Hey Brian..
Why did all these God fear'n Pilgrims abandon jolly England?
...seems a lot had to leave fast! 'forgot to take the family records ect.
My "heritage" dates back to a boat ride..tho.. the feller was a buck-o
swabbie with a bone in his teeth fer Adventure.. He was shipwrecked
and stranded on the Orinoco river... Family legend has it that he managed
to find a dugout canoe and travel upriver without a paddle..
He was "set on" by hostiles and yeilded to their authority.. taken back to
the village,
pined to the ground with rawhide stakes and forced to eat grasshoppers!
Having
read and faith believing Chapter 9 of adventures in camping he prevailed..
Later,
he traded his plunder fer his life and was released.. While mending his
wounds
he joined a gourd and a piece of jungle wood together and rescued some
catgut from a passing jaguar... The natives hadn't treated him all that
well..
so he invented the BANJO!
I guess he continued to play the Banjo the rest of his life until he was
killed some
pass'n pilgrims, by a clear violation of FCF Blackpowder safety rules as
stated in the FCF Handbook.
The family had settled in America and the incident broke it into segments...
with some go'n North and some go'n South but always follow'n the Patrol
method..
Some of his sons sold bacon stretchers and handrail coolant to the British
navy..
and made a fortune with 100 ft. length's of chow line.
*others made a living greas'n windmills, exercise'n bird dogs and inventing
all sort of things to separate folks from their cash. They couldn't stay put
fer long,
as just as they nested..... groups of wild posse'de ban'deBanjo's would swoop
down on 'em and burn 'em out! The evil riders wore earplugs... and no amount
of Foggy Mt. Breakdown, claw hammer three finger wamm'n would defend them..
It all came to an end with the Civil war, where all banjo pickers were
"conscripted"
and forced to the front lines of that bloody debacle...
All perished.
..or so I was told.
-=A=-
Brian Wood wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spirit Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: 09 February 2000 20:17
> Subject: [RR] Something neat
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> >All,
> >Check this out. It looks like I might have a descent
> >that was a one of the original passangers on the Mayflower.
> >It's said he was the 12th signer of the Compact of Government
> >and was one of nine men to go ashore to select a location for
> >the Plymouth Colony.
> >I'm not sure the how this man fits into the Family picture.
> >
> >Later,
> >Noel"Spirit Rider"Bell
>
> Get a copy of Paint Shop Pro. I'm sure you can fit him in somewhere <g>.
>
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