Should Be a Movie (Apr. 16-22):

Lancelot Granger (just being named such makes him a good subject of a movie!) was my 8 times great grandfather. My father's mother's family had the Grangers marry the Swaseys, and eventually there was me! His oldest son, John Granger was in my lineage.

Here's the blog I wrote about Lancelot Granger (Jr)  A repost from 2018...

Lancelot Granger's (Jr.) First Home Kent's Island, Newbury, Mss, Built A.D. 1653

Lancelot Granger Jr

1637–1689

Birth 25 JUNE 1637 • Shillington, Bedfordshire, England

Death 3 SEP 1689 • Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut

Lancelot had a lot of interesting stories told about his life, which must have been handed down through the generations, as he's my 6th great grandfather.  He's also the father of Captain John Grainger.

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Lancelot was kidnapped...

Launcelot was kidnapped at the age of 12 or 14, from his mother (his father being dead) in the "west country" of England, and brought as a cabin boy on shipboard to Plymouth Plantation. There he was appenticed for two years to pay for his passage.

Launcelot's First Home at Kent's Island, Newbury MA was built in 1651. He moved there with his wife in 1653/54. It stood until 1888. Kent's Island is a rocky island of about 200 acres.

[According to James N Granger as reported to him by Sarah Granger Harmon (1731-1830)]. 

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A brief history of ...

Launcelot Granger, the son of Launcelot Granger of Shellington, England, came to America from England about 1648.  He settled in Ipswich, Mass.  It is thought that he returned to his home in England to settle his mother's estate, returning to Newbury with the financial means to marry and build a home.  He then removed to Newbury, Mass. in the Massachusetts Bay colony.  On January 04, 1653/54, Launcelot married Joanna Adams, the daughter of  Puritans, Robert Adams and Eleanor Wilmot Adams.   Launcelot and Joanna lived at Kents Island, Newbury, Mass., where they had eleven children.  These children were John, George, Robert, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Dorothy, Hannah, Samuel, Mary, Abraham and Thomas.

In 1674, they removed to Suffield, Conn., where they were allotted land, living in a house on High Street.  He was land measurer in Suffield for several years, and held other public offices.

In 1676, Launcelot was wounded by the Indians in King Philip's War,  receiving a ball in his leg, which he carried for life.  Launcelot Granger died on September 3, 1689 in Suffield, Conn.

TheGrangerFamily originally shared this on 14 May 2013 to Ancestry

Sources: 
Launcelot Granger of Newbury Mass., and Suffield, Conn., by James N. Granger, 1893 
Documentary History of Suffield.  Second Period, 1682-1715, by Hez. S. Sheldon, 1882 
Chart of Roger Granger's Descendants, H. H. Granger, M. D., January 1, 1907.

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Old Center Cemetery-Suffield, Connecticut

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A second brief history...

Launcelot and Joanna lived in Newbury Mass & Suffield CT .
This is a short version of the story which was passed down through the generations. He was born in England, but may have been of Scottish descent. After his father died, he was kidnapped and taken on a ship bound for Plymouth, MA. where he was made cabin boy. When he arrived in the USA he was sold (apprenticed) for 2 years to pay for his passage. He was about 12 - 14 years old when he was taken.

Once he was released from his service, he made a trip back to England to try to reclaim his inheriatance as he was firstborn. Walking on his way from the ship to his home, he met with theives who attempted to steal what little he had with him. They both had swords. He told them if they intended to rob him they would have to kill him first. He fought them off with his quarter-staff. He killed one and the other ran away. In the next town he confessed to the magistrate, and they released him.

When he arrived at his home he found his younger brother had already claimed his inheritance for himself, and he was not pleased to see Launcelot. He must have returned with some of the fortune though, since when he came back to the USA he was living quite comfortably.

He married a Puritan named Joanna Adams, daughter of Robert Adams. Puritans frowned upon anyone marrying someone like Launcelot who was of a different faith, so he must have been very well to do. They overlooked the fact that a person was not a Puritan if they had riches.

After marrying, Launcelot leased a very desirable property - Kents Island . They had a very nice home there. They lived there for 20 years, from 1654 to 1674, and raised their children there.

Around that time Rev Parker was making life in Newburyport very uncomfortable for anyone who was not a "freeman." Launcelot is believed not to have been a "freeman" since he was not a Puritan, and only Puritans were allowed to be "freemen". That's when they made the move to Suffield, CT, where he was the given the position of Land Measurer.

"Launcelot was a man of great resolution; was of full medium height and stockily built."

Source : Launcelot Granger of Newbury, MA and Suffield, CT, by James Nathaniel Granger (Lockwood and Brainard, 1893).

He was one of the first settlers of Suffield, Ct. and all the Grangers that lived there in the early years were his descendants. One of those descendants was Gideon Granger , who was Postmaster General.
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Excerpt 3: Launcelot Granger of Newbury, Mass., and Suffield, Conn.: A Genealogical History (1893)

Blogger's note:
 According to the Ancestry trees, Lancelot's father, Lancelot Sr, lived till 1687, and his mother lived till 1677.  And Lancelot was the younger son, with his brother Alexander being 7 years older than he was.  So some of the details of these wonderful stories might be a bit of embellishment. 

"Cemetery in Suffield, Mass, where Launcelot and Granger descendants are buried. SDN Marks the general area where Launcelot Granger is believed to have been buried in 1689." I don't know the identity of SDN.

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families on the States of Masaschusetts
Volume III, pp 2084-

Granger
The earliest mention of the surname Granger in England is in the Roll of Battle Abbey, 1066.  The word Grange is of French origin and was applied in England to the farm house or homestead, and the bailiff who presided over a farm was called Ate Grange, and afterwards, Granger.  There are several crests know to have been borne by the Granger family, the most common being a dexter arm couped and embowed, in hand three wheat ears all proper.  The Grangers of Staffordshire born: a griffin passant; and the Essex family born; a dexter arm bearing a portcullis.
  I.  Launcelot Granger, immigrant ancestor, came from England to New England, was a resident of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1648.  There is a tradition conerning him which appears in several diffent branches of the family thus giving the story some measure of probablity.  The story is as follows:  "Launcelot Granger was born in the west of England, and when a lad of twelve or fourteen years of age, he was stolen from his mother (his father being dead), and brought to Plymouth, Masachusetts, where he was sold (apprenticed) to serve two years for his passage.  He had served on ship as a cabin boy.  He afterward married a lady named Adams, and settled east of Boston, where he lived until two children had been born.  Being the eldest of his family, he returned to England to obtain his inheritance.
On the way from the place where he landed to his mother's house, to which he travelled on foot, he had to pass through an uninhabited country, and just before night, stopped at a little cottage.  The old man of the house told him that frequent robberies had been committed on the road a short distance ahead, and advised him to put up for the night.  But, not knowing but what he would be in as much danger at the cottage as on the road and being in haste he determined to proceed.  After he had advanced some distance into the woods he perceived by light of the moon a man step into the road before him and  moved on slowly until a second one joined him.  When he came up to them they demanded his monty.  He told them he had but one crown, which was barely sufficient to pay his expenses to his friends, who lived at some distance.  They, however, told him he must give up his money or they would take his life.  He replied that if they got his money they must fight for it, on which they attacked him with their swords, while he defended himself with his quarter staff.  With the butt end of this he knocked down one and dispatched him and the other ran away.  When he arrived at the next village he made an oath before a magistrate to what he had done, and was suffered to proceed on his journey.  The inhabitants of the village found the man who was slain to be one of their "honest" citizens.
When he arrived at his mother's house he found his younger brother to be in possession of the estate, and very much displeased to see him, and, it is supposed, hired assassins to dispatch him.  He walked out with them under the pretense of viewing hte farm, and when behind a piece of woods, they attacked him with their swords, but he defended himself so manfully with his quarter staff that he killed two of them and the other fled.  He returned and made known what he had done to the magistrates, who upon investigation, acquitted him of all blame.  Meeting, however, with difficulties in obtaining his inheritance, he abandoned it and returned to America.  Launcelot was a man of great resolution, was of full medium height and stockily built.
Launcelot Granger removed from Ipswich to Newbury at the time of his marriage in 1654 and leased the farm of Stephen Kent on Kent's Island.  The site of his house there may still be seen.  The house was torn down in 1884.  About 1674 he removed to Suffield, Connecticut, and on September 14 of that year (1674), received a grant of sixty acres, and forty acres each for his two sons.  He did not settle there permanently, however, until after the Indian hostilities were over, and in 1678 he was living on High Street.  During King Philip's war he lived at the stockade in Westfield.  Rev. Mr. Taylor in a narrative regarding the Indian fight at Westfield, October 27, 1675, says that a Mr. Granger was seriously wounded in the leg.  There is scarcely any doubt that it was Launcelot Granger, as the circumstances is well authenticated by the family.  He lived in Suffield until his death in 1689.  A large maple tree which was planted by him still stands in front of the site of his house, and is known at the present itme as the "Launcelot Granger Tree".  He was a prominent man in the town and served as land measurer for several terms.  He died September 3, 1689, and was buried in the graveyard which was opposite the meeting house on High street.  He married, January 4, 1653-54, Joanna Adams, born in England in 1634, died 1701 in Suffield, daughter of Robert and Eleanor Adams.
Children born at Newbury:
  1. John, born January 15, 1754-55
  2. Thomas; married Mindwell Taylor; died March 14, 1729-30
  3. George, born November 28, 1658; married Lydia Younglove
  4. Robert; died unmarried, August 8, 1709
  5. Mary; married John Burbank, Jr.
  6. Elizabeth, born March 13, 1662; married Vicary Sikes; died March 30, 1692
  7. Dorothy, born February 17, 1665; married Dr. Robert Old
  8. Rebecca; married Joseph Woolcot.; died July 27, 1693
  9. Samuel, born August 2, 1668; married Esther Hanchett; died April 22, 1721
10. Hannah; married Thomas Taylor; died September 9, 1729
11. Abraham, born April 7, 1673; married (1) Hannah Hanchett; (2) Hannah...
"Genealogical and personal memoirs Relating to the families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts." MaryGraingerHarper http://archive.org/stream/genealogicaland00cuttgoog/genealogicaland00cuttgoog_djvu.txt  

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Some History of the Granger Family

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It reads: THE GRANGER MAPLE. Planted by Launcelot Granger, who died 1689

. "An unremembered Past Broods like a presence 'mid the long gray boughs Of this old tree, which has outlived so long The flitting generations of mankind." 

Planted 1674, it was removed in 1922. Suffield, CT.  It lived 248 Years

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Does a spinster live in solitude?

I thought a spinster would be someone who lived in solitude, or perhaps she lived with various relatives throughout her life.

So let's explore the life of Lucinda (Cinnie) Booth  (1854-1920), my second great Auntie.
Born in Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, on June 8 1954, she was the fourth of six children born to Hannah Conn Booth, second wife of William Lewis Booth. William had a close brother, Charles Marcalus Booth, who had moved with him from NY state to Illinois and then to Texas, but I haven't worked to find many records that connect the families.

 Cinni's youngest sister, the last of Hannah's children, was Anna Booth Attaway, the mother of my two cousins (three times removed) who made hand embroidered and smocked clothes for me and my sister. Here's some info about their lives.

(Above) Hand embroidered blouses by Alice and Gertie Attaway - worn by myself and my little sister, Houston TX,  before we moved to St. Louis that summer.

William Booth had had a first wife, Mary Ann McManus Booth, who left two very young sons when she, as well as her infant daughter, died in 1842.  William married Hannah Conn in Indiana within 7 months.after the loss of Mary Ann. 

Though Cinnie great up in a large family in Hillsboro TX, she was the daughter who didn't marry. Her first entry in a census appears in 1860 when she was 6. Her father's home was the first listed on the census in Hillsboro, TX, and he was an Attorney at Law, with his son Charles studying under him at 20 years old. 

By the 1870 census the household is somewhat smaller, as several of the adult children have married. Cinnie at 15, Charles (30) and Annie (11) are still living in their parent's household. Strangely enough 3 persons are also included, without any last names, John, as laborer, Phillis and their daughter Eliza (10,) as domestic servants. Isn't it likely these are freed slaves? But their racial identifcation is white, and the transcriptionist even called John a lawyer rather than laborer, which the handwriting clearly enough gives.

Isn't it fun to see what happens on census records?

In 1880 for the Hempstead TX census, Cinnie (22) and little sis Annie (18) are in still their parents household. I believe the lawyers came to Hempstead where courts were handling many cases. Charles was married and also a practicing lawyer in Hempstead TX.

My gg-grandfather, Cinnie's elder brother Richard R. Booth had been practicing law also in Hempstead, when he had been killed in 1879. So this census of the WIlliam and Hannah Booth household included his 3 children: Willie 13, Ed 9, and E. A. 7.  Eugenia Almeta Booth was E. A., who became my great grandmother when she married to Charles Herman Miller much later. These grandchildren had lost their mother back in 1875, so they probably had been raised in the William and Hannah Booth household since then.

There were no available 1890 census due to loss to fire.

But Ancestry lists family births and deaths under Cinnie's details. Hannah, her mother died in 1885 back in Hillsboro TX.  Cinnie's half brother, Charles died in 1886.

Her father William Booth died in 1894, in Hillsboro, TX.

 

The William Booth home was still standing in the 1993 when the following photo was taken.

The next census available is 1900, and it finds Lucinda Booth, age 45 as a head of household, living in the Booth family home, 208 N. Waco, in Hillsboro TX, with her nephew Edwin Booth, 29. I go scrambling back to Ancestry to look at her tree. None of her brothers or half brothers had a son, Edwin. Well that's someone I will look for another time!

Interestingly enough, in 1910, there's no listing for 208 N. Waco, but Cinnie (56) is listed as Jinni Booth, a boarder at 206 Waco, living with a family of four with Ray Churchill as the head of the household. His occupation is a laundry marker. I can't find his wife's family which was probably related to her somehow.

No more information is available until the 1920 census, which finds her in Dallas TX. She is listed as Dinni now, (it could have been written Sinni), age 65, and aunt to the family of James O. Wright, 50, a secretary in an oil business. His wife was Ellen L. age 48 and they had 2 children. Who were the Wrights to Cinni?

Uncle Charles (her father's brother) had a daughter named Lucinda Ellen Booth. And she married James O. Wright. Of course she might have changed to her middle name at some time. But they were (at least when the census was taken) the caregivers for Cinni in her old age, after the boarding situation next door to their old home in Hillsboro.

But when she died June 22, 1920 she wasn't in Dallas! She was with her great neice, Allice F. Attaway (my cousin who embroidered my blouses) in El Paso TX. And dear Alice didn't know her year of birth, but knew her birthday, because they had probably just celebrated her 66th on June. 9. Alice was the informant for the death certificate, but also didn't know her grandmother Hannah Booth's name, who had died when she was very young.

From Find-A-Grave: 

"Miss Cinnie Booth was 66 years, 13 days old and a beloved pioneer citizen of Hillsboro. She was born in Grosbeck and moved in early childhood with her parents, Col. Wm L. Booth and wife, Hannah Conn Booth. Cinnie was a cotton buyer for a local firm. She was eulogized by a life-long friend of the family, Captain WM. A. Fields who paid tribute to her noble character. She was buried next to her parents.

She and her father followed the faith of Spiritualism.

She was buried in the Booth family plot in Hillsboro, TX.

A cotton buyer! Well, there's a woman who found something to do with her time. Not very solitary either! 

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Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers

Begins With a Vowel - Elizabeth

Dad is my grandfather, George, Mother R. is Elizabeth "Bettie" Bass Rogers, and Elmore is an uncle who died in childhood. Taken in Galveston TX. I think her strange skirt was added by the photographer because her legs are still visible through the dark swath.

I haven't been able to find much information on my great grandmother, Elizabeth Bettie Bass Rogers, from my father's side. But there are some interesting facts about her own family tree. Here's a repost from February 12, 2014

Champion Travis Traylor Sr. 

1770 - February 6 birthday... born in Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, an unincorporated township in a rural county about halfway from Richmond south to the North Carolina border.  His parents were William Michael Traylor who fought in the Revolutionary War, and Priscilla Nanny Perkinson Traylor.

Spanish moss growing on Live Oak trees.

How is he related to me?  Glad you asked.

My generation is 1
My father George is 2
His father George is 3
His mother Betty Bass Rogers is 4
Her mother Mary Ann Elizabeth Powell Bass is 5
Her mother Nancy Jones Traylor Powell is 6
and her father Champion Travis Traylor Sr. is generation 7 from mine, or my 4 times great grandfather.

Champion married 15 Aug 1797 in Wilkes County, Georgia, to the beautiful (of course) Sarah Jones (daughter of Susanna (Sukey) Claiborne (Clairborne) and Frederick Jones.  Since her family was also from Virginia, it seems probable that they were also immigrating elsewhere at that time, and may have settled in Georgia. 

At age 42, in 1812, Champion Travis Traylor (Sr.) fought against the British in the War of 1812.  He received a land grant of 169 acres as a result of this service, in Cahabu, Perry County, Alabama, where he moved before the actual deed was granted.  This is known because his death in Perry County, Alabama occurred in 1832, and the deed was signed by the secretary to President Andrew Jackson in November, 1833.

 From US Archives.

Possibly the Cahaba River near it's intersection with the Alabama River

Now Cahabu is known as Cahawba, the first capitol of Alabama, which has virtually vanished.  Here's a link to information on it...and it's a few miles south of Selma, Alabama, of which you may have heard. 

The Traylors had 12 children, all of whom at least reached their 20th birthday.  My ancestor, Mary Jones Traylor Powell was their third child, born in Oglethorpe County, GA in 1804. They lived there where 6 more brothers and sisters were born, until her little brother, Josiah, was born in 1817 in Selma, Dallas County Alabama. By 1819 the last 2 Traylor children were born in Perry County, AL, which might mean a change of name of the county while they were living in the same place.  There are 2 family Bibles available apparently, which list important life events, mostly in agreement. They state the family moved from Georgia to Alabama in 1820.

By April of 1820, Champion was a Justice in Perry County, AL.

Historic St. Luke Episcopal Church, Cahawba, Alabama

The above photos shared on this post are from .cahawba.com/index.

Champion Travis Traylor died on April 4, 1832 at age 62.  I don't know where he is buried.
Many of my ancestors received land in Alabama, and most of them moved on to Louisiana then to Texas.

And our ancestress, Nancy, married Sept. 19, 1822 to James Moore Powell in that county.  Nancy and James' second child was Mary Ann Elizabeth (Mae) Powell Bass.  Nancy died June 27, 1881, in Old Waverly, Walker County, TX.

Mae Powell married Col. Richard Bass in 1839 in Perry County AL. Their seventh of twelve children was Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers, born in 1860 in Old Waverly, Walker County TX.  She would become my great grandmother (whom I never knew.)

A blog giving lots of information about her siblings, and my conjectures as to how she raised her children after becoming a young widow is HERE.

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Light a Candle

 An interesting topic for 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks.

I would like to light a candle on a glitch which exists in my Ancestry tree. My cousin is a DAR member, among other accepted credentials that prove our ancestors took part in the American Revolution, and then the Confederate Army in the Civil War. We also have ancestors who fought on the side of the Union, but I don't know if she has that affiliation also.

But her tree has our dear first immigrant as Giles Fitz Rogers (1643-1730) who came to Virginia in 1664 and 1670...who married in England and brought his wife and early children later to the wild new world.

Next in line was either their son, Peter Iverson Rogers (1677-1724) who had been born in England and had 9 children. My cousin believes he was the link in our ancestors.

BUT...I have his brother John Rogers (1680-1762) as the link for our ancestry.

It all comes down to a documented ancestor, Henry Rogers, several generations later. Unfortunately some eager DAR members gave his parentage as Mary Byrd, daughter of William Byrd. Nope. She didn't marry a Rogers, and there are lots of documents about who she did marry.

So whenever I look at documents on Ancestry, I check to see if they go back to these DAR documents. DAR doesn't necessarily mean things are facts. Original documents (wills, birth certificates or baptisms, land purchases) are what piece together the little we know about early colonists.

I do want to know more that has been researched in various journals by genealogists, and perhaps I'll find something that proves my theory wrong.

Barsically I've come up with this other line. It works with real people. But it doesn't include a Mary Byrd, but a Molly (Mary) of unknown parents, who was born around 1699 in England or America, and she married John Rogers (1680-1762). (This John was the son of Giles Rogers)

Their son George Rogers (1721-1802) fought for the Revolutionaries.  His son Henry Rogers (1741-1794) who also fought in the Revolution, took his family from VA into what became Tennessee eventually. 

There were two George Rogers' listed as fighting for Virginia, in one document is a 2nd. Lt. George Rogers on the brig Liberty from May 18 till July 30 1776 (a payroll document). The other is a member of the Vriginia Militia. So if we looked into that book on pg. 201 we could see about this amount of information.

Rogers, George, S. L., S. June 28, 1779.
Comments	VIRGINIA MILITIA IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PART III Virginia's Share in the Military Movements of the Revolution
Page number	page 201

I am partial to the one in the Militia of Virginia, rather than a navy 2nd Lt.  These Rogers families were farmers, not sailors that I know of.

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What's coming up?

April
Week 14 (Apr. 2-8): Begins With a Vowel
Week 15 (Apr. 9-15): Solitude
Week 16 (Apr. 16-22): Should Be a Movie
Week 17 (Apr. 23-29): DNA

May
Week 18 (Apr. 30-May 6): Pets
Week 19 (May 7-13): Bald
Week 20 (May 14-20): Bearded
Week 21 (May 21-27): Brick Wall
Week 22 (May 28-June 3): At the Cemetery

June
Week 23 (June 4-10): So Many Descendants
Week 24 (June 11-17): Last One Standing
Week 25 (June 18-24): Fast
Week 26 (June 25-July 1): Slow

July
Week 27 (July 2-8): The Great Outdoors
Week 28 (July 9-15): Random
Week 29 (July 16-22): Birthdays
Week 30 (July 23-29): In the News

August
Week 31 (July 30-Aug. 5): Flew the Coop
Week 32 (Aug. 6-12): Reunion
Week 33 (Aug. 13-19): Strength
Week 34 (Aug. 20-26): Newest Discovery
Week 35 (Aug. 27-Sept. 2): Disaster

September
Week 36 (Sept. 3-9): Tradesman
Week 37 (Sept. 10-16): Prosperity
Week 38 (Sept. 17-23): Adversity
Week 39 (Sept. 24-30): Surprise

October
Week 40 (Oct. 1-7): Longevity
Week 41 (Oct. 8-14): Travel
Week 42 (Oct. 15-21): Friends
Week 43 (Oct. 22-28): Dig a Little Deeper
Week 44 (Oct 29-Nov. 4): Spirits

November
Week 45 (Nov. 5-11): War and Peace
Week 46 (Nov. 12-18): “This Ancestor Went to Market…”
Week 47 (Nov. 19-25): “This Ancestor Stayed Home…”
Week 48 (Nov. 26-Dec. 2): Troublemaker

December
Week 49 (Dec. 3-9): Family Recipe
Week 50 (Dec. 10-16): “You Wouldn’t Believe It”
Week 51 (Dec. 17-23): Cousins
Week 52 (Dec. 24-31): Me, Myself, and I

Membership

There are some interesting affiliations in my family tree. 

But for membership of one special person in my ancestry...

I choose Sir John Fitz Roger (Rogers) (1386-1441). I am not certain which king he was knighted by, as Richard II and Henry IV had reigns in England during his lifetime. He is not mentioned in any of the rebellions within royalty or the insurections from the nobility...so it's possible that he went on a crusade with one of the kings. This was the times of the Hundred Years War with France.

While Richard II reigned, Bollingbrook (later to become Henry IV) went on crusades to Lithuania (1390) and Prussia (1392). Richard II abdicated in 1399 and Henry IV became king.

There were battles galore...with Irish, Welch, French and others.

John Fitz Roger received a knighthood through recognition of military service performed, according to notes from the Ancestry site.

He was my 16th times great grandfather.

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Week 13 (Mar. 26-Apr. 1): Light a Candle

April
Week 14 (Apr. 2-8): Begins With a Vowel

Lucky

 This week's topic, Lucky.

My first thought was my parent's photo from Fri. the 13th.

Clipping says: "When Mataley Munhall and George E. Rogers walked into county clerk's office for marriage license Friday they didn't know it was the dire Friday 13. Told of the date, they hesitated not one whit, flaunting the age old superstitions. Wedding is set for November 21."

They did marry on Nov 21, 1936. They had a nice long marriage of 49 years, with Daddy dying at 70 in January of the year they would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. But actually, they weren't into celebrations that much. They just had their own interests, and of course loved their grandchildren...though they seldom saw my children.

I believe I've had a pretty lucky life. I've made some really risky choices, but they came out alright in the end. And I've also made some fantastic choices. No further information here. I just feel pretty lucky.

I've been trying to find the Buckminster Fuller quote about "not having to have a job, because the universe will support those who are working to further the needs of the universe," or something close to that. I've ordered the book Critical Path where I think he says that idea. (He does say the universe is supported by people who stand up as individuals and speak the truth. Pretty good that.)

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Week 12 (Mar. 19-25): Membership

Translation for Native Americans meeting first Enlishmen in Virginia

Captain Nathaniel Basse, arrived in 1622 on the Furtherance (probably at Jamestown) and founded the Isle of Wight in 1607 (that's what Ancestry says...perhaps it was given to him from the Englishmen who made land decisions - maybe a company supporting this exploration.) He did establish his own plantation "Basse's Choice, " He was my Great times nine grandfather.

I am descended from some of the Powotan tribes of Virginia, with links to the famous Pocahontas. 

They had to learn a way to communicate, and the Christian efforts of churchmen brought many of the Native Americans into their flock. As one would expect, the Natives had to learn English. Of course they couldn't read or write it, but were able to communicate adequately for meeting the demands of the Englishmen.

His son John Tucker Basse married a Baptized Native American woman, Elizabeth Tucker (Kesiah Tucker) Basse. There are documents of John and Elizabeth's marriage. She had to have been given a Christian name, of course, so Kesiah was not used any more. But interestingly enough, many decendants did gete the name Kesiah in my tree.

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