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| 33851 | Witnesses: Willie Weirts, Anna Rehbein, Clara Ellingboe, Annie Ellingboe, W. Rehbein, Albert Zander. Officiating person: H. Mueller. Affidavit dated 13 June 1901; registered 18 June 1901. | |
| 33852 | Wm. Salt Soc., "Historical Collections of Staffordshire" I 367 Visitations of Shropshire 360 | MYTTON, Richard (Knight) (I2184)
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| 33853 | Wm. Salt Soc., "Historical Collections of Staffordshire" I 367 Visitations of Shropshire 360 | DE PESHALL, Margaret (I2185)
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| 33854 | Wolboe Annekskirke Groom listed as 27 years old, bride 24 years old, both with the farm name Windingstad. Witnesses: Torgier Olsen Winningstad and Tosten Evensen Presthagen. The ages listed in the marriage record do not agree with birth dates, but this is not uncommon in other records of this sort. | |
| 33855 | Woodlawn Memorial Park | ELLINGBOE, Norman Howard (I690)
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| 33856 | Worked 38 years with same agency. | ELLINGBOE, Lloyd W. (I4619)
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| 33857 | Worked as farmhand for brother-in-law and sister Catharina. | HÅKANSSON, Samuel (I20088)
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| 33858 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | JONES, Thomas Edwards (I1606)
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| 33859 | Worked in a bowling saloon. | JONES, Carlos D. (I3565)
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| 33860 | Works for Martin Marrietta Corporation. | HOUTKOOPER, Jon (I44451)
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| 33861 | wurde von Enkelin Christine Førster berichtigt laut Brief von 1987 an Hugo Laubereau. Sie hat 2 Söhne. | CRÜSEMANN, Anna (I53812)
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| 33862 | WWI Draft Registration | ELLINGBØ, Knut Ivarsen (I13426)
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| 33863 | Y-DNA results for 37 markers for his grandson: Locus DYS# Alleles 1 393 13 2 390 25 3 19 15 4 391 11 5 385a 11 6 385b 11 7 426 12 8 388 12 9 439 10 10 389-1 14 11 392 11 12 389-2 31 13 458 15 14 459a 9 15 459b 10 16 455 11 17 454 11 18 447 23 19 437 14 20 448 20 21 449 32 22 464a 12 23 464b 15 24 464c 15 25 464d 16 26 460 11 27 GATA H4 12 28 YCA II a 19 29 YCA II b 21 30 456 16 31 607 16 32 576 15 33 570 17 34 CDY a 34 35 CDY b 40 36 442 12 37 438 11 | KVÅLE, Peder Iverson (I54571)
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| 33864 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | ELLINGBOE, James Ph. D. (I2)
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| 33865 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | STØNJUM, Per Jansen Ørbeck (I23031)
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| 33866 | Year of birth is calculated from the 1905 Wisconsin census, when she was 18 years old. | CRIBB, Grace E. (I4005)
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| 33867 | Year of birth is in the 1670s, but is uncertain. Given in "Spalding Memorial" as 167-, which cannot be entered into this computer program. | SPAULDING, Philip (I1691)
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| 33868 | Youngest son of William the Conqueror. "Brought stability to England, introducing legal reforms and improving the economy; encouraged scholarship at court; had more illegitimate children than any other English monarch." | Henry I "Beauclerc" King of England (I4148)
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| 33869 | yrkesskolelærer/snekker | AMUNDSEN, Arne (I26722)
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| 33870 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | YRSTAD, Ingebjørg Asbjørnsdtr (I9983)
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| 33871 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | NORDTORP, Kari Ivarsdtr (I26462)
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| 33872 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | HANSEGÅRDEN, Knut Olsen (I20348)
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| 33873 | ysteriarbeider | GUSTAVSEN, Karl Gustavsen (I18117)
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| 33874 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | HEGGE, Nils Ola Sigurdson (I26464)
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| 33875 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | BEITO, Ola Knutsen (I40822)
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| 33876 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | SKOGLUND, Edvard (I17587)
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| 33877 | Åbjør i NA | BØE, Anna Jonsdtr (I944)
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| 33878 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | TORPE, Nils Arne Nilsen (I20201)
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| 33879 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | BERGENGEN, Arild (I9982)
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| 33880 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Mar 20, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15883.70] Individual: Melby, Alma Social Security #: 502-86-2976 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: Apr 28, 1892 Death date: Mar 1982 Residence code: North Dakota ZIP Code of last known residence: 58465 As of April 1995, this ZIP Code was not in use by the U.S. Postal Service. The following primary location may have once been associated with this ZIP Code or may be in the same general geographic region of the U.S. It is also possible that the Social Security Administration had the wrong ZIP Code listed for this person. Manfred, North Dakota | HAUGEN, Alma Rosette (I44423)
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| 33881 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Mar 20, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15883.97] Individual: Melby, Audran Social Security #: 502-14-5599 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: Oct 12, 1924 Death date: Nov 27, 1990 ZIP Code of last known residence: 58721 Primary location associated with this ZIP Code: Bowbells, North Dakota | MELBY, Audran (I44329)
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| 33882 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Mar 20, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15884.56] Individual: Melby, Gertrude Social Security #: 502-34-1944 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: Nov 18, 1916 Death date: Feb 1963 | HELLING, Gertrude (I44479)
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| 33883 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Sep 15, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15883.107] Individual: Melby, Bertha Social Security #: 501-36-2412 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: May 12, 1891 Death date: Nov 1985 Residence code: North Dakota ZIP Code of last known residence: 58465 As of April 1995, this ZIP Code was not in use by the U.S. Postal Service. The following primary location may have once been associated with this ZIP Code or may be in the same general geographic region of the U.S. It is also possible that the Social Security Administration had the wrong ZIP Code listed for this person. Manfred, North Dakota [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Mar 20, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15883.107] Individual: Melby, Bertha Social Security #: 501-36-2412 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: May 12, 1891 Death date: Nov 1985 Residence code: North Dakota ZIP Code of last known residence: 58465 As of April 1995, this ZIP Code was not in use by the U.S. Postal Service. The following primary location may have once been associated with this ZIP Code or may be in the same general geographic region of the U.S. It is also possible that the Social Security Administration had the wrong ZIP Code listed for this person. Manfred, North Dakota | NORDTORP, Bergit "Bertha" Gulliksdotter (I44470)
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| 33884 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Sep 15, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15884.182] Individual: Melby, Kermit Social Security #: 501-07-1525 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: Mar 7, 1916 Death date: Sep 1992 ZIP Code of last known residence: 58465 As of April 1995, this ZIP Code was not in use by the U.S. Postal Service. The following primary location may have once been associated with this ZIP Code or may be in the same general geographic region of the U.S. It is also possible that the Social Security Administration had the wrong ZIP Code listed for this person. Manfred, North Dakota | MELBY, Kermit Trigby (I44435)
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| 33885 | [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2 M-Z, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Sep 15, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.112.5.15885.40] Individual: Melby, Martin Social Security #: 501-14-4564 SS# issued in: North Dakota Birth date: Oct 7, 1886 Death date: Aug 1977 Martin K Melby Martin, also known as M.K. Melby, was born to Knud and Guri Melby in Griggs County on October 7, 1886. His parents had filed on a homestead there in 1884. Prior to that, they had emigrated from Norway in 1881 together with their seven children ranging in age from age 19 to 8 months old. They lived in Goodhue County Minnesota for three years. Then in 1884, his sister Caroline was born right after the family moved to their first homestead in Griggs County North Dakota. Then in 1887, the family moved to Foster County North Dakota, the next county west. It was here that his father and older brother Ole helped establish the Melby School District in 1888 where he started his schooling. In 1893, his parents moved to the newly opened land of Manfred Township in Wells County where he completed his schooling. Raised on a farm, Martin was well acquainted with field work and chores, and helped with the harvest too, all of which would serve him well in later years when he had his own farm and also was the owner/operator of a threshing rig which he ran for many years. Martin also had early training in business by working for his uncle, C.C. Melby for 10 years. In 1918 he served as a mail carrier, and in 1919 he bought into the Ford garage in Manfred retaining this until 1939. He drove a school bus until 1945 when he moved to a farm remaining there until 1963. Martin served on the Manfred Township Board, notary public, member of Cooperative Elevator, and school board. He was a member of the Harvey Masonic Lodge, Sons of Norway, and Vang Lutheran Chruch. Martin married Alma Rosette Haugen on August 30, 1911 at Vang Lutheran Church. Alma was the daughter of Tollef Haugen and Bertha Jomen who farmed near Manfred. Alma's parents had joined Vang Lutheran Church in 1906 and she was confirmed there in 1909. So through the church and community, Martin and Alma had become acquainted. Martin's parents retired from farming that same year, and had moved into Manfred just east of the new brick school. The upstairs of this home was where Martin and Alma began their married life while their home in the LeGrand Division was being built. Four children were born to them: Myrtle 1914, Kermit 1916, Ellanora 1922, and Donald 1924. Martin died August 9, 1977 and Alma died March 6, 1982. Both are buried at Manfred ND. | MELBY, Martin Knutson (I44422)
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| 33886 | Ågot og Knut hadde 6 barn: Torstein (1767-) Thomas (1770-død liten), Ivar (1771-død liten), Ola (1772-), Dorte (1775-1862) brukerkone på gården, og Kristoffer (1778-død ung?). | SØYNE, Ågot Torsteinsdtr (I7278)
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| 33887 | Ågot og Nils hadde 12 barn: Øystein 1811-12, Ragnhild 1813- gm Knut M Buajordet, Gjertrud de 1815-, gm Ola O Magistad, Berit 1818- Ole O Endredal fra Hemsedal, Ågot 1821- gm Eivind Nilsen Vika, Gjertrud 1823- gm kirkesanger Øystein Rudi, Anders 18 25-1915 grb på Fystro, Øystein 1828- grb på Jarstad. Nils 1831-1832, Marit 1833-1834, Marit 1836-1847, og Anne 1839-1840. | FYSTRO, Ågot Øysteinsdtr (I27856)
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| 33888 | [His wife was baptized 1660.] | WASHBURN, Jonathan (I2143)
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| 33889 | [If born early in 1750, his mother was 45 at his birth] | WASHBURN, David (I6007)
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| 33890 | [Image] General, statesman, and first president of the United States, George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22 (February 11, old style), 1732. His father was Augustine Washington, who had gone to school in Englan d, had tasted seafaring life, and was then managing his growing Virginia estates. His mother was Mary Ball, whom Augustine, a widower, had married early the previous year. The paternal lineage had some distinction; an early forebear was describe d as "gentleman," Henry VIII later gave the family lands, and its members held various offices. But family fortunes fell with the Puritan revolution in England, and John Washington, grandfather of Augustine, migrated in 1657 to Virginia. The ances tral home at Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, is maintained as a Washington memorial. Little definite information exists on any of the line until Augustine. He was an energetic, ambitious man who acquired much land, built mills, took an interest in ope ning iron mines, and sent his two oldest sons to England for schooling. By his first wife, Jane Butler, he had four children; by his second, six. Augustine died April 12, 1743. Childhood and youth. Little is known of George Washington's early childhood, spent largely on the Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock River, opposite Fredericksburg, Virginia. Mason L. Weems's stories of the hatchet and cherry tree and of young Washington's repugnanc e to fighting are apocryphal efforts to fill a manifest gap. He attended school irregularly from his seventh to his 15th year, first with the local church sexton and later with a schoolmaster named Williams. Some of his schoolboy papers survive . He was fairly well trained in practical mathematics--gauging, several types of mensuration, and such trigonometry as was useful in surveying. He studied geography, possibly had a little Latin, and certainly read some of The Spectator and othe r English classics. The copybook in which he transcribed at 14 a set of moral precepts or Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation was carefully preserved. His best training, however, was given him by practical men and ou tdoor occupations, not by books. He mastered tobacco growing and stock raising, and early in his teens he was sufficiently familiar with surveying to plot the fields about him. At his father's death, the 11-year-old boy became the ward of his eldest half brother, Lawrence, a man of fine character who gave him wise and affectionate care. Lawrence inherited the beautiful estate of Little Hunting Creek, which had been grant ed to the original settler, John Washington, and which Augustine had done much since 1738 to develop. Lawrence married Anne (Nancy) Fairfax, daughter of Col. William Fairfax, cousin and agent of Lord Fairfax, one of the chief proprietors of the re gion. Lawrence also built a house and named the 2,500-acre holding Mount Vernon, in honour of the admiral under whom he had served in the siege of Cartagena. Living there chiefly with Lawrence (though he spent some time with his other half brother , Augustine, called Austin, near Fredericksburg), George entered a more spacious and polite world. Anne Fairfax Washington was a woman of charm, grace, and culture; Lawrence had brought from his English school and his naval service much knowledg e and experience. A valued neighbour and relative, George William Fairfax, whose large estate, Belvoir, was about four miles distant, and other relatives by marriage, the Carlyles of Alexandria, helped form George's mind and manners. The youth turned first to surveying as a profession. Lord Fairfax, a middle-aged bachelor who owned more than 5,000,000 acres in northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, came to America in 1746 to live with his cousin George William at Belvoi r and to look after his properties. Two years later he sent to the Shenandoah Valley a party to survey and plot his lands to make regular tenants of the squatters moving in from Pennsylvania. With the official surveyor of Prince William Count y in charge, Washington went along as assistant. The 16-year-old lad kept a disjointed diary of the trip, which shows skill in observation. He describes the discomfort of sleeping under "one thread Bear blanket with double its Weight of Vermin suc h as Lice Fleas & c"; an encounter with an Indian war party bearing a scalp; the Pennsylvania-German emigrants, "as ignorant a set of people as the Indians they would never speak English but when spoken to they speak all Dutch"; and the servin g of roast wild turkey on "a Large Chip," for "as for dishes we had none." The following year (1749), aided by Lord Fairfax, Washington received an appointment as official surveyor of Culpeper county, and for more than two years he was kept almost constantly busy. Surveying not only in Culpeper but also in Frederick an d Augusta counties, he made journeys far beyond the tidewater region into the western wilderness. The experience taught him resourcefulness and endurance and toughened both body and mind. Coupled with his half brother Lawrence's ventures in land , it also gave him an interest in western development that endured throughout his life. He was always disposed to speculate in western holdings and to view favourably projects for colonizing the West, and he greatly resented the limitations tha t the crown in time laid on the westward movement. In 1752 Lord Fairfax determined to take up his final residence in the Shenandoah Valley and settled there in a log hunting lodge, which he called Greenway Court, after a Kentish manor of his famil y. There Washington was sometimes entertained and had access to a small library that Fairfax had begun accumulating at Oxford. The years 1751-52 marked a turning point in Washington's life, for they placed him in control of Mount Vernon. His half brother Lawrence, stricken by tuberculosis, went to Barbados in 1751 for his health, taking George along. From this sole journe y beyond the present borders of the United States, Washington returned with the light scars of an attack of smallpox. In July of the next year, Lawrence died, making George executor and residuary heir of his estate in the event of the deceas e of his daughter, Sarah, without issue. As she died within two months, Washington at the age of 20 became head of one of the best Virginia estates. He always thought farming the "most delectable" of pursuits. "It is honorable," he wrote, "i t is amusing, and, with superior judgment, it is profitable." And of all the spots for farming, he thought Mount Vernon the best. "No estate in United America," he assured an English correspondent, "is more pleasantly situated than this." His grea test pride in later days was to be regarded as the first farmer of the land. He gradually increased the estate until it exceeded 8,000 acres. He enlarged the house in 1760 and made further enlargements and improvements on the house and its landscaping in 1784-86. He tried to keep abreast of the latest scientific advances. For the next 20 years the main background of Washington's life was the work and society of Mount Vernon. He had to manage the 18 slaves that came with the estate and others he bought later; by 1760 he paid tithes on 49 slaves--though he strongl y disapproved of the institution and hoped for some mode of abolishing it. He gave assiduous attention to the rotation of crops, fertilization of the soil, and the management of livestock. For diversion he was fond of riding, fox hunting, and dancing; of such theatrical performances as he could reach; and of duck hunting and sturgeon fishing. He liked billiards and cards and not only subscribed to racing associations but ran his ow n horses in races. In all outdoor pursuits, from wrestling to colt breaking, he excelled. A friend of the 1750s describes him as "straight as an Indian, measuring six feet two inches in his stockings"; as very muscular and broad shouldered, but th ough large boned, weighing only 175 pounds; and as having long arms and legs. His penetrating blue-gray eyes were overhung by heavy brows, his nose was large and straight, and his mouth was large and firmly closed. "His movements and gestures ar e graceful, his walk majestic, and he is a splendid horseman." He soon became prominent in community affairs, was an active member and later vestryman of the Episcopal Church, and as early as 1755 expressed a desire to stand for the Virginia Hous e of Burgesses. George Washington PREREVOLUTIONARY MILITARY AND POLITICAL CAREER Early military career. Traditions of John Washington's feats as Indian fighter and Lawrence Washington's talk of service days helped imbue George with military ambition. Just after Lawrence's death, Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie appointed George adjutant for the souther n district of Virginia at 100 a year (November 1752). The next year he became adjutant of the Northern Neck and Eastern Shore. Then in 1753 Dinwiddie found it necessary to warn the French to desist from their encroachments on Ohio Valley lands cla imed by the crown; and after sending one messenger who failed to reach the goal, he determined to dispatch Washington. On the day he received his orders, October 31, 1753, Washington set out for the French posts. His party consisted of a Dutchma n to serve as interpreter, the expert scout Christopher Gist as guide, and four others, two of them experienced traders with the Indians. Theoretically, Great Britain and France were at peace; but actually war impended, and Dinwiddie's message wa s an ultimatum: the French must get out or they would be put out. The journey proved rough, perilous, and futile. Washington's party left what is now Cumberland, Maryland, in the middle of November and despite wintry weather and wilderness impediments reached Fort-Le Boeuf, at what is now Waterford, Pennsylvania , 20 miles south of Lake Erie, without delay. The French commander was courteous but adamant. As Washington reported, his officers "told me, That it was their absolute Design to take possession of the Ohio, and by God they would do it." Eage r to carry this alarming news back, Washington pushed off hurriedly with Gist. He was lucky to get back alive. An Indian fired at them at 15 paces but missed; when they crossed the Allegheny River on a raft, Washington was jerked into the ice-fill ed stream but saved himself by catching one of the timbers. That night he almost froze in his wet clothing. He reached Williamsburg on January 16, 1754, where he hastily penned a record of the journey. Dinwiddie, who was labouring to convince th e crown of the seriousness of the French threat, had it printed; and when he sent it to London, it was reprinted in three different forms. The enterprising governor forthwith planned an expedition to hold the Ohio country. He made Joshua Fry colonel of a provincial regiment, appointed Washington lieutenant colonel, and set them to recruiting troops. Two agents of the Ohio Company, wh ich Lawrence Washington and others had formed to develop lands on the upper Potomac and Ohio rivers, had begun building a fort at what later became Pittsburgh. Dinwiddie, ready to launch into his own war, sent Washington with two companies to rein force this post. In April 1754 the lieutenant colonel set out from Alexandria with about 160 men at his back. He marched to Cumberland only to learn that the French had anticipated the British blow; they had taken possession of the fort of the Ohi o Company and had renamed it Fort-Duquesne. Happily, the Indians of the area offered support. Washington therefore struggled cautiously forward to within about 40 miles of the French position and erected his own post at Great Meadows, near wha t is now Confluence, Pennsylvania. With this as base, he made a surprise attack (May 28, 1754) upon an advance detachment of 30 French, killing the commander, Coulon de Jumonville, and nine others and making the rest prisoners. The last French an d Indian War had begun. Washington at once received promotion to a full colonelcy and was reinforced, commanding a considerable body of Virginia and North Carolina troops, with Indian auxiliaries. But his attack soon brought the whole French force down upon him. They dro ve his 350 men into the Great Meadows fort (Ft. Necessity) on July 3, besieged it with 700 men, and, after an all-day fight, compelled him to surrender. The construction of the fort had been a blunder, for it lay in a waterlogged creek bottom, wa s commanded on three sides by forested elevations approaching it closely, and was too far from Washington's supports. The French agreed to let the disarmed colonials march back to Virginia with the honours of war, but they compelled Washingto n to promise that Virginia would not build another fort on the Ohio for a year and to sign a paper acknowledging responsibility for "l'assassinat" of de Jumonville, a word which Washington later explained he did not rightly understand. He returne d to Virginia, chagrined but proud, to receive the thanks of the House of Burgesses, and to find that his name had been mentioned in the London gazettes. His remark in a letter to his brother that "I have heard the bullets whistle; and believe me , there is something charming in the sound" was commented on humorously by Horace Walpole and sarcastically by George II. The arrival of Gen. Edward Braddock and his army in Virginia in February 1755, as part of the triple plan of campaign that called for his advance on Fort-Duquesne, Gov. William Shirley's capture of Niagara, and Sir William Johnson's capture of Cro wn Point, brought Washington new opportunities and responsibilities. He had resigned his commission in October 1754 in resentment of the slighting treatment and underpayment of colonial officers and particularly because of an untactful order of th e British war office that provincial officers of whatever rank should be subordinate to any officer holding the king's commission. But he ardently desired a part in the war; "my inclinations," he wrote a friend, "are strongly bent to arms." Whe n Braddock showed appreciation of his merits and invited him to join the expedition as personal aide-de-camp, with the courtesy title of colonel, he therefore accepted. His self-reliance, decision, and masterful traits soon became apparent. At table he had frequent disputes with Braddock, who when contractors failed to deliver their supplies attacked the colonials as supine and dishonest while Washington defended them warmly. His freedom of utterance is proof of Braddock's esteem. Br addock accepted from him the unwise advice that he divide his army, leaving half of it to come up with the slow wagons and cattle train and taking the other half forward against Fort-Duquesne at a rapid pace. Washington was ill with fever durin g June but joined the advance guard in a covered wagon on July 8, begged to lead the march on Fort-Duquesne with his Virginians and the Indian allies, and was by Braddock's side when on July 9 the army was ambushed and bloodily defeated. In this defeat Washington displayed the combination of coolness and determination, the alliance of unconquerable energy with complete poise, that was the secret of so many of his successes. So ill that he had to use a pillow instead of a saddle an d that Braddock ordered his body servant to keep special watch over him, he was everywhere at once. At first he followed Braddock as the general bravely tried to rally his men to push either forward or backward, the wisest course the circumstance s permitted. Then he rode back to bring up the Virginians from the rear and rallied them with effect on the flank. To him was largely due the escape of the force. His exposure of his person was as reckless as Braddock's, who was fatally wounde d on his fifth horse; Washington had two horses shot under him and his clothes cut by four bullets without being hurt. He was at Braddock's deathbed, helped bring the troops back, and was repaid by being appointed, in August 1755, while still onl y 23 years old, commander of all the Virginia troops. But no part of his later service was conspicuous. Finding that a Maryland captain who held a royal commission would not obey him, he rode north in February 1756 to Boston to have the questio n settled by the commander in chief in America, Governor Shirley, and, bearing a letter from Dinwiddie, had no difficulty in carrying his point. On his return he plunged into a multitude of vexations. He had to protect a weak, thinly settled front ier nearly 400 miles in length with only some 700 ill-disciplined colonial troops; to cope with a legislature unwilling to support him; to meet attacks on the drunkenness and inefficiency of the soldiers; and to endure constant wilderness hardship s. It is not strange that in 1757 his health failed and in the closing weeks of that year he was so ill of a "bloody flux" that his physician ordered him home to Mount Vernon. In the spring of 1758 he recovered sufficiently to return to duty as colonel in command of all Virginia troops. As part of the grand sweep of several British armies organized by Pitt, Gen. John Forbes led a new advance upon Fort-Duquesne. This tim e Forbes resolved not to use Braddock's road but to cut a new one west from Raystown, Pennsylvania. Washington disapproved of the route but played an important part in the movement. Late in the autumn the French evacuated and burned Fort-Duquesne , and Forbes reared Ft. Pitt on the site. Washington, who had just been elected to the House of Burgesses, was able to resign with the honorary rank of brigadier general. But though his officers expressed regret at the "loss of such an excellent Commander, such a sincere Friend, and so affable a Companion," he quit the service with a sense of frustration. He had thought the war excessively slow. The Virginia legisl ature had been niggardly in voting money; the Virginia recruits had come forward reluctantly and had proved of poor quality--he had hanged a few deserters and flogged others heavily. Virginia gave him less pay than other colonies offered their tro ops. Desiring a regular commission such as his half brother Lawrence had held, he applied in vain to the British commander in North America, Lord Loudoun, to make good a promise that Braddock had given him. Ambitious for both rank and honour , he showed a somewhat strident vigour in asserting his desires and in complaining when they were denied. He returned to Mount Vernon somewhat disillusioned. Marriage and plantation life. Immediately on resigning his commission he was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two children living and two dead, and possessed one of the consid erable fortunes of Virginia. Washington had met her the previous March and had asked for her hand before his campaign with Forbes. Though it does not seem to have been a romantic love match, the marriage united two harmonious temperaments and prov ed happy. Martha was a good housewife, an amiable companion, and a dignified hostess. Some estimates of the property brought him by this marriage have been exaggerated, but it did include a number of slaves and about 15,000 acres, much of it valuable for its proximity to Williamsburg. More important to Washington were the two stepc hildren, John Parke ("Jacky") and Martha Parke ("Patsy") Custis, who at the time of the marriage were six and four, respectively. He lavished great affection and care upon them, worried greatly over Jacky's waywardness, and was overcome with grie f when Patsy died just before the Revolution. Jacky died during the war, leaving four children. Washington adopted two of them, a boy and a girl, and even signed his letters to the boy as "your papa." Himself childless, he thus had a real family. From the time of his marriage Washington added to the care of Mount Vernon the supervision of the Custis estate at the White House on the York River. As his holdings expanded they were divided into farms, each under its own overseer; but he minute ly inspected operations every day and according to one visitor often pulled off his coat and performed ordinary labour. As he once wrote, "middling land under a man's own eyes, is more profitable than rich land at a distance." To the eve of the Re volution he devoted himself to the duties and pleasures of a great landholder, varied by several weeks' attendance every year in the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg. During 1760-74 he was also a justice of the peace for Fairfax County, sittin g in court in Alexandria. In no light does Washington appear more characteristically than as one of the richest, largest, and most industrious of Virginia planters. For six days a week he rose early and worked hard; on Sundays he irregularly attended Pohick Church (16 time s in 1760), entertained company, wrote letters, made purchases and sales, and sometimes went fox hunting. In these years he took snuff and smoked a pipe; throughout life he liked Madeira wine and punch. Though wheat and tobacco were his staples , he practiced crop rotation on a three-year or five-year plan. He had his own waterpowered flour mill, blacksmith shop, brick and charcoal kilns, carpenters, and masons. His fishery supplied shad, bass, herring, and other catches, salted as foo d for the Negroes. Coopers, weavers, and his own shoemaker turned out barrels; cotton, linen, and woollen goods; and brogans for all needs. In short, his estates, in accordance with his orders to overseers to "buy nothing you can make yourselves, " were largely self-sufficient communities. But he did send large orders to England for farm implements, tools, paint, fine textiles, hardware, and agricultural books and hence was painfully aware of British commercial restrictions. He experimented in breeding cattle; acquired at least one buffalo, with the hope of proving its utility as a meat animal; and kept stallions at stud. He also took pride in a peach and apple orchard. His care of slaves was exemplary. He carefull y clothed and fed them, engaged a doctor for them by the year, refused to sell them--"I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species"--and administered correction mildly. They showed so much attachment that few ran away. In the social life of the tidewater region he meanwhile played a prominent role. The members of the council and House of Burgesses, a roster of influential Virginians, were all friends. He visited the Byrds of Westover, the Lees of Stratford, th e Carters of Shirley and Sabine Hall, and the Lewises of Warner Hall; Mount Vernon often was busy with guests in return. He liked house parties and afternoon tea on the Mount Vernon porch; he was fond of picnics, barbecues, and clambakes; and thro ughout life he enjoyed dancing, frequently going to Alexandria for balls. Cards were a steady diversion, and his accounts record sums lost at them, the largest reaching nearly 10. In bad weather his diary sometimes states, "at home all day, ove r cards." Billiards was a rival amusement. Not only the theatre, when available, but concerts, cockfights, the circus, puppet shows, and exhibitions of animals received his patronage. He insisted on the best clothes--coats, laced waistcoats, hats, coloured silk hose--bought in London. The Virginia of the Randolphs, Corbins, Harrisons, Tylers, Nicholases, and other prominent families had an aristocratic quality, and Washingto n liked to do things in a large way. It has been computed that in the seven years prior to 1775, Mount Vernon had 2,000 guests, most of whom stayed to dinner if not overnight. Prerevolutionary politics. Washington's contented life was interrupted by the rising storm in imperial affairs. The British ministry, facing a heavy postwar debt, high home taxes, and continued military costs in America, decided in 1764 to obtain revenue from the colonies . Up to that time, Washington, though regarded by associates, in Col. John L. Peyton's words, as "a young man of an extraordinary and exalted character," had shown no signs of personal greatness and few signs of interest in state affairs. The Proc lamation of 1763 interdicting settlement beyond the Alleghenies irked him, for he was interested in the Ohio Company, the Mississippi Company, and other speculative western ventures. He nevertheless played a silent part in the House of Burgesse s and was a thoroughly loyal subject. But he was present when Patrick Henry introduced his resolutions against the Stamp Act in May 1765 and shortly thereafter gave token of his adherence to the cause of the colonial Whigs against the Tory ministries of England. In 1768 he told Georg e Mason at Mount Vernon that he would take his musket on his shoulder whenever his country called him. The next spring, April 4, 1769, he sent Mason the Philadelphia nonimportation resolutions with a letter declaring that it was necessary to resis t the strokes of "our lordly masters" in England; that courteous remonstrances to Parliament having failed, he wholly endorsed the resort to commercial warfare; and that as a last resort no man should scruple to use arms in defense of liberty. Whe n, the following May, the royal governor dissolved the House of Burgesses, he shared in the gathering at the Raleigh tavern that drew up nonimportation resolutions, and he went further than most of his neighbours in adhering to them. At that tim e and later he believed with most Americans that peace need not be broken. Late in 1770 he paid a land-hunting visit to Ft. Pitt, where George Croghan was maturing his plans for the proposed 14th colony of Vandalia. Washington directed his agent to locate and survey 10,000 acres adjoining the Vandalia tract, and at on e time he wished to share in certain of Croghan's schemes. But the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 and the bursting at about the same time of the Vandalia bubble turned his eyes back to the East and the threatening state of Anglo-American relati ons. He was not a member of the Virginia committee of correspondence formed in 1773 to communicate with other colonies, but when the Virginia legislators, meeting irregularly again at the Raleigh tavern in May 1774, called for a Continental Congre ss, he was present and signed the resolutions. Moreover, he was a leading member of the first provincial convention or revolutionary legislature late that summer, and to that body he made a speech that was much praised for its pithy eloquence, dec laring that "I will raise one thousand men, subsist them at my own expense, and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston." (see also Index: Vandalia colony) The Virginia provincial convention promptly elected Washington one of the seven delegates to the first Continental Congress. He was by this time known as a radical rather than a moderate, and in several letters of the time he opposed a continuanc e of petitions to the British crown, declaring that they would inevitably meet with a humiliating rejection. " Shall we after this whine and cry for relief when we have already tried it in vain?" he wrote. When the congress met in Philadelphi a on September 5, 1774, he was in his seat in full uniform, and his participation in its councils marks the beginning of his national career. His letters of the period show that while still utterly opposed to the idea of independence, he was determined never to submit "to the loss of those valuable rights and privileges, which are essential to the happiness of every free State, and with out which life, liberty, and property are rendered totally insecure." If the ministry pushed matters to an extremity, he wrote, "more blood will be spilled on this occasion than ever before in American history." Though he served on none of the com mittees, he was a useful member, his advice being sought on military matters and weight being attached to his advocacy of a nonexportation as well as nonimportation agreement. He also helped to secure approval of the "Suffolk Resolves," which look ed toward armed resistance as a last resort and which did much to harden the king's heart against America. Returning to Virginia in November, he took command of the volunteer companies drilling there and served as chairman of the committee of safety in Fairfax County. The unanimity with which the Virginia troops turned to him, though the province conta ined many experienced officers and Col. William Byrd of Westover had succeeded Washington as commander in chief, was a tribute to his reputation and personality; it was understood that Virginia expected him to be its general. At the March 1775 ses sion of the legislature he was elected to the second Continental Congress and again set out for Philadelphia. Han var barnløs | WASHINGTON, George (I8666)
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| 33891 | ÅRBOK FOR VALDRES 1988 side 185 sjekk Sigvart Leirol | KVIEN, Ragnhild Erlingsdtr (I3844)
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| 33892 | Årdal Bydebok p. 152: III Tomas: Tomas var skreddar og budde i Hagen M. Mari Olsdotter Hovland. Their picture is on p. 152 of Bydebok. (1) Ingeborg (1874-1959) (2) Peder Severin (1877) was IV on Hagen. g.m. 1896 Else Sofie Johannesdotter Natvik (sjå s. 185) (3) Tomas (1880) til Am. 9.8.1900 (Aug 9, 1900) (4)Tolleif (1885-1889) (5) Sigrid(1887-1895) (6)Gunhild Marie (1890- 1980) til Am. 18.9.1911 (7) Inga (1893) (8) Sigrid (1896) g.m. 1926 Odd Olsson Henriksen (1899-1966- Lærdal) | HOVLAND, Thomas Torleivsson (I46228)
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| 33893 | Årdal Bydebok p. 153. Peder Severin was IV to live on Hagen under Hovland. | HOVLAND, Peder Severin (I46231)
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| 33894 | Årdal. Bygdi og ættar Jan Laberg: Jens Christoffersen Morgenstierne,som me heretter vil kalla Jens Hovland, var f. uml. 1668 og vart g. m. Abel Persdtr. Hainning, prestedotter frå Sogndal. Ho, døydde alt i 1711 (og hadde etter seg mann og to born: Øllegård, og Abel. Skiftet ett er henne gjev mykje rettleiding um arv og eigendom, og me tek dette frå skiftebrevet: "Jord: I Hovland 4 laupar, 1/2 hud, 8 mælar korn med tidig skov og herlighed, samt hvad i husene mur- og nagelfast findes, tilligemed 3 kakkelovne i stuen og kammeret, item en skovteig i Offerdalen som er meget forhuggen, samt tvende sager med for efindende redskab, alt vurderet efter siste skifte (efter Øllegård) til 456 rdl." Utanum Hovlan,d åtte buet jordi i Asperheim for 10 rdl., Berge under Øvsttun for 20 rdl., Øye i Lærdal for 20 rdl., Hundære for 80 rdl. I ålmenningen på Lærdalsøyri tri femteparter for 7 rdl. I ort 12 skil., Hauglum på Systrond for 2 rdl., Førl i i Vik for 75 rdl. og i Bøyum, Fjærland for 27 rdl. og 3 ort. Av gullsaker hadde buet for 60, rdl., og i sylvsaker for 130 rdl. Millorn dei siste ei sylvkanna, vekt 100 lodd fo,r 50 rdl. og ei mindre kanna, 64 lodd for 32 rdl. Ialt: Innkoma 1197 rdl. mot skuld 772 rdl. Jens Hovland vart so attgift med Johanna Hansdtr. Urdahl, prestedotter frå Luster, men del vart ikkje so lenge dei fekk vera saman. Jens døydde i 1718. Med andre kona hadde han to søner Christofer og Jens,. Buet etter Jens viser uml. same eig a som etter fyrste kona hans, men so vert det sagt at husi og serleg det "store nautefjøs er ganske forfalden og må opføres påny. Ikke et eneste tag døgtig eller dråbeløs. Taget på den store glasstue ligeså forfalden. Gården kan ikke vurdere s høiere end til 380 rdl." | MORGENSTIERNE, Jens Christoffersen (I21140)
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| 33895 | Årene tidligere blir kalt de svarte år, plyndring og lovløshet preget nesten 500 år av europeisk historie. Clothar II trengte hjelp av biskop Arnulf for å beholde makten. Etter den tiden ble hoffsjefen (Major Dumo) egentlig regent. "Major Dumo" ble var ikke bare sjefen for kongens hushold, men var ofte den egentlige regenten og var senior i aristokratiet. Etterkommerne av Arnulf i en lang rekke ble Major Dumo for forskjellige konger i Franken, inntil Carl Martel overtok som konge. Metz [fr. ms], by i Frankrike, Lorraine, ved elven Moselle; 123 020 innb. (1990). Handels- og industrisenter; viktig elvehavn. Gotisk katedral (1200-1500 tallet); justispalass (1700-tallet) med praktfull barokkfasade. Metz var allerede i romertiden en befestet plass (Divodurum); 511-843 hovedstad i Austrasia. 843-70 del av tysk Lothringen, tilfalt 870 det øst-frankiske riket og ble på 1200-tallet riksstad. 1871-1918 hovedstad i Lothringen. | METZ, Arnulf Av (I3760)
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| 33896 | Året etter at Eivind døde, giftet Gunhild seg med sønnen til Embrik Eriksen Rogn. Han løste inn noe av gørden for 25 rd, men døde bare åtte uker etter bryllupet. Faren fikk ingenting på skiftet, men ble vist til et uvisst krav i Årdal. Han klage t i 1686 til stattholderen, som ba om utsagn fra fut og sorenskriver. | GRØV, Gunhild Knutsdtr (I187)
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| 33897 | Året etter at han overtok Kvåle 38/1 fikk han også 38/1 Uppigarden, Han hadde odelsretten til den etter onkelen sin "Ove på Garde". Han var trygdesjef i Vang fra 1955 og i mange år. Han var en meget sprek mann som etter at han ga fra seg gården , hjalp til mye. Om sommeren holdt han seg på Helestrønd, hvor han alltid var med på fjøs stellet. Kvåle 38/1 (Framgården) og Kvåle 38/3 (Uppigarden) er nå en gård, men de gamle husene fra 38/3 står fortsatt. | KVÅLE, Olav Olasen (I2633)
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| 33898 | Året etter at Ivars første kone døde giftet han seg med 17 år yngre Ingebjørg fra Netrøst 40/1. | NETRØST, Ingebjørg Thomasdtr (I1382)
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| 33899 | Året etter den store utskiftningen, solgte han gården og dro til Amerika. Han ble den siste av den gamle ætta på Hovi. | HOVI, Ola Pedersen (I32624)
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| 33900 | Året før han giftet seg fikk han sønnen Anders i 1777, han døde like etter fødselen. Moren var Johanna Jensdtr. Første kona var Kirsti fra Mjoldo. Da hun døde giftet han straks med seg med Mette Ingerigtsdtr, men da hun døde, gikk det 4 år før ha n giftet seg for tredje gang med med Ingeborg Skålevollen. Han hadde tilsammen 14 barn med 4 forskjellige jenter. 3 av dem var han gift med. | SKORPA, Boye Ove Andreasson (I20498)
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