Mark Maynard | George Washington

It looks as though my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Clark Wise, may have been with Washington at Valley Forge

By Mark | January 13, 2020

While I’m tempted to make the case that my family’s Wise line goes all the way back to Colonel John Wise (1617-1695), who is thought to have arrived in the Virginia Colony from England in 1635, I think it’s probably more likely that the first Wise in my family to step foot in America was […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 11th Virginia Regiment, 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 14th Regiment of the Kentucky Cavalry, 1777, 1817, 1870, bounty lands, census, Civil War, Clark Wise, Clarke Wise, Colonel John Wise, Continental Army, Culpeper, Culpeper Minutemen, Daniel Morgan, David Avery, Defense of Philadelphia, exposure, Franklin County, Gabriel Long, genealogy, Illinois, Invasion of Canada, James Monroe, Jefferson Davis Wise, John Anderson Wise, Julia Long, Kentucky, Lafayette’s Division, land bounty, Lavina Tipton, Leonardtown, Lord Cornwallis, Louvina J. Tipton, Lucinda Etherton Wise, Mark's ancestors, Marquis de Lafayette, Maryland, Matilda Gill, Matilda Gill Wise, Minnie Florence Wise, Minnie Wise Florian, Monterey, Morgan’s Rifles, muster, Ohio, Owen County, pay stub, Revolutionary War, Richard Wise, Schuyler, Siege of Boston, slavery, Sniper, St. Mary's County, Stamping Ground, starving, surveying, Valley Forge, Virginia, Virginia colony, War of 1812, White Sulpher, William D. Wise, William Woodford, Wise, Woodford Brigade, Woodford’s Brigade, Wythe Thomas Wise | 15 Comments

Thankfully, Jean Henry’s ancestor did not get my ancestor killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill

By Mark | January 2, 2020

On this site a few days ago, in a conversation about the misdeeds of our ancestors, Jean Henry mentioned that a relative of hers, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle of Shoreham, Vermont, was likely responsible for the deaths of many men in his command at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of 1775. Doolittle and his […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1765, 1775, Arthur Lee "Pickle" Avery, Asa Lawrence, Battle of Bunker Hill, Beardstown, Boston, Breed's Hill, Charles Babbidge, Church of Christ, Continental 7th, cowardice, Daniel Avery, David Avery, Doolittle Regiment, Ephraim Doolittle, genealogy, Groton, Illinois, Isles of Shoals, Jean Henry, Mark's ancestors, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, minute-men, New Hampshire, Pepperell, Pepperrel, Revolutionary War, Sarah Horn, Schuyler, Townsend, William Prescott | 18 Comments

Having attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie with Nazis, Trump returns to racist form

By Mark | August 15, 2017

Yesterday, we saw a focused, scripted Donald Trump attempt to put our minds at ease and convince us that, despite what it might have looked like in the days following the attack on Charlottesville, he really shares our believe that white supremacists are repugnant. Well, as that particular speech didn’t yield the results that our […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alt Right, alt-left, birther, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Heather Heyer, lies, Nazi, post-fact, post-truth, racism, racist dog whistle, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Terry McAuliffe, The Central Park Five, Thomas Jefferson, white nationalism, white power, white supremacist | 45 Comments

David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit since Prohibition

By Mark | January 31, 2013

As you may have heard, a new distillery will soon be opening in the Corktown section of Detroit, not too far from where our friend Lisa Waud will be opening the new flower shop I told you about a few days ago. From what I’m told, it will be the first legal distillery to operate […]

Posted in Detroit, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business | Also tagged absinthe, Acetaldehyde, Acetone, American Liquor Company, bootlegging, bourbon, Cafe Felix, Calvados, Camp James, Canada, Chattanooga, cider vinegar, cocktails, Colorado, Corktown, Corktown 500, David Landrum, David Pickerell, Detroit River, Distilled Spirits Producer, Dry Fly, entrepreneurism, entrepreneurship, Ethanol, Farm to Bottle, Fred McLaren, Frederick Myll Co., Hiram Walker, Lake St. Clair, Leopold Brothers, liquor, Lisa Waud, Makers Mark, martinis, Mercury Bar, Methanol, Michigan Avenue, Milk & Honey, Mount Vernon, Peter Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Portland, Pot and Box, prohibition, Purple Gang, Robinson and Aronheim, Rodney Dangerfield, rye whiskey, Sasha Petraske, scotch, smuggling, St. Clair River, Stone House, Thornsby, Todd Leopold, Two James Distillery, Volstead Act, Washington State, whiskey | 21 Comments

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

By Mark | February 11, 2010

It’s a question that we’ve discussed here many times over the past half-dozen years – how Christian were the founding fathers? And this weekend’s New York Times magazine goes into a great deal of depth on the subject, while exploring the current battle being waged within the Texas School Board on the rewriting of American […]

Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Religious Extremism | Also tagged a wall of separation, a wall of separation between Church & State, American Academy of Religion, American revolution, American Society of Church History, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Christian nation, Christianity, Christians under attack, Connecticut Baptists, Cynthia Dunbar, Enlightenment, European Christian tradition, First Amendment, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Grand Architect, Great Awakening, James Kracht, Justice Hugo Black, Martin Marty, Mayflower Compact, misunderstanding American history, Randall Balmer, rationalism, religion, Richard Brookhiser, secularism, Texas school board, the secularist agenda, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia House of Burgesses | 13 Comments

Tag Archives: George Washington

It looks as though my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Clark Wise, may have been with Washington at Valley Forge

Thankfully, Jean Henry’s ancestor did not get my ancestor killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Having attempted unsuccessfully to convince us that his sympathies don’t lie with Nazis, Trump returns to racist form

David Landrum on the launch of Two James…. the first distillery in Detroit since Prohibition

How Christian were our Founding Fathers?

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