Posted on 01/10/2010 12:08:49 PM PST by Pharmboy
The DAR is very much in existence. Many of the transcribed pension applications available online are the result of their efforts, directly or indirectly. You may want to go to the link I posted, to see if your ancestor is there. If he’s not, he can be. DAR membership is extended to women who have proved their descent from a Revolutionary War Patriot, and so yours has been, otherwise your mother would not have been able to belong.
I think that part of the reason that the Revolutionary War is not portrayed as much is that because most of the battles were British victories. It’s kinda difficult to make a compelling story out of a struggle of preservation & endurance. Possible, but difficult.
Uh, did I say it was perfectly accurate?
Drums - not seriously involved with the RevWar. Mostly backwoods life.
NW Passage - centered on era of French & Indian.
The Crossing - not a real movie (just TV docudrama).
The DAR is very much in existence. It’s a huge organization that’s very old in itself.
“Then, one of the networks aired a mini-series on Washington which was actually pretty well done (and can be purchased now) - this was in 1976 to celebrate the Bicentennial of our nation’s founding.”
I think you mean the 1984 “George Washington” with Barry Bostwick (my heart be still - he is Washington to me forever more). Fantastic. Unfortunately, it was only ever put out on “video”, and we know what that means.
Maybe part, but I think it’s mostly the domination of the “Civil War”. Everything before that has pretty much been glossed over in history, never mind the wars themselves comparatively.
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Yeah, the Brits would never ... cough, Cooper's tavern ... do anything ... ahem, Jason Russell House ... like that ... Wallabout Bay, Ruddle and Martin Stations ....
Thank you - will investigate the DAR.
One of mine provided the following account in his pension application:
He pursued his brother to Salisbury in May 1780 and volunteered himself as a private for three months in Capt. Hughlett’s company. From that company he was transferred to Capt. William Bostick’s company in Gen. Rutherford’s army. He marched to Charlotte, then to the Cheraw Hills, SC. Across the Santee River, a party of Tories fired on us. We “immediately returned the salute,” the Tories wounded two of the company, and we killed two or three of the Tories. The Tories ran and “forted themselves” in a large church house. Eaton’s group had taken six British and five Tories. “The next morning we fired on their fort & they left it & run when we saved but one of them & burned the house.”
Yes! That’s the mini series I mean! Barry Bostwick played Washington.
OH, I thought it was first aired in 1976,....and then was replayed several years later.
Anyway - LOVED the series too. Have it here.
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No...we were talking about Brit brutality. That’s what I addressed.
Yes I went to the DAR website and found my ancestor’s name and my mother and grandmother’s names in their database.
Am planning to contact them this week and try to reconnect with the DAR!
Thanks for the help.
My ancestors migrated to Guildford Courthouse with other Nantucket Quaker families on the eve of the Revolution...Nantucket and the whaling industry languished during those years, but N.C. became a little tooo exciting!
Always loved that flag...
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