Red James Cash
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Tis almost April 19th,I bet three quarters of the people in here know nothing about it lmao.Sad but true.
Funny... One of mine really was there. Sergeant Seth Brooks of the Acton Mass militia. 8th Generation great grandfather. His commanding officer was Captain Isaac Davis, the first officer killed in the Revolutionary War and was killed by the British on that day and is the man who the statue on Red's avatar is modeled after. He helped to carry Captain Davis to a nearby house and was present when he took his last breath. Here is his hand written account of that day... The names of these brave men who started it all weren't even published until many years later because if their names had been known at the time they would have been hung for treason against the King. On Saturday I will be drinking a toast to them and the sacrifices they made for all of us. The second page posted is the list of those men.i know all about it! one of my relatives was on the green
that day!..he was the one hiding behind a "tree!".ehe! he! he!
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I'm in the same position ,RJC . Both sides of my family were first settlers and assimilated with the indigenous tribes . Traded , intermarried , and worked for the best of both worlds . Greed of latecomers is what led to problems that developed into total war .Excellent answer old digger
Mike I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.I have my moms ancestors,then I have my dads ancestors.What really did the decimating was greed and the expansion west,manifest destiny.It was driven by greed,not quest for freedom.If america had stayed a british colony no doubt the same thing would of happened.The classic example is India and africa.
Yah, BC and NHB, my family has relations from the natives and the patriots. Red is correct that it wasn't just the patriots who decimated the natives, the Spanish, French, and English had been at it for over a hundred years before that fateful day. It was just "whitey" in the beginning, but the "Buffalo Soldiers" came in and did their part in the 1870s. My great and so on was a Stickney and answered the call at Concord and Lexington, so I guess our ancestors were neighbors NHB. Funny thing about Stickney, he also marched to beantown for the fight on Breed's Hill but had never worn shoes much before the march and got severe blisters and only made it to a few miles out and missed that battle. By the way, do you guys with native ancestry have type B positive blood?? It is common among native americans, rare among whites.