Giddyup

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/5/2012 12:04 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> "figured mainaly as messengers" ??
> Everything connects.


"In early colonial times, correspondents depended on friends, merchants, 
and Native Americans to carry messages between the colonies. However, 
most correspondence ran between the colonists and England, their mother 
country. It was largely to handle this mail that, in 1639, the first 
official notice of a postal service in the colonies appeared. The 
General Court of Massachusetts designated Richard Fairbanks' tavern in 
Boston as the official repository of mail brought from or sent overseas, 
in line with the practice in England and other nations to use coffee 
houses and taverns as mail drops.

"Local authorities operated post routes within the colonies. Then, in 
1673, Governor Francis Lovelace of New York set up a monthly post 
between New York and Boston. The service was of short duration, but the 
post rider's trail became known as the Old Boston Post Road, part of 
today's U.S. Route 1."

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus1.htm


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> *From:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2012 11:17 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Giddyup
>
> On 10/4/2012 12:31 PM, Paul Mac kin wrote:
> > On 10/4/2012 12:22 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> >> Who knew? John Pynchon was America's first cattle baron and 
> imported Irish cowboys.
> >>
> >> http://www.lrgaf.org/articles/irish-cowboys.htm
> >
> > Since it says John Pynchon was a participant in King Philip's War, I 
> looked for his name in the index of Jill Lepore's The Name of of War.  
> There are six references. Guess I'll read them after lunch.
> >
> > P
> >
> >
> OK, w/r/t Jill Lenore's book on the first Indian War (King Philips 
> War), John Pynchon's horseman (indentured servants, slaves, and 
> freemen, termed cowboys in the other account but not by Jill) figured 
> mainly as messengers, carrying vital news from village to village, 
> doing  reconnaissance, etc. Pynchon himself, along with other leaders, 
> wrote letters back home to England keeping them apprised of this 
> horrendous eight year war in the colonies.  A Pynchon letter also 
> describes the destruction of Springfield, in which his own operation 
> was burned to the ground.  He was in effect ruined and thereby, says 
> Lenore,  subject to loss of identity and social standing in the 
> community. John presumably retained the substantial  land holdings his 
> father William had left him. William, not mentioned by Lepore,  had 
> had to flee the country after his pamphlet was declared heretical.  a  
> Lepore makes no mention of the still undecoded Pynchon account of the 
> war, the one described in the online account.
>
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