Cornwallis over here to america, to the colonies, to support the war effort. Another one of captain tates sons, the youngest named robert, lexington and fought on the american side. There was a dynamic within the family. I am sure that captain tate at the time had to trade neutral ground. Ead neutral ground. He lived here until he died at the age of 94. He never left and stayed here is a citizen. Family, captain tate, lived here until 1794 when he passed away. He lost his wife in 1770. She was killed. She had gone to their storehouse where they kept food stuffs. It was boobytrapped. The reason it was is because provisions were missing from the storehouse. So, the son william had set up a boobytrap. Everyone in the family supposedly new. Supposedly forgotten. She had asked the servant betty to go out and grab some things out of the storehouse. Mary went out so herself and open the door. There was a musket ready to fire when the door was opened. It did, and she was tragically killed. The
Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out where we are. Traps with amy gps. I kind of do it by fe
General grants staff, there was a young captain named Robert Lincoln on his staff, and he, of course, was the son of president Abraham Lincoln, and he was here in the room. Another interesting participant in this ceremony was at least, maybe not participant, but a witness to this ceremony was this rag doll of lula mclean, youngest daughter of wilmer mclean. It was sitting on the couch when the officers came in, and they moved it to the mantel during the meeting. After the meeting, some of the officers took the doll off the mantel and began tossing it around. Captain thomas moore of general phillip sheridans staff took the doll home with him as a war souvenir. In the 1990s, the family wanted the doll to come back to Appomattox Court house, and it is now on display in the Park Visitors Center. The meeting lasted about an hour and a half. It was said to be a gentlemans agreement. General grant was very generous with the terms. In the end when general lee said he had nothing to feed his me
Really just sort of scratched the surface out here, and theres a lot more information potential with this site. Its very unique, particularly for this area, the midatlantic region. You dont typically see slavery being practiced on the scale that it was being practiced here at leramie taj. I think i mentioned that 90 slaves is roughly 10 times the number of enslaved individuals you would have expected to be living here. So thats an extremely unusual circumstance for this area. You know, like i said, they are about 20 x 34 feet. Thats just under 700 square feet of living space. If in fact there were only six structures total, one can assume there were somewhere between maybe as many as 12 or 15 People Living in each these dwelling houses which probably sounds like a lot, so i i would i would guess or assume that these may have been extended family units, for example, living together. Multiple generations of families. Like i say, these are pretty utilitarian, simple, expediently construct