Message from @RustyShackleford
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dude was a fucking clown
@pd my paternal 2nd great grandma immigrated from Norway had 6 kids then died in a mental hospital in Illinois
damn
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My grandmothers mother was 100% Norwegian
then it just gets diluted with anglo and German as time goes on
could be worse
this guy was basically a slave and then somehow became a real estate tycoon
lol
dude needs a book
he's in a few
i had a history teacher in 8th grade recognize my name and asked me if i was the same one on the mayflower
it's family history, so i know
but i had never heard my name anywhere
One thing I was surprised about was how through the record keeping in Norway was with families
the archives go back to the 1600s
marriage records
death certificates
how do you know if the hints you're getting are correct when you go that far back?
Look through the raw census papers, marriage records and the rest
what time period
before the 1890s it starts to get really hazy
1600s
Yeah the Norwegian records go back that far I haven't traced my lineage back that far
that would take weeks
I would never call myself a "Norwegian American" or some gay shit like that ever
alright this is too good not to post
According to author Charles Edward Banks, [redacted] was from London and traveled with another Londoner, Stephen Hopkins, as his indentured servant.
[redacted] was one of the Mayflower passengers that have left an extensive record of his personality. He had a quick temper that often was out of control and had many business dealings that in some cases bordered on the fraudulent. Other troublemakers were often removed from Plymouth (i.e. Isaac Allerton was forced out) but [redacted] lived there throughout the rest of his life.
(((Issac)))
[redacted]'s first problem with the law came just after the Pilgrims had begun constructing their settlement. The early eighteenth century notes of Thomas Prince describe an incident of June 18, 1621 when the first duel (with a sword and dagger) was fought in New England between two servants of Stephen Hopkins, [redacted] and Edward Leister. The duel ended with one being wounded in the hand and one in the thigh. Their punishment was to be tied head and feet together for twenty-four hours without meat or drink. But soon their master Stephen Hopkins, apparently taking pity on their "great pains", made a "humble request, upon promise of a better carriage" and they were released by the governor.
In the 1623 Division of Land, he received one acre and was later granted an additional twenty acres. Records of the 1630s and 1640s show numerous land transactions by him apparently making him quite prosperous.
The post-1632 records of the Plymouth Court, which has no existing records prior to that year, has twenty-three cases over the 20 years between January 1632 and October 1651 that involve [redacted]. The records include suits/countersuits, and charges such as fraud, slander, fighting, assault, debt, trespass, theft, etc. But although [redacted] appeared before the court numerous times, he was never punished for criminal activities beyond small fines. So even though he was charged with fighting and was sued by many persons for fraudulent trading and goods sales, almost all were civil cases and were not of a criminal nature. And other than his duel in 1621, he never received any physical punishment that was commonly given for crimes such as theft, serious assault and adultery. He was quite fortunate in this regard as typical punishments at that time included whipping, branding, banishment and the stocks.
Records do not show that [redacted] ever served on any juries or held any political office nor was ever appointed to any governmental committees, which was unusual for a Purchaser and early freeman.
What the fuck
Fantano you are such a fucking faggot
death grips is shit
excuse me
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