jpotx113
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What I collect: USA, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Machins, misc. WW
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Post by jpotx113 on Nov 21, 2019 18:23:43 GMT
I just saw an article where the Mayflower will be on a stamp in 2020 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Plymouth, which can be seen here: link
Just recently I've been considering starting a topical collection of the Mayflower (I'm a direct descendant of Richard Warren, who was a signer of the Mayflower Compact). I'm also kicking around the idea of collecting any stamps issued that has anything to do with Jamestown, VA (Thomas Savage, the very first non-native to live in North America, is my 10th grand-grandfather). I guess if I collect Jamestown I could expand it a bit and collect those that depict his playmate, Pocahantes.
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philatelia
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Post by philatelia on Nov 21, 2019 23:13:54 GMT
That’s so cool! You’re almost American “royalty.” The best I can come up with is a great great uncle who was a sheriff in Dodge City - but not the best - got shot down in a gunfight.
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Post by dgdecker on Nov 22, 2019 2:15:31 GMT
Both of those subjects would make a great topical to collect.
Very interesting that you have two very interesting ancestors. I can trace an ancestor who arrived in Nova Scotia in 1783 after the War of Independence. Might be a new topic for me.
david
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stanley64
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Post by stanley64 on Nov 22, 2019 7:46:53 GMT
As part of your thematic collection jpotx113 , I would encourage you to include a stamp or two from the Netherlands as this was part of the Pilgrims beginnings. Given the pilgrims beginnings and early days in the Netherlands, both the "Leiden American Pilgrim Museum" and the "Pilgrim Fathers Church" in Rotterdam might provide additional inspiration or ideas for you...what a great topic!
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 22, 2019 9:05:17 GMT
Jamestown. Features in my Tobacco theme exhibit and has a couple of pages to itself. Named for King James VI of Scotland and Ist of England from 1603, He wrote the worlds first anti smoking treatise listing the moral and health reasons against, in his Counterblaste To Tobacco. He appears on a stamp from Newfoundland in the 1930s and on more recent stamps from GB. The Jamestown settlement got so involved in growing tobacco , their only valuable cash crop for trade in the early 1600s that they had little enough land growing food and at one point they almost starved . The Colony’s leader John Rolfe who married Pocahontas was responsible for the introduction of seeds of West Indian tobacco which was superior to the local variety. Tobacco was introduced to England by Sir Walter Raleigh who had tried to found a settlement at Roanoake NC back in 1587 but by 1590 the failed colony had vanished.
Lots of scope here for a fine topical collection full of research possibilities to tell a story , or two !
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daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on Nov 22, 2019 13:16:13 GMT
According to my sister's research, she and I are 20th great-grandchildren of Edward I of England...you know, the king of England from Braveheart? I don't know how much stock we can put into her research, but I'll allow it to be the reason for my interest in British (and Canadian) stamps.
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jpotx113
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Post by jpotx113 on Nov 22, 2019 14:26:28 GMT
Very interesting that you have two very interesting ancestors. david That part of the family tree played a minor role in early US history. From this same line I have Thomas Barker (7th great grandfather), who was married to Penelope Barker (search Edenton Tea Party if you want to know more). Also, Clemont C. Clay, who actually married into the family, was both a USA and a CSA senator (important enough to have his portrait on some Confederate paper money); he spent a little time in prison on a charge of plotting to assassinate Lincoln (found to be innocent).
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Post by brightonpete on Nov 22, 2019 20:56:29 GMT
According to my sister's research, she and I are 20th great-grandchildren of Edward I of England...you know, the king of England from Braveheart? I don't know how much stock we can put into her research, but I'll allow it to be the reason for my interest in British (and Canadian) stamps. That makes me laugh. A lady I know claims she is the descendant of British Royalty. I forget who now. But whenever I see someone claiming they are descendants of some notable person, I just shake my head. Is anyone a descendant of a nobody these days?
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 22, 2019 21:10:41 GMT
According to my sister's research, she and I are 20th great-grandchildren of Edward I of England...you know, the king of England from Braveheart? I don't know how much stock we can put into her research, but I'll allow it to be the reason for my interest in British (and Canadian) stamps. That makes me laugh. A lady I know claims she is the descendant of British Royalty. I forget who now. But whenever I see someone claiming they are descendants of some notable person, I just shake my head. Is anyone a descendant of a nobody these days? The village of Ballater is about 8 miles from Queen Victoria’s Scottish summer Castle at Balmoral. Quite a small population but rather a lot of elderly gents who look awfully like Edward VII .................. but as as the Film Braveheart was a total fiction and misrepresentation of 13th century Scottish and English history, I would not put much credence on any genealogical research which even mentions Braveheart. Wallace was a Knight who wore armour , not tartan , never painted his face blue ,and never seduced an English Princess .
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daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on Nov 22, 2019 21:25:56 GMT
It's all in good fun and I take it with a couple of grains of salt.
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