Giddyup

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/5/2012 12:39 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 10/5/2012 12:04 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> "figured mainaly as messengers" ??
>> Everything connects.
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> "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.
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> "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."
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> http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus1.htm


The settlement that would become Norfolk was important in colonial 
Virginia.  Perhaps the Sailor's Grave on East Main Street was an early 
mail drop off.

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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
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>> 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.
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>> >> http://www.lrgaf.org/articles/irish-cowboys.htm
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>> > 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.
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>> 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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