President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump along with Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla look at the garden and bee hive on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 27, 2026, in Washington.
Never before has the United States had a Fake King, least one that is in Direct Compitititon with a…………REAL KING!
Where to begin. Don-Juan’s BLOATED building (beehive) with columns is causing the architects of the Greek and Roman Empires – to roll over in their graves. I hear the shrieks of the augur of old. I is way out of proportion, and……………….ENLARGED! Many of my peers in the news industry will get it wrong. I’m talking about the look on Donald’s face. He is…………posing for his dead mother who told him every chance she got……………
“YOU WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING!“
This is……….THE MONEY SHOT! He dragged the King and Queen of England to their Old Colony, to capture it! Juan does not thing he will live long enough to have King Charles and he stand next to…………
THE REAL THING!
This morning, on April 28, 2026, I own a vision of Johnny Carson hold up the pic above. On his show is, Al Capp. Don Rickles, and Truman Capote.
“What do you think of our new…..monument?” asks Carson.
I beleive I recall Capp making fun of Royals – every chance he got. When I read Rena Easton was put on a plane when she was nine months old, and given to her grandmother, I knew Rena was………….THE REAL DEAL! She is like Huck Finn, who faked his death and ends ups on a raft out West, talking to some phonies about…
FAIR ROSAMOND
So, let’s bring Mark Twain and Thomas Hart Benton on stage, along with. Pip on to Johnny’s stage. In my last post I make it known that none of The Fab Four…..
HAVE GROWN UP!
I can’t wait for VP Vance to come on stage and do his Hillbilly Graveyard Clof and Polka. When he is done, I will wheel out the other humble Rosamond tombstone found in the Rosamond cemetery in Arkansas. Samuel Rosamond is the grandsons of Captain Samuel Rosamond who fought against the Swamp Fox, and may have killed himself a Red Coat or two.
I compared Rena Easton to Moonbeam McSwine. I will author a movie script. She will come from Huguenot folks who lived on the Isle of Wight. She taught Hill People how to clog! Dicken’s masterpieces will degrade the Trump Architecture, poke a pin in it, and bring it down to……………….SIZE!
You say it is only a beehive? I heard Donald’s plan for an new underground bunker with hospital. Will a protective shiled be built around the White House….
WITH NO WINDOWS?
Uh-oh! Where did Hitler die?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens’ second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes.[2][3][4]
Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn] ⓘ) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age).[1][2][3][4][a] The term comes from the German words Bildung (‘formation’ or ‘education’) and Roman (‘novel’).
10/23/2025
Trump vs. Pansy Mae Rosamond
Capturing Beauty
This morning I found Pansy Mae Rosamond, a descendant of Patriot, Samuel Rosamond. You will find Rosamond names that remind me of Daisy Mae Abner, who was proud to be poor. President Trump has shamed the American Poor who can’t even aford to buy headstones, least a dress to go toothe ball.
I will write the story of Pansy Mae Rosamond, the great, great granddaughter of a
TRUE PATRIOT!
John Presco
Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.
Brief Life History of Samuel Erastus
When Samuel Erastus Rosamond was born on 14 April 1885, in Bradleyville, Taney, Missouri, United States, his father, Nonimus Nathaniel Rosamond, was 31 and his mother, Rosalie A. Bennett, was 29. He married Delia P. Dodson on 20 December 1903, in Newton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bergman, Boone, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Polk Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States for about 1 years. He died on 8 June 1960, in Ben Hur, Newton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rosamond Cemetery, Lurton, Newton, Arkansas, United States.
Brief Life History of Pansy Mae
When Pansy Mae Rosamond was born on 20 May 1935, in Bass, Newton, Arkansas, United States, her father, William Franklin Rosamond, was 30 and her mother, Nilon Ethridge, was 23. She married Estel Eugene Brown on 30 August 1952, in Bixby, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Glenpool, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 23 September 1996, in Pawhuska, Osage, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Pappin Cemetery, Pawhuska, Osage, Oklahoma, United States.
Brief Life History of Pansy Mae
When Pansy Mae Rosamond was born on 20 May 1935, in Bass, Newton, Arkansas, United States, her father, William Franklin Rosamond, was 30 and her mother, Nilon Ethridge, was 23. She married Estel Eugene Brown on 30 August 1952, in Bixby, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. She lived in United States in 1949 and Glenpool, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1950. She died on 23 September 1996, in Pawhuska, Osage, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Pappin Cemetery, Pawhuska, Osage, Oklahoma, United States.
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- o Peggy Joyce Rosamond & Alan Bristow
- o Iris Velma Rosamond 1915-1974 &1932 Emile Dewitt Dunn 1915-2006
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- o Joseph Franklin Rosamond 1876-1953 &1951 Flossie Jackson ca 1898-1990
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- oMarion Francis Rosamond 1848-1935 &ca 1882 Virginia Anna Stevens ca 1858-
- o X Rosamond ca 1883-
- oMarion Francis Rosamond 1848-1935 &1893 Frances Adeline Lewis 1868-1946
- o Lela Mae Rosamond 1894-1981 & X Mosier
- o Lela Mae Rosamond 1894-1981 &1911 Joel Shadrach Kelly 1869-1939
Lillie Mae Rosamond 1882-1933 & John A Webb ca 1877
- Sally Mae Rosamond 1887-1889
- o Effie Idella Rosamond
- o Pansy Mae Rosamond & Estel E. Brown
- o Iva Claire Rosamond & William H Baslee
- Jewel Rose Rosamond 1920-1981 & Edward L Hendon 1912-2002
- o Eugene Orbra Rosamond 1922-1945
- o Elroy Erwin Rosamond
- o James Rosamond /1607- &1623 Lydea Dines
aisy and Rena
Posted on January 20, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Rena had it all over Daisy, the babe in Dukes of Hazard. Rena had Daisy’s look, but she had a perfect body. Only the Victoria’s Secret models come close to the perfection I got to see almost every day for fifty days. When Rena took off her halter-top, and let her cut-offs drop, it was show time! There were wealthy and powerful men attending the Bohemian Grove Hijinks, taking it all in, the most beautiful woman in the world who knew how to wear a bikini like no one hence. It was a size or two too large. It looked like it would fall off – real easy!
Exert from Ravola of Thunder Mountain by Royal Reuben Rosamond.
I met her in Eminence this morning. I never beheld another such being. She is like the beautiful notes of an organ with all the stops subdued. You see by this that the very implication of her is wonderful. She’ll stand fully six feet tall in her bare heels and this means that, in high heals, she can pick up a shingle and mend leak in most Ozark cabins. She can look down on most men. Her figure if that of a model, rivaling even the dreams, I vow, of the artists of ancient Greece. Her perfect body needs no no adornment in exquisite , clinging garments. Her features have class; her complexion is pink and healthful, her air of grandeur is almost appalling, cowing most men with her sheer superiority. Her eyes large and luminous, deep chestnut, are thrilling, but not come hither. Those great and beautiful orbs seem seem to be a lover’s moon rising over the horizon of her lower lashes. Yes she is temptation, her generous lips and full mouth the last straw to break a mans resistance, She’s exotic and provocative in the same wondrous breath, made but for the arms of a man, made to love and be loved. Have I describe her?
I would add a marked timidity, that gleam of wildness to be found in the does demure eyes” suggested teacher.
Yes, I notice her inward struggle to be natural and unafraid – not bashful, to speak plainly?.
Which hid the air, I take it, of knowing how really superior she is.
“Yes, she would make a great actress, But we must not think of spoiling her with sham. How sweet she is in just being her, her American Frontier self, let me say. Of the wild flowers I’d call her India Paint brush, and equally as brilliant. But, enough. Please let me aloud this, A Few Come Our Alive”
She was tall, dark, half developed, beautiful as a poet’s dream, her rope of hair hanging to her waist. We could tell them what a raving beauty she was due to become.. Shell stand nearly six foot tall.”
Moonbeam
Posted on February 5, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
The Midwest Muse
Hollywood Hillbillies
Posted on January 20, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
Just saw on T.V. a new show is going to premiere called ‘Hollywood Hillbillies’. I already posted in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’. My grandfather and his family are turning over in their grave. This blog is full of Hillbilly history and threats to turn my family chaos into a reality show. I have compared Rena to Moonbeam McSwine. Too bad my siblings and daughter didn’t let me do my thing as the family writer.
Hell, they got my truck and the first car I owned in two different museums. I’m going to write a script and send it out! It’s going to be titled ‘Me and My Redneck Muse’
Jon Presco
Copyright 2014
http://on.aol.com/video/hollywood-hillbillies–sneak-peek-517875977
Three days ago I discovered there is a television show called “Sweet Home Alabama”. It is a dating show built around the theme of “Cultural Warfare” the major theme you will find in this blog. For years I have been threatening to turn this blog into a Reality Show, especially after my daughter mated with a fake NASCAR drunk whose daddy is a Tea Party Crazy living in Texas. Bill Cornwell is a chip off the old block, and my daughter Heather – the country western singer – could have been a contestant on this show when she was younger. At least she would have been wooed by some City Slicks verses the Yokels she’s been bonding with in Santa Rosa because there is a cultural fight over these Southern Belles, just like the fight I had over Rena Christensen and Dottie Witherspoon. Dottie is kin to Reese Witherspoon who starred in the movie this show is name after. Here is my prophetic post where I title members of the Tea Party “insane” in 2011. Most members of my family, and most of my friends, have been calling me insane.
Once again my family is out of the dough due to the cultural warfare they have been waging against me with the help of outsiders. They just don’t want me to succeed. I got no one on my side. The Galls turned on me when their son died in August. I was not invited to Jon Gall’s memorial held in the Gall backyard. When I asked Mark Gall why I wasn’t allowed to say goodbye to my friend, he told me I would not get along with HIS NEW friends who are radical Christians, Zionists, and Tea Party admirers. I then find out other old friends were not invited. It just so happens we are Democrats.Posted on January 20, 2014by Royal Rosamond Press
When Rena was sitting in that bar nursing a cola, she was looking way out to sea Could she see the Channel Islands that clear sunny day? My grandfather used to go camping on these Islands. He wrote a story about a man who goes to Santa Cruz Island and befriends a young pig. He is tried in court and found ‘Guilty’.
Here is a young woman who came west from Nebraska. She has no idea she is about to have an impact on California History.
After Mary Rosamond told her husband not to come home, and I must assume after he failed to get a book contract with Homer Croy, Mary dressed the four beautiful Rosamond sister in the Indian costumes that Royal picked up somewhere, and had them drag out boxes full of his little novel he could not sell. After Mary poured some gasoline on the pile of ‘The Copper Indian’, Mary made her daughters whoop and dance around the bonfire. My aunt Lillian says they were crying their hearts out. They were forbidden to mention their father’s name or repeat any of his history. When I exhibited a gift for writing poetry, I became a marked man. The Rosamond sisters, and my grandmother, got spooked.
Roy Reuben Rosamond was a very early promoter of Sunny California and the California Dream that Rena Victoria Christensen may have wanted to sample.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fletcher_Lummis
http://www.mocavo.com/Out-West-Volume-3/448611/92
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Island
Golden Girls of The Corncob
Posted on December 30, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I began Golden Girls of The Corncob when I lived with Peter Shapiro around 1971. This was my first attempt to be a writer. I worked on the painting I did of Rena – at the same time! I had just moved from Boston where I took the Mafia to court – and won! I had yet to see Rosemary’s home movie, and the photographs of the Black Mask authors. Thirty-fives years later I began to find Royal Rosamond’s books. My sister saw that I was on a roll, and took up art, she becoming world famous as Rosamond. Hence half of America has gone Redneck Cowboy. I saw it coming.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Posted on March 21, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
One of the highlights of my life was to see Rena Christensen emerge from her quad at the University of Nebraska, and walk to me wearing a flowing velvet green cape. Nothing can spoil this image, or take it from me. Rena will forever be a Muse in this Artistic Circle.
Michael Harkins suggested we go search for Rena in Grand Island Nebraska. We were going to take his Bentley and borrow cameras from Mill’s College. He had just seen me working on Rena’s portrait. He was asked to contribute to Stone’s movie about his good friend, Jim Morrison. I began writing my novelette ‘Golden Girls of the Corn Cob’. This was my first attempt at being a writer. It is about Rena being kidnapped by Amazon Lesbos, and held captive in the sand dunes of Nebraska. They believe she is the female Messiah, come to save womankind.
At the end of 2009, I began exchanging e-mails with Tomas Ensley, who went to school with Rena. All of a sudden he is attacking me. He accuses me of trying to make Rena a goddess, a real goddess. I showed him my ‘Birth of Venus’ that I sent to Rena. Deputy Dan Mayland told me Rena had discussed my letter with another person, and they both saw evil in it. I now suspect Tomas read this blog and saw her Christmas letter to me, and my letter to her – my goddess! A year later, my blog ‘The Democratic Bohemian Register’ crashed. I lost all my blogs. Tomas was a suspect because he was an expert with mainframes. Two months ago I discovered Tomas had been arrested for own child porn. Three of his computers were seized. Did he believe I finked on him?
What we got is the Diner scene from ‘Easy Rider’ where Tomas goes after Denis Hopper who has caught the eyes of the Country Girl of His Dreams. There is this psychedelic ritual going on in the middle of America in the year this famous movie was made. Was it a conscious act to conduct a Spring Ritual around the song ‘Peppermint and Incense’? I am reminded of the movie ‘The Wicker Man’ where everyone is in on the ritual burning of the chaste man. These girls have been in the back seat of a car, or two, and know all the ancient tales of incest and child molestation. Closed family systems results in closed towns. There’s white sex slavery going down. These girls never marry who they want.
Here’s the true story of Yates. Rena has a reason to see herself as Wonder Woman.
With the very real possibility Trump may be impeached for his relationship with Agalarov, a study of The American Beauty is called for. I post images from Rena’s year book, showing how young teenagers were displayed like prized cows. Rena and Donald Trump were destined to meet. Instead, this seventeen year old Beauty, met me.
Because Rena and I met, my sister took up art, and married Garth Benton, the cousin of the famous artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who is seen with his daughter, Jessie Benton.
To see Wonder Woman wearing glasses and attending Harvard, may be the archetype Rena modeled her life around. She was an A+ student and Grand Island High School. What is so fascinating about meeting Rena, was she is seven years younger than men, and raised in a incubator in the Midwest. She goes to California. She is a great cultural study. This lover of poetry heard these words emanating from some kind of strange ritual that brought the Nebraska Outliers closer to the Scene. Fuck that shit! Rena went all the way! She became one with Sha La La.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Rena – Queen of the Cowgirls!
Posted on November 30, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
There are some major classic Americana Scenes that were created by my Beloved Muse and I. One was the fight we had just outside Winnemucca when General Eisenhower broke down, followed by the look she gave me as she boarded the Greyhound bus, then came her posing as Diana the Huntress in the museum, followed by her lying on the steps of the museum with her head on my lap, and, her announcement there was nothing here for me in Nebraska, in response to my idea about moving there and renting an old farmhouse with my studio in the barn, where I would render large canvasses of the Most Beautiful Woman In the World, who I loved so deeply.
Hence, America has been invaded by Super Models, many of them Russian. The First Lady is a former model. The vision I had in 1970, has come true. I saw Rena as the Woman Christ – from the beginning. For a month we have been watching a parade of women file past fallen men, who once owned wealth and power. Rena chose to be with me, a poor, homeless man. What does this say about being responsible for the choices one makes. Millions of women voted for Trump – an admitted RAPE ARTIST – who is now claiming the voice that says “You can grab them by the pussy” is not his voice. He is correct. That is THE VOICE OF SATAN ‘ The Great Deceiver’. And, he arrived on time, on the High Noon Train…………in Bozeman Montana!
World Experts are wondering how, and why our President is not Culpable – and Roy Moore. Trump has had access to the most beautiful women in the world. He made a point to walk in on beauty contestants while they were naked. It is said women are not culpable, and beautiful women do not have to answer to anyone. This is what Donald wants. This is why he has that absurd hair. He wants to be a Super Model – and a Gunslinger! Melania is a Gunslinger, Look at her eyes! Melania and her Girl Gang, know Roy is a liar. Why doesn’t she have the guts to step foreword and – put an end to this evil charade?
There’s no getting around it, Melania knows she gets in bed each night with a sexual predator. Ten million evangelical Republican women, know Royal Moore is a sexual predator, and, keep their mouths shut as a hundred of their kind defend Roy in public. Knowing your Bad Guy is what America and Movie Making was all about.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Bohemian Blue
Posted on January 12, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
I have been conducting interviews with Marilyn Reed, the wife of Kenny Reed, whose band ‘Stone Cold Jazz’ conducted poetry readings at the Granary for three years. I and Izzy Whetstein read there. Izzy is a original Merry Prankster who was in the movie ‘Animal House’. He and Kenny were in a follow up movie about a frat house that the city of Eugene – tore down! Why? It would have made a great tourist attraction that would have generated much money for the Kenites’. I say Kenites, because years after Kesey died, no one can do anything, or be anyone, or resemble Ken in any manner. We are the City of The Half Dead’. We lost our stadium, our bowling alley, Ken’s cottage, Animal House, The Downtown, and now Kesey square. We are real? Compared to what?
An hour after I posted this, I watched our President talk about DIVERSITY. Kenny and Izzy will be doing a benefit for Bernie Sanders at Tsunami Book Store.
Thursday. http://www.tsunamibooks.org/events-calendar/2015/12/17/concert-artists-and-writers-for-bernie
I am a Underground Newspaper that picks up where ‘The Augur’ left off. I have learned one thing as a newspaperman, if you write something about anyone, and while they read what you wrote, and this tune is not playing in the background – they are going to hate you and try to destroy your ass!
7/4/2011
Patriot Samuel Rosamond
Samuel Roseman was a member of the South Carolina Militia and a Scout for Francis Marion the “Swamp Fox” who Mel Gibson’s character was based on in the movie `The Patriot’. Samuel was the brother of my great, great, great grandfather, James Rosamond, who was also in the South Carolina Militia, and more then likely fought alongside his brother and Francis Marion. There may be a chance my grandfather, Frank Wesley Rosamond was named after Francis, as were other Rosamonds
“Marion Francis “Frank” ROSAMOND”
Because of this new uncovered history, I find my grandfather’s claim, that his mother, Ida Rose, is the offspring of Sir Issac Hull, a Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution to be very credible. It is alleged
Captain Hull had no children, but, he was a sailor and visited many ports.
“Samuel enlisted in the militia around 1776-77 and served as a Lieutenant under Captain Adam Crain Jones and Colonel Robert Anderson (for whom Anderson County, SC was named.) In 1782 he was appointed Captain and served at the Siege of Ninety-Six and the Battle of Kettle Creek in Wilkes County, GA on Feb. 14, 1779 during the Revolutionary War. This battle enabled the revolutionists to halt the British advance in Georgia after the capture of Savannah. According
to Samuel’s great-grandson James Oliver Rosamond, Samuel served as a scout and spy under the direction of Colonel Francis Mariion, the “Swamp Fox”.
“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.”
James Rosamond M. Born ca 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. James died in Abbeville District, SC bef 10 Jul 1806, he was 52. Occupation: Farmer.
[11]James served in the Revolutionary War in the Ninety-Six District before and after the fall of Charleston. The Siege of Charleston occurrend in 1790 by the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. James furnished 150 lbs. 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 Revolutionary War is on file at the Historical Commission in South Carolina.
James may have been married to a Dorothy/Norah Hodges (daughter or John Hodges and Elizabeth ?) prior to marrying Mary Daugherty. No one has been able to fine any record of this. Barbara Morgan lists a Lettice Jones as a possibility for James’ first wife. Much depends on when his first wife died, and the date he married Mary.
In the first national census in 1790, James, his brother Samuel, and his mother Sarah were the only Rosamond Heads of Household listed in South Carolina.
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements
Pension application of John McAdams
State of South Carolina Abbeville District
On this 2nd day of October 1832 personally appeared before me James A. Black a Justice of Quorum in and for the District of Abbeville in the State of South Carolina John McAdams
Esquire a resident of the District of Abbeville and State aforesaid aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he entered the service under cap major Williamson [Andrew Williamson] (afterwards General), the company commanded by Adam C. Jones [Adam Crain Jones] a Capt.,
the first Lieut.’s name was Samuel Roseman 1, that he entered the service about the 15th of November 1775 as a volunteer Militia man and continued to serve until the last of February 1776 when he was discharged, that he resided in Abbeville District South Carolina, when he entered this Service, that they rendezvoused at Ninety Six in the State of South Carolina where they remained for some time then they marched into Laurens District to what was called the Snowy Camp near which place they had a skirmish with a party of Tories at or near Reedy River that they remained at that settlement until their time expired when they were discharged after being
out about 3 months & a half.
That he again volunteered under Capt. Adam C. Jones Samuel Roseman Lieut. and rendezvoused at home’s old field from there they went to Barkers Creek where Major Williamson
was promoted to a Col. who commanded the expedition, that they marched into the Cherokee Nation of Indians up to Keowee River to a place called Sugar Town that they had several
engagements with the enemy’s cut down and destroyed much corn burnt several towns & drove the Indians from the frontier settlements that Andrew Pickens (afterwards General Pickens) acted as a Major in this service, that he resided in Abbeville District when he entered this service and
was out on this occasion about 5 months when he was discharged.
That he again entered the service as a volunteer Militia man under Capt. Adam C. Jones Lieut. Samuel Roseman that they rendezvoused at a place called Cunnings Ford on Hard Labor
Creek in Abbeville District where they joined the General Williamson & out for Florida, that they crossed the Savannah River at Augusta that passed on through Georgia crossed the St. Mary’s and went to St. John’s, that they returned to Midway in the State of Georgia where they were discharged & sent home that he entered this Service on the 8th day of May 1778 and got discharged about the first of November 1778 having been in service about 6 months on this
occasion.
That he aga in volunteered under Col. Pickens Capt. Jones commanding the company with Lieut. Roseman that they set out after a set of Tories under a Col. Boyd, that they crossed
Bobbie G. Moss lists this man as Samuel Rosamond in his SC Roster.
Savannah River at the Cherokee Ford in and overtook them at Kettle Creek and destroyed them that he was out on this occasion about 6 weeks and was discharged.
That he again volunteered under Capt. Adam C. Jones and marched to the High hills of Santee and joined the Gov. Rutledge and Pickens that they were on the way when they heard that Charleston had fell into the hands of the British that he was discharged & came home. He entered the service about the first April 1780 & left it about the first June 1780 being gone about 2 months on this occasion.
That he again entered the service as a volunteer and went with Capt. Jones and joined General Green [sic, Nathanael Greene] at the siege of Ninety Six and stayed with him during the Siege — that he was out in this service about one month.
That immediately after the Siege of Ninety Six he joined Capt. Robert Maxwell’s Company of Rangers war frontier guards and served in that capacity in Laurens District for 10
months watching the safety of the settlements & keeping the Tories in awe this Scout was ordered by General Greene for the safety of the country, that he entered this service in the spring of 1781 and served until the following fall that in addition to all the above service he did do several short tours of service on several emergencies but too short to be noticed here, and that he has no documentary evidence of his service.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the 2nd day of October 1832 before me.
S/ John McAdam, X his mark
S/ James A. Black, JQ
[Arthur Williams, a clergyman, and Cador Gantt gave the standard supporting affidavit.]
South Carolina Abbeville District
Personally came before me the subscribing Justice Thomas Milford 2 aged 76 who being first duly sworn on his oath saith that he was one of the Soldiers under the command General Williamson in his expedition to Florida in 1778 That he was well acquainted with the applicant John make Adam Esquire and that expedition that he knew him well & believes he served out his time faithfully & that he does know that the said McAdams was generally out in the service and
bore the name of a good soldier.
Sworn to and subscribed the 4th of October 1832 before me
S/ James A. Black, JQ
S/ Thomas Milford
South Carolina Abbeville District
Be it known that on this 14th day of June 1833 before me James A. Black a Justice of thequorum in and for the District aforesaid personally appeared John McAdam Esquire aged 73
years and on oath make the following amendment and explanation of his declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 the is
That he served in his first tour under cap major Williamson in Capt. Jones Company as set forth in his declaration 3 months and a half.
That he entered his 2nd tour under General Williamson & Major Pickens on the 5th July 1776 and left it or was discharged the 10th day of December 1776 being out in this tour 5 months
& 5 days.
That he entered his 3rd tour of service (or Florida expedition as it was called) on the 8th day of May 1778 and was discharged on the first day of November 1778 being in service on this occasion 4 months & 22 days.
That he entered his 4th tour or expedition to Kettle Creek in Georgia (as it was then called) as he thinks in the year 1776 and served 6 weeks on that occasion.
That he entered his 5th tour of service under Gov. Rutledge & Pickens (before the fall of Charleston) on the first of April 1780 and was discharged on the first June 1780 being in service 2 months on that occasion.
That he entered the 6th tour of service under General Greene at the Siege of Ninety Six in May 1781 as he believes and was out one month on this occasion.
That he entered his 7th tour of service with Capt. Maxwell’s Rangers as they were called on the first of June 1781 that he served in this Corps until the first April 1782 being out 10
months on this occasion, as will be seen by his original declaration.
He also on oath makes the following answers to the 7 interrogatories prescribed by the War department
Qu 1st Where and in what year were you born?
Ans: I was born in the County Down in Ireland in the year 1759.
Qu 2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans: I have no record of my age but when I made by the information of my parents, in my family Bible
Qu 3rd Where were you living when called into service: where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans: In Abbeville District South Carolina on the same plantation then since & now
Qu 4th How were you called into service; were you drafted; did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if in substitute, for whom?
Ans: I was always a volunteer
Qu 5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general
circumstances of your service.
Ans: I was acquainted with General Greene at the Siege of Ninety Six of the regulars or continentals that he does not recollect the name (or Number) of any Regiment with which he
served.
Qu 6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans: I did Received several discharges signed by my Capt. Adam C. Jones all of which were burned in my house in the month of March 1784.
Qu 7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief in your services as a soldier in the revolution.
Ans: I am acquainted with James Wardlaw Esquire Col. Patrick Noble Col. Alexander Bowie Joseph Black Esquire James A. Black Esquire Lemuel Trible Esquire Cador Gantt Esquire the
Rev. Arthur Williams Rev. Hugh Dickson Rev. William Barr James Latemore Thomas Jade Gray and others
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year first above written before me
S/ James A. Black JQ
S/ John McAdam, X his mark
[fn p. 19, on October 9, 1853 and Abbeville District South Carolina, Sarah McAdams, 82, filed for a widows pension stating that she is the widow of John McAdams, deceased, a pensioner at the rate of $80 per annum for his services in the revolution; that she married him in the summer
1806; that she has no record of her marriage; she does have you family record showing the date of birth of her first child [daughter Jane] after the marriage being February 19, 1808; that her husband died November 11 1834; and that she remains his widow.]
[fn p. 30, on July 12, 1866, the widow, 95, still living in Abbeville District, South Carolina, applied for the reinstatement of her pension benefits.]
The backwoods of Georgia held many challenges for the British Army. Many of the people in Georgia were strongly anti-British. On February 11, 100 Patriots attack them while crossing Van(n)’s Creek in spite of being outnumbered by the British force.. On February 14, when Col. James Boyd and 700 British loyalists set up camp along Kettle Creek, they knew to be prepared for an attack. Things were not going well for the Loyalists. Boyd is expecting additional men to assist in a strike against the Patriots. His men are not regulars and dissention fills the ranks. And the skirmish at Vann’s Creek alert Cols. John Dooly and Andrew Pickens to the Loyalist’s presence in Wilkes County. As was the custom, the Loyalist send scavengers out to find food.
That morning, about 150 men were out searching for food when Pickens attacked. With a combined total of 340 men, the Patriots attacked in 3 columns, Col. Dooly on the right, Pickens in the middle, and Lt. Col. Elijah Clark, Dooly’s second in command, on the left. A small advance guard was sent in front of the columns to scout the British. Col. Pickens scouts were surprised by Boyd’s Loyalist sentries and opened fire.
Alerted to the attack by the sound of gunfire, Boyd rallied his men and advanced with a small group to the top of a nearby hill, where they waited behind rocks and fallen trees for the Patriots. To the left and right, the men under command of Dooly and Clarke had problems crossing the high water of the creek and nearby swamps.
Pickens continued his advance to the fence on top of the hill, where Boyd’s men awaited the advancing Americans. On the approach of Pickens, the Loyalists opened fire. Men at the lead of the column fell victim to the first rounds. Clarke and Dooly, unable to advance quickly through the cane, were helpless. By all accounts, outnumbered and caught by surprise, the Patriots were losing the battle.
After the successful ambush, Boyd ordered his men to retreat to the camp by Kettle Creek. In one of those events frequently labeled as fate, Boyd fell to the ground, dying from a musket ball. Seeing this, his troops panicked and an orderly withdrawal turned into a nightmare for the 600 men under his command.
Pickens rallied and advanced his men towards the Loyalist camp. At the same time, Dooly’s men emerged from the swamp. Surrounded on 3 fronts, with the creek to their back, about 450 Tories followed Boyd’s second in command, Maj. Spurgen, across Kettle Creek. While they were crossing the creek, Clarke emerged on the other side and charged with 50 men. The Loyalists fled, soundly defeated.
The men who fled the battlefield eventually made their way back to Wrightsville, although some were captured and hung later that year. Pickens, who became famous for his many battles in the Revolutionary War, would later write that Kettle Creek was the “severest chastisement” for the Loyalists in South Carolina and Georgia. Dooly was later brutally murdered by British Regulars.
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More About Frank Rosamond and Mary Weineke:
Marriage: Abt. 1911, California4
Children of Frank Rosamond and Mary Weineke are:
i. June E Rosamond, born Abt. 1914 in California.
ii. Bertha M Rosamond, born Abt. 1916 in California.
1 iii. Rosemary Rosamond, born 26 Sep 1922 in California.
iv. Lillian J Rosamond, born Abt. 1924 in California.
Generation No. 3
4. William Thomas Rosamond5,6,7,8,9, born 1860 in Mississippi10. He was the son of 8. Samuel Rosamond and 9. Frances C. Morrison. He married 5. Ida Rose 16 Feb 1881 in Bates County, Missouri11.
5. Ida Rose, born in Louisiana; died Abt. 1890.
More About William Thomas Rosamond:
Name 2: William Thomas Rosamond12,13
Date born 2: Abt. 1860, Mississippi
Residence: 1900, Duke, Greer, Oklahoma14
More About William Rosamond and Ida Rose:
Marriage: 16 Feb 1881, Bates County, Missouri15
Child of William Rosamond and Ida Rose is:
2 i. Frank Wesley “Royal” Rosamond, born 18 Dec 1881 in Missouri; died Abt. 26 Nov 1953 in Prob Oklahoma; married Mary Magdalene Weineke Abt. 1911 in California.
Generation No. 4
8. Samuel Rosamond16, born 1815 in Abbeville District, SC. He was the son of 16. Benjamin Rosamond and 17. Susannah Hill. He married 9. Frances C. Morrison.
9. Frances C. Morrison17, born Abt. 1822 in South Carolina.
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Occupation: Farmer
Children of Samuel Rosamond and Frances Morrison are:
i. Benjamin F. Rosamond, born Abt. 1844 in Mississippi.
ii. John J. Rosamond, born Abt. 1846 in Mississippi.
iii. Frances J. Rosamond, born Abt. 1852 in Mississippi.
iv. Nonimus Nathaniel Rosamond, born Jul 1854 in Lowndes County, Mississippi; died 01 Jan 1908 in Lurton, Newton County, Arkansas; married Rosalie A. Bennett Abt. 1875 in Chicago, Illinois.
More About Nonimus Rosamond and Rosalie Bennett:
Marriage: Abt. 1875, Chicago, Illinois
4 v. William Thomas Rosamond, born 1860 in Mississippi; married (1) Ida Rose 16 Feb 1881 in Bates County, Missouri; married (2) Mildred A. ? Abt. 1898.
vi. Laura Rosamond, born Abt. 1862.
Generation No. 5
16. Benjamin Rosamond18, born Abt. 1790 in South Carolina19; died Bet. 1850 – 1860 in Attala County, Mississippi. He was the son of 32. James Rosamond and 33. Lettice Tillman. He married 17. Susannah Hill.
17. Susannah Hill, died 20 Oct 1828 in Abbeville County, South Carolina20. She was the daughter of 34. John Hill Sr. and 35. Susannah ?.
Notes for Benjamin Rosamond:
Benjamin Rosamond, R255, M. Born in 1790 in South Carolina. Was on the census for Attala County, Mississippi in 1850. Benjamin died in Attala County, Mississippi bef 16 May 1859, he was 69.
In “Greenwood County Sketches” Benjamin, Susannah and son Thomas are mentioned as members of the Walnut Grove Baptist Church located near Ware Shoals in 1834. Before 1850, Benjamin had remarried to Jane Rogers Mays.
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