mickeyobe
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 4, 2011 6:38:28 GMT -5
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Yanks (that includes Rebs). Mickey  The beautiful American falls at Niagara.  |
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Doug T.
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Post by Doug T. on Jul 4, 2011 9:02:22 GMT -5
Thanks Mickey! That's one of my favorite places!! Just for the record though, the Canadian side IS nicer  Doug |
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Post by PeterW on Jul 4, 2011 9:56:15 GMT -5
Happy July 4 all you guys over the pond.
We don't celebrate July 4 here, but maybe we should ... for getting rid of some troublesome colonials. LOL ;D.
PeterW
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Post by Randy on Jul 4, 2011 11:44:39 GMT -5
Peter, you are a rascal. ;D
The firecrackers have been going off since yesterday here.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 4, 2011 13:03:27 GMT -5
Hey don't blame Peter. It was a wise decision. After the revolution George III was able to save enough money, thanks to not having to send troops to defend the American colonies, to eventually make a down payment on India. Canadian white pine and beaver skins were already boosting his budget. He wasn't as loony as some would have it.  Mickey |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2011 14:27:01 GMT -5
Then there's Louis XVI who I'm sure wished he had never heard of the Colonies. Bankrupted his country helping finance the war and our victory over the British monarchy gave the French people ideas.
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Post by herron on Jul 4, 2011 14:44:31 GMT -5
My relatives were already here by July 4, 1776.  I have records on my father's side going back to 1769 in North Carolina, and a ship's manifest for when my mother's family (which great, great I don't have in front of me) landed in Philadelphia in 1736.  |
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 4, 2011 15:10:22 GMT -5
Have a safe 4th of July.
Bob
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Post by herron on Aug 19, 2012 0:11:13 GMT -5
Just noticed this old post of mine and had to update it. I've traced my family back to a John Her(r)on, who arrived from Ireland, landing in Virgina in 1635.
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Post by daveh on Aug 19, 2012 13:52:38 GMT -5
John to Ron in (almost) 400 years. Have you lost the Irish accent yet?
Do you know which part of Ireland? Whichever, he got out a few years before Cromwell got there.
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