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"It is not down in any map; true places never are." -Herman Melville



Jamaica's motto is "Out of Many One People" and although 90% of the population is comprised of African descent, a study of their culture and the people will reveal the influx and contributions of ethnic groups from India, china, Jewish, Syria, Lebanese and the lesser known Germans.



In a foot note stranger than anything fiction could concoct- Industrious and hardworking Germans arrived in 1834 under the… Continue

This was written to and for Mrs. F.C. Spalding of Sunset Texas, by her husband F.C. Spalding, on the night of Jan. 31 A.D. 1927. Wile he was trying to tell her just how he felt on that night, in San Angelo Texas. About 400 miles away from her. The words is his own.





I am Lonesome. tonight.



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Lonesome for the SUNSHINE,

Lonesome for the RAIN,

Lonesome for the showers,

And you again,



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Lone some at the day break,

Lonesome at… Continue

1787: Thomas Blair, Davidson County, TN; tax roll.



1836: Friderick Kleinhans (Clinantz, Klinhance) arrived at Seaford Town by 20 JUL 1836, in able condition. He was 36 yrs old. His wife, Christina, was 26 yrs old. They had 2 children: an 11 yr old son, and 14 month old daughter. Frederick, a baker, died on 9 DEC 1836, of bilious fever.



1837: The report of September, 1837, records the following: "Clinantz -- widow. 1 male. 2 females. Spinster. A tolerable house. 16 hills… Continue

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12 Sep 1832. James Pearce Declaration of Revolutionary War Service



STATE OF TENNESSEE WASHINGTON COUNTY



On this 12th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Samuel Powell, Judge of the Circuit Court of Law and Execution for said county now sitting James Pearce, formerly a citizen of Washington County, Tennessee, now a resident of… Continue