Colonial Era to Present Day History Buff

Learn about the first known commercial shipwreck that occurred on Lake Erie’s waters. Discover what the organization known as CLUE encompasses. Discover if any recent shipwreck discoveries have taken place on Lake Erie as of this current year. Get to know some fundamental facts about what made Steamboat Atlantic so unique for her time after getting built in 1848. Explore differences between costs...

Discover exactly what Erie itself actually means. Get an understanding behind some general things to know regarding Lake Erie. Learn just how many shipwrecks Lake Erie is home to including the overall number which have been discovered. Discover what a gale itself is all about including whether they’re prevalent along Great Lakes Waters come November. Get introduced to SS Margaret Olwill whom was f...

Agree if it’s easy to assume whenever hearing about European Explorations in the New World that many people think immediately of the first permanent English Settlement at Jamestown,Virginia,1607. Discover how England wasn’t alone amongst rival European Nations behind seeking vast riches in the New World. Get introduced to French Explorer Samuel de Champlain and what he achieved come July 3,1608, o...

Understand exactly what made Audley so special for Nelly. Discover what came about in 1846 involving Nelly’s daughter Frances Parke Lewis. Learn what else happened in 1846 involving Woodlawn. Determine if Nelly herself ultimately felt more comfortable at Mount Vernon versus Woodlawn. Discover what tragic misfortune took place in 1847 involving Nelly’s only surviving son. Find out what Nelly got to...

Learn how America in 1819 entered into a severe economic depression. Explore how state banks went beyond their boundaries as well as understanding how agricultural prices got impacted. Discover just how deeply impacted Virginia was during the 1819 Financial Panic. Agree if Lawrence Lewis, Nelly’s husband, was never truly a successful planter. Determine if Lawrence Lewis had been constantly grappli...

Discover exactly how many of Nelly and Lawrence Lewis’s children survived into adulthood. Get a better understanding as to why Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, Nelly’s mom, couldn’t raise all of her children together from first marriage. Be surprised to find out how Nelly went about turning to her grandfather for various personal inquiries. Go behind the scenes and explore various reasons into why M...

Find out whether Nelly & Lawrence Lewis still remained at Mount Vernon in the wake of her grandmother’s death. Agree if Martha Washington was never the same person after George had passed away. Discover who in the Washington Family would officially inherit Mount Vernon following Martha’s death. Learn what Nelly and her three siblings inherited from the Mount Vernon Estate. Get a better underst...

Discover just how glad Nelly Custis herself was to be back at Mount Vernon after her grandfather’s presidency ended. Determine how bad of shape Mount Vernon was in by time Washington returned home for good. Learn how one of Washington’s overseers went about appeasing British Forces whom made their way onto Mount Vernon’s premises. Get introduced to Lawrence Lewis, George Washington’s nephew. Learn...

Discover what George Washington got nominated to do come November 1786. Learn firsthand how George Washington got nominated in becoming Constitutional Convention President. Explore some key reasons behind why Washington chose to attend Constitutional Convention. Figure out what Washington advocated the most while convention took place. Receive a brief timeline summary of events taking place betwee...

Learn what year Eleanor “Nelly” Parke Custis was born. Discover where General George Washington stopped at come September 9, 1781. Figure out how many step grandchildren General Washington had by 1781. Learn for whom Eleanor aka “Nelly” was named after including her father’s service during Revolutionary War. Explore significance behind what took place on October 17,1781 including a tragic family o...

Agree if it’s fair to say whenever someone enters the spotlight how easy it might be to assume everything is of smooth sailing. Delve deeper into differences behind seeking the spotlight including outcomes. Agree if it’s fair to say throughout mankind’s history how people have sought the spotlight regardless of the mission before them. Compare and contrast how Revolutionary War Figures like George...

Learn how President George Washington went about rewarding Timothy Pickering come year 1790. Go behind the scenes and understand importance of 1784 Fort Stanwix Treaty. Discover what Pickering conducted with the Iroquois before 1790 came to an end. Explore how Timothy Pickering went about making amends with delegates from the Iroquois Confederacy after what occurred twelve years before in August 1...

Agree if Iroquois attacks on settlers villages still occurred a few years after Sullivan’s Campaign had already happened. Get an in depth analysis behind just how many Iroquois were displaced following Major General John Sullivan’s Raid. Explore how Connecticut Settlers faced a major setback come three years after Sullivan’s Campaign took place. Determine whether or not a third Yankee-Pennamite Wa...

Determine what would’ve been the feeling amongst many members in Congress including Colonists following the wake of Wyoming Valley Massacre. Discover whether any particular religious groups in Pennsylvania opposed retaliation against Iroquois & British following what took place from July 3,1778. Learn what steps Congress took not long after the Wyoming Valley Massacre Incident took place. Expl...

Discover exactly what Haudenosaunee and Iroquois mean. Learn if the Iroquois People were part of a confederacy including how many tribes made up the group. Agree whether before and after European arrival if the Haudenosaunee had already defeated to taking in populations of different tribes. Discover just how strong the Haudenosaunee population stood by year 1650. Get an in depth analysis behind wh...

Determine exactly what the young men whom successfully abducted Timothy Pickering were seeking to achieve land wise. Get reacquainted with dissident John Franklin Junior including his Revolutionary War Background. Learn how Franklin himself went about defending the Connecticut Yankees within Wyoming Valley Region. Understand why John Franklin saw Timothy Pickering as an elitist. Get introduced to...

Get introduced to England’s King Charles II and why May 29,1660, was such an important moment for the English Monarchy. Determine what system of governing had been in existence during Charles II’s time away from England. Learn who John Winthrop Jr. was and how he made contributions to both the Massachusetts & Connecticut Colonies. Agree if people residing in the Connecticut Colony had shown co...

Learn if Timothy Pickering was by himself come evening of June 26, 1788. Get to know the differences between people labeled “Wild Yankees” and those called “Pennamites”, each calling Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley Region their land. Get a basic understanding behind why the “Wild Yankees” went about abducting Colonel Timothy Pickering come late June 1788. Learn about Timothy Pickering’s early years...

Discover what most people usually think about when hearing of Pennsylvania per their first thoughts during Colonial Times. Explore how another important event often comes to many people’s minds during late Eighteenth Century in Pennsylvania following Revolutionary War’s ending. Learn how one event from late August 1786 served as the ultimate catalyst behind one governing document’s eventual collap...

Explore how members of Congress best decided on going about punishing Doctor Church. Determine whether Dr. Church stayed in Massachusetts or went to a neighboring colony for imprisonment. Learn if Doctor Church himself actually wrote to Congress come very beginning of 1776. Learn if Doctor Church’s father was still living during the time of his son’s imprisonment. Go behind the scenes and explore...

Explore what General Washington conducted come October 3,1775 from a meeting standpoint involving Doctor Church. Discover what else got uncovered per Dr. Church’s ciphered letter. Learn how Dr. Church appeared before General Washington as well as other high ranking officers on October 4. Determine if in fact Dr. Church himself confessed to being the author of the ciphered letter brought before him...

Learn if Dr. Church came into contact with a woman whom remembered him not long after he had returned to Massachusetts from Philadelphia. Figure out what made this encounter rather interesting from a secretive perspective. Get introduced to the term cipher. Learn how John Fleeming was connected to Dr. Church including a skeleton of Dr. Church’s that comes out around late July 1775. Discover how Ma...

Explore significance behind Congress’s decision to appoint George Washington as Commander-In-Chief of the newly created Continental Army. Learn who accompanied George Washington from Philadelphia to Massachusetts. Discover whom Washington and his colleague came into contact with once reaching Springfield, Massachusetts. Get an understanding behind what Washington himself underwent after arriving i...

Explore what William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth, encouraged General Thomas Gage to pursue come August 1774. Understand true significance behind letter obtained by British Leaders under General Gage come March 3,1775. Determine Doctor Church’s role behind this letter. Discover what Doctor Church reported to the British come March 26, 1775 involving Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Learn if a...

Discover whom Dr. Church engaged in having friendships with on the British side prior to 1770. Learn if Dr. Church’s friends questioned his presence around these particular individuals. Find out exactly what Dr. Church pursued in 1768 that was considered lavish. Discover which British Military Officer became the first to have bought into Dr. Church’s loyalty. Agree if it’s fair to say that Doctor...