Jedediah Smith One of the many important people alive during the Westward Expansion was a man named Jedediah Smith. He was from a large family, two parents and 12 siblings. As a child, he lived in New York, that is, until he turned 12, when he moved to Erie County. Eventually, his family decided to pack up, once again, and head to Ohio. Though his time spent there was never documented, it is believed that Smith got a fairly good education and got a job as a clerk.
I Skyler Pifer Captained my boat to East shore of baseline lake, Pinckney MI on the 4th of July. With family and friends aboard to enjoy the band on the water an each others company. We arrived approximately 2:45pm after securing the boat I left to walk around to socialize, after 45 minutes I returned to my boat to find our rebel flag removed from the canopy. I was told by Melanie McIntyre a group of men came by an told them to take the flag down, I being appalled immediately placed the flag in its original position on the canopy. With no immediate threat present I left an returned to walking around the sandbar enjoying the band an nice weather.
I walked into my house the door wide open and a damn sword stuck the ceiling; I could see the back yard with a crapload of holes in it again. This is the last time I am going to let my roommate bring his crazy gofer friends over again. The last party they had the gofers brought over some woodchuck prostitutes and they chewed off all my legs to the table, who know what they did with them. This GSCA group gets way out of hand. That is Gofers Society for Creative Anachronism.
Henry McCarty (Billy the Kid) was an outlaw in New Mexico. He committed many crimes including killing, petty theft, illegal gambling, and cattle rustling. He was born in New York but grew up in New Mexico. His mother Catherine McCarty, who later became Catherine Antrim, came from Ireland. Henry McCarty’s father is unknown.
“The Scotch-Irish and the palatine Germans, or Pennsylvania Dutch,” furnished the stock of the colonial frontier. With these people were also the free indentured servants or redemptioners, who at the expiration of their time of service, passed to the frontier” (source
Throughout the mid 1800s to the late 1800S, millions of immigrants flooded into the United States hoping for a new life. Most of them faced a difficult journey by ship to enter “The Land of Opportunities”. Many of the immigrants moved to the city in search for jobs because machines were replacing farm laborers in the rural parts of the country. Along with the immigrants, thousands of other families moved to the city. This rapid increase of city dwellers led to new inventions and technologies.
The original colonists that arrived at Jamestowne forged a wreck in the society and a collapse in the economy. Rather than aiming their intention at actually forming a state, they hunted for wealth that was nowhere. Their misguided assumptions held on as they bounced into la la land. However, the economic boom that Virginia later experienced didn’t occur because of gold. As a result, Jamestowne settlers experimented with cultivation, vineyard, silkworms and even glassblowing.
John Smith had a saying ” He that will not work shall not eat”. They soon started growing tobacco it became a great source of income for the colonists. With this growing they were able to be independent and rule over the natives. Soon they would take over the natives land.
William Wilcox put up one of his farms, of 254 acres, for sale in 1893. At the age of 65 and widowed he was cutting back on the strenuous effort required to keep all his properties maintained and productive. He would still farm (and a well known respected local farmer he was) on his main homestead on the shores of Horseshoe Lake. His home was nicely nestled by the creek that fed all the lakes from First, Second and Third Lakes through Blackstone, Crane and Little Blackstone until arriving at Georgian Bay. The thought of being one's own boss and the freedoms associated with it seemed to attract Philip.
In addition, Crofton’s proximity to the coast allowed for the early settlers to export their crop, tobacco, to England (“History of Crofton”). This export was the settlers main source of income, which would not have been available if Crofton did not have its unique location near the sea. Combined with the land’s bountiful resources which allowed early settlers to survive and thrive on the land, its location allowed the original settlers get economic gain, through its proximity to the coast for trade with
The early 1600’s was supposed to be a revolutionary time for England. England surveyed land in a new territory, now known as the United States, and came to a conclusion that this was an area they could thrive in. Although England believed this land was habitable, it would require a lot of time and work to be sustainable. The first departure from England happened in October of 1609; this ship holding 600 anxious Englishmen came near disaster. Once arrived these men realized they lacked the knowledge of how much work was required.
The opportunity that many of them held was working for others that started the land to include the Railroad. First thing the government’s plan for settlement was building the Transcontinental Railroad employment there was plentiful the railroad provided a way to bring settlers and manufactured goods from the east to the west and by ship their goods to include agricultural, mining . So for many immigrants that where living there the Railroad was an essential
I am writing at the moment from Virginia and I hope all my family is able to read my experienced in the colonial era. Migrating from Europe was difficult but I am able to witness so far the liberty to worship God and people who worked to promote the church. There are ways to preserve the identity as Christians without any state rule that prohibits personal beliefs. People are able to purify their life in God without anyone feeling persecuted or suppress because of negative consequences one can experienced. There is also land and the benefits of it are cash crop and able to better economically.
After years of waiting and preparing we started on the journey to the west. We made our way to Independence, Missouri to go on the Oregon Trail which was laid by traders and trapers. While there I became familiar with George Wilson who was also a working family man. A lot of families left together making the trail busy and causing jams..
I chose to do research on my great, great, great, grandmother who lived during the eighteen hundreds. She settled in North Fork, Arkansas. I discovered after many hours of searching for a modern and historic map that the population had dropped dramatically. The population for her time was 1,128.79 while the town’s population now is about 550 residents she settled in a rural community.
