Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - Last Thursday and Friday here in Southwest Colorado, San Juan mountains we had some fresh new snowfall with more accumulating on the mountain peaks.

As seen in the photo on the right (taken Thursday, 18 May 2011) and the photo on the left (taken Friday, 19 May 2011) showing our greenhouse of vegetables and herbs.

The World did NOT end May 21, 2011! The 21st day of May 2011, Saturday evening, 6:00pm, was suppose to be the end of the World, but that prediction turned out be another misnomer, prediction by an old crazy, 89 year-old preacher man, who is known to be a $72-millionaire with his own radio talk show. Did the World end Saturday evening in your neck of the woods? Our Saturday and Sunday was a warmup of the few days before, including sunshine and a light rain.

In the Vol. 5, Iss. 7, edition of the OkieLegacy Ezine concerning the John Martin Feature, Kathy Morris Walker commented on the above link to the John Martin feature, "Fun to run across this! Hugh is my great-granddad. Tom Martin his son is my granddaddy. That make John Martin my great-uncle."

Charles Cook submitted this "John Martin" feature back in the Vol. 5, Iss. 7, 2003-02-15. John Martin was the brother of Sheriff Hugh Martin, Jr., of Woods County, Oklahoma. John was born in Cincinnati in 1868, but grew up in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.

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This Day In History (May 23)

America - On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La. "Shreveport, La., May 23 -- Clyde Barrow, notorious Texas "bad man" and murderer, and his cigar-smoking, quick-shooting woman accomplice, Bonnie Parker, were ambushed and shot to death today in an encounter with Texas Rangers and Sheriff's deputies." Go to article.

On May 23, 1875, Alfred Sloan, the American philanthropist who headed General Motors for more than a quarter of a century, was born. Following his death on Feb. 17, 1966, his Obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Day (May 23):

• 1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians, who sold her to the English.
• 1533 - The marriage of England's King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon was declared null and void.
• 1701 - Captain William Kidd was hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and murder.
• 1788 - South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1873 - Canada's North West Mounted Police force was established.
• 1915 - Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.
• 1937 - Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died at age 97.
• 1945 - Nazi official and SS chief Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.
• 1949 - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was established.
• 1960 - Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
• 1997 - Iranians elected a moderate president, Mohammad Khatami, over hard-liners in the ruling Muslim clergy.
• 2003 - Congress sent President George W. Bush a $330 billion package of tax cuts - the third of his presidency.

NW Okie's Ancestrial Lineage

Bayfield, Colorado - Well! It appears I have found another interesting ancestry that has crossed this NW Okie's ancestry path! This time it is the 7th President of America (Maj. Gen., Senator, Representative, Attorney General, attorney of Tennessee) Andrew Jackson, Jr. (1767-1845).

Jackson's relationship to me is 1st cousin of husband of 1st cousin 1x removed of husband of 2nd great grand aunt. Got that? Let me see if I can add some clarity to that relationship.

President Andrew JACKSON's mother was Elizabeth HUTCHINSON (1737-1781), the daughter of Cyrus & Margaret (LISLE) HUTCHINSON. Elizabeth had a sister, Jennet "Jane" HUTCHINSON, who married Edward Alexander CRAWFORD. Edward and Jennet had a son Edward Alexander CRAWFORD Jr. (1770-1846).

Edward CRAWFORD Jr. married Margaret Jane DUNLAP (1774-1841), who was the daughter of Agnes Nancy CRAIGHEAD (1740-1790) and George DUNLAP (1737-1807). Agnes Nancy Craighead was the daughter of Rev. Alexander Holmes CRAIGHEAD (1706-1766).

Rev. Alexander H. CRAIGHEAD also had a son, Capt. Robert CRAIGHEAD (1751-1821). Capt. Robert CRAIGHEAD had a son, William Craighead (1778-1835), and that leads us back William's son, Samuel Geddes CRAIGHEAD (1814-1889), who married Nancy MCGILL (1814-1898), the daughter of William Nathan MCGILL Jr. (1783-1832). AND . . . You know the rest of the story if you have been following NW Okie's Ancestrial Lineage for the past few weeks.

• Elizabeth Hutchinson (1737 - 1781), Mother of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Jr.; Cyrus Hutchinson, father of Elizabeth Hutchinson and Jennet Hutchinson;
• Jennet "Jane" Hutchinson, Daughter of Cyrus & Margaret (Lisle) Hutchinson; married Edward Alexander Crawford, Sr.;
• Edward Alexander Crawford Jr. (1770 - 1846), Son of Jennet "Jane" & Edward Alexander Crawford, Sr.;
• Margaret Jane Dunlap (1774-1841), Wife of Edward Alexander Crawford, Jr.;
• Agnes Nancy Craighead (1740 - 1790), Mother of Margaret Jane Dunlap;
• Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1706-1766), Father of Agnes Nancy Craighead;
• Capt. Robert Craighead (1751 - 1821), Son of Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead;
• William Craighead (1778 - 1835), Son of Capt. Robert Craighead;
• Samuel Geddes Craighead (1814 - 1889), Son of William Craighead;
• Nancy MCGILL (1814 - 1898), Wife of Samuel Geddes Craighead;
• William Nathan MCGILL Jr. (1783 - 1832), Father of Nancy McGill;
• David Milton MCGILL (1808 - 1850), Son of William NathanMcGill, Jr.;
• William Pearson MCGILL (1835 - 1918), Son of David Milton McGill;
• William Jacob MCGILL (1880 - 1959), Son of William Pearson McGill;
Gene M Merle MCGILL (1914 - 1986), Son of William Jacob McGill and Constance Estella Warwick.

Agnes Nancy Craighead (1740_1790)

Waxhaw, South Carolina - Nancy Craighead, born 17 March 1740 in Octarora Pennsylvania and died 9 November 1790, with a memorial in the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina. Nancy Craighead married her first husband, Rev. William Richardson (1729-1771), in 1759. Nancy Craighead married in 1772 to George Dunlap (1736-1796), shortly after Nancy was acquitted in the "Witchcraft trial" for the death of her first husband. The Witchcraft trill was an old Scottish Clans custom to determine the guilt or innocence of a person on trial.

George Dunlap and Agnes Nancy Craighead were married shortly after her acquittal, in 1772, Waxhaws, St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina. Agnes Nancy Craighead's virtues were numerous. Nancy was a nurse in the Revolutionary War. By reading the Women of the Revolution, Vol 2, pp. 154 and 155, you can get another view of Nancy's presence of mind during that time. While on a visit in 1781 to her sister Rachel, wife of Dr. Caldwell of Guilford, a band of armed Tories surrounded the Caldwell house in an attempt to capture Dr. Caldwell, an ardent patriot, and deliver him to the British. As they were about to leave with their captive, Nancy came from another room, stepped up behind her brother-in-law, leaned over his shoulder and whispered to him, as if intending the question for his ear only, asking him if it were not time for Gillespie and his men to be there. A soldier standing near heard the words, and demanded what she meant. Nancy replied she was merely speaking with her brother. The Tories knew well the patriotic ruthlessness of Jock Gillespie and his band. In a moment all was confusion, the whole raiding party were panic stricken at the prospect of facing Jock Gillespie and they fled.

George DUNLAP and Agnes Nancy CRAIGHEAD's children were: Agnes DUNLAP, born 26 Nov 1779, Waxhaws, St. Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina; d. 25 Jan 1846, Lancaster District, South Carolina; Dr. David DUNLAP, b. Abt. 1781; died Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Jane DUNLAP, born ca. 1783, married Edward CRAWFORD, ca. 1803; George Bryant DUNLAP II, born 4 March 1783 and died July 1859, Anson County, North Carolina; Rachel DUNLAP, born ca. 1785.

Nancy's other virtues were being considered a lively, high-spirited Virginia-born women and "A lady of great beauty, talent and to have possessed much of her father's spirit."

The Witchcraft Trial of Agnes Nancy Craighead

The Death of Rev. William Richardson occurred on the evening of 20 July 1771. William Boyd rode up from Rocky Creek, on the other side of the Catawba to solicit the guidance of Reverend Richardson. At the same time the minister's wife (Nancy Craighead), arrived at the house. Nancy was coming back home from a quilting party. Nancy showed Mr. Boyd to her husband's study where Dr. Richardson was found in what seemed like an attitude of prayer, but he was dead with a bridle twisted about his throat.

After a feverish consultation, the Waxhaw Church trustees announced that the minister had died during his devotions, but said nothing of the bridle. Everyone attended the funeral and Agnes Nancy Craighead Richardson ordered the finest tombstone that was to be seen in the Waxhaws for many years. The coat of arms of her husband's family was on it, with a bust in low relief and seventeen lines of carving to recount his virtues. The widow of Richardson, Nancy Craighead, celebrated the arrival of her deceased husband's monument from Charlestown by marrying George Dunlap (a member of a large, wealthy local family whose sires had done almost as much as the Hutchinson sisters to populate the Waxhaws). The news about the bridle leaked and the swift consolation that Agnes Nancy Craighead found in the arms of George Dunlap gave to conjecture and rumors. The trustees (two of them DUNLAPs) insisted that their deletion of the story of the tragedy was designed to shield the good name of the church from the stain of suicide.

There were those of the congregation that were too ready to believe ill of Nancy. Rumors of whispered sentiment were passed along that other hands than Rev. Richardson had twisted the fatal bridle about his neck. Rumors multiplied. Passions mounted with a year passing the internment of Richardson. The citizens of the Waxhaws met at the church to determine according to the ancient wisdom of the Scottish clans the innocence or guilt of Elizabeth Jackson's friend, Agnes Nancy Craighead. The grave was opened; the coffin was exhumed; and the skeleton of the late William Richardson of Glasgow was bared to view. Nancy Craighead's brother-in-law, Archibald Davie, who lived off of the late Reverend Richardson, seized Nancy's fingers and thrust them cruelly against the skull of the deceased. Nancy to sob hysterically. Nancy raised her hand triumphantly to show there was no blood. According to old Scottish clan customs, if the finger bled she had murdered her husband. Nancy touched but the finger did not bleed. This was the "Witchcraft Trial" that Agnes Nancy Craighead was acquitted in Waxhaw, South Carolina.

Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church 1755-1976

Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church has the distinction of being the oldest church in Mecklenburg County being established in 1755. The first settled minister of Sugar Creek and Rocky River was Rev. Alexander Craighead, who came permanently to North Carolina in 1758 and lived there until his death in 1766. The Indian War of 1755 had driven Rev. Craighead from Virginia to North Carolina. He periodically preached in various Presbyterian churches for a period of three years. Before going to Virginia Rev. Craighead had been suspended from the Donegal Presbytery in Pennsylvania for "Revivalism" and intruding into affairs of other Presbyteries.

Although they lived within the orbit of Sugar Creek's influence, the Andrew Jacksons did not attend the Sugar Creek Church, but drove some twelve miles southwest to Waxhaw Church to worship with Elizabeth Jackson's relations. The congregation of Waxhaw Church had been on the point of discouragement in its quest for a preacher when there descended from the Cherokee country over the mountains a slender, quite-spoken young man on horseback, distressed by his failure to win the Indians from the creed of their fathers. That man was Rev. William Richardson.

In 1771, Nancy Craighead's husband had made a name for himself as he organized the "Academy" at Waxhaw Church and imparted instructions in Greek and Latin. He went on long wilderness journeys, building churches and rejuvenating congregations. These enterprises were profitable to Doctor William Richardson. The clergyman acquired a plantation that prospered under the toil of ten slaves. His two-story "manse" was one of the sights of the Waxhaws, his library was his pride. Rev. Richardson held "literary evenings" that were mentioned with awe on the frontier where the social tone was otherwise fixed by cock-fights, log-rolling and funerals. No children blessed his union with Agnes Nancy Craighead, but Dr. Richardson brought from England a nephew, William Richardson Davie, whom he reared as his son and sent to college at Princeton, New Jersey.

William Richardson was an English-born patrician and a Master of Arts of the University of Glasgow. The missionary accepted the pulpit, and by virtue of his ecclesiastical standing, Waxhaw Church became the only pastorate in the Back-Country enjoying full Gospel ordinances. If anything more were needed to complete the recurrence of Waxhaw Church, it was supplied when Doctor Richardson rode to Sugar Creek with his wife, Agnes Nancy Craighead, from the household of the celebrated Reverend Alexander Craighead. This was viewed in different lights as it smacked a trifle too much of the liberal ways of the Low-Country aristocracy. Although the new minister continued to be perfection, a sentiment developed that some of Mrs. Richardson's fine qualities were unsuited to her husband's station. Elizabeth Jackson, Andrew Jackson Jr.'s mother, liked the high-spirited Nancy and they became friends.

Nancy was a lot like her father, Rev. Alexander Craighead. There is no more controversial figure in the annals of Presbyterianism than the Rev. Alexander Craighead. Even though he died before Mecklenburg declared her independence of Great Britain, he is known as the "Father of Independence in Mecklenburg County." From Sugar Creek church rode two elders, Abraham and Hezekiah Alexander, to sign the Mecklenburg Declaration on May 20, 1775. That Rev. Alexander Craighead and Sugar Creek Presbytarian Church were important figures in Mecklenburg history was widely known. Alexander Craighead lies buried in the first Sugar Creek cemetery. His is the oldest marked grave. The fact that Sugar Creek had loved Craighead was evident.

Sources for the above are: Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church from brochures printed by them. Information on the Jackson's (Elizabeth, mother of Andrew Jackson) and Nancy Craighead are from THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, written by Marquis James. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

George Dunlap (1736-1807)

South Carolina - Agnes Nancy Craighead's second husband, George Dunlap (1736-1807), is thought to be descended from William Dunlop (1650-1700), known as "William Dunlop the Covenanter," who founded the ill-fated colony of Port Royal in South Carolina. George Dunlap (1736-1807) was quite possibly (but not certainly, proven) to be a son of Capt. Alexander Dunlap (1712-1744) and Jean Ann McFarland. Capt. Alexander Dunlap is a son of an elder Alexander Dunlop (c1672-1742) who was a Professor of Greek at Glasgow University.

Prof. Alexander Dunlop was a son of William Dunlop (died March 1700) who was a brother-in-law to William Carstairs (Carstares) (1649-1715), a Scottish Clergyman, graduate of Edinburgh University, known as a "Covenanter." William Dunlop is believed to have been a member of a group of 51 such "Scottish Convenanters (Scottish clergymen outlawed in England)," led by Henry ERSKIN (Lord Cardross) to establish a settlement at Stuart's Town near the Island of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1684.

Carstairs had previously survived being put to "torture of boot and thumbscrew" in the Tower of London for his alledged involvement in the "Rye House Plot (an alleged conspiracy of Whigs to assassinate King Charles II)" in 1683. William Dunlop may have escaped such torture by joining ERSIN's settlers. In 1685, Carstairs was released from incarceration and later, during 1693-1702 became an advisor on Scottish affairs to William of Orange [William III (1650-1702)]. Finally, Carstairs was appointed to serve as the Principal of the College of Edinburgh in 1704-1715, upon the succession of Queen Anne. William Dunlop had served as Principal of Glasgow in 1690-1700. For more Information SEE DUNLAP website View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Waxhaw Settlement of South Carolina

Waxhaw, South Carolina - The Waxhaws Settlement took its name from an affluent of the Catawba River, and the creek itself was named after a band of Indians who had villages on its banks a century earlier. The Crawford brothers bought land on the creek within the bounds of the settlement. But Jackson went about six miles farther and "took up a claim" on anther stream known as twelve-mile Creek.

It is said that Andrew Jackson, Jr. (7th President, Senator, Attorney General, Representative, attorney and self-made man) owed less to birthright and more to self-help than any other great man, not only in our history but in any other. Jackson, through the loss of his father, mother and two older brothers, was propelled by necessity to make his own way in life.

Jackson's father was Andrew Jackson Sr., a poor and humble pioneer. His mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson, was a daughter of a man who wove Irish linen. Jackson had two uncles, Hugh and Samuel Jackson. His paternal grandmother was CRAWFORD. Jackson's paternal grandfather was Hugh Jackson, who was a dealer in Irish linen at Carrickfergus, Ireland -- part weaver and part draper.

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Biography of Andrew Jackson by Philo A. Goodwin, Esq.

Waxhaw, South Carolina - Andrew Jackson was born at Waxhaw, District of Marion, in the state of South Carolina, 15 March 1767. His father was a native of Ireland; emigrated to America with his family, a wife and two sons, in 1765, to escape from oppressions which were heaped by the English government upon the middle and lower classes of that ill-fated country. Jackson's father was also known as one of the "United Men" and died about two years after his emigration, and escaped British tyranny.

Andrew was the youngest of three sons, who survived and were left in a strange land in infancy and childhood, to the care of their widowed mother, Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, who executed the arduous task of nurturing her children. Andrew's mother had plans of grooming Andrew for the ministry and Andrew was admitted as a student in an academical institution where Andrew commenced the study of the classics.

The eldest brother of Andrew joined the army, and was killed at the Battle of Stono Ferry (Ferry was an American Revolutionary War battle, fought on June 20, 1779, near Charleston, South Carolina). Andrew with his only surviving brother, joined the American forces soon after, in defense of their country and their homes, with Andrew Jackson being only fourteen years of age.

At age fifteen, Andrew Jackson found himself alone with the death of his brother and mother and was seized with the small pox, which nearly terminated his life. Because of the vigor of his constitution, Andrew Jackson triumphed over the disease and was restored again to health.

At age of sixteen Andrew resumed his literary pursuits under the tutelage of Mr. M'Culloch. He completed the study of languages, as a preliminary to his entrance at the university. At the age of seventeen he commenced the study of law at Salisbury, North Carolina, in the office of Spruce M'Kay, Esq., completing it under the supervision of John Stokes, Esq., and was admitted to practice at the bar of that state in 1786. Andrew practiced in the courts of that state for two years, but did not find the professional prospects sufficient to induce him to remain in North Carolina. He pushed his fortunes in the West towards the "South West Territory" (known as Tennessee today).

Tennessee was a territorial government of the United States, called the "South West Territory," having been recently organized by congress. This is where we find Jackson in 1788. Jackson and the honorable Judge M'Nairy arrived in the territory of Tennessee in the Fall of 1788 around October, when the first court was held. Jackson commenced the practice of law in Nashville at the age of 21 and soon distinguished himself among his competitors. Andrew Jackson was a man of stern integrity, unremitting attention to business, which recommended him to the notice of government and procured for him the appointment of Attorney General of the Territory.

In 1796, the "South West Territory" was admitted a sovereign and independent state into the Union, and took the name of Tennessee. Jackson was chosen a member of the convention that was called to discharge the forming of a constitution, as the supreme law of the state. Jackson had witnessed the operation of the American constitution, and those of the different states, from their first establishment to the period in which he acted. Jackson took lead in the debts upon the different articles of the proposed constitution. The people of Tennessee elected Jackson their first Representative in Congress. His popularity continued to increase. In 1797 he was elected to the Senate of the United States. His congressional life was distinguished for a firm adherence to Democratic-Republican principles; and in the senate he voted for the repeal of the alien and sedition laws.

Biography of Andrew Jackson
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DUNLOP Surname Origins

America - The Origin of the surname Dunlop, Dunlap, DeLap is of a Gaelic locality. Dunlap is derived from the lands of Dunlop in the District of Cunningham. It is a well known Ayrshire (SW Scotland) surname. The first part is derived from the Gaelic word "dun" which means "a fort or strong place" (all Iron Age fortresses in this language were called "Duns", i.e.: Dun Aidenn, Dunadd, Dumbarton, Dunbar, Dunkelt, etc). The second part probably derives from the Gaelic word "laib" or "lug" meaning "the winding or bending."

If you are a Dunlap, Dunlapp, Dunlape, Dunlopp, Dunlope, Dunloup, Downlop, Dalape, Delap, DeLap, Delappe, Dulop, Dulap, Dulape, Dullope, Donlop, Donlap, Dunlip, Dewlap or any of a close variation of spelling, then you are a DUNLOP. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Obituary Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)

Waxhaw, South Carolina - Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) Obituary -- Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died June 8, 1845 at his Nashville home. He was 78. Jackson was born in Waxhaw, South Carolina on March 15, 1767. He had little formal education, but studied law for two years, becoming a lawyer in Tennessee. President Andrew Jackson was the second husband of Rachel (DONELSON) ROBARDS in an August, 1791 ceremony, and again on 17 January 1794. They had an adopted son, Andrew Jr.

Jackson built a home called the "Hermitage" outside Nashville, and soon entered politics. Jackson served as the first U.S. Representative from Tennessee, and later served in the Senate. He was also a Major General in the army. His most famous campaign was the victory over England in the "Battle of New Orleans" during the "War of 1812."

Jackson ran for president in 1824. Despite receiving more electoral and popular votes than his opponent John Quincy Adams, Adams became president when the House of Representatives chose him over Jackson. Jackson, like Adams, had not secured a majority of electoral votes in a four-man race, and the House by law had to make the choice.

Jackson won the presidency in 1828. Jackson, a Democrat, was bitterly opposed by the "Whig Party," who believed Jackson ruled more by veto and partisan politics than he did with congressional approval. A test of wills between the two parties occurred when Jackson opposed a Whig measure to establish a National Bank. Jackson prevailed.

Jackson was the first president who took his case to the American people when Congress seemed opposed to his views. He was also known to allow the public free access to the White House. Jackson won a landslide victory in the 1832 presidential election, winning the popular vote with a 56 percent margin. After his second term, Jackson retired to his Nashville home, the Hermitage, where he died on June 8, 1845. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

Tennessee - Remember the Alamo? Remember "Davy! Davy Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier?" Remember Davy Crockett? Did he really wear a coonskin cap? Did he kill a bear when he was three? I believe that last to be only a myth.

My next journey of genealogy research takes us to the surname of CROCKETT, since it has been popping up in the research for our Craighead, Warwick, Dunlap and McGill ancestry. I found the following, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, written by David Crockett, and published in 1834, entered according to the Act of Congress, 1 February 1834, By David Crockett, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

This is a quote that Davy Crockett had on one the front pages, "I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, be always sure you're right -- Then go ahead!"

In the Preface of the book Crockett writes, "In the following pages I have endeavored to give the reader a plain, honest, homespun account of my state in life, and some few of the difficulties which have attended me along its journey, down to this time. I am perfectly aware, that I have related many small and, as I fear, uninteresting circumstances; but if so, my apology is, that it was rendered necessary by a desire to link the different periods of my life together, as they have passed, from my childhood onward, and thereby to enable the reader to select such parts of it as he may relish most, if, indeed, there is any thing in it which may suit his palate." (Quote taken from page 6. preface runs through to page 11 and was written February 1, 1834, Washington City, by David Crockett. Chapter I begins on page 13.)

Crockett's father was John Wesley Crockett, of Irish descent, either born in Ireland or on a passage from that country to America across the Atlantic. John Crockett was by profession a farmer, spending the early part of his life in Pennsylvania. John Crockett married Rebecca Hawkins, an American woman, born in the state of Maryland, between York and Baltimore. John Crockett was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, fighting in the Battle at "Kings Mountain" against the British and Tories. John Crockett at some time lived in Lincoln county, North Carolina, before he moved from there to the country, which embraced the east division of Tennessee before it was a state.

Davy's Grandfather and Grandmother were both murdered by the Creeks, in their own house, and on the very spot of ground where Rogersville, Hawking county now stands. John Crockett had a brother, Joseph, who the Indians wounded by a ball which broke his arm. Another younger brother of John Crockett was James, (deaf and dumb) and could not make his escape from the Indians, was taken prisoner and remained with the Indians for 17 years and 9 months. James was discovered and recollected by John Crockett and his eldest brother, William Crockett, when he was purchased by them from an Indian trader.

David Crocket was born 17 August 1786, where is folks lived at the mouth of Lime Stone, on the Nola-chucky River. Davy Crockett's father and mother had six sons and three daughters with David being the fifth son. Davy's family was very poor, living far back in the back woods, with limited schooling opportunities for the children.

During another move of the family, John Crockett settled in Jefferson county, Tennessee where he opened a tavern on the road from Abbington to Knoxville. His tavern was small and the principal accommodations he kept, were for the waggoners who travelled the road. This is where Davy lived until he was 12 years of age.

Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
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Extinct Political Parties of the 1800's

America - If you trace back the Democratic and Republican parties to the 1800's, the political parties evolution were as follows: Federalist Party, Jeffersonian Republican Party, National Republican Party, Anti-Masonic Party, Whig Party, Liberty Party, Free-Soil Party, Know-Nothing party, and the Greenback Party.

Federalist Party
The Federalist Party was the first American political party. It advocated a strong national government, and prominent Federalists included John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. The Federalists were not a sustaining party apparatus. The party's defeat in the election of 1800 led to its decline. It ceased to be a national party after 1816. In some respects the Whigs were the descendants of the old Federalist Party, supporting the Hamiltonian preference for strong federal action in dealing with national problems.

Jeffersonian Republican Party
The Jeffersonian Republican Party supported Thomas Jefferson for president in 1800. It was formed in opposition to the Federalists. The Jeffersonians tended to be more egalitarian than the Federalists. Following Jefferson's two terms in office, James Madison won the presidency on the Republican ticket in 1808 and 1812, followed by James Monroe in 1816 and 1820. The Jeffersonian Republican Party then faded away. The party was NOT a forerunner of the present day Republican Party. At times it was even called a name which seems contradictory today, the Democratic-Republican Party.

National Republican Party
The National Republican Party supported John Quincy Adams in his bid unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1828 (there had been no party designations in the election of 1824). The party also supported Henry Clay in 1832. The general theme of the National Republican Party was opposition to Andrew Jackson and his policies. The National Republicans generally joined the Whig Party in 1834. The National Republican Party was NOT a forerunner of the Republican Party, which formed in the mid-1850s.

Anti-Masonic Party
The Anti-Masonic Party formed in upstate New York in the late 1820s, following the mysterious death of a member of the masonic order, William Morgan. It was believed that Morgan was killed before he could reveal secrets about the masons and their suspected influence in American politics. The party, while seemingly based on conspiracy theory, gained adherents. And the Anti-Masonic Party actually held the first national political convention in America. Its convention in 1831 nominated William Wirt as its presidential candidate in 1832. Wirt was an odd choice, having once been a mason. And while his candidacy was not successful, he did carry one state, Vermont, in the electoral college. Part of the appeal of the Anti-Masonic Party was its fiery opposition to Andrew Jackson, who happened to be a mason. The Anti-Masonic Party faded into obscurity by 1836 and its members drifted into the Whig Party, which also opposed the policies of Andrew Jackson.

Whig Party
The Whig Party was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson's policies and came together in 1834. The party took its name from a British political party which had opposed the King. The Whigs candidate in 1836, William Henry Harrison, lost to the Democrat Martin Van Buren. But Harrison, with his log cabin and hard cider campaign of 1840, won the presidency, but only serve for a month. The Whigs remained a major party throughout the 1840s, winning the White House again with Zachary Taylor in 1848. But the party splintered, mainly over the issue of slavery. Some Whigs joined the "Know-Nothing Party," and others, most notably Abraham Lincoln, joined the new Republican party in the 1850s.

Liberty Party
The Liberty Party was organized in 1839 by anti-slavery activists who wanted to take the Abolitionist Movement and make it a political movement. As most leading Abolitionists were adamant about being outside politics, this was a novel concept. The party ran a presidential ticket in 1840 and 1844, with James G. Birney, a former slaveholder from Kentucky as their candidate. The Liberty Party drew meager numbers, garnering only two percent of the popular vote in 1844. It has been speculated that the Liberty Party was responsible for splitting the anti-slavery vote in New York state in 1844, thereby denying the state's electoral vote to Henry Clay, the Whig candidate and assuring the election of the slave-owning James Knox Polk. But that assumes Clay would have drawn all the votes cast for the Liberty Party.

Free-Soil Party
The Free-Soil Party came into being in 1848, and was organized to oppose the spread of slavery. The party's candidate for president in 1848 was former president Martin Van Buren. Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party won the 1848 presidential election, but the Free-Soil Party did elect two senators and 14 members of the House of Representatives. The motto of the Free-Soil Party was "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men." After Van Buren's defeat in 1848 the party faded and members were eventually absorbed into the Republican Party when it formed in the 1850s.

The Know-Nothing Party
The Know-Nothing Party emerged in the late 1840s as a reaction to immigration to America. After some success in local elections with campaigns rife with bigotry, former president Millard Fillmore ran as the Know-Nothing candidate for president in 1856. Fillmore's campaign was a disaster and the party soon dissolved.

Greenback Party
The Greenback Party was organized at a national convention held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1875. The formation of the party was prompted by difficult economic decisions, and the party advocated the issuing of paper money not backed by gold. Farmers and workers were the party's natural constituency. The Greenbacks ran presidential candidates in 1876, 1880, and 1884, all of whom were unsuccessful. When economic conditions improved, the Greenback Party faded into history. [Extinct Politcal parties of the 1800's] View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe