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Friday, March 20, 2009

Jacobites @ Shabbat 3/21/2009

Ba-ruch Adonai ha-m’vo-rach l’o-lam va-ed!
Praised be the One to whom our praise is due, now and for ever!

The foregoing is as distinct an account an applicant can give at the day of his services his officers this Country through which he travelled. Applicant was discharged about one month before Cornwallis surrendered at the Little York. Applicant was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on the 24th of December 1761 ascending to the Register kept by his father when he lived until sometime after the close of the March and then he moved to Amelia County, when he remained about six years, when he moved to Chatham County, North Carolina where he lived thirteen years from there he removed to Granger County East Tennessee, where he remained one year from there he removed to Kentucky, where he resided ten years in Lincoln and Mercer counties, from there he to West Tennessee’s Smith County where he has resided about fourteen years. Applicant has a record of his age at home applicant knows of no person having whose testimony can produce by who he can prove his service he has no documentary evidence by which we can except they are at this point it becomes unreadable but it is a certificate that the applicant can bring from the officers in Richmond and he himself … any claim whatever to a pension or a an annuity except the foresaid and he does that his mane is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State or Territory. Sworn to and subscrib3ed, the day and year aforesaid, James Sanders. Signed, James Pickett

And the said Court does hereby declare this opinion that the above named applicant was Revolutionary Solider and served for his state.

The "Land Office of Richmond, Virginia" on September 13th, 1832 wrote, I certify that on the 21st day of June 182, A military Land Bounty Warrant No. 6391 for 100 acres was issued in favor of James Sanders a private in the Continental Line, served under Major ___ seal of the Land ___.

State of Kentucky Fayette County ___. Henry Asbury made Oath before the Justice of the Peace for said County that he is personally acquainted with James Saunders now residing in Smith County Tennessee and he knows him to be the person for whose service the above Law Warrant was ___ out the Testimony and procures that the Warrant from Richmond, Virginia and that thought the ___ certificate does not specify that he served three years, yet ____ for the one hundred acres now

Office of the ___ Land Office ____ the Treasury Department ___ also show it. Henry Asbury.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of October 1832, James E. Davis.
Commonwealth of Kentucky Fayette Count to wit. I James C. Rodes Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that James E. Davis, Esq., ___ foregoing certificate is and was at its Justice of the peace in and for said ___ ____ and qualified as the law directs to Administrator oaths, and that his ___ In Testimony where of ___ my hand and affixed County at designation of October 1832 and Commonwealth.

James Sanders a descendant of Alexander the Great, a Jacobite, a son of Aaron from the twelve tribes of Israel, the Levites was allowed 00 acres of bounty land by the State of Virginia on warrant #6391, isued June 21, 1820, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. Information in regard to this land grant might be obtained form the custodian of old records, Richmond Virginia.

James Sanders
Certificate #7367
Issued April 6, 1833
Commenced March 4, 1831
Rate $80.00 per annum
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennesse Agency

Dear God, we read your word and it says that Moses would put on a veil to protect the countenance of his face because he had beheld your Glory. I want to be like that and I pray that you will show me your glory. I will take the side, the back side or anything that you give me because I know that you are just and true.

Exodus Chapter Thirty-four: The Radiant Face of Moses

Verse 29) When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD. Verse 30) When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. Verse 31) But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. Verse 32) Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.
Verse 33) When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. Verse 34) But whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, Verse 35) they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.

Friday, March 13, 2009

God bless you on Shabbat

S-1251 – Reuben Sanders

Reuben Sanders was a beloved ancestor of mine and lived he descended from Hardy Sanders, the son of James I, the son of Richard Sanders, the son of John Sanders, that arrived here in 1630. The aforesaid, are direct descendants of Aaron the Prophet of the Bible, in the Torah, and proud Jacobites.

In the Torah Portion we read that Aaron agrees to adopt the vestments’’ that come with his priestly duties in the office of a holy nation, Israel that is often referred to the House of Jacob. Although the Jacobites lose their quest to sovereignty over Scotland, the House of Stuart would be restored and bestowed into the House of Windsor (Exodus 27:20). Today as descendants of Aaron we want to be recognized as much more than slaves, but we take the life of God servants seriously and the rituals very seriously and we praise God, forever.

Reader: Ba-ruch a-ta Adonai, Eh-lo-hei-nu meh-lech ha-o-lam, a-sher na-tan la-nu To-rat eh-met, v’cha-yei o-lam na-ta b-to-chei-nu. Ba-ruch a-ta Adonai, no-tein ha-Torah.

We praise you, Eternal God, Sovereign of the universe: You have given us a Torah of truth, implanting within us eternal life. We praise you, O God, Giver of the Torah.

Transcript:
Reuben Sanders, of Shelby County in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the service command by Captain ____ of the ____ commanded by _____ in the line for ____

Inscribes on the Roll of Kentucky at the issue rate of $30.00 dollars and $00.00 cents per annum is commenced on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of pension issued the ___ of September 1832 (1833) and James S. Whitaker, Shelby ___.

Arrears to the 4th of September $75.00
Semi-annual allowance ending ___ $15.00 = $90.00

Revolutionary Claim Act, June 7th 1832
Recorded by ____ Clerk, Book 6 Volume 7 Page 28

A Statement, showing the service of Reuben Sanders, at age 69 years old.

1780 – 3 months, Private served under Colonel Matthews
1780 – 3 months, Private served under Colonel Jamison
1780 – 3 months, Private served under Colonel Jamison
1780 – 3 months, Private served under Colonel Jamison
1781 – 3 months, Private served under Colonel Jamison

Signed,

I am respectfully, your obedient services, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions

State of Kentucky, Shelby County Court
On this 15th day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justice of the County Court for Shelby County now sitting. Reuben Sanders of the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky aged about 69 years, who was born in Caroline County, in the State of Virginia, who being first duly sworn according to law has on this oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, dated the 4th of June 1832. That he entered the service of the U.S. under the following the named officers and served herein stated:

In the year 1780 in the County of Caroline, State of Virginia, he the said Reuben Sanders at the age of 16 years was drafted into the service under Captain Jamison whose company was attached to the Regiment of Militia Commanded by Colonel Matthews. Captain Jamison company was first mustered into service at Williamsburg in the State of Virginia and he served three months and then was discharged at Richmond, Virginia, he does not recollect whether he received a written discharge or not, if he did he lost it. ___ about a month after he returned home was again called into the service by a draft and was mentioned into service under Captain Jeremiah Upsher, whose company he thinks was attacked to the regiment commanded by the said Colonel he at that time served three months and was then discharged and returned home and sometime in the latter part of the 1781, he was again drafted into the service (and as ell as he now recollects) was attached to the company of ____ Captain Jamison who was also attached to the Colonel Matthews Regiment and served three months as was the siege of Little York at which time Cornwallis surrendered – and was then marched to Fredericksburg and discharged. The said Reuben Sanders hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State or Territory to his knowledge sworn to subscribe the day of the year aforesaid.

I, William Tinsley of the County of Shelby and the State of Kentucky residing in the County and the State of foresaid do certify that I am well acquainted with Reuben Sanders. Application executed on October 15, 1832.

Reuben’s cousin, the son of his uncle James (Sanders) III was also sent in the military on the second call. James III was sent a replacement on the first call. William Sanders, was the paternal uncle of Reuben (father Hardy and roll of the wife and mother Lucy Utley) and James II (father James II and roll of the wife and mother, Sarah Tulley), and related to the young men through their fathers which was his brother. It was this generation or the generation after it that had lost a life to the warring Indians. Well what can I say; a Yankee knows how to kick butt. Other facts, is that Rueben was definitely born in 1764. His cousin James III has conflicting dates of the year of 1761 (12/24/1761) and 1762 (03/18/1762). However Reuben did enlist in 1780 from Caroline County, Virginia. He served three – three month tours.

Reuben served as a private in the VA troops on three tours of three months each under Captain Jamison and Jeremiah Upshur and Colonel Matthews and was the siege of Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered.

Other scholarly research leads us to know that when Cornwallis returned from England he went straight to the southeast, in North America, the United States of America. On arrival Wikipedia writes that, “in Virginia, Cornwallis took command of the existing British forces in the region, which had been commanded by Major General William Phillips. Phillips, a good personal friend of Cornwallis, died two days before Cornwallis reached his position at Petersburg.[10] Having marched without informing Clinton of his movements, (communications between the two British commanders was by sea and extremely slow, sometimes up to three weeks)[11] he sent word of his northward march and engaged in destroying American supplies in the Chesapeake region.
In March 1781, in response to the threat of Cornwallis, General Washington had dispatched Marquis de Lafayette to defend Virginia. The young Frenchman had 3,200 men at his command, but British troops in the state now totaled 7,200.[12] Lafayette skirmished with Cornwallis, avoiding a decisive battle while gathering reinforcements. It was during this period that Cornwallis received orders from Clinton to choose a position on the Virginia Peninsula - referred to in contemporary letters as the "Williamsburg Neck" - and construct a fortified naval post to shelter ships of the line.[13] In complying with this order, Cornwallis put himself in a position where it would be easy to become trapped. With the arrival of the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse and General George Washington's combined French-American army, Cornwallis found himself cut off. After the Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves was defeated by the French at the Battle of the Chesapeake, and the French siege train arrived from Newport, Rhode Island, his position became untenable. He surrendered to General Washington and the French commander, the Comte de Rochambeau, on October 19, 1781.”
The Patriot Resources writes that, “In 1776, he was promoted to Brig. Genearal, then Maj. General then commander of all Massachusetts troops in the Boston area. After the British evacuation of Boston, Lincoln joined General George Washington at New York, commanding the right wing at the Battle of White Plains. Shortly after seeing action at Fort Independence, he was commissioned into the Continental Army as a Major General.Biography of Benjamin Lincoln. General Lincoln moved south with General Washington and then was sent to the Northern Department to help against Maj. General John Burgoyne's campaign. After recovering from a severe wound, Lincoln was appointed Southern Department Commander in September 1778. He failed to reclaim Georgia and then surrendered Charleston in May 1780. After being exchanged, he soon returned to Washington's main army, even leading it south to Virginia and, at least according to popular myth, playing a major role in the Yorktown surrender on October 20, 1781. Following the war, he stayed active in public life in various capacities until his retirement in 1809. He died in Hingham in 1810.”

Friday, February 27, 2009

Barabbas

Shabbat: Ba-ruch a-ta Adonai, Eh-lo-hei-nu meh-lech ha-o-lam, a-sher na-tan la-nu To-rat eh-met, v'cha-yei o-lam na-ta b'to-chei-nu. Ba-ruch a-ta Adonai, no-tein ha-Torah.

We praise You, Eternal God, Sovereign of the universe: You have given usa Torah of truth, implanting within us eternal life. We praise You. O God, Giver of the Torah.

A wonderful video that discusses the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. It is a great video.

It was about the 6th day of November 1846, before the clerk of the court, in the district of Perkins, South Carolina. Elizabeth Sanders personally requested and made a written declaration to obtain the pension agreeable to the Act of Congress, a widow of John Sanders, of Chatham County, N.C. John Sanders served in the North Carolina regime, and the claim number was W.8702 and B. L. WT, 22054-260-55. Elizabeth Sanders, the widow of John Sanders swore before Josiah Evans and the clerk of the court at Perkins District, South Carolina – William L. Keith (W.L. Keith).

The widow was married to a prisoner of war, John Sanders. Elizabeth Ray married John Sanders in the summer of 1783 and the couple was married for sixty-three years. John and Elizabeth were married until he died in 1823. The children were parents of several children, and that will be continued because John is a fascinating character.

John Sanders was the son of William Sanders, a descendant from the line of the house of Aaron (the Aaronites, of Levi). The Sanders’ were proud descendants of Scottish heritage and impeccable warriors, which any Jacobite would be proud of and the burden, legacy and your heritage of every Sanders, to this day. He was a descendant of James I, the progenitor of the North Carolina line.

John Sanders enlisted as a private in the North Carolina regime, and did two tours of duty which were only three months. It is recommended that during war time a soldier do a tour of three months, however, today our soldiers tours are extended past a year and sometimes into 18 months and many willing sacrifice their life and make an honorable choice to return back into the military, these are the soldiers that I idealize. We are so grateful that Williams’ son stood in his father’s place. My ancestors were called to duty at the age of 46 and 51 years old, while they held down the job as planter. The Sanders had already left probably around the late 1500’s and arrived in America in 1610, Prince Georges County and 1630 in Nansemond County, Isle of Wight, Virginia USA.

John Sanders spent two three month tours in the military, a total of six months. He embraced his curse, and substituted the military in the place of his father William Sanders – 1772 Chatham County, North Carolina Militia. However, during Johns’ second tour he was taken prisoner by Colonel David Fanning, a Tory in the Royal Militia, who, with a band of outlaws, conducted a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the colonists in and around Randolph County, North Carolina, burning houses, pillaging and murdering, from 1775 to 1783. John Sanders and several other colonist soldiers were marched about a 100 miles, and was beaten bloodily also was probably inhumanely tortured and beaten but he was confined in Wilmington. http://andrewbalfour.com/Colonel%20Andrew%20Balfour/David%20Fanning's%20Narrative.htm.
In honor of the Soldiers, there is a Facebook event, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=63338502664.

It was about the 6th day of November 1846, before the clerk of the court, in the district of Perkins, South Carolina. Elizabeth Sanders personally requested and made a written declaration to obtain the pension agreeable to the Act of Congress, a widow of John Sanders, of Chatham County, N.C. John Sanders served in the North Carolina regime, and the claim number was W.8702 and B. L. WT, 22054-260-55. Elizabeth Sanders, the widow of John Sanders swore before Josiah Evans and the clerk of the court at Perkins District, South Carolina – William L. Keith (W.L. Keith).

The widow was married to a prisoner of war, John Sanders. Elizabeth Ray married John Sanders in the summer of 1783 and the couple was married for sixty-three years. John and Elizabeth were married until he died in 1823. The children were parents of several children, and that will be continued because John is a fascinating character.

John Sanders was the son of William Sanders, a descendant from the line of the house of Aaron (the Aaronites, of Levi). The Sanders’ were proud descendants of Scottish heritage and impeccable warriors, which any Jacobite would be proud of and the burden, legacy and your heritage of every Sanders, to this day. He was a descendant of James I, the progenitor of the North Carolina line.

John Sanders enlisted as a private in the North Carolina regime, and did two tours of duty which were only three months. It is recommended that during war time a soldier do a tour of three months, however, today our soldiers tours are extended past a year and sometimes into 18 months and many willing sacrifice their life and make an honorable choice to return back into the military, these are the soldiers that I idealize. We are so grateful that Williams’ son stood in his father’s place. My ancestors were called to duty at the age of 46 and 51 years old, while they held down the job as planter. The Sanders had already left probably around the late 1500’s and arrived in America in 1610, Prince Georges County and 1630 in Nansemond County, Isle of Wight, Virginia USA.

John Sanders spent two three month tours in the military, a total of six months. He embraced his curse, and substituted the military in the place of his father William Sanders – 1772 Chatham County, North Carolina Militia. However, during Johns’ second tour he was taken prisoner by Colonel David Fanning, a Tory in the Royal Militia, who, with a band of outlaws, conducted a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the colonists in and around Randolph County, North Carolina, burning houses, pillaging and murdering, from 1775 to 1783. John Sanders and several other colonist soldiers were marched about a 100 miles, and was beaten bloodily also was probably inhumanely tortured and beaten but he was confined in Wilmington. http://andrewbalfour.com/Colonel%20Andrew%20Balfour/David%20Fanning. In honor of the Soldiers, there is a Facebook event, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=63338502664.