1789 Alexander Hamilton is named first Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton was born a bastard in more ways that one, he was born illegitimate to Rachel Faucett Lavien (as she is known to history). Apparently her name was really Rachel (Faucett) Mendez, she was a Sephardic jew and was married to a man named Johann Michael Lavien (Hamilton biographer Ron Chanow says this may be a Sephardic spelling of "Levine") who is described in the wiki article as "German-Jewish" and a "merchant-planter". The planter part probably means he had land worked by slaves, as was the practice of the times. The wiki article sites the jewishpress.com link below as a source, and that link describes "Lavien" as a Danish jew. She had one child, a boy with Lavien/Lavine and deserted him (making the claim of "he beat me", he may have but considering her subsequent behavior, there may be a reason why) and her son on the Caribbean Island of St. Croix in what is now the U.S. Virgin Islands and fled to St. Kitts (one of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles about 1300 miles SE from Miami) in 1750. Hamilton was born on 11 January 1755, although some sources will state 1757, on the island of Nevis, just across The Channel from the island of St. Kitts; his mother was also born on that island, in the British West Indies, in 1729. His mother was apparently imprisoned on St. Croix for adultery, and sometime between arriving on St. Kitts in 1750 and meeting James A. Hamilton (fourth son of a Scottish "laird" or lord, Alexander Hamilton of Ayrshire, Scotland) she was involved with a jew named David Levy, who was "Alexander Hamilton"s real father, who abandoned her (either pregnant or after the birth of "Alexander") according to a pamphlet titled "Messianic Jewish Influence In Early America" published by Congregation Yashuat Yisrael in Franklin, Tennessee (see comment section of the jewishpress.com link below in the article "The Jews of Nevis and Alexander Hamilton"). Rachel Faucett Mendez Levy apparently married James A. Hamilton, a not-very-successful business man in the sugar business, even though still married to Johann Michael Lavien/Lavine and possibly married to David Levy (but probably not), either Hamilton didn't know she was pregnant then or just decided to adopt the boy/give him his name. There was apparently another son, James Jr, but it's next to impossible to find any information on him. They moved to her birthplace, Nevis Island, where she had inherited some property from her father. James left her, citing according to the Wikipedia article, that he wanted to spare her being charged as a bigamist, after they learned her 'first' husband, Johann Lavien/Lavine was divorcing her on St. Croix under Danish law for adultery and desertion. Makes me wonder if this is the first time James A. Hamilton knew of her still being married, and/or he came to question the paternity of Alexander. The Anglican Church (Church of England) would not perform their marriage, recognize it, allow them to attend nor allow the children to attend church school; so Alexander Hamilton was enrolled in a Jewish school on Nevis (perhaps they recognized him as one of their own, because this normally wasn't done for a child who supposed to be a 'gentile'). He was educated as a jew, becoming fluent in French and "Hebrew" (Yiddish?), and according to his son Alexander said that he could recite the Decalogue in Hebrew when he was so small he was placed on a table so he could stand by the teacher while reciting it.
His mother Rachel Faucett Mendez Lavien/Levine Levy Hamilton apparently went back to St. Croix after this, running a small store in the town of Christiansted. She died of a fever on 19 February 1768; her 'first' husband went to Probate Court and was awarded her estate and her few valuables, he provided nothing for Alexander who was not his and to whom he had no obligation whatsoever. According to Hamilton biographer Ron Chanow there is some circumstantial evidence of local merchant Thomas Stevens being Hamilton's father because of a resemblence to Stevens son Edward and a commonality of interests, and both being fluent in French. Hamilton was a Sephardic perhaps "Messianic" jew, so was his mother and his alleged (by Congregation Yashuat Yisrael) father David Levy, which to me goes a long way in explaining his actions.
As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton wrote a tax law that would pay off bankers and foreign creditors holding U.S. debt from the Revolutionary War by taxing the poorest Americans, frontiersmen who were hard-scrabble farmers and backwoodsmen who had fought with George Washington and been instramental in winning many a battle. These men, not just in western Pennsylvania, but in the Carolinas and Virginia outside of the tidewater regions, Maryland and all of Kentucky refused to pay a tax on their homemade whiskey that would have robbed them of any profit. Washington knew all along this tax that his fellow Mason, Hamilton, had written was designed to tax the poor to pay bankers, and went along with it, even riding at the front of troops to put down this "Whiskey Rebellion". So the man First In The Hearts Of His Countrymen led an army to crush a tax revolt, after he had led an army in a tax revolt for 6 years. Hamilton also tried to establish a forerunner of the Federal Reserve called The First National Bank, which he modeled after the Rothschild owned (from 1815 onward) Bank of England. Jefferson fought this tooth and nail, as did Andrew Jackson when it was brought up during his administration (as the Bank of the United States). As far as I'm concerned, the bastard, homosexual, adulterous, Sephardic Jew, freemason from the West Indies called Alexander Hamilton was one of the worst disasters ever inflicted on America and was a moral reprobate and all around scumbag.
An interesting New York politician and newspaper publisher named Thurlow Weed started an anti-Masonic movement in 1828 that became a political party, the first "3rd party" and the one that introduced nominating conventions and adoption of party platforms (which are always largely ignored by candidates once they're elected). For an anti-Mason, there were quite a few Masonic things about Weed. He was a Whig and founded its successor, the Republican Party, and was instramental in the nominations of half a dozen presidental candidates, including 3 that were
His mother Rachel Faucett Mendez Lavien/Levine Levy Hamilton apparently went back to St. Croix after this, running a small store in the town of Christiansted. She died of a fever on 19 February 1768; her 'first' husband went to Probate Court and was awarded her estate and her few valuables, he provided nothing for Alexander who was not his and to whom he had no obligation whatsoever. According to Hamilton biographer Ron Chanow there is some circumstantial evidence of local merchant Thomas Stevens being Hamilton's father because of a resemblence to Stevens son Edward and a commonality of interests, and both being fluent in French. Hamilton was a Sephardic perhaps "Messianic" jew, so was his mother and his alleged (by Congregation Yashuat Yisrael) father David Levy, which to me goes a long way in explaining his actions.
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/21464
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Hamilton.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Hamilton.html
HAMILTON'S POLITICAL LIFE AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
At Kings College in New York (now Columbia University) on 10 May 1775 he allowed the Loyalist college president Myles Cooper to escape a "mob" of revolutionaries by haranguing them long enough to let Cooper escape to a British ship in NY harbor. This was three just weeks after the battles of Lexington and Concord, on 19 April 1775. Cooper had written tracts calling all forms of resistance to the king to be treason. He was an Anglican priest, and a guy that was more interested in drinking and being a man-about-town than a college president. Cooper died in London 13 years later on another occult holiday, 1 May 1785 at the age of 50. While Hamilton put in two years of honorable service in the artillery during the War for Independence, he was an ambitious schemer who turned down offers to be on the staff of Nathaneal Greene and Henry Knox to get on the staff of George Washington and curry favor from his fellow Mason for the rest of his life. Hamilton resigned his commission shortly after Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, South Carolina, to run for Congress, ever upward; after badgering Washington for a field command. He finally got one during the Battle of Yorktown, and when Cornwallis surrendered British forces he then resigned but had that "on his resume'".From there on out, his time in the national government revealed him to be what would today be called a fascist. Immediately he began pushing for more power for the federal government, and the ability for it to make laws that superceded state law and for taxation of the states.
The Articles of Confederation didn't suit him because the states had too many rights and freedoms, and he didn't want 13 separate countries free to do as they saw fit, he wanted one big powerful federal government. He resigned from Congress and practiced law in New York, specializing in defending Royalists and British subjects against damage claims (there is that Loyalist sentiment again, as when he engineered the escape of the Loyalist president of King's College {Columbia University} to escape. On 9 June 1784 Hamilton foundedthe Bank of New York. Hamilton got back into the public arena in 1786 as a delegate from New York to the Annapolis Convention, a precursor to the CONstitutional Convention of May 1787. Hamilton drafted a resolution for a CONstitutional Convention while in Annapolis for the 3 day convention (11 September to 14 September 1786). In 1787 Hamilton was an Assemblyman (state legislator) in the New York State Assembly. He was the first delegate chosen to the Philadelphia Convention but the other two delegates opposed his idea of making a strong (overriding states liberty and authority) central government, John Lansing Jr and Robert Yates walked out 6 weeks into the convention because they had believed that it was only supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation to allow Congress a taxing power (a source of revenue not dependent on the states), enforce treaties and regulate commerce. That was all the New York legislature had authorized to them to be involved in, and they were shocked at Hamilton, Madison and others writing a whole new constitution. As it turned out, their fears about the power the central government would eventually take were fully justified. Early in the convention, Hamilton made a speech proposing a president-for-life (he got one in Franklin Roosevelt), and also U.S. Senator's-for-life (although they could be impeached). These proposals changed his ally James Madison's opinion of Hamilton, Madison now considered him a monarchist. It was Hamilton who came up with many of the things that ultimately appeared in the CONstitution, including the 3/5 Clause (where black slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person for purposes of taxation distribution and apportionment of House seats; he had this presented by his allies James Wilson and Roger Sherman. Among the many dictatorial things in Hamilton's constitutional draft (which he didn't formally present) was that state governors would be appointed by the federal government rather than be elected by the citizens of the states. This is consistent with the federal government view of states as convenient zones of administration rather than independent entities that is held today and has been since about 1861.
It was because of this, and Hamilton's snake-in-the-grass approach to interpreting the constitution that Madison wrote the Bill of Rights. Jefferson and Madison were strict constructionists, they believed that it should be interpreted strictly as written and as understood at the time of ratification. Hamilton was a loose constructionist, they believed in a loose interpretation of the constitution in order to obtain more power for the federal government. Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers as if he was a strict constructionist to get the CONstitution rafitfied, once it was, he showed his true colors and argued for a loose interpretation in order for the central government to obtain more authority. In 1788 Hamilton served another term in Congress in what was the last congress under the Articles of Confederation. Hamilton had married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of wealthy former general and U.S. Senator Philip Schuyler of Albany. Schuyler was elected to the Senate from New York in 1788, but only served two years because New York was/is a Class 1 state (see link below) and lost the election of 1791 to New York's Attorney General, Aaron Burr. Hamilton was unfaithful to Elizabeth, but she defended him and was loyal to him to the end of her life. He had an affair with a married woman named Maria Reynolds, her husband James went to James Monroe and Aaron Burr in 1791 saying he knew of corruption by Hamilton, who was quizzed by them and admitted the affair but denied being corrupt. The matter was laid to rest until after Hamilton's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury on 31 January 1795; when rumors of the affair spread, Hamilton published a confession, shocking his friends and wife, but didn't let it go there and went into, uh, unnecessary detail about it.
The Articles of Confederation didn't suit him because the states had too many rights and freedoms, and he didn't want 13 separate countries free to do as they saw fit, he wanted one big powerful federal government. He resigned from Congress and practiced law in New York, specializing in defending Royalists and British subjects against damage claims (there is that Loyalist sentiment again, as when he engineered the escape of the Loyalist president of King's College {Columbia University} to escape. On 9 June 1784 Hamilton foundedthe Bank of New York. Hamilton got back into the public arena in 1786 as a delegate from New York to the Annapolis Convention, a precursor to the CONstitutional Convention of May 1787. Hamilton drafted a resolution for a CONstitutional Convention while in Annapolis for the 3 day convention (11 September to 14 September 1786). In 1787 Hamilton was an Assemblyman (state legislator) in the New York State Assembly. He was the first delegate chosen to the Philadelphia Convention but the other two delegates opposed his idea of making a strong (overriding states liberty and authority) central government, John Lansing Jr and Robert Yates walked out 6 weeks into the convention because they had believed that it was only supposed to amend the Articles of Confederation to allow Congress a taxing power (a source of revenue not dependent on the states), enforce treaties and regulate commerce. That was all the New York legislature had authorized to them to be involved in, and they were shocked at Hamilton, Madison and others writing a whole new constitution. As it turned out, their fears about the power the central government would eventually take were fully justified. Early in the convention, Hamilton made a speech proposing a president-for-life (he got one in Franklin Roosevelt), and also U.S. Senator's-for-life (although they could be impeached). These proposals changed his ally James Madison's opinion of Hamilton, Madison now considered him a monarchist. It was Hamilton who came up with many of the things that ultimately appeared in the CONstitution, including the 3/5 Clause (where black slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person for purposes of taxation distribution and apportionment of House seats; he had this presented by his allies James Wilson and Roger Sherman. Among the many dictatorial things in Hamilton's constitutional draft (which he didn't formally present) was that state governors would be appointed by the federal government rather than be elected by the citizens of the states. This is consistent with the federal government view of states as convenient zones of administration rather than independent entities that is held today and has been since about 1861.
It was because of this, and Hamilton's snake-in-the-grass approach to interpreting the constitution that Madison wrote the Bill of Rights. Jefferson and Madison were strict constructionists, they believed that it should be interpreted strictly as written and as understood at the time of ratification. Hamilton was a loose constructionist, they believed in a loose interpretation of the constitution in order to obtain more power for the federal government. Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers as if he was a strict constructionist to get the CONstitution rafitfied, once it was, he showed his true colors and argued for a loose interpretation in order for the central government to obtain more authority. In 1788 Hamilton served another term in Congress in what was the last congress under the Articles of Confederation. Hamilton had married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of wealthy former general and U.S. Senator Philip Schuyler of Albany. Schuyler was elected to the Senate from New York in 1788, but only served two years because New York was/is a Class 1 state (see link below) and lost the election of 1791 to New York's Attorney General, Aaron Burr. Hamilton was unfaithful to Elizabeth, but she defended him and was loyal to him to the end of her life. He had an affair with a married woman named Maria Reynolds, her husband James went to James Monroe and Aaron Burr in 1791 saying he knew of corruption by Hamilton, who was quizzed by them and admitted the affair but denied being corrupt. The matter was laid to rest until after Hamilton's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury on 31 January 1795; when rumors of the affair spread, Hamilton published a confession, shocking his friends and wife, but didn't let it go there and went into, uh, unnecessary detail about it.
This damaged his reputation forever after. Hamilton had paid James Reynolds more than $1000 of blackmail money over several years in order to keep up his affair with Reynolds wife (and we thought there were sex scandals today...); she was 23 and he was 36. Hamilton tried to rig the election of 1796 to keep John Adams as vice president (in a time before parties had candidates with running mates and political parties were brand new); John Adams became the second President of the United States and Thomas Jefferson became the second vice president. Adams and Hamilton hated each other, and to illustrate the depravity of Alexander Hamilton, he worked not only against Democratic-Republican candidates but against his own Federalist Party candidate, the sitting president John Adams, in 1800. Jefferson and Burr tied with 73 electoral votes each, thanks in part to backlash against Hamilton's antics by the voters. The election went to the House of Representatives, and Jefferson won on the 36th ballot, again thanks to some shananigans by Hamilton, so Burr was vice president. Burr knew halfway through Jefferson's first term he wouldn't be on the ticket in 1804, so he ran for governor of New York in 1802 but was defeated, in large part due to more muckraking by Hamilton. In 1804, Hamilton published some scurrilous things about Burr, who challenged him to apologize or engage in a duel. Hamilton refused to apologize, and Burr challenged him to a duel.
DUEL WITH AARON BURR AND DEATH
It occured on 11 July 1804 at a place called the Heights of Weehawken, below the cliffs of Palisades, across the Hudson River from Manhatten; as the challenged party Hamilton had the choice of weapons, he brought Wogden dueling pistols, which had a feature of 'set triggers', they could be set with shorter, easier trigger pull. This was a feature seen on rifles, but not common on pistols (except on English dueling pistols). Burr would not have known about this feature, and Hamilton didn't tell him. Hamilton fired first, and perhaps because of clumsiness with a set (or "hair") trigger, the bullet hit a tree branch over Burr's head. Burr, no stranger to duels, took aim and shot Hamilton in the abdomen, hitting a rib and the ball deflecting to injure the liver and diaphram before lodging in a vertabrae. Hamilton died the next day, 12 July 1804, and was buried at Trinity Church Cemetary (Espicopalian) in Manhatten, located, appropriately enough, at Wall and Broadway streets. As fitting a freemason, there is a pyramid atop his crypt. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton is buried there also, and ironically so is General Horatio Gates, the man who replaced Philip Schuyler after he had allowed the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and whom Gates accused of dereliction of duty. (For some more irony, Gates claimed credit for defeating the British at Saratoga, when all the credit should have gone to General Benedict Arnold, who, though severely wounded in the leg, mounted a horse and rallied American troops to defeat British forces, saving the day at Saratoga; it was this snub as much as anything that started the very vain Arnold on the road to treason). Hamilton was bi-sexual, he wrote some very lavish love letters to his fellow Mason the Marquis de Lafayette and to his friend John Laurens (killed in 1782) to whom he wrote to find him, Hamilton, a wife in South Carolina and spelled out what he required in a wife (most of all was that she/her family be wealthy). Hamilton carried on an affair with his sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler Church (it was her husband who owned the dueling pistols selected by Hamilton for his duel, maybe Church got a little karmic revenge there?).
SUMMARY
As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton wrote a tax law that would pay off bankers and foreign creditors holding U.S. debt from the Revolutionary War by taxing the poorest Americans, frontiersmen who were hard-scrabble farmers and backwoodsmen who had fought with George Washington and been instramental in winning many a battle. These men, not just in western Pennsylvania, but in the Carolinas and Virginia outside of the tidewater regions, Maryland and all of Kentucky refused to pay a tax on their homemade whiskey that would have robbed them of any profit. Washington knew all along this tax that his fellow Mason, Hamilton, had written was designed to tax the poor to pay bankers, and went along with it, even riding at the front of troops to put down this "Whiskey Rebellion". So the man First In The Hearts Of His Countrymen led an army to crush a tax revolt, after he had led an army in a tax revolt for 6 years. Hamilton also tried to establish a forerunner of the Federal Reserve called The First National Bank, which he modeled after the Rothschild owned (from 1815 onward) Bank of England. Jefferson fought this tooth and nail, as did Andrew Jackson when it was brought up during his administration (as the Bank of the United States). As far as I'm concerned, the bastard, homosexual, adulterous, Sephardic Jew, freemason from the West Indies called Alexander Hamilton was one of the worst disasters ever inflicted on America and was a moral reprobate and all around scumbag.
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA_Washington.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_(1786)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_New_York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Schuyler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Reynolds
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/publications/economic-education/first-bank.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis_Convention_(1786)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_New_York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Schuyler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Schuyler_Hamilton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Reynolds
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/publications/economic-education/first-bank.pdf
1814 Battle of Plattsburgh/Lake Champlain This battle ended the final invasion of the northern U.S. in the War of 1812. A naval squadron under British Captain George Downie and an army under Lt. General Sir George Prevost attacked the town of Plattsburgh at dawn, but were defeated in hard battle and Downie was killed. Prevost then withdrew his army to Canada. This victory kept the British from having any leverage to make territorial demands of keeping territory they already held at
the end of the war during the Treaty of Ghent negotiations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburgh
1826 Kidnapping and murder of Captain William Morgan by Freemasons William Morgan (7 August? 1774--11 September 1826) was veteran of the war of 1812 that was going to write an expose' of the Masons and their rituals and secrets through local newspaper publisher David Cade Miller in Batavia, New York. Masons denounced Morgan and burned Miller's offices. A group of Masons appeared at Morgan's home claiming he owed them money. On 11 September 1826 he was arrested, since in that age there such things as "debtors prison" where someone could be held until the debt was paid. Miller went to the jail and paid what was claimed Morgan owed, and secured his release, just to get him out of their hands. The validity of the claims against Morgan were dubious, at best. A few hours later Morgan was again arrested for a new claim where someone said he owed he owed a creditor for a loan not repaid, and it was alleged he had stolen clothes. This was a ruse to get their hands on him again, and someone claiming to be a friend paid this alleged debt, secured his release and took him off in a carriage. The most commonly told version of what happened after that is that Morgan was taken by boat and drowned in the Niagra River. The Masons deny they murdered him (of course) and say he was paid $500 to leave the area. Morgan was 52, and had a 23 year old wife and two children, and he leaves them? In 1848 a man named Henry L. Valance made a death-bed confession to his part in Morgan's murder. 13 months after this, in October 1827, a badly decomposed body washed up on a Lake Ontario shore, and it was said to be Morgan and was buried under that name. But the widow of a missing Canadian man named Timothy Monroe identified the clothing on the body as Monroe's. Three Masons were tried and convicted, and served (minimal) sentences for, the kidnapping of William Morgan. Miller published Morgan's book, ILLUSTRATIONS OF FREEMASONRY shortly after Morgan disappeared, and the Masons propagated stories of Morgan being seen in Albany as well as foreign countries. The governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton (a freemason) offered a $1000 reward for information on Morgan's whereabouts, but it was never claimed. The kidnapping, disappearance and light sentences given out for it enraged the public and caused an anti-Masonic backlash even outside of New York state. Masonic officials of course did a Mission Impossible ("If you or any your IMF team are caught, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge") and disavowed and condemned the kidnapping.
An interesting New York politician and newspaper publisher named Thurlow Weed started an anti-Masonic movement in 1828 that became a political party, the first "3rd party" and the one that introduced nominating conventions and adoption of party platforms (which are always largely ignored by candidates once they're elected). For an anti-Mason, there were quite a few Masonic things about Weed. He was a Whig and founded its successor, the Republican Party, and was instramental in the nominations of half a dozen presidental candidates, including 3 that were
assassinated (William Henry Harrison-poisoned in 1841, Zachary Taylor-poisoned in 1850, Abraham Lincoln-shot in 1865), Weed was tight with William H. Seward who survived an assassination attempt (stabbing) the night Lincoln was shot; and Weed was an early supporter of Masonic NY governor DeWitt Clinton. In 1825 he bought the Rochester Telegraph newspaper, but was forced out in 1828 by Masonic interests. Weed founded the Albany Evening Journal, the first issue was printed 22 March (22/3) 1830. Lincoln, by the way, was not a Mason but not for lack of trying. He applied to the Tyrian Lodge in Springfield, Illinois, shortly after he was nominated by the Republican Party in 1860, but withdrew his application because, according to the Masons, he felt that it would be viewed as a blatant ploy to gain votes, and that after he left office he'd re-apply to join. More likely, he thought that being a Mason would hurt politically hurt him. http://www.mastermason.com/wilmettepark/pres.html Thurlow Weed died on 22 November 1882, one week to the day after his 85th birthday. William Morgan's widow, Lucinda (Pendleton) Morgan, married a man 20 years her senior (Morgan was 43 and she 16 when they married in 1819) named George Washington Harris, a silversmith in Batavia, New York, in 1830; they moved to the midwest and there became Mormons.
Some historians, such as author Todd Compton, state that by 1838 she became one of founder Joseph Smith's plural wives, but she still lived with Harris. After Smith was murdered in an Illinois jail by a mob in 1844, she was "sealed" to him forever by the LDS practice of baptism for the dead by proxy (a living person is baptised as a proxy for a dead person, sort of a retroactive baptismal, a rite practised by the LDS church to this day and started in 1840). In 1841 the late William Morgan, who would have despised it, was baptised by proxy into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints/Mormons. Freemasonry has criticised the Mormons for adopting Masonic rituals and regalia. By 1853 the Harris's had separated, when he died in 1860 George W. Harris had been ex-communicated for ceasing to practice the Mormon religion with them (this is often the case in churches where someone decides to call "bullshit" and stop playing the game). Apparently Lucinda Morgan Harris dropped out too, because she joined the Catholic Sisters of Charity in Memphis (just in time for Lincoln's War) and worked at the Leah Asylum. Another possibility on William Morgan's remains surfaced in June 1881 when a grave was discovered a couple miles from an Indian reservation near Pembroke, New York. In the grave was a metal box, containing some crumpled paper. The few legible words suggested that the remains might be William Morgan, the man the Masons swore they didn't kill. On 13 September (13/9) 1882, a group opposed to secret societies called the National Christian Society erected a monument to Morgan with his statue atop it (which was witnessed by 1000 people, including some poobahs from local Masonic lodges) in the Batavia, NY, cemetary, the inscription read in part: "He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826, by Freemasons and murdered for revealing the secrets of their order." BTW, both Joseph Smith and his father were Masons.
http://www.truevine.net/~forchrist@truevine.net/Morgan.htm (contains the confession of Henry L. Valance)
1829 Surrender of the Spanish Expedition sent to re-conquer Mexico An expedition of 3000-4000 men, a fleet of 5 ships and 14 transports left Havana on 5 July to reconquer Mexico. A bunch of exiles (Mexico had expelled all foreigners, especially Spaniards, in 1827) had convinced Brigadier Isidro Barradas that Mexico was wanting to return to Spanish rule. A storm had scattered the fleet, but they arrived off Tampico on 26 July and landed on the 27th and the first fighting began on 31 July. The Spanish were besieged by a force under Santa Ana, and surrendered on 11 September. This ultimatley secured Mexican independence from further threat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidro_Barradas
1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre On 7 September 1857 a wagon train of emigrants from Arkansas going to California stopped at the well-known resting place of the California Trail known as Mountain Meadows for what they thought would be a few days of rest, and replenishing their water and supply of game. But they were attacked by a force of white Mormon militia disguised as Indians and by Paiutes who they had talked into joining them in the attack. The wagon train was known as the Baker- Fancher party. On September 11th with ammunition running low, as was food and water, they agreed to an offer by the Mormons, led by militia Major John D. Lee, of safe conduct back to Cedar City if they turned over their equipment, including guns, and supplies to the Indians. They made a mile long walk, men separated from the women with a Mormon guard to each man, and when a signal was given the men were shot and the women and children tried to run. They were butchered, except for the very youngest children. These children were placed among Mormon families, and 17 were later reclaimed and taken to relatives in Arkansas. Only one man was tried and punished for this atrocity, John D. Lee. He correctly said he was a scapegoat for those involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre
