>The source on fortifying the churches is my Way family history which you keep
>asking about but which I have already described. I wrote the following on
>page 141, "When the American Revolution came, the churches at Dorchester and
>Beech Hill, as well as the one in Midway, Georgia, were closed and fortified.
> The British burned all three."
That's your conclusion. It's unfortunate you didn't record your source.
>While I have some 900 footnotes in my book, it is a family history and I did
>not feel the need to document every historical statement and have no footnote
>there. In my research I traveled three separate times in a motor home up and
>down the Eastern seaboard from Salem, MA and Boston to Savannah, Sunbury,
>Midway, and Hinesville, GA. In Boston I researched in the NEHGS headquarters
>for days, in the Boston Public Library, etc; in the Philadelphia Free Public
>Library, in the state archives and libraries of VA, NC, SC, GA, TX, and in
>the historical associations of VA at Richmond, in SC at Charleston, and in GA
>at Savannah. I went twice to the DAR Library in Camden, SC,and twice to the
>A.S. Salley Archives in Orangeburg, SC. I visited more courthouses than I
>would like to think about in SC, GA, and TX. I also went to Salt Lake City.
>Since I live in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, I have spent many
>days in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the DAR Library, and
>the Federal Bureau of Land Management. Finally, although I had already
>visited Great Britain six times in either a personal or official capacity,
>beginning as an undergraduate student, and had seen all of that country I had
>ever planned to, I recently undertook still another trip there solely to
>research the Ways and the families they immediately married into in America,
>the Sumners and Mavericks.
Congratulations on all your research.
>I don't know where I picked up the info on the fortifying of the churches,
>but I am sure it is accurate.
While your conclusion may well be true, it's the first I've heard of it.
Stacy mentions a cannon that was stationed in the road near Midway Church,
but that was withdrawn, apparently leaving the church undefended.
> It may have come from brochures passed out by
>the state park rangers in Old Dorchester State Park and the Old Sunbury State
>Park, or from local, county and state histories. A.S. Salley wrote a lot on
>the subject. But any standard history of the American Revolution would
>address the military campaigns. The same might be said of a biography of
>Lord Charles Cornwallis, of the best cavalry officer of the British
>Empire----young and arrogant Sir Banastre Tarleton----and of a biography of
>the "Swamp Fox, Francis Marion, or of the US General Nathaniel Greene, a
>Rhode Island Quaker who proved to be an exception to the rule that Quakers
>did not fight.
Thanks for the speculation on sources.
>I tossed out my comment on the fortifying of the churches because I feel that
>Americans have too one-sided a view of the American Revolution, one
>strengthened by such items as the recent popular Mel Gibson movie, The
>Patriot.
As you know, our book was published well before that movie came out.
>Once again, my book: A. Dane Bowen, Jr., Ph. D. (Ivy League in History),
>Henry Way (1583-1667) and Descendants: Pioneering Four Centuries across
>America, Baltimore, Md., 2001, 488 pp. size 8 and 1|2 x 11. The 25-page
>index, in four columns, 10 font, has some 5,950 name entries. It was so well
>received that it quickly sold out.
Congratulations.
Thanks for sending the details on your book again; I see you did indeed
send them back on 7 Jan.
> The publisher will not reprint less than
>50 additional copies. I am unwilling to take the risk of ordering so many
>more. If your list members and\or others can put together an order of 35
>books at $50 apiece, I will order another 50!
OK, I've just added your book to the list of Quarterman books in
http://www.quarterman.org/books/index.html
with your request and then we'll see how many responses came in.
See:
http://www.quarterman.org/books/bowen.html
>Since the book is copyrighted, copies were deposited in the Library of
>Congress and will presumably become available there. However, I can tell you
>from experience that the last time I looked, the Quarterman book about three
>years after its publication was still not available there. I only first saw
>it at the public library in the county seat of Liberty Co., GA, Hinesville.
We distributed copies to about a dozen libraries in Georgia and elsewhere.
>I later bought a copy.
Thanks.
>Dane Bowen
-jsq
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