Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Why It takes So Long To Do These Blogs: Majpr Watson and Margaret Rice

I have been writing about McHenry County's Major Watson, Revolutionary War veteran as of last week and from the article that served as the basis for the original posts, I found the Village of Hebron had a link with his history.  I found out he served in the First New York Regiment and did research on it, primarily from the 1st New York McCracken's Co, 1777 which besides the excellent history of the regiment had a thumbnail sketch on Watson's service in the war.

Then, I did research on Major Watson's War of 1812 service which led to research on the capture of Ogdensburg, NY, and Sackets Harbor, NY, where he was born in 1740.  He was captured at Ogdensburg and in the War of 1812 blog, I found mention of him as a prisoner in Montreal.  The Hebron article mentioned he was held prisoner in a prison hulk ship at Chatham, England which kled me to an interesting book "Prisoner of the British" where the author was held in a prison hulk in Chatham, England.  Maybe this man met Major Watson on it.  That led to a Wikipedia list of prison hulks and Dartmoor Prison.

Then, yesterday, I decided to go back to a 2012 article on the Titanic Trail;  I did two posts.  It mentioned a Margaret Rice who sailed from Queenstown, Ireland, (now Cobh), who died along with her five young sons.  That involved more research on her and her family.  A memorial stone was placed in Cobh for her story and another in Spokane, Washington, her destination.  Then, there were three other deaths of people with Spokane ties.  Had to research that as well.

No Wonder It takes So Long.  --DaCoot

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