I usually reserve the Sunday Soapbox for getting something off my chest. On Sunday. But I am feeling compelled, strongly, by all the recent global events to take a minute and give a shout out to all my immigrant ancestors. The ancestors who risked everything, everything, to make a new life for themselves. In a strange new world. Thousands upon thousands of miles away from all that was familiar. Not really knowing what fate awaited them, but believing that staying where they were was certain death, if not certain destitute poverty. We all want a bright, hopeful future. We all want a better life for our family and our children. This has not changed in the 2 million years since our first ancestors walked out of Africa. Countless wars have been waged over this very same issue. Territory. My territory, your territory. Heck, it's waged in sandboxes and kindergarten playgrounds every day, all around the globe.
But I digress.
I am here now, in this place, because of this roll call of dreamers and doers who had the gumption to get up out of their mediocrity - leave their ancestral homelands - go boldly toward the hope of a brighter tomorrow. To believe in themselves, and in humankind, enough to create something better than what had been. And in doing so joined millions of other immigrants, speaking a variety of languages, celebrating different customs, yet all cohabiting in this the New World. Working toward the same goal.
Most of my immigrants were not 'legal' by today's standards. They just got on a boat and came. (Although I think a few may have come by TARDIS ....) But they all contributed to the tapestry that is America today. There are names of Pilgrims, Patriots, Pioneers and a lot of just plain folk working hard and getting by. Professors and politicians, housewives, farmers, lots of farmers, doctors, inventors, preachers, the list goes on. I am proud of them all.
Immigrant Roll Call:
Arrival 1601 to 1700
1609 - Stephen Hopkins - England
1613 - Joseph Cobb - England
1620 - Isaac Allerton - England
1620 - Mary Norris - England
1621 - Stephen Deane - England
1621 - Elizabeth Ring - England
1623 - Nicholas Snow - England
1628 - Thomas Gerrard - England
1628 - Susannah Snow - England
1630 - John Doane - England
1630 - Mosses Mavericke - England
1630 - John Moseley - England
1630 - William Phelps - England
1631 - Richard Lyman - England
1631 - Sarah Osborne - England
1632 - Moses Rowley Sr - England
1632 - Henry Howland - England
1632 - Thomas Woodford - England
1632 - Mary Blott - England
1632 - Nathaniel Merriman - England
1633 - Matthew Allyn - England
1634 - Rowland Stebbins - Engalnd
1634 - Sarah Whiting - England
1634 - Thomas Newberry - England
1634 - John Stiles - England
1635 - John Thomas - England
1635 - Sarah Pitney - England
1636 - John Plumb - England
1636 - Dorothy Wood - England
1638 - Henry Burt - England
1638 - Ulalia Marche - England
1638 - John Hutchins - England
1638 - Walter Chiles - England
1638 - Polly Strangeman - England
1640 - Matthew Fuller - England
abt 1640 - Daniel Cole - England
abt 1640 - William Twining Sr - England
abt 1640 - John Curtiss - England
abt 1640 Elizabeth Welles - England
1643 - Robert Ellyson - Scotland
1650 - Robert Harris - Wales
1652 - Isaac Sheldon - England
1655 - Richmont Terrell - England
1655 - Elizabeth Wather - England
1656 - Mary Norton - England
1669 - William Overton - England
1669 - Mary Elizabeth Waters - England
1669 - John Hampton - Scotland
1679 - Christopher Gist - England
1679 - Edith Cromwell - England
1682 - Ezra Croasdale - England
1684 - Ann Peacock - England
1683 - Thomas Canby - England
1685 - Thomas Curtis - England
1685 - Jane Ogborne - England
1695 - John Potwine - England
abt 1699 Zachariah How - England
abt 1699 - Sarah Gilbert - England
1700 - Jerome Dumas - France
1700 - AbsolomVaughn - ?
Arrival 1701 to 1800
abt 1710 - Jonathan Hays - England
1726 - William Faulkner - Scotland
1726 - Mary Faulkner - Scotland
1728 - James McBride - Ireland
1729 - John Busby - England
1729 - Elizabeth Lisle - England
1732 - Thomas Wilson Sr - Scotland
1732 - Mary Riley - Ireland
Arrival 1801 to 1900
1819 - Michael Sammon - Ireland
1819 - Catherine Dunne - Ireland
1830 - Francis O'Rourke - Ireland
1830 - Ann Mclingin - Ireland
1832 - Alexander Fraser - Scotland
1832 - Elizabeth Chalmers - Scotland
1840 - James O'Connell - Ireland
1840 - Mary Dempsey - Ireland
1870 - Frederick Colyer - England
Born in America - parents unknown (probably came by TARDIS)
abt 1600 Thomas Crew
1631 Samuel Rockwell
1632 Elizabeth Wallace
1634 Mary Holton
1636 Abigail Bartlett
1640 Susannah Brooks
1642 Nathanial Grafton
1642 John Rogers
1649 Mary Claiborne
1655 Elizabeth Mayo
1658 Matthew Peatross
1660 Mordecai Price
1660 Henry Watkins
1662 Mary Parsons
1668 Mary Tilden
1669 Sarah Jarvis
1670 Ruth Bancroft
1670 Sarah Gatley
1670 Sarah Hill
1673 Anne Myhill
1673 Thomas Jackson
1680 Abigail Root
1681 Unity Smith
1684 Patience Lumbert
1684 Anne Skinner
1690 Elizabeth Elliot
1696 Mary Osborne
1704 Apphia Lewis
1717 Keturrah Merryman
1723 Melchezedec Brame
1726 Thomas Loveland
1728 Samuel Mannon
1734 Hannah Norcott
1740 Jerusha Kingsley
1744 William Wilton Ashby
1745 Sarah Williams
1772 Naomi Clarke
1775 Nathan Bass
1760 Samuel Beach
1786 Jesse Thomas
1790 Hackaliah Vredenburgh
1791 Sally Blackman
1803 Margaret Roberts
1829 Pamela Thompson
1833 Jennie Whitford
This land is your land, this land is my land
From the California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
Saw below me the golden valley
This land was made for you and me
I roamed and rambled and followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land, this land is my land
From the California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling
The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me
~Woody Guthrie
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