapest, most exploitable labor around the world. We need to change that.
Additionally, President-Elect Trump has talked about a trillion dollar investment in our crumbling infrastructure. That money could be well-spent to put hundreds of thousands of people to work, make our country more competitive, get people out of congestion , and save on fuel. I have ideas about how to fund that investment and I look forward to working with him on that when possible.
I will otherwise look for places where we can make common cause. W hen I find it necessary to disagree with this administration and their proposed policies, as I have with every president, Democrat or Republican, I will do my best to represent my district and the needs of my people, my state, and our country as best I can.
We’re the oldest representative democracy on Earth, and we’ve withstood a lot of crises. We’ve had a civil war, where we killed one another within our own country. We’ve been through the Great Depression, and even the threat of Nazism. We’ve stood up to a lot of things, and we can find common cause to draw together again. You can be sure I will continue to support vital programs and the fight for equality for individuals of every religion, gender, sexual orientation, and race.
Thanks again for contacting me, and for your engagement in the political process. Please keep in touch.
Sincerely,
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PETER DeFAZIO
To: Congressman Peter de Fazio and Senator Ron Wyden
At his press conference, Donald Trump produced a stack of legal documents he would not let reporters see. He says the read, and signed, papers, turned his business over to his children who will get everything when he dies. Why not leave everything to the American People, now, and let his children make their own money, like most of us who don’t have a legacy? Many suspect there were blank pieces of paper inside. Is this a hoax?
I am asking my Congressman and Senator to put these documents in the public domain. There is a precedent for doing this, being Revolutionary War Veterans, and their Widows, had to submit papers to the United States Government, and, undergo questioning, in order to receive some of the first monies given by our Founding Fathers to our first citizens. This was the case of my kindred, Captain Samuel Rosamond, and his first wife, Ann Pressley, also spelled, Presley. There was even an instance where cash grants were given to families who were on the brink of starvation due to our desire to be free. Why not author a Trump Trust that goes to paying off the National Debt? Every three months Ivanka can recite how much debt has been paid by the Trump Dynasty. When Trump leaves office, he and his children would be free to make, and keep, as much money as they want. Who knows, Obama might give Donald an award – before he takes office!
In looking at my family tree, and these records, we see slaves being left in the Wills of brave men who founded one of the strongest democracies the world has ever known, thus these chained men and women contributed to the financial strength of our nation’s first families. They took care of the children and property of these fighting men. I suggest that anyone who can produce evidence they were the property of these world famous Rebels, be compensated. I suggest the First Family to be, offer a Freedom Bounty to the grandchildren of slaves. This amount can be determined by our elected Lawmakers, or, by all members of the Trump family who subscribe to economic incentives – and higher education! A thousand dollars can go to school supplies.
Because Trump and Putin have a great interest in Coats of Arms, any slave descendant of a family who owned a Coat of Arms, will be awarded a special Freedom Coat of Arms that will contain the image of The Liberty Tree, along with their family name.
Because the Republicans put before our Lawmakers one frivolous Bill after another, may I suggest a Bill be introduced that forbid President Trump from forming a motorcycle club modeled after the Knight Wolves of Russia, who are considered Putin’s storm troopers. The leader of the Knight Wolves wants additions made to the Russia Coat of Arms that Putin installed, that contains a SERPENT and TWO-HEADED EAGLE!
“And the President will wear no colors of any motorcycle club lest it appear his intention is to ride hard all over the countryside, and with other lawless men, terrorize the good citizenry.”
Elvis Presley was kin to President Carter, and may be in my family tree, along with Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor.
John Presco
That he is the son of Samuel and Sarah Rosamond both now deceased. That his Father the said Samuel Rosamond was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution in the South Carolina Militia. That he held the rank of Lieutenant and Captain in Colonel Anderson’s Regiment — and for proof of the services of the said Samuel Rosamond he refers to the evidence hereto annexed. And deponent further states that he is informed and believes that the said Samuel and Sarah Rosamond his parents were legally married in Abbeville District South Carolina on the __ day of __ 1785. And deponent further states that the said Samuel Rosamond died on the 11th day of August 1814 in Anderson District South Carolina leaving the said Sarah Rosamond his widow and that she remains his widow to the period of her death.
In 1724, my ancestor John ROSAMOND and his friend William Ray were arrested in Abingdon, Berkshire, England for stealing a hat, periwig, 30 pounds British sterling, five pairs of shoes, and a brown gelding. They were held in the gaol in Reading, Berkshire, after their trial where they were sentenced to be exiled to the colonies for 14 years hard labor. By March 1725, they were transported to Newgate Prison and held there until they boarded the convict ship “Forward” owned by Jonathan Forward, and captained by Daniel Russell. The ship set sail on 28 September 1725 from London via the Thames River. The ship arrived disbarked at Annapolis, Maryland on 8 December 1725. We don’t know who bought his indenture, but he is recorded as being in CPT Beall’s militia of Prince George Co, Maryland between 1734-1737. By 1747-1765 we find John ROSAMOND living in Augusta Co, Virginia and listed as a master shoemaker, owned land, paid tithes, served in the militia, etc.
Deep in the wilderness of the Peninsula, he emerged from dense forest into a “dream-like” town—brand-new houses built on a trim grid of parallel streets and right angles. Yet the place was eerily deserted and there was “no sound but of the waves.” Stevenson had unwittingly stumbled into the recently constructed Methodist camp that would eventually become the town of Pacific Grove.
Stevenson’s long, ranging hikes took him around the rocky shore of Point Pinos, which reminded him of Scotland. He admired “the lighthouse in a wilderness of sand” with an expert eye. He delved deep into what is now Pebble Beach’s Del Monte Forest and haunted the area’s groves of live oak, which he called, “the kind of wood for murderers to crawl among.” He lurked through the grotesque, wind-sculpted Monterey pine and cypress: “No words can give the idea of the contortion of their growth,” he writes. “They might figure without change in a circle of the nether hell as Dante pictured it.”
Twenty-something Laura Reynolds is a free spirit who questions social conventions, laws and regulations. A struggling artist, she lives in a secluded beach-side cabin in Big Sur with her nine year old illegitimate son, Danny, on who she has instilled her values.
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters Pension application of Samuel Rosamond W4579 Sarah fn55SC Transcribed by Will Graves 12/4/09 [Methodology: Spelling, punctuation and/or grammar have been corrected in some instances for ease of reading and to facilitate searches of the database. Also, the handwriting of the original scribes often lends itself to varying interpretations. Users of this database are urged to view the original and to make their own decision as to how to decipher what the original scribe actually wrote. Blanks appearing in the transcripts reflect blanks in the original. Folks are free to make non-commercial use this transcript in any manner they may see fit, but please extend the courtesy of acknowledging the transcriber—besides, if it turns out the transcript contains mistakes, the resulting embarrassment will fall on the transcriber.]
State of Georgia will County: Special Inferior Court January 14 day 1845 On this day of January 1845 personally appeared before the Honorable the Inferior Court held in and for said County and State the same being a Court of record, Mr. James Rosamond a resident of said County and State aforesaid aged 38 years past who being duly sworn according to law saith that the following statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief and according to the information given him by his parents in which he verily believes to be true viz. That he is the son of Samuel and Sarah Rosamond both now deceased. That his Father the said Samuel Rosamond was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution in the South Carolina Militia. That he held the rank of Lieutenant and Captain in Colonel Anderson’s Regiment — and for proof of the services of the said Samuel Rosamond he refers to the evidence hereto annexed. And deponent further states that he is informed and believes that the said Samuel and Sarah Rosamond his parents were legally married in Abbeville District South Carolina on the __ day of __ 1785. And deponent further states that the said Samuel Rosamond died on the 11th day of August 1814 in Anderson District South Carolina leaving the said Sarah Rosamond his widow and that she remains his widow to the period of her death. That she died on the 25th day of April 1844 without ever applying for a pension leaving Elizabeth Phyles, Ezekiel in right of wife Margaret Powell[,] Barksdale in right of wife Sarah Garrison[,] Abner in right of wife Lucinda Clark[,] James S in right in right of wife Jane Liddel[,] Madison Rosamond, Richard Rosamond, Mary Clark and James Rosamond, this deponent — her only surviving children and legal heirs then living. That this affiant was informed in the winter of 1844 that the act of Congress of 7 July 1838 gave pensions to widows of soldiers that were married prior to 1794 for the military services of their husband. That this affiant made some exertions prior to the death of his said mother Sarah Rosamond by letters to procure the necessary proof in order to procure her pension and that she died on the day aforesaid and never made application for pension. That He has qualified as administrator on the Estate of his mother Sarah Rosamond and makes this Declaration to obtain the pension due her at the time of her death. S/ James Rosamond
[fn p. 8: in August 1845 in Anderson district South Carolina, Mrs. Ann Pressley, 84, submitted the record of the births of her children in support of her assertion that she was acquainted with Samuel Rosamond a Captain in the war of the revolution and Colonel Anderson’s Regiment and his wife Sarah Hodges before their marriage; that they were married prior to the birth of her 2nd child, James Pressley in August 1787 and that they lived together as husband and wife during her acquaintance with them. That family record reads as follows: David Pressley & Ann Edmiston was maried Novr 16th 1784 Pressley Junior was born January 29th 1786 and departed this life March 21st Insuing James Pressley was born August 7th 1787 Mary Ann Pressley was born June 26 1789 David Pressley Junior was born March 26 1791 Abner Edmiston Presley was born January 27th 1793 Esther Brown Presley was born May first 1795 Janet Pressley was born December 8th 1796 and died October 8th 1797 Jean Miller Presley was born March 15th 1799 Elizeth Pressley was born April 3rd 1800 Agnes Pressley was born February 17th 1802 Rachel [illegible] Presley was born December 10th 1803 A Daughter born October 3rd 1805 and departed this life on the 25th day of her age being 3 weeks & 4 days old
[fn p. 12: Abner Clark testified on April 21, 1845 in Walton County Georgia that Sarah Rosamond’s home was burned in 1834 along with all its contents which may have included the Bible record of the marriage of said Sarah to Samuel Rosamond and the birth dates of their children.]
[fn p. 33] State of South Carolina Abbeville District Be known that the 14th day of May 1844 before me John C. Waters a Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Moore1 1 a resident of the said District and State aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement that he was acquainted with Samuel Rosamond and served in the company [indecipherable word or words] with said Samuel and that said Samuel was Lieutenant and Captain in the war of the Revolution the deponent states the dates he does not well recollect that the said Samuel was Lieutenant in this militia before independence was declared under the command of Captain Jones and as soon as volunteers was called for the said Samuel volunteered and held a commission of Lieutenant under Captain Crain Jones Colonel Robert Anderson and General Andrew Pickens until about the year 82 the said Samuel was appointed Captain (after the Resignation of said Captain Crain Jones) the deponent further states that he [was?] not with the said Samuel during the war of the Revolution with the exception of one small Tour that was at a station called Due West Corner against the Cherokee Indians and that the said Samuel held the command of Lieutenant at that Tour the deponent thinks that tour was in the year 79 Due West Corner is in the district and State aforesaid the deponent further states the reason he cannot give a full detail of the said Samuel’s Tours is that he the deponent as soon as he was large enough to do militia duty enlisted and was in the lower part of the State when the Principal Battles was fought in the upper part of the State but when he the deponent returned home he was informed from the most respected men that the Samuel was at the siege of Ninety Six and also at a battle at Kettle Creek in the State of Georgia, the said [affiant] further states that the said Samuel Rosamond and Sarah Hodges he believes was lawfully and at any rate they settled in Abbeville District in the said State and lived together as such and was understood by all that Thomas Moore S21387 knew to be man & fife [sic, wife] and after a number of years then moved to Pendleton District and that he has been informed that the said Samuel died in Pendleton District but he does not recollect the day when he moved or when he died. S/ Thomas Moore
State of South Carolina Abbeville District: Be it known that on this 15th day of always 1845 before me John C. Waters a Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid personally appeared Thomas Moore a resident of said District aged 83 years past who being duly sworn according to law saith on oath that he resided in Abbeville District ever since and before the Commencement of the War of the Revolution and did himself rendered services in the American cause and that Peace was ratified in November 1783 — And that he deponent was married in September 1785 near 2 years after Peace was ratified and that deponent’s oldest Child was born September the following say 1786 — deponent further states that was personally acquainted with Samuel Rosamond who was a Captain in the South Carolina militia in Colonel Anderson’s Regiment and Sarah Hodges before the Commencement of the War of the Revolution and knows that they were married in the course of the year following after deponent was married namely in the year 1786 – prior to the Birth of deponent’s eldest child in September 1786. s/ Thomas Moor
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Rev. William H. Hodges. The father of our subject was James L. Hodges, a native of South Carolina, where he was born about 1787, and was the son of William and Elizabeth Hodges, also of South Carolina. Mr. Hodges, Sr., was married, in about 1810, to Sarah Comings, and they were the parents of eleven children: Francis, Nancy, Thomas, Elizabeth, William H., Sarah, Margaret, James, Mary, Martha and Benjamin F. William H. was born in South Carolina on March 22, 1822, and came to Mississippi with his parents when but eight years of age, where he was reared on a farm. He was married, in 1844, to Sarah F. Roseman, a daughter of Samuel and Frances (Hill) Roseman. After his marriage he settled on a farm, where he resided until 1869. As the result of this union the following children were born: James S., Casandria E. (deceased), Thomas H, John F., William A., Benjamin F. (deceased), Marshall L., Sarah F., Archie N. (deceased), Emmett L. and Joseph T. They also have twenty-seven grandchildren. Mr. Hodges commenced preaching the Gospel in Choctaw County, Miss., in 1863. In 1869 he came to Arkansas and settled in White County and in Cane Township, on 240 acres of land, of which he now has about 100 acres under cultivation. Mr.Hodges is pastor of the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church. He has been a very active worker in his labors and has organized four churches in this neighborhood.
Came to Mississippi with his parents in 1830. He became a Baptist Minister in 1863 in Choctaw County, Mississippi. He moved to White County, Arkansas in 1869. He married Sarah Frances Roseman, daughter of Samuel Roseman and Francis Hill Roseman.
On 9 January 1813 while cruising between Curacao and the Spanish Main FELLOWES retook a brig and learnt that she had been taken by one of three American privateers in the area. He went in pursuit and discovered her the next morning off Porto Cabello and after a long chase he got within range at 2 o’clock on the morning of the 11th. and drove the privateer ashore on Point Hicacos. Her commander and 24 men were drowned trying to reach the shore. She proved to be the ROSAMOND of 8 heavy guns and 105 men and she had on board 100,000 dollars in specie beside other plunder.
On 9 January 1813, Fawn captured the Spanish brig Teneriffe and sent her into Port Cavello.[25] From her Fellowes found out that her captor was one of three American privateers that had come from a rendezvous between Beata and Saint Domingo. Fawn set out in pursuit and on 10 January Fellowes sighted a strange vessel. After a long and arduous chase during which the batteries of Port Cavello fired on the privateer to prevent her entering,[20]Fawn succeeded in chasing the American privateer Rosamond, of eight guns and 105 or 120 men, on shore.[26]Rosamond ran on shore on Point Hicacos where her captain and 24 men drowned in attempting to reach the land. Rosamond had on board $100,000 in specie and valuable merchandize, the plunder of various English and Spanish vessels.[20]
An Act for the relief af Alexander Scott. July 22, 1813. Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary for the Department of State Account to be be directed to cause to be settled the accounts of Alexander Scott, for “”l°d· his trouble and expenses in liberating from confinement, in supplying with provisions and other necessaries, and in sending from Porto Cavello to the port of New York, the crew of the private armed schooner Rosamond, who were confined on board a Spanish armed vessel at that place; and also for his trouble and expenses in supplying with provisions and other necessaries, and in sending sundry distressed American seamen from Porto Rico to the port of New York; and that he allow the said Alexander Scott full reimbursement for all expenses incurred for the purposes aforesaid, and also such compensation for his trouble therein as may be deemed just and equitable. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding nine Appropriation. thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes aforesaid
Rainbow Row is the name for a series of thirteen colorful historic houses in Charleston, South Carolina. It represents the longest cluster of Georgian row houses in the United States. The houses are located north of Tradd St. and south of Elliot St. on East Bay Street, that is, 79 to 107 East Bay Street. The name Rainbow Row was coined after the pastel colors they were painted as they were restored in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a popular tourist attraction and is one of the most photographed parts of Charleston
Rainbow Row originally fronted directly on the riverfront of the Cooper River, but that land was subsequently filled in. Merchants constructed commercial buildings with stores on the first (ground) floor and living quarters above. Most of the buildings had no interior access between the first and second floors; exterior stairs were located in the yards behind the houses. In 1778, a fire destroyed much of the neighborhood, and only 95 to 101 East Bay Street were spared.
After the Civil War, this area of Charleston devolved into near slum conditions. In the 1920s, Susan Pringle Frost, the founder of the Society for the Preservation of Old Dwellings, now the Preservation Society of Charleston, bought six of the buildings, but she lacked the money to restore them immediately. In 1931, Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge purchased a section of these, house numbering 99 through 101 East Bay, and began to renovate them. She chose to paint these houses pink based on a colonial Caribbean color scheme. Other owners and future owners followed suit, creating the “rainbow” of pastel colors present today. The coloring of the houses helped keep the houses cool inside as well as give the area its name. By 1945, most of the houses had been restored.[1]
Common myths concerning Charleston include variants on the reasons for the paint colors. According to some tales, the houses were painted in the various colors such that the intoxicated sailors coming in from port could remember which houses they were to bunk in. In other versions, the colors of the buildings date from their use as stores; the colors were used so that owners could tell illiterate slaves which building to go to for shopping.
Rainbow Row is composed of thirteen different buildings, most of which share party walls with their neighboring houses. The following are summaries of the buildings.
The two-part structure at the northwest corner of Tradd St. and East Bay St. anchors the southern end of Rainbow Row. The southernmost building dates from about 1845 (making it the newest building in Rainbow Row), while the adjoining building at 81 East Bay St. was built after a 1778 fire and before 1785.[2]
The William Stone House was built in about 1784 by a Tory merchant who left Charleston for England during the Revolutionary War. An earlier building was destroyed in a fire in 1778, but it had been replaced by the time the tract was sold in 1784. Susan Pringle Frost bought 83 East Bay Street and restored it as a dwelling in 1941, adding a neoclassical balcony to the front and replacing a storefront with a Colonial Revival style door.[3]
The house at 85 East Bay Street was probably built near the time of the American Revolution. Like others on Rainbow Row, it had a commercial use on the ground floor (viz., a ship chandlery) and living space above. The interior living space displays Chinese Chippendale details. In 1944, the house was purchased by Mrs. Louise Graves and restored. It was the last house along Rainbow Row to be restored following many years of vacancy.[4]
In 1778, a former building was destroyed in a fire and was replaced by Scottish merchant James Gordon after he bought the land in 1792. The four-story building was purchased by Susan Pringle Frost in 1920, and she subsequently did some of the restoration work. She added a balcony to the front of the house before reselling it in 1955. The house still has its original windows and stucco.[5]
Like its neighbors, 89 East Bay Street, also known as the Deas-Tunno House, was built for commercial uses with residential space above. It was constructed in about 1770 and is unlike most houses along Rainbow Row in that it includes a side yard separating it from the adjacent house to the south. The garden is screened by a wall with a balustrade. A garage fronts the sidewalk.[6]
Merchants Peter Leger and William Greenwood bought a building at 91 East Bay Street in 1774, but it was destroyed in a fire in 1778. In 1793, the building was sold to Nathaniel Russell, a Rhode Island merchant. After a series of owners and uses, Susan Pringle Frost bought the house in 1920; she sold it to New York playwright John McGowan in 1941. McGowan removed Greek Revival details which had been added to the house in the 19th century and had the current details created including the large arched doors on the first floor and roofline.[7] In the panoramic photo above, 91 East Bay St. is the second house from the left. In the panoramic photo above, the house is at the extreme right edge.
The James Cook House was built in about 1778 and had a commercial use on the first floor with a residence above. Following its restoration, there is a kitchen and dining room on the first floor and a drawing room and library on the second floor.[8] In the panoramic photo above, 93 East Bay St. is the bright yellow house, third from the left.
Because of gaps in the chain of title, a builder for 95 East Bay Street has been impossible to pinpoint. However, it has stylistic clues which suggest a connection to the neighboring houses at 97 and 99-101 East Bay Street and a possible connection to the builder of those buildings, Othniel Beale. In 1779, 95 East Bay Street was owned by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. In 1789, a commercial interest bought the property, but the storefront window was later replaced with the existing pair of entrances and small windows.[9] The house was restored by New York playwright John McGowan in 1938.[10] In the panoramic photo above, 95 East Bay St. is the green, four story house with Flemish gable roofline.
Othniel Beale bought the lot upon which 97 East Bay St. is built in March 1741 for a price not indicating the presence of a building. When he added a small piece of land to his lot in 1748, the deed referred to his “new Brick Store” as one of the landmarks. Beale also built the adjoining 99-101 East Bay St., a building which shares a roof, party wall, and decorative elements. After the death of Beale, both properties passed through several owners and uses. Susan Pringle Frost bought 97 East Bay Street and resold it in 1936.[11] Judge Lionel K. Legge and Mrs. Dorothy Legge undertook a restoration of 99-101 East Bay Street starting in July 1931.[12] Their house was the first on Rainbow Row to be restored along Rainbow Row; Mrs. Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge was recognized for her groundbreaking restoration work on the house with an award from the Preservation Society of Charleston in 1992.[13] Detailed plans of the house were produced for the Historic American Buildings Survey and can be viewed here. In the panoramic photo above, 99-101 East Bay St. is the widest house shown, and 97 East Bay is the blue house with three windows and a door on the ground floor to its left.
The Joseph Dulles House was built about 1787. The builder was an ancestor of John Foster Dulles. The house was restored in the 1930s by Anna Wells Rutledge with the assistance of architects Simons and Lapham.[14]
The Dutarque-Guida House was built after the tract was acquired by Lewis Dutarque in 1778.[15] The sales price in 1784 suggests that the house had been built in that small window.[15] The building was bought by Italian immigrant Giovanni Domenico Guida who installed an iron, Victorian storefront on the building with his name displayed. Anna Wells Rutledge purchased the building in 1970 and retained the storefront. It is the only building on Rainbow Row to retain its Victorian storefront.[16]
John Blake bought the lot at the southwest corner of Elliott St. and East Bay St. in 1791 and immediately executed an agreement with the owner of the neighboring property to the south at 105 East Bay St. The neighboring house had been built eight inches across the property line onto Blake’s new lot. In exchange for receiving a deed to the misplaced wall, Blake agreed to build a gutter to drain water from between the existing building and the one which he planned to construct. Thus, 107 East Bay Street seems to date to about 1792. During more than 200 years, the house has seen many alterations to its appearance and interior. Indeed, when the house was bought by Irving Solomon in the 1970s, the new owner was unable to determine the original configuration for restoration. A two-story kitchen house stands behind 107 East Bay St. and can be seen from Elliott St.; it is now a separate house titled 1 Elliott St.[17]
Mortages 1786 – 1815 South Carolina
Mortgages, 1786-1815 Series: S218157In South Carolina the American Revolution was a bitter civil war, and the state emerged from that conflict with heavy damage to property and its economy in shambles. The Paper Medium Loan was one of a number of measures of debtor relief passed by the General Assembly in the 1780s. Like some of the other measures, it primarily helped large planters, many of them in the lowcountry.Series 218157, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, consists of signed and sealed mortgages to the Commissioners of the Loan Office. Information includes the name of the person receiving the loan, a description of property being mortgaged, the amount of the loan, and the terms of the loan. Many of the signatures were cut out or defaced in the process of recording the satisfaction of the loans. In a few cases receipts have been substituted for removed mortgages that explain their removal for use in legal proceedings.Property descriptions for mortgaged real estate usually include acreage; physical location including natural features, boundaries, and surrounding landholders; and description of how the property was acquired by the owner who mortgaged it. Some mortgages mention that the owners purchased the property from the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates. All personal names and geographic locations mentioned in the mortgages are included in the repository’s.
Several days ago I discovered there was a ship named Rosamond that was a Privateer. I wonder if she was owned by Captain Samuel Rosamond of Charleston. She was sunk with all hands lost. She was carrying $100,000 in plunder. I have been looking as to why the Rosamonds got up and left South Carolina and moved to Mississippi. Did Samuel mortgage everything in order to purchase this ship, including his two homes on Bay? Was this ship deliberately grounded so the fortune would not have to be shared with other investors? The Rosamond family bought several tracts of land in Mississippi and built plantations on them.
The ship above in the USS Providence carrying eight guns. The Rosamond would be of this size.
Every American Grandson would love to hear stories of family Pirates. Tyler Hunt will not be hearing any stories from his grandfather for he was kidnapped by the pirate imposter, Barnacle Bill, the drunken fake sailor man who never served his nation in time of war.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2014
Early in. the War of 1812 most of the ‘[ American privateers were small pilot boats, but it was soon found that they were too weak to capture many vessels, as most of the English merchantmen were too heavily armed for them. This led to the construction of powerful i swift-sailing craft, mounting twelve, j eighteen, twenty-four and even thirtyi three pounders, and manned by 120 and j 100 men—veritable corvettes —which ‘ were sent to sea at private expense. Of j this class were the privateers Paul Jones, Rosamond, Saratoga, General Armstrong and Tb’rktown. Perhaps the most formidable of all was the frigatebuilt ship America, a privateer which was purchased in France in 1793 byGeorge Crowninshield. Many of our merchant vessels, transformed into privateers, proved to be formidable craft. In fact, a large proportion of our merchantmen were built with a view to speed; for, thanks to British interference in our mercantile affairs, the American shipowner had found it preferable to sacrifice a little carrying space in his ships to additional speed, as It would enable him to outsail the British cruiser and thus avoid disastrous delays and degrading impressments.—
On 9 January 1813 while cruising between Curacao and the Spanish Main FELLOWES retook a brig and learnt that she had been taken by one of three American privateers in the area. He went in pursuit and discovered her the next morning off Porto Cabello and after a long chase he got within range at 2 o’clock on the morning of the 11th. and drove the privateer ashore on Point Hicacos. Her commander and 24 men were drowned trying to reach the shore. She proved to be the ROSAMOND of 8 heavy guns and 105 men and she had on board 100,000 dollars in specie beside other plunder.
ROSAMOND My mother’s (Barbara June ROSAMOND Smith) family ties go back to those SC Counties. A brief synopsis of my own direct descendancy. (The name ROSAMOND has been spelled so many different ways through the years: ROSAMOND, Rosemond, Rosman, Roseman, Rosemon, Rosamon, Rosamund, ROSAMOND, etc. but for our group of ROSAMOND’s they are still the same persons.) My fellow distant cousins and I have researched our ROSAMOND ancestors for 14 years now. We have a lot of information bu which we can write a book. Still there facts we don’t have yet, and some persons scattered throughout the country from whom we haven’t contacted nor have they contacted us — especially in California. For many years our family legend has it that our “ROSAMOND” ancestor came from Ireland and came to the colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War. There are many legends about the family. A small part of the legend might be true, but has not factually true for me and some my fellow “ROSAMOND” descendants’ researchers at least those who stem from John ROSAMOND. We hired a researcher in England based on the earliest history we can, at present, find on our ancestor. Below is all that we can find on him so far..showing England, not Ireland. It doesn’t mean he wasn’t born in Ireland, just that he was not in Ireland in 1724-1725. We just don’t know.
In 1724, my ancestor John ROSAMOND and his friend William Ray were arrested in Abingdon, Berkshire, England for stealing a hat, periwig, 30 pounds British sterling, five pairs of shoes, and a brown gelding. They were held in the gaol in Reading, Berkshire, after their trial where they were sentenced to be exiled to the colonies for 14 years hard labor. By March 1725, they were transported to Newgate Prison and held there until they boarded the convict ship “Forward” owned by Jonathan Forward, and captained by Daniel Russell. The ship set sail on 28 September 1725 from London via the Thames River. The ship arrived disbarked at Annapolis, Maryland on 8 December 1725. We don’t know who bought his indenture, but he is recorded as being in CPT Beall’s militia of Prince George Co, Maryland between 1734-1737. By 1747-1765 we find John ROSAMOND living in Augusta Co, Virginia and listed as a master shoemaker, owned land, paid tithes, served in the militia, etc. His wife Sarah Wilson, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson, arrived with her mother, brothers: Samuel and Matthew, sisters, and uncles and cousins in June 1740 in Philadelphia, PA from Co Antrim, Ireland. Her brother Nathaniel Wilson must have been born in Virginia because there is no listing of him arriving on the ship. In 1767, John and Sarah ROSAMOND were living in the old Granville Co, owning land on Turkey Creek. Supposedly this was part of the later called Abbeville District. Sarah’s brother, Nathaniel Wilson and two of her uncles (one was named William) and several cousins also moved to this Abbeville District. Their known children according to their daughter’s, Jean ROSAMOND, will were her brothers Samuel ROSAMOND who married Sarah Hodges (believed to be a daughter of John Hodges), James ROSAMOND, Margaret ROSAMOND who married Bartholomew Weems, Sarah ROSAMOND who married Richard Hodges (possibly a brother of Sarah Hodges.) Lots of brothers from one family marrying sisters or cousins in another family here. It even continues today from time to time. We believe John and Sarah may have had a son named John, but we are not sure. John ROSAMOND and his son Samuel were listed in the 1779 census. Although legend has it that Samuel was born in Ireland, we have find no factual documentation to substantiate this. We feel he was born in Virginia sometime between 1742-1750. Samuel and James ROSAMOND both served in the SC militia during the Revolution. Samuel was a lieutenant under Adam Crain Jones and as a captain under Colonel Anderson. In the 1790 SC census, John ROSAMOND was not listed, assuming he had already died. His widow, Sarah, and their two sons, Samuel and James were all listed as heads of households. Samuel died in 1814 and James died in 1806. We already know about Samuel’s wife, Sarah Hodges. However, we’re trying to find James’s first wife. His second wife was a widow named Mary Lahorty or Dahorty, who had a son James Lahorty. James is my direct ancestor. Though I’m not listing all his children’s descendants. His children were Nathaniel Jones, Thomas A., Benjamin, Samuel, and Mary ROSAMOND— a) Nathaniel J. ROSAMOND (b. abt 1784, Laurens Co, dbf 1840, not sure where or where he’s buried.) (who received the 947 acres, and most of the property, where James lived somewhere near where the Saluda and Reedy Rivers meet). Nathaniel J. (we believe his the “J” was Jones) first marriage was to Mary Lighon. Their son was James Blackmon ROSAMOND. After Mary’s death, he married Amy Powell, a niece of his cousin. They had several children who included William Capers ROSAMOND (a physician, who settled in Jasper, AL prior to the Civil War.) Many of Nathaniel’s descendants are still in SC, except for William Capers’ –one of these lives in Birmingham. b) Thomas A. ROSAMOND (a minister) who married Mary Jane Simpson. This group settled in MS. c) Samuel ROSAMOND (b. abt 1792, d. in Attalla Co, MS) md Frances “Fanny” Hill, daughter of John and Susannah Hill. She is a sister of Benjamin’s wife, Susannah. Samuel and his family came to MS about 1842-1847. d) Benjamin ROSAMOND (b. 1790, Laurens Co, d. 1859 in Attalla Co, MS). His first marriage was to Susannah Hill (a daughter of John and Susannah Hill, I believe of Greenwood Co). She died in probably Greenwood Co, before 1842. (They are my great-great-great grandparents). He and Susannah had seven sons, one who is Thomas Henry ROSAMOND (my great-great grandfather). The book Greenwood Co Sketches shows that Benjamin and Susannah and Samuel, Ben’s brother, and Frances “Fanny” Hill ROSAMOND, Susannah’s sister, were founders of the first Walnut Grove Baptist Church near Ware Shoals. Benjamin remarried in 1843 to Jane (Rogers) Mays, daughter of Daniel Rogers and widow of Abner Mays. From his marriage to Jane, they had two sons–Marion Francis and Tillman Jasper ROSAMOND. Benjamin and Jane ROSAMOND moved to Attalla Co, MS about 1850. Benjamin’s son: Thomas Henry ROSAMOND (b. 1811, Abbeville or Greenwood Co, d. sometime after 1880 census. Their granddaughter stated she thinks they may have been buried in Cleburne Co, AL) md Sarah Mays, a daughter of Matthew (Meedy or Medy) and Lucretia Rogers, a daughter of Daniel Rogers. Lucretia (Rogers) Mays and Jane (Rogers) Mays ROSAMOND were sisters..making Jane not only the aunt to Sarah Mays ROSAMOND, but also her step-mother-in-law. By 1860, Thomas Henry and Sarah moved to several counties in GA.
Thomas ran a store in Abbeville prior to coming to GA. In GA he worked in a flour mill and with lumber. They had several children, amongst their sons were Joseph Henry ROSAMOND, Benjamin Augustus ROSAMOND (who remained in GA, and is buried in La Grange, GA), and William Arthur ROSAMOND. Joseph Henry ROSAMOND (b. Oct 1861 in Coweta Co, GA, d. Jul 1944, and buried in Anniston, AL) md Nancy Ann Lester (also born in GA). They had five sons and three daughters. Their sons: John, Thomas Jackson ROSAMOND m. Maggie Payne, Arthur, Augustus, and their last son and youngest child, Joseph Ira ROSAMOND. Joseph Henry, called “Joe,” worked as farmer in Cleburne and Calhoun (around Piedmont), AL. He later was listed in the 1908 city directory and 1910 census as a policeman. After his retirement in the 1930’s he owned a lumber yard. Joe’s and Nancy’s son, “Ira”: Joseph Ira ROSAMOND (b. 1902, d. 1949 in Anniston, AL) m. Nelle Underwood (b. 1902, died Mar 1931), a daughter of Texas Stephens and Maude (Buckner) Underwood. Although Ira helped his father at the lumber yard and sometimes helped his uncle Tom with carpentry and cabinetmaking in his younger years, Ira was a plumber in the 1930’s and 1940’s until his death in 1949.
He married his second wife, Eula Mae (Morrison) about 1934. She died in October 1995 in Anniston, AL. Ira and Nelle had only three daughters, Barbara June (called June), Iris Lee (Iris), and Edith Juanita (called Juanita). All born in Anniston, AL in 1924 (June), 1926 (Iris), and 1928 (Juanita). All daughters are still living.
My MOTHER: Barbara June ROSAMOND (b. 6 Aug 1924) md Willie Edgar Smith (b. 11 Sep 1917, in Cherokee Co, AL, d. 21 August 1975, at the VA hospital in Birmingham, AL). Willie was a World War II veteran, serving in France and Italy. He also worked for Lee Brothers Brass Foundry for 25 years, until he was forced to retire in 1973 due to his bad health. Their living children: Barbara Ann Smith , Sondra Carole Smith, and Gloria Lanelle Smith.
MYSELF: Barbara Ann Smith (b. 31 Aug 1944) md James Morgan. Have two grown children.
What we would like to know is there a possible chance about James ROSAMOND, my gggg grandfather’s first wife’s name was Lettice. According to a Hodges’ tradition, if this Lettice might possibly be the unnamed daughter of Benjamin Jones, according to “Greenwood Co
Sketches” which says that her family was massacred by Indians in the so-called “Long Cane Creek Massacre” and that she had married an unnamed ROSAMOND? Where was Long Cane Creek, by the way? It may be just coincidental that Nathaniel’s middle name is Jones, and that my ggg grandfather’s name was Benjamin, since James ROSAMOND did not have a brother named Benjamin. Is it possible that Lettice could be Lettice Jones? There are just so many unanswered questions. Morgan, Barbara : MORGANB@mcclellan-emh2.army.milPosted : 7/8/1998
“Our cousin, Jessie Benton Fremont, was even more than a Southern Belle. She came from a long line of aristocrats with all the cultural traits that comes with that title. From her mother’s side she learned elegance, sophistication. She was idealistic, with great passion and energy. Above all, she was… ambitious. Her mother was spoiled rotten. Elizabeth McDowell was well bred, delicate with gentile manners.”
Everything has changed and is now making sense. Above is a photograph of Dorothea Witherspoon and myself taken in 1971. We have just flown from Columbia South Carolina to Los Angeles. I wanted Dottie to meet my mother. We talked about getting married. I had just met about twenty members of the Witherspoon family, down South, a place I swore I would never go. However, Meher Baba’s first home in America is in South Carolina, and I wanted to see where the Avatar walked the earth. I praise the vote in this state to remove the Confederate flag. For years I have called for this, followed by “Repent!”
As it turns out Dottie and I are kin to the Stewarts and thus the Windsors. When Christine Rosamond Benton married Garth Benton, and begat Drew Benton, we became kin to the MacDowell family. Uchtred MacDowall of Garthland married Margaret Stewart, Lady Ochiltree.
When we pulled up to the entrance of Baba’s home in Myrtle Beach, Kitty Davy came out to greet us. She asked Dottie’s name first, and beamed brightly as she said;
“You are related the Signer Witherspoon, and John Knox!”
These men are the Scot-Irish who helped form and promote the Calvinist Presbyterian Church in England and America. The Knox, MacDowell, and Rosamond family took part in the Battle of Boyne. Their New Religion was declared a heresy. These men helped found our Democracy. This is the most religious Family Tree in the history of the United States. The Witherspoons fought under Francis Marion ‘The Swamp Fox’ as did Samuel Rosamond. Both families named their children after Francis Marion.
Dottie became a Christian and lived on the Lighthouse Ranch. I continued my secret work that was introduced by Baba when he spoke out against the use of LSD. After I saved Rena Easton, I gave her lessons about Baba on our mountain. My spiritual work with women, has been arduous. That is Kitty with her master in Venice, and, she and another woman are carrying Baba, which denotes they are The Pillars of his work. No doubt Dottie was seen as the next generation of teachers.
The great grandmother of John Witherspoon Owen Breckenridge, is the Ann Witherspoon, the daughter of Signer, John Witherspoon. His great grandfather, was John Breckenridge, Attorney General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Thomas Jefferson. I lived with Dottie Witherspoon in Boston, and met many Witherspoons in South Carolina who are kin to the actress, Reese Witherspoon.
I have been exchanging e-mails with a member of the Sharon family about revising the Sharon Family reunion at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. I was invited to go to Europe with a member of the Hesketh-Fermor family, who are kin to my niece, Drew Benton, and thus the Prescos. We are all kin to Lloyd Tevis the President of Welles Fargo Bank.
I have put on pause my homework of family relations. I do know some of the California Sharons and I am familiar with the reunion that use to take place in San Francisco, but I have been swamped. I would love to refresh the reunion for our family. I am not familiar with the names on your email yet. I don’t know if you sent email to Philip or had misplaced my name. I will start more family connections with the Sharon clan soon.
Patrick Sharon
Hi Jon- Get ready- much info coming now- please go ASAP to tatler.com- June issue page 102- big article on the new owner of Easton Neston- Leon Max- I’m headed there with James Baring and Bob and Joanne Fermor tomorrow.
Anne
Witherspoon Owen Breckenridge married Louise Tevis Breckenridge Sharon, the daughter of Lloyd Tevis, president of Wells Fargo and one of the richest men in California. When he became president of Wells Fargo, it was an express coach company. When he retired, it was a bank as we know it today. Tevis was assessed by the state of California as having a fortune worth $1,590,000.00 in 1880 John Witherspoon Breckenridge, son of Congressman, Senator, Vice President, Presidential Candidate and Confederate General John C. Breckenridge, c. 1878 and lived in San Rafael, CA. Their marriage ended in divorce and she married secondly Frederick W. Sharon.
Frederick Sharon was the son of Senator William Sharon (right), one of California’s very richest men. Sharon arrived in San Francisco in 1849, first investing in real estate, then also in mining and banking. By 1880, the state of California assessed his personal fortune at $4,470,000.002 and he was the largest single taxpayer in the state. Louise and Frederick were married at Sharon’s 55,360 square foot palatial estate ‘Belmont’ in 1884 (below).
John Knox Witherspoon (February 15, 1723 – November 15, 1794) was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. As president of the College of New Jersey (1768-94; now Princeton University), he trained many leaders of the early nation and was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration.
Jessie and John Fremont appear to have named their son, Frank Preston Fremont after Francis “Frank” Preston Blair whose daughter, Elizabeth Blair, was very close to Mary Todd. Elizabeth married a cousin of General Lee. The Todd family were prominent in Kentucky where the Preston family reigned. Mary Todd was a Scarlet. Mary and Sarah McDowell, the mother of Jessie Benton, have grandfathers named Samuel McDowell. Whether they are related, needs to investigated, because Jessie and Mary are mirror images of each other, and were Flowers of the South. How they came to wed two abolitionist candidates for the Republican Party – connected to the Blair family – needs to scrutinized.
Here are the relatives of Christine Rosamond Benton, and her daughter, Drew Benton.Jon Presco
“Our cousin, Jessie Benton Fremont, was even more than a Southern Belle. She came from a long line of aristocrats with all the cultural traits that comes with that title. From her mother’s side she learned elegance, sophistication. She was idealistic, with great passion and energy. Above all, she was… ambitious. Her mother was spoiled rotten. Elizabeth McDowell was well bred, delicate with gentile manners. She summered at the White Sulphur Springs Resort and wintered in Richmond. Her relations were the governors, senators, and congressmen. As late as the 1880s the family still counted two senators and six congressmen. These were the uncles, cousins, and brothers. That does not include their other nobles.”
As we have seen, the McDowells were a powerful family in American history. Fortunately, there is a living McDowell genealogists who has published a massive masterpiece of research on the McDowell line. Her name is Dorothy Kelly MacDowell, and her 609 page book is titled McDowells in America, a Genealogy. It is almost impossible to read a single page without finding someone listed with a government title, from a lowly sheriff to US Senators and Congressmen. In between are the untold numbers of military officers from Lieutenants to Generals.
Here is what they are hiding! I informed Jimmy Rosamond of my discovery and he asked me if he could share it with his cousin. I gave him permission. I should have kept this to myself.
Sir John Wilson, Kt., Burgess of…son
Antoinette Erasmuswife
Rosamond Press 
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