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Epilogue: The Calkins Children
…Gypsum or “Red” Hills, so named owing to their distinctive color formed by rusting iron in eroding soils. Rachel then moved to Clovis, NM where she lived until her death and bought the Fox News Stand sometime after 1936. Rachel Nixon later started the magazine Wholesale. She was a member of IAG, DAR, Huntington Family Association, Boon Family Association, Kansas Authors, Monday Afternoon Club, and director of the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Counci… Continue reading
Calkins Endnotes
…to New York in relief of Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons. Samuel Holt was a drummer and drum major when he became acquainted with Ashcroft at this time. Holt was sick in the Hospital when the British landed on Long Island and marched to New York City. Chapman, recently promoted to Major, was killed in the capture of the city. Holt was discharged in Westchester County in 1776. He appears to have served under Seth Harding on the Oliver Cromwell from M… Continue reading
Jacob Albright, Private of Marines
…oling. In his early 20s, during the Revolutionary War, Albright served as drummer boy in Captain Jacob Witz’s Seventh Company of the 4th Battalion of the Philadelphia Militia, organized in 1781. His brother John was a fifer and the two participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. During the late winter and early spring of 1782 he served guarding Hessian prisoners in Reading, Pa. Today, this region in Reading bears the name “Hessian Ca… Continue reading
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David Phipps, Lieutenant
…9 January 1776, the Lizard’s passage was rough and she landed the naval recruits in New Jersey where they were picked up and delivered to the fleet about 13 February 1776. It was at this time Phipps was sent to the Cabot, explaining his testimony concerning the date of his commission. He was formally commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of the brig Cabot in the Continental Navy on 22 August 1776, where he served until late that year. At the conclusion o… Continue reading
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…e escaped fortunate, Joshua and I embarked on a trip to Kew, England in February 2014 to reconstruct the crew lists of Continental Navy vessels captured by the British and not yet documented in the “Naval Documents of the American Revolution.” Calkins was indeed one of the lucky ones. As it has taken the United States government over fifty years to compile the first thirty-seven months of the naval history of the War for Independence, we thought i… Continue reading
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