Dr. Andrew J. S.

Hey, Doc, jus' dropped by to see if you still round!
Glad ya are. ::)
Lora H.

stopping by to say hello :)

Post Script: As a child, at defunct Watchung Military Reservation; I'd ride (not very well) old N.J. Nat. Guard "Essex Troop" mounts (my favorite, old 'Lookout'). The saddles and .03 rifles were still there, then. Decades later, I was permitted to be the first (non-family member, of existing trooper member) non-"Yellow Leg", to join the U.S. Horse Cavalry Assn. What an honor for this poor child horseman. At a USHCA dinner, I was privilaged to meet LtCol Edwin Price Ramsey; who was a Lt., TAD with "E" Troop (his regular unit, "G" Troop), 26 Cavalry Regt., Phillipine Scouts. On the morning of June 16, 1942; Lt. Ramsey, on his mount "Bryn Awryn", let "E" Troop into history. The last mounted U.S. horse cavalry charge; against Japenese infantry and artillery, at the Battle of Moren (Morang), Bataan, P.I. If I had ever owned a horse, I'd hoped to have named him either "Lookout", or "Vidette" (French mounted lookout/sentinel).

Dr. Andrew: I'm impressed by both the quality, quanity, and sincerity of what you write in this forum; I think you would make a better "owner" of it than I; if you are willing?

Free Masons: I have MANY ancestors who were Masons, though I'm never clear as to the types? Through knowing the qualities of these many Free Mason ancestors and their often generations of attachment to it; has made me want to be one with them, in what I see as a mostly good organization. However, unlike them, I am not now Christian; though reared of generations of Episcopalians and Lutherans (one great grandfather an Epis. priest; the other a Lutheran minister. Both true believers and good men whom I admire. However; spiritually; I simply believe in God; as to rhe rest: I just don't know). I've never applied to be a Mason because my understanding is a "good" Mason wants to work up all the degrees; and I'd be content to be a, one degree Mason; like a professional private in an Army. My hero in 1790's New Bern, N.C., was a "passed master", Francoise Sevelingis, the Marquis de Bretigny; who in the Revolution, commanded the North Carolina Independent Company of Light Horse at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and with Washington at the Battle of Brandywine (he'd delivered N.C. prisoners to Penn. and had his men vacinated) under the nom de guerre, "Capt. Cosmo de Medici". His father was H.M. imported tobacco tax collector, Soissions, France. Prior to our Revolution, the Marquis had been in-charge of a French nobles mounted guards. He came to America with war provisions in a ship captutrd by the British, off Florida. The British imprisoned him at Charleston. The N.C. General Assembly purchased his freedom. After our Revolution, the Marquis owned a house and warf lot in New Bern, untill the tobbaco market crashed. He was in the Lodge there (when Pres. Washington visited 1790 on his Southerm Tour?)(I think that Lodge's original chair is at the Masonic Museum?)(Washington spent the night at my Onslow Co., N.C., ancestors, Robert and Sarah Sage, Sr's inn. I think son Geo. Washington Sage was already born; if old enough; what a thrill when he and his namesake met? Broke at New Bern, the Marquis wrote the N.C. governor to be paid for his vessel and cargo, captured by the British. I doubt North Carolina has ever paid either that fiscal, or spiritual debt; we owe to this Patriot? I think the Marquis is that now un-known, "missing" (with the early records) first president of the N.C. Society of the Cincinnati? After his return to France; I do not know this nobleman's fate in the French Revolution? I believe Francois Sevelinges, the Marquis de Bretigney; and "Capt. Cosmo de Medici", and the "President, N.C. Society of the Cincinnati"; to be all the same man. Why? Because in the 1790's New Bern newspaper; in the column "Letters Awaiting Pick-up at the Post Office"; in one column; there are letters for each of these four "men". Several people of those times, had reason to believe that each of these "men" could be found at the same place, at the same time. The simple explanarion was; "they" were the same, one man?
My colonial, inn keeper ancestors: Robert & Sarah Sage, Sr., Onslow Co., N.C.; Patriot Maj. Barnabus Palmer, Sr., innkeeper, Rochester, N.H.; Messrs. John Sharpless, III, and his son-in-law, Richard Bradley, Sr., "Chaufington", Cumberland Co., N.C. (Bradley, later a Wilmington, N.C., Cont. Line paymaster); Etienne Burel, old (up-river) original Mobile, Alabama's, first inn keeper (his daughters "Pelican Girls", his wife by her prior marriage, a Canadian "King's Daughter"). My kinsman, Choctaw Chief Peter Juzan (Pierre Gabriel de Juzan), of Juzan Lake, Miss., was an inn keeper there; and later Choctaw conductor in the forced Indian removal west. He let 52 Choctaws from the swamp against the British right flank in the Battle of New Orleans. Ancestor, Adj. Lt. John Nixon, DeJean's 1st La. Militia, New Orleans lawyer; fought on the far west bank untill over-run by the British; when he spiked his two cannon. He owned the Nixon House Hotel, Biloxi. I think his old city cemetery warerfront tomb, Biloxi; was drstroyed by Katrina? I think he was a Mason? His son-in-law, LtCol. Robert Wm. James; and his son, Biloxi harbormaster, Capt. Harry Copp James, were Masons. Jim, Southport, N.C.

Dear Dr. Andrew, My name is Ron Lake, I designed and built a veterans memorial in Montana, for all vets. My goal is to get an engraved-brick with a veteran from each state. Also, I saw your picture in the hills, I am building a rock-wall memorial with stone and I need a rock from New York(so I can have a stone from each state) I need a stone about the size of a grapefruit. If interested contact me at rs1514@hotmail.com see this web about memorial, www.beaverhead.com/veterans , then click on progress. Ron

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You can find it on the "Genre Creative Challenge" group. I would greatly appreciate your support.
Thanks
Jay

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