Yes! Leave no one behind

Thank you!
Dr. Shelley Viola Murphy
Descendant Project Researcher-ODEI/UVA
Center for Family History-IAAM-Genealogy Education
Albemarle Cville & Fluvanna Historical Societies-Board
Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) Library of Virginia
Board Member
Averett University, Adjunct
Professional Genealogist
aka "familytreegirl"
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On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 3:48 PM Lonny Watro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> And in the words of Abigail Adam's, "Don't forget the ladies". 😉 (although
> that was for her husband, John, when he was going off to help write the US
> Constitution), but it applies here. In the past few years, DAR has been
> focusing of Black Revolutionary War patriots as well as female, Hispanic,
> and Indigenous people of the US who all contributed to the Revolutionary
> War efforts.
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, 3:23 PM [log in to unmask] <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Please do not leave out the Black Rev War Patriots, etc...if you want
> more
> > info, you can contact me or I can share resources to learn more. I am
> > working on the ones from the central Virginia area. Thanks
> > Dr. Shelley Viola MurphyDescendant Project Researcher-UVA ODEIMidwest
> > African American Genealogy Institute-President/InstructorAlbemarle
> > Charlottesville Historical Society-DirectorAverett University,
> > AdjunctProfessional Genealogist
> > aka "familytreegirl"434-806-7433
> >
> >
> > Know Your Roots They are Long and Strong!
> >
> >
> >     On Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 09:40:38 AM EST, Tarter, Brent
> (LVA) <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >  For Virginia, specifically, and up to July 1776, you can find a vast
> > amount of detailed documentary evidence and commentary in William J. Van
> > Schreeven, Robert L. Scribner, and Brent Tarter, eds., Revolutionary
> > Virginia, The Road to Independence: A Documentary Record, 7 vols.
> > (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Virginia
> > Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1973-1983).
> >
> > John Selby's bibliography, already mentioned, and his The Revolution in
> > Virginia, 1775-1783 (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
> 1988)
> > provide ample references to interesting and important events inVirginia
> > during the period.
> >
> > Brent Tarter
> > [log in to unmask]
> > ________________________________
> > From: marsha moses <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 1:12 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Revolutionary War
> >
> > I have a project for the next two years that I could use all of the help
> > that I can get.  I would like to have a fact about the Revolutionary War
> > every month.  Last month, of course, my short talk was about the Boston
> Tea
> > Party since the 16th of December was the 250th anniversary of the Boston
> > Tea Party.  I am not aware of a big event that happened in January 1774.
> (
> > If you know of one, please send.)  I am thinking that my theme in January
> > will be about how the other colonies began to hear about what had
> happened
> > and was continuing to happen in Boston and in what ways they began to
> > react.  I am asking this group specifically if anyone knows of something
> > that happened in Virginia as a reaction to what history seems to present
> as
> > the beginning of the Revolutionary War:  The Boston Tea Party.
> >
> > I am also open to something that happened this early in Virginia
> unrelated
> > to the Tea Party that was a preamble to the war that was coming.  It is
> as
> > if for the next years I want to live in my head as someone in 1774 and
> what
> > was happening in their lives related to the war that was coming.  What
> > these people who were always hungry for news were hearing and thinking.
> It
> > is a DAR group that I will be presenting these very short thoughts each
> > month and many of our members have patriots who would have been living in
> > Virginia as we are a chapter in WV.
> >
> > Thanks for any information that anyone can help me with.  Marsha Hawkins
> > Moses
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