I am familiar with the Tidewater Aristocracy and the taxation of the Crown and the East India monopoly. A hobby of my husband’s. We’re members of the The House of Burgesses in Colonial Williamsburg.
I am familiar with the Tidewater Aristocracy and the taxation of the Crown and the East India monopoly. A hobby of my husband’s. We’re members of the The House of Burgesses in Colonial Williamsburg.
Cool my namesake and 9th great grand father was a member of the House of Burgess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farrar_(settler), he was also part of the deputation which arrested Governor Harvey, which is strange because when Harvey later returned for his second tour as governor, he granted Williams 12 year old son, William the younger, a 2,000 acre patent
My family also pre-dates the Revolutionary War. I will have to go through my father’s papers to recall our family’s patriot’s name. The Tarr family settled in what is now Westmoreland county in PA. There’s still the small town of Tarr’s , PA, after my G- grandfather being the station master for the Pennsylvania Railroad. They came from Germany and settled as millers and potters in the early to mid 1700’s. Gaspar and Mary Tarr had twelve children who also had large families. There’s a large Tarr family reunion (pre-COVID) in Hunker, PA. They stayed in the business of milling and pottery until the Pennsylvania Railroad pushed east. They began to sell off property to the Pennsy and became lawyers, engineers and conductors for the RR. I do have both my G-Grandfather’s original discharges from the Civil War. My G-grandfather on my grandfather’s side was the conductor on the first supply train in to Johnstown, PA after the Great Flood of 1889 The year my grandfather was born (Nana was born in 1893). My G-grandfather on my grandmother’s side was a glass blower for Jeanette Glass and a tavern owner in Youngwood, PA. My grandfather married my grandmother in 1910 and dad was born in 1929.
By the way, on my fathers side I lost a great great grandfather, a great great uncle and at least four, maybe more, 1st Cousins, 3 times removed. My 3rd great grandfather was the last to own a slave, he died 1859 in Alabama. He was also conscripted into a Georgia slave patrol before he moved to Alabama.
I am not proud of any of it. My "esteemed" ancestors were dirt and pig farmers, sharecroppers and plow boys, even the slave owned by my 3rd great grandfather was an old man over 45, and grandpa only owned 40 acres, not enough to provide anything more than a subsistence income.
His son and those of his brother, who homesteaded adjoining property, migrated to Louisiana as soon as they could. Didn't much improve their circumstances though, wound up a pig farmer in the tall pines of southern Arkansas
Family story is like many others, riches to rags, the problem with fecundity, not enough property left for all of the young 'uns to inherit. Choice was stay put and work for brother or someone else or pack up and move on. Also if died died, as did my 4th great grandfather, before he could tutor all of his sons, those untutored lacked the necessary skill to succeed, even as a farmer, they could neither read nor write, thus completely at the mercy of the market, bankers, wholesalers, merchants combine that with bad habits and there you got it, the formula for downward mobility.
Took two hundred years and socialism to dig the genes out of the hole. I have a masters, son a PhD, as does his daughter.
I’ve been offered a membership to the DAR, as have my sisters. We’ve all refused because Nana took issue with the fact Marian Anderson, a black opera singer was denied entry to...I can’t remember if it was the Capitol or Constitution Hall because of her race, and was permitted to perform on the front steps only. Nana was not happy with the DAR and left the organization she had helped foster.
In 2015, her great grandson graduated medical school USUHAS as a member of the USAF at Constitution Hall. He’s now stationed in San Antonio TX.
I could never see the sense or purpose behind the DAR SAR, Sons of the Conferracy etc.
What purpose do they serve other than bragging rights, and if you need bragging rights then you have a serious identity problem
The genesis of the DAR and Colonial Dames is post civil war, high teas, The wives of the upper class would sit around the "drawing room", white gloves, tea, crumpets, chocolate pie (if you ever saw the movie the help, then you get he picture).
When they weren't gossiping (politicking) they were busy trying to outdo the others. It would start with some biddy claiming that her husband was a cousin (times removed) of Judith Jefferson (aunt of Thomas Jefferson) or some other significant person. and on it went, then one day, a woman. who probably did not have knowledge of any famous ancestor, stood up and said "prove it"
And with that challenge the DAR was started.
I have a 6 h or 7th cousin, once removed who joined the DAR because they handed out scholarships to girls. That's cool,
Genealogy is fun. I've been at it since 1962. I spend my time trying to solve mysteries for others. I've been long bored with my own tree, In fact I posted my research on the net 2 decades ago, and it has been used (mistakes and all) by countless others.
I have a 4th great grandfather who was born in 1756, and didn't marry until 1780/81 and would have been conscripted into a Virginia Militia,l his brother, one year younger, died in 1780 as a militia member.
On my fathers side a 4th great grandfather served as a lieutenant in the Maryland militia.
For my part this is all interesting anecdotes as I have zero interest in joining any organization.
I do't need to pay good money for a piece of paper that I will probably wind up losing. I have a pile of certificates, awards and decorations from my 26 years in the military and honestly don't know where they are.
I don't need a piece of paper to tell me who I am, and frankly no one else cares either.. Also I do not stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, neither do I fall under their feet. Contrary to the now off the air, TV program. I am not my ancestors. The mess that I have made is all mine, my choices.
I am familiar with the Tidewater Aristocracy and the taxation of the Crown and the East India monopoly. A hobby of my husband’s. We’re members of the The House of Burgesses in Colonial Williamsburg.
Cool my namesake and 9th great grand father was a member of the House of Burgess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farrar_(settler), he was also part of the deputation which arrested Governor Harvey, which is strange because when Harvey later returned for his second tour as governor, he granted Williams 12 year old son, William the younger, a 2,000 acre patent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrar%27s_Island which is today basically a dump for Dominion's coal ash.
YDNA proof of my ancestry as the SNP is shared with 25 others who have the same ancestry.
A couple of books which support my previous screed :)
https://www.amazon.com/Intimate-American-Revolution-Pittsylvania-Virginia/dp/B01E1RQEW0
https://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-audiobook/dp/B00KAH5LMK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39M8RUKLDLU0P&keywords=albion%27s+seed&qid=1679956472&s=books&sprefix=albion%27s+seed%2Cstripbooks%2C214&sr=1-1
My family also pre-dates the Revolutionary War. I will have to go through my father’s papers to recall our family’s patriot’s name. The Tarr family settled in what is now Westmoreland county in PA. There’s still the small town of Tarr’s , PA, after my G- grandfather being the station master for the Pennsylvania Railroad. They came from Germany and settled as millers and potters in the early to mid 1700’s. Gaspar and Mary Tarr had twelve children who also had large families. There’s a large Tarr family reunion (pre-COVID) in Hunker, PA. They stayed in the business of milling and pottery until the Pennsylvania Railroad pushed east. They began to sell off property to the Pennsy and became lawyers, engineers and conductors for the RR. I do have both my G-Grandfather’s original discharges from the Civil War. My G-grandfather on my grandfather’s side was the conductor on the first supply train in to Johnstown, PA after the Great Flood of 1889 The year my grandfather was born (Nana was born in 1893). My G-grandfather on my grandmother’s side was a glass blower for Jeanette Glass and a tavern owner in Youngwood, PA. My grandfather married my grandmother in 1910 and dad was born in 1929.
By the way, on my fathers side I lost a great great grandfather, a great great uncle and at least four, maybe more, 1st Cousins, 3 times removed. My 3rd great grandfather was the last to own a slave, he died 1859 in Alabama. He was also conscripted into a Georgia slave patrol before he moved to Alabama.
I am not proud of any of it. My "esteemed" ancestors were dirt and pig farmers, sharecroppers and plow boys, even the slave owned by my 3rd great grandfather was an old man over 45, and grandpa only owned 40 acres, not enough to provide anything more than a subsistence income.
His son and those of his brother, who homesteaded adjoining property, migrated to Louisiana as soon as they could. Didn't much improve their circumstances though, wound up a pig farmer in the tall pines of southern Arkansas
Family story is like many others, riches to rags, the problem with fecundity, not enough property left for all of the young 'uns to inherit. Choice was stay put and work for brother or someone else or pack up and move on. Also if died died, as did my 4th great grandfather, before he could tutor all of his sons, those untutored lacked the necessary skill to succeed, even as a farmer, they could neither read nor write, thus completely at the mercy of the market, bankers, wholesalers, merchants combine that with bad habits and there you got it, the formula for downward mobility.
Took two hundred years and socialism to dig the genes out of the hole. I have a masters, son a PhD, as does his daughter.
I’ve been offered a membership to the DAR, as have my sisters. We’ve all refused because Nana took issue with the fact Marian Anderson, a black opera singer was denied entry to...I can’t remember if it was the Capitol or Constitution Hall because of her race, and was permitted to perform on the front steps only. Nana was not happy with the DAR and left the organization she had helped foster.
In 2015, her great grandson graduated medical school USUHAS as a member of the USAF at Constitution Hall. He’s now stationed in San Antonio TX.
I could never see the sense or purpose behind the DAR SAR, Sons of the Conferracy etc.
What purpose do they serve other than bragging rights, and if you need bragging rights then you have a serious identity problem
The genesis of the DAR and Colonial Dames is post civil war, high teas, The wives of the upper class would sit around the "drawing room", white gloves, tea, crumpets, chocolate pie (if you ever saw the movie the help, then you get he picture).
When they weren't gossiping (politicking) they were busy trying to outdo the others. It would start with some biddy claiming that her husband was a cousin (times removed) of Judith Jefferson (aunt of Thomas Jefferson) or some other significant person. and on it went, then one day, a woman. who probably did not have knowledge of any famous ancestor, stood up and said "prove it"
And with that challenge the DAR was started.
I have a 6 h or 7th cousin, once removed who joined the DAR because they handed out scholarships to girls. That's cool,
Genealogy is fun. I've been at it since 1962. I spend my time trying to solve mysteries for others. I've been long bored with my own tree, In fact I posted my research on the net 2 decades ago, and it has been used (mistakes and all) by countless others.
I have a 4th great grandfather who was born in 1756, and didn't marry until 1780/81 and would have been conscripted into a Virginia Militia,l his brother, one year younger, died in 1780 as a militia member.
On my fathers side a 4th great grandfather served as a lieutenant in the Maryland militia.
For my part this is all interesting anecdotes as I have zero interest in joining any organization.
I do't need to pay good money for a piece of paper that I will probably wind up losing. I have a pile of certificates, awards and decorations from my 26 years in the military and honestly don't know where they are.
I don't need a piece of paper to tell me who I am, and frankly no one else cares either.. Also I do not stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, neither do I fall under their feet. Contrary to the now off the air, TV program. I am not my ancestors. The mess that I have made is all mine, my choices.