by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Working Class Mid Century Frontier Women The intent of this discussion is to get a handle on the clothing of the Mid 18th Century Working Class Frontier Woman. The tools of information will include runaway ads, severance allowances, paintings, prints, plates and...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
COLONEL, NEW ACQUISITION MILITIA B. September 13, 1741– D. December 1, 1816 Research by John T. Misskelley Digital photos by David Chambers William Hill, Orphan “Came into Court William Hill, a minor Orphan son of John Hill late of Chanceford Township deseased...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
TRAVELS IN THE COLONIES excuse my coming away without a farewell, these adiew’s are pain- full to anyone, but must have been more so in my situation. I found myself fast a going, my health ruined by having disagreable objects before my eyes and no comfort within...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
Michael C. Scoggins, York County Culture and Heritage Commission, June 2003 Friday, 12 May: After a siege of about two weeks, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln surrenders the entire Southern Continental Army in Charleston to the British expeditionary force under Sir Henry...
by tkendrick | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
RESEARCH BY JOHN T. MISSKELLEY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE EDITED BY JOHN C. DANN UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 1980 MOSES HALL’S PENSION APPLICATION, BORN IN ROWAN COUNTY , NORTH CAROLINA HE SERVED NINE TOURS OF DUTY FROM 1780 TO 1781. HALL MOVED TO...
by tkendrick | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
BY JOHN T. MISSKELLEY During the summer of 1999, The Culture and Heritage Commission of York County was having a fund-raiser at Hightower Hall, [an antebellum plantation at Historic Brattonsville, located near McConnells, South Carolina] to raise funds for the...
