My family’s past is one full of interesting characters who have made a lasting impact on America as we know it. My research is based mostly from one of my cousins, Sandy Lee, who has researched our family tree herself over the past few years, providing me with several documents, portraits, and noteworthy accomplishments of my ancestors. Multiple names carry significance in my family. Some include, “Warren” (ancestor on my paternal grandmother’s side) and “Rush” (ancestor on my paternal grandfather’s side) both direct ancestors. Richard Warren is the furthest ancestor back in time whom I am researching and he came to America aboard the Mayflower in 1620. He had a relatively substantial family that passed down his legacy. I am also a descendant of a Declaration of Independence signer, Benjamin Rush. Rush studied …show more content…
Among the signers of the Mayflower Compact, Warren was a prominent citizen in the places that he lived throughout his life, notably, Plymouth where the passengers settled. Since Warren came alone, his wife and daughters had to stay behind; they came a few years later in 1623 aboard “Anne”. When everyone was together, Richard and Elizabeth had more children, all sons. Before Richard passed away in 1628, he received acres of land and participated in the 1627 Division of Cattle with his family. In Nathaniel Morton’s book, “New England’s Memorial, written in 1669, a record of Richard Warren’s death is recorded: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was a useful instrument and during his life bore a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth." This is the only evidence of his death in known existence. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first American in space, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Henry David Thoreau, and Civil War General/President Ulysses S. Grant are all fairly popular descendants of Richard
Joseph J. Ellis is an American author and historian whose main focus is a chronicle on the lives of the Founding Fathers. Other than the Pulitzer Prize Winner Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Ellis has also written eight other books, the newest of which was written in 2015. In the preface of the book, Ellis addresses his reasoning for writing about the Founding Fathers, saying, “In my opinion, the central events and achievements of the revolutionary era and the early republic were political. These events and achievements are historically significant because they shaped the subsequent history of the United States, including our own time.” (13). Ellis believes that knowing the foundation of our past is important for our society to be able to move forward. Part of his work is to establish how the past has affected our current nation, and the other part is to separate rumors from facts when it comes to certain historical events.
Attempts at English colonization of what would later become the United States of America in the early 1600’s had appeared wholly unsuccessful. Between 1608 and 1624, only 3,400 of the 6,000 English settlers of Jamestown survived due to starvation, disease, and attacks from the natives (Stahle). Notoriously, there is evidence that the settlers of Jamestown resorted to cannibalism to feed themselves (O’Brien). Even earlier than Jamestown, the colony of Roanoke seemingly vanished from Roanoke island without a trace (Kupperman). Among the multitude of leading figures in the new world, John Winthrop voyaged to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 with hopes for a
Richard Frethorne arrived in Virginia around Christmas in 1622 on the Abigail, a ship overloaded with passengers and armor, but little food. The Abigail arrived ten months after raids by the Powhatan Indians destroyed crops and killed hundreds of English settlers, so the passengers on the Abigail knew that they were repopulating a war-torn colony. Frethornewas sent to Martin’s Hundred, a settlement especially hard hit by the Powhatans. In March and April 1623 Frethornewrote four letters, three to his parents and one to Mr. Bateman.
Behind every great man there is an even better story. George Washington Carver was born a slave around the start of the United States Civil War. Carver worked his way from his humble beginnings to becoming a world renounced scientist and inventor. Benjamin Franklin was born into a family of thirteen children in Boston, Massachusetts at the turn of the seventeenth century. Franklin rose from a lowly candle maker to a well-respected scientist and entrepreneur. Both contributed greatly to our understanding of the way the world works and how we can use it to our advantage. While both may be remembered for similar things, their lives were different every step of the way. Each Carver and Franklin had a different set of struggles to deal
Mary Warren’s behavior foreshadow about her testimony in court by giving Elizabeth a doll she made, “a popper,” which later leads to her arrest. They found a needle inside the doll, in the same spot Abigail was stabbed in. She seems to be manipulated by Abigail, due to the fact that she feared to have to testify against her in court. “She’ll kill me for sayin’ that! Abby’ll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!” Mary kept saying over and over again that she cannot, which also indicates that she knows that Abigail will do something terrible to her.
Francis D. Cogliano, a senior docent in American History at the University of Edinburgh and
In addition to Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation Ellis has written many books and editorials. His books include; The New England Mind in Transition: Samuel Johnson of Connecticut (Yale University Press, 1983), School For Soldiers: West Point and the Profession of Arms (Oxford University Press, 1974), Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (W.W Norton and Company, 1993), After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture (W.W.
As I embarked on this assignment I was unsure how to begin and what stories to tell. I did not know if I should commence with how my family came to America, my family tree, or a fascinating story about how my grandparents met. In order to complete this assignment I convened with my grandfather, Earl W. Stafford Sr., who knows a lot about our family history, to learn as much as I could.
Earl Warren was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. Warren is best known for his majority decision in the controversial case Brown v. Board of Education. In this essay, you will learn about Warren life before the Supreme Court,how Korematsu helped shaped the rest of Earl Warren’s career, and his most important cases.
William Bradford- was an English leader in the Plymouth Colony. He was also a signatory of the Mayflower Compact.
My oldest brother, William Garrett Butler, was killed during the Siege of Vicksburg- I never met him, but to hear my father talk, he was a Butler through and through… He doesn’t say that about his namesake, Jacob Jerrod Butler, who is the next to oldest of my brothers and now is the oldest… Jacob seems a disappointment to my father. Next in line, come Harrison Wynn Butler- he was born too late to fight in the war, but to hear him tell it, he fended off Yankees left and right when they camped out near our house during the last year of the
Mary Anne Warren argues in the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights and not considered immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s argument in invalid since the claims of argument cannot be proven.
Elizabeth Warren is a democratic senator from Massachusetts who was elected on November 6, 2012. She is known for fighting for the middle class and because of this she is skilled in the topics of bankruptcy and financial pressures that face the middle class (Biography). When she was campaigning for senate in 2012 Elizabeth proposed the question: : Do we want to be a country that thinks "I got mine, and the rest of you are on your own? Or are we a country that believes that we make investments in our future so that we can thrive and our kids can do better than we do? (Issues).” She keeps the middle class in mind when making political decisions. Warren bases her political choices on her upbringing. Her family struggled with medical bills, making her in favor of Obamacare. She grew up with pride in her country, and she wants to allow immigrants to have the chance to feel the same way about the United States.
reverend and President of the College of New Jersey and his mother was the daughter of
I graduated from Yale in the year 1804 but sadly I wasn’t able to deliver my senior speech “The Qualifications Necessary to Constitute a Perfect Statesman” since I was sick. I married my first-cousin-once-removed Floride Bonneau Calhoun on January 8, 1811. We had ten children together but only seven survived to adulthood. The other three died within a year of their birth. My fourth child, Anna Maria lived the longest, to the age of 58. She married Thomas Green Clemson who founded Clemson University. (http://www.clemson.edu/about/history/calhoun-clemson/johnccalhoun.html)