Re: REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD OF THOMAS SEALE
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Re: REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD OF THOMAS SEALE
Mamie Sellers 11/17/00
Before I respond to your question-----
#1Why is it your name only shows up on this forum to defend Mr. Hudson?
#2I hope you have informed the proper person at the DAR so that your husband's family line can be closed.Yes, the DAR is not infallible, but as Mr. Seale just proved so is the NC Archives.
Now in answer to your question as to why Mr. Seale is so defensive.Would you not be defensive if someone tried to tear down 45 years of your work?Mr. Seale too has done an enormous amount of work in assessing doucmentation concerning the Seale family and he obviously started when researchers took pride in there work and were obviously more through (or in the alternative, the documents have been miss place).Ida Carrie Seale did a great deal of work also, as did Albert Seale.But Mr. Hudson continues to tear down evrything.Yes, they may have made mistakes, they were human.But they also lived closer to the time in question as we do now.
I also appears that Mr. Hudson refused to take into account the many facets of the social habits and customs of the time which I firmrly believe must be taken into consideration when researching the past in order to understand the past and place it in its proper context.Our ancestors did not live in a vacuum and did not walk around like robots following a logical set of rules.These were human beings and passionaltely believed in their beliefs or we would not be having this discussion now.Their hearts ruled their head, not their heads their hearts.Boys were considered men, not boys at an earlier age than they are now and given more responsibility.
Boys have lied about there ages for centuries to go to war, even as recently as the Vietman War.Any history book will tell of drummer boys, etc as young as 12 years old who participated in the Revolutionary War.Mr. Husdon seems to refuse to admit this sociological fact of the era.Records have been burned or lost since Ida Carrie and Albert started their research many many years ago.Because the record can not be found today, does not mean it did not exist in their lifetime.And because it can not be found now does not mean a thing is no longer true.
Oral histories have played a strong part in the history of the world.Without them we would not know of many things, espically from the 1500's and earlier.During this time, mainly priest could read and write.And how do you think they got their information-----Oral histories.But I quess in Mr. Hudson's world, they are not true because they were originally oral histories.
Which comes to my last arguement.The Bible was originally oral history, God and Jesus were oral histories.We don't have a birth certificate for Jesus or for that matter Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Moses-----did they not exist?
My documented family history started within 20 to 30 years of Joshua Seale's death by individuals who knew him in life.If Joshua told these people that he was in the Rev. War, then he was in the Rev War.I to am very proud of that fact and proud to be his great, great, great, great grandaughter.And for more reason than just that one.
I am open to consider ANY information in my family line until someone proves the contrary.This will go on for the rest of my life as new information is found and some is lost.But I will always look at the BIG overall picture and try to understand the socioligical aspect of a thing, before I throw it away.