When people think of the beginning of the Revolutionary War, most people think of the Northern colonies, mainly of the events in and around Boston, or of Philadelphia and the Continental Congress. Rarely, if ever, do peoples’ minds go below the Mason-Dixon Line to the Southern colonies. Although the North

While walking past a shelf in the DAR Library I spotted the spine of a book that looked interesting. It was vibrant and had not only fascinating font, but a fascinating title, Patriot Pirates. I pulled the book for further inspection. Patriot Pirates, by Robert H. Patton, grandson of

A few months ago, I had a visit with my aunt, the wife of my father’s younger brother, whom I hadn’t seen in many years. After pulling out a level and measuring tape to check just how tall I had gotten, she asked me about my job as the Reference

In Bergen County, New Jersey there is a town no one I have ever met, who is not from that town, has ever heard of. It is named Emerson. Named for the famed poet, yet obscure enough it is New Jersey’s second best kept secret, after wherever they are hiding

Loudoun County, Virginia is an interesting county full of people who love their history and their genealogy. The seat of Loudoun, the Town of Leesburg, even has its own public history and genealogy research library, the beautiful Thomas Balch Library. An interesting part of Loudoun’s history is the naming of

Before three in the afternoon 235 years ago today, October 7, 1780, the American Army was tired, starving, almost completely demoralized, and frustrated by the deadlocked war in the North and Lord Cornwallis’ complete domination going on in the South. At that moment in time, Lord Cornwallis’ army in the

The Glorious Cause for Liberty not only divided the colonies from England, but those within the colonies from each other. Often times neighbors were at war with neighbors, and even in some cases, as in this one, sons were divided against their fathers.

Especially early on in 1775 and 1776