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My grandfather D.F. Pate said our ancestors left Britain to escape English dominion.
We all know that Phineas Pett combed Europe with a Stuart prince, in search of a bride for the aspirant to the throne of England, that inspired this bit of Lanarkshire Hogg doggerel:
When Pett'cum to Paris did openly go,
What doubts and what jealousies did we not show ?
How loudly did we against Holland exclaim ?
Yet surely our statesmen are now more to blame :
For how can they think our allies will not fire
At privately sending that Machiavel Prior ?
Or is that coarse poetry allusion to Sir Richard Patefs earlier involvement in the Protestant religious revolution in Europe, more particularly among the wide ranging seafaring Batavs? I have neither time nor intellect left to tease out its binding threads.
It all goes back to before the time when my ancestor Daniel Deans served with George Washington at Valley Forge. Few of us know that George Washington was, in fact, descended from European royalty. Offer of a national crown is no small thing. Turning it down is bigger. Thatfs what Jesus and George Washington are all about.
You bad boys cutting up in the back of the room may not be getting this. You need to settle down, and take some notes. Some of this may be on the test. And donft think that because of who your daddy is, God is going to spare you from the test. We need to note that English General Cornwallis made a little-discussed major attack on the Bell, Bull, Burgwyn, Davis, Pate, Taylor, Rawles, Hardy, and associated, families of the Occaneechee Neck.
Yesterday I went to see Eileen McGrath, at Wilson Library, at Chapel Hill, in Orange County, to get from her the last best available scholarly information on the final disposition of the Occaneechee Indians from the Eno River Valley, in the Neuse River waterway system, who were removed from the Hogg (High in Dutch) , and associated families, Hillsboro home site there, and they left a remnant on Occoneechee Neck, in the company of Pates, at Mud Castle on the Roanoke River. Under Will Paget leadership?
Mrs. McGrath is getting that material copied, and will mail it to me. Keep in mind, in the context of the importance of the Orange-Nassau family, in the settlement of North Carolina, that the Cacique Map by John Monk (friend and fellow settler of Charles Pate in Patetown), which is now in the London Record Office, shows that the Nassau (i.e., Eno, Occaneechee, Saxapawhaw, Coree, Patshenin) Indians were on the headwaters of the Neuse River (the Eno), when John Lawson passed that way.
Pates left Britain to escape English dominion. But what about Dutch domination?
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Who were the High Dutch Hoggs of Lanarkshire?
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