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Daniel Boone Daniel Boone (1734 to 1820) is one of the most legendary figures in American history. He was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, but his family soon moved to North Carolina. After hearing stories of Kentucky, Boone set out for it in 1767 and lived there. He then helped develop the famed Wilderness Road as well as Boonesborough. He was captured by the Shawnees and he eventually escaped. In retribution, the Shawnees tried a [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard & Rosemarie Machmer Provenance The following remembrances were publishing the Pook and Pook auction catalogue for this sale, held on October 24 and 25, 2008. For coverage of this sale, please see the account in Maine Antique Digest, published in January of 2009, available at http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1014. About thirty-five years ago, I traveled around two hours to an evening country auction in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. As I walked into the auction house, facing me was [...] Click here to continue reading. Fairfax Family Washington’s association with the Fairfax family was fortuitous. His half-brother, Lawrence, married Anne Fairfax, who was the daughter of Col. William Fairfax, cousin and agent of Thomas, Lord Fairfax. William’s son, George William, and George Washington became friends, and in 1748, a young Washington was allowed to accompany George William as part of a surveying party to the remote south branch of the Potomac. Washington had learned the rudiments of surveying in [...] Click here to continue reading. Theresienstadt Nazi Prison Camp Theresienstadt was established as a “proposed model ghetto,” to impress foreign visitors and the Red Cross. According to Campbell, Theresienstadt was nothing more than a transit point to the death camps in Poland. The denomination of these notes is meaningless, because a Krone, or Kronen, was not in use in either Germany or Czechoslovakia; therefore, the notes had value only within the confines of Theresienstadt. The Gazette’s masthead was engraved by Paul Revere and the paper was published by Edes and Gill, otherwise famous for the Boston tea party having been plotted in their back room. Paul Revere designed the masthead for this newspaper;’ it is similar to his “sword in hand” logo. The Packet was published by John Dunlap. Society of Cincinnatus Henry Knox created the Society, serving as its first secretary, and Washington served as its first president. It was named after Cincinnatus, a Roman general and statesman who was admired as a model of simplicity, ability, and republican virtue. In 458 he was appointed dictator by the Roman Senate when the Roman army was in danger of being destroyed by Aequi. He left his farm, gathered troops, defeated the enemy, and [...] Click here to continue reading. The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community The Ephrata Cloister or Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The community was descended from the pietistic Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany. The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 – the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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