[Magdalen] Fwd: The Almost Daily eMo From The Geranium Farm

[Charles Wohlers]

Actually, it could have been either. Slavery was legal everywhere in the US 
(except Vermont!) until after the Revolution. My dear wife indeed has 
ancestors from Connecticut who were slave owners. And I have an old 
BCP/Bible owned by a wealthy doctor in Bristol, PA, which has a record of 
the sale/freeing of his slaves in the very early 1800's when slavery became 
illegal in PA.

I do have ancestors from West Virginia (and VA), a few of whom were slave 
owners. Most, however, were too poor for that. Like Jay, I've come to accept 
that - you can't do anything about it, after all.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Christopher Hart
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 3:12 PM
To: cantor03 ; magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Fwd: The Almost Daily eMo From The Geranium Farm

My ancestors were solidly South Carolina on both my father's paternal and
maternal sides (although the paternal side started here in Pennsylvania,
but had gone south long before the civil war) and Massachusetts on my
mother's side. You can guess which ones were slaveholders.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 9/13/2014 12:28:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
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> I have  made the same peace with facts I know about my  ancestry.>>>
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> My great-grandparents on my paternal grandmother's side were from
> North Carolina and Virginia, so expect some slaveholding may apply.
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> All the rest of the paternal side were northerners, and, of course, in 
> the
> 1860's my maternal side Norwegian ancestors weren't in the Civil War
> picture at all, with immigration to the USA occurring around 1880.
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> My paternal grandfather fought in the Battle of Vicksburg for the  Union.
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> David Strang.....with ancestral names like Streing, Burgan, Lium,
> and Wright (repeatedly), etc., etc.
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Christopher Hart

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