The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-01
enaA. . DAUGHTERS or THE ass,Iss ssas'sssi1 Dsss4,n, ss9
 ]! AMERICAN REVOLUTION
; NAM hha hM = = aAA nAn

t4 s..+s \ 7 Review or the Biographies of John Paul Jones--The Regent
 Hostess--Mrs. Mary A Harris
 Prehistoric Delaware.
 The invitation. beautifully embossed with the Stars and Stripes. addressed to Mrs.fJ. Morgan Smith and the Ala bama Daughters. has been received; s-The Patriotic Societies and Citizens of Delaware
 Request the honor
 of your presence
 on Tuesday. September the Third. :
 Nineteen Hundred and one,
 at TWO o'ciocA.
 Cooch's Bridge.
 for the unyciiing of the monument marking the spot where the Stars and Stripes were first unfuried
 in battle
 September Sd. 1777."
 An interesting query is answered hero: Where and wnen we're the Stars and Stripes first unfurled! Accom- pafiyiug the InvitaJion is the card oE lne ueiAware state ,fiesent. Mrs. Calep Councilman. The budding of the monu- ment which commemorates an event so historic, is largely due to her devotion to the cause. and her patriotic. faun- iul leadership.
 State Dues.
 Dy-Laws of the Alabama Society. D. A. k, concerning dues, reads mus: <.
 .The annual dues for Chapters snelt he fen tIVD cents per capita. 70 oo aid before the annual meeting.
 The "annual meeting is the State t,onference. which is held the nrsl Wednesday in November. It is import Ant that each Chapter Treasurer sena the dues before or by Oct. 20. to the State Treasurer. Mrs. A. l.. poWuell. Opelika. Ala. This VIII give ner oppor- tunity to pay bills and prepare the an AI This has no connection with the dues of the National which are collected ny the Chapter Treasurer who Iorwaras nne.half (si .os1 to the National Treas urer. and retains $1.o0 for the Chapter. We make this explanation as some or our members never having pata 5tate dues did not understand the aliusion In the D. A. R. column last week- Quexie1.
 1oy. POPE. Can you tell me anything of William Mckinney Pope. or or Jesse Pope. his father7 They were potn k,a tWiil ours correspondent please tel us in what State these soldiers livedf
 1io' IRussELL.~CHRIsTIAN. have heen invited to join the D. A. R. So- ciety. and not being quite certain as to my ancestors services in the hevoiu- tionary war. was directed to you TOT information which l hope you VIII kindly give me if possible. My maternal fo Cant Andrew Russeil of the Revolutionary war; at least that is what I have always been told; his wife was Margaret Christian. and their son. who was my own granQ- father was Gilbert Christian Russell, He was in the war of 1872. and was 8 colonel: we have three of his commits sions establishing this fact. and the family had letter. which is now o9 file at Washington. D. C.. from 9eneral Jackson complimenting nm on nIs anail- s tary capacity and >trateEy In the pay. tle of New Orleans. Have you any records or do you know anything of the/ Russell and Christian families. or have you ever had any inquiries as 70 those families? My grandfather was born in Abingdon, Va.
 Iii. MILES. Also can you give me any information as to the Miles famiiy of Columbia. s. CT On my iatners Side l. am A great hhA0AeA o8ass%- VI Capt. William Miles. who was woundcu ln the Revolutionary War and dted from the wound: but know very httih else of the family. Any information that you can give me will be much appreciated and grate- fuI,v received. O. D. E. iis SMITH. William smith. born about TOO. lived in HaddaIll. Mass. and married Martha -. They nao several children. among .nsm % SRree smith. These three sons served In the Revolution, and were captured and im- prisoned in the horrible prison ship or fine shores of New York. The victims of this inprisonment died by the hur- dreds. and Ezra and Jonathan Smith died also. But Jeffrey survived and married Dolly Hubbard. daughter of Thomas Hubbard; their daughter. Es- 1 ther Smith. married Dudley Brainard. | d missionary to the Indians Of the | West. They were my Sreat-Sranopar- ents.
 have always heard that Jeffrey smith received a pension for his Revo- | lutionary services. Please tell me how can prove this. as l wish to join the D. A. R. Society. F. M. | Answers.
 2S. VANDIVER. The pamphlet from which the Vandlver Family article was condensed. was prepared by a relative | in Anderson, s. C., for the purpose only | of tracing back to the Revolution the i'nn,sdiate fcrbears of the Brown-Var- divers of South Carolina. I had a let- ! fer or two from the compilers, but we | did not succeed in tracing common l ancestry to Edward Vandlver. | Peter Cornelius Vandsrveer sold to I Cornelius Janse Vanderveer on October f5 l653 A lot on Pearl street. New Il York. (See Early Settlers of Kings lCounty," D. 325, by Teunis c. Bergen). | From this Bergen concludes that the two Vanderveers were relatives. The common ancestor of our branch of the family was Cornelius Janse Vanderver of Alkmaar. North Holland. in the Netherlands. who emigrated to this country in the ship Otter in February. lG59 married Tryntie Gillie de Mande- vtlle. and settled in Flatbrsh. Long Is- land on February 24, 1877.
 | This is the direct line down to my father of the descendants of Cornelius
 Dominicus Q679): Teunis (17O4); Da- vid 174S); Thomas (1769). His brathcrS were Morris. Daniel and David Angus ltus. John (son of Thomas, 1900. His sons were John H. (my father); Jehu From this I conclude that there Is no Edward il: the list of our ancestors. but if is a little singular that two Van divers should settle in South Carolina frtn .e w1o