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Oh, My! Here it is July and I am just now getting around to updating this Web Page. Please forgive me but we have had a very busy summer.
The computer at the museum will not go on Comcast so we have not been able to access the Web Site since the beginning of June. Comcast has been out several times and says it is our computer. Well seeing how Charlotte and I are Technically challenged when it comes to this problem it does not seem to have been resolved. If anyone can help we would appreciate it. It is like having one of our arms tied to our sides as this is a intricale part of our research at the museum. Claudia Worth
The Summer edition of the newletter is out. If you did not get it in your email please contact Claudia Callas and give her your email. Help us save some postage and printing.
One of the most important announcements is our First annual (we hope) "Old Fashion Ice Cream Social". We are calling this special day "Heritage Day", It will be on the second Saturday in August. Location at the Baugh House. Time 10 am until 4 p.m.
Tours will be available Please stop by and see the wonderful restoration Bill Baily has done. He and Lee Callas will be available to give a knowledgable and delightful tour. We gurantee you will enjoy the first hand information from these two who have put their heart and soul into restoring this Historic 1859 Log Cabin and Farm House.
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 56 MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?
This came across my desk the other day and I thought I would share it with all of our visitors to the web site.
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants.
Nine were Farmers and large plantation owners; men of means well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of VIrginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General, Cornwallis, had taken over the Nelson home for his headquaarters, He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 Children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in froests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
So take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July now and in the future and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid. Remember Freedon is never Free.
This arrived by email I do not know who composed it. But more history can be found on the Wikepidia Web Site. Just type in Declaration of Independence.
Another interesting email sent to us:
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Especially read the last quote from 1802.
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." Thomas Jefferson.
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much Governemnt." Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property-until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
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