A Drifting Cowboy Celebrates America 250 — June 2026

 

The Skirmisher of the Delaware: The Story of Sergeant Joseph Hallowell

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-skirmisher-of-delaware-story-of.html

• Jun 28

The Coast Guard of Lake Erie: The Story of Smith Bailey

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-coast-guard-of-lake-erie-story-of.html

• Jun 28

Daniel II Denison: New London County Style Cabinetmaker

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/daniel-ii-denison-new-london-county.html

• Jun 27

From the Wallabout to the Jersey Hills: The Long Trail of Peter Monfoort

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-wallabout-to-jersey-hills-long.html

• Jun 27

🇺🇸 The Watchman of Rensselaerwyck: The Story of Peter Wyngaart

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/watchman-of-rensselaerwyck-story-of.html

• Jun 27

🇺🇸 Guardians of the Open Sky: The Flight of Fred and Helen Morgan

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/guardians-of-open-sky-flight-of-fred.html

• Jun 26

The Call of the High Country: Why the Bailey Brothers Crossed the Border

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-call-of-high-country-why-bailey.html

• Jun 26

The Last Pioneer: The Grace and Grit of Velma Veda Bailey

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-last-pioneer-grace-and-grit-of.html

• Jun 26

Out of the Monongahela Mist: The Legacy of Lydia Waggoner

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/out-of-monongahela-mist-legacy-of-lydia.html

• Jun 25

⚔️ The Crucible: Our Ancestors' Civil War Engagements 

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/crucible-our-ancestors-civil-war.html

• Jun 25

From Kennebec County to the Mud of the Argonne

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-kennebec-county-to-mud-of-argonne.html

• Jun 24

Colonel William McDonald: High Sheriff of Somerset County

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/colonel-william-mcdonald-high-sheriff.html

• Jun 24

Cockpit of the Revolution: Jersey Blues to the Ohio Frontier

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/cockpit-of-revolution-jersey-blues-to.html

• Jun 24

The Plymouth Colony Trial of Dinah Silvester (March 1661)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-plymouth-colony-trial-of-dinah.html

• Jun 23

From the Governor's Staff to the Beat of a Patriot's Drum

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-governors-staff-to-beat-of.html

• Jun 23

The Fatal Cliffhanger: Matthew Beckwith & His Descendants

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-fatal-cliffhanger-matthew-beckwith.html

• Jun 23

Our Yankee Diaspora, “Go West, Young Man”

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-yankee-diaspora-go-west-young-man.html

• Jun 22

🏆 The 1930 World Cup & The American Pinnacle

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/1930-world-cup-american-pinnacle.html

• Jun 22

The Unyielding Pen: Our Kinship with Founding Father George Mason

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-unyielding-pen-our-kinship-with.html

• Jun 21

Our Dutch-French Descent & Historical Milestones

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-dutch-french-descent-historical.html

• Jun 21

Rev. Samuel Fuller: Genealogical Goldmine with a Major Plot Twist

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/rev-samuel-fuller-genealogical-goldmine.html

• Jun 21

When the Sparks of Liberty Ignited into Open Rebellion

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/when-sparks-of-liberty-ignited-into.html

• Jun 20

The Block Island & Onrust Connection

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-block-island-onrust-connection.html

• Jun 20

From Block Island to Narragansett Plantations & Maritime Elite

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-block-island-to-narragansett.html

• Jun 20

Ensign Gerard Spencer: The Military Anchor of Haddam (1614–1685)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/ensign-gerard-spencer-military-anchor.html

• Jun 19

The Iron Ring of Saybrook: How Engineer Lion Gardiner and the Backus Line Secured Connecticut

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-iron-ring-of-saybrook-how-engineer.html

• Jun 18

From the Atlantic Surf of Gloucester to the Flathead Valley of Montana

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-atlantic-surf-of-gloucester-to.html

• Jun 18

American Patriots: From the Shores of Rhode Island to the Carolina Woods

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-few-more-of-moms-revolutionary-war.html

• Jun 18

Thomas Shailer: Lost at Sea in the West Indies (1706)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/thomas-shailer-lost-at-sea-in-west.html

• Jun 17

The Timber Barons of Kittery: Nathan Lord I

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-timber-barons-of-kittery-nathan.html

• Jun 17

The Frontier Crucible: Our Littlefield-Stevens Family in Maine

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-frontier-crucible-our-littlefield.html

• Jun 17

The Tragedy at Old Providence (1641)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-tragedy-at-old-providence-1641.html

• Jun 17

The Mythic Legacy: Isaac Potts and the Praying Washington

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-mythic-legacy-isaac-potts-and.html

• Jun 16

Burying the Guns: How Our Potts Cousins Saved Washington’s Artillery

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/burying-guns-how-our-potts-cousins.html

• Jun 16

🇺🇸 Plymouth Rock 1620 to "We the People" 1787 & Beyond: Our Family’s Footsteps Through the American Story

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/plymouth-rock-1620-to-we-people-1787.html

• Jun 15

Did you ever wonder what the differences were between Pilgrims and Puritans?

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/did-you-ever-wonder-what-differences.html

• Jun 15

The Sword and the Surveyor’s Chain

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-sword-and-surveyors-chain.html

• Jun 14

                  

Simon Weeks and Bellinger’s Regiment of New York Militia

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/simon-weeks-and-bellingers-regiment-of.html

• Jun 14

Samuel R. Brown and Ball's Squadron of Light Dragoons

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/samuel-r-brown-and-balls-squadron-of.html

• Jun 14

The Frontier Defender: Solomon Brown’s Revolutionary Service

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-frontier-defender-solomon-browns.html

• Jun 13

The Drummer and the Dragoon: A New York Frontier Legacy

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-drummer-and-dragoon-new-york.html

• Jun 13

America 250 Thematic Anthology

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/america-250-thematic-anthology.html

• Jun 12

Putnam Catlin: The Teenage Drummer of the Revolution

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/putnam-catlin-teenage-drummer-of.html

• Jun 12

Cousin George Catlin: American Artist 1796-1872

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/cousin-george-catlin-american-artist.html

• Jun 12

The Revolutionary Anvil: John Catland (Catlin) (1718–1808)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-revolutionary-anvil-john-catland.html

• Jun 12

The Phantom of New Haven: The Tale of Captain George Lamberton

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-phantom-of-new-haven-tale-of.html

• Jun 11

The Lineage of the Compass and the Square: 1853 to 2013

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-lineage-of-compass-and-square-1853.html

• Jun 11

Jonathan Brewster, Master of the Coastal Frontier

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/jonathan-brewster-master-of-coastal.html

• Jun 11

John Gardner and the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/john-gardner-and-1778-battle-of-rhode.html

• Jun 10

Rhode Island: The most rebellious colony in British America

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/rhode-island-most-rebellious-colony-in.html

• Jun 10

1710 Palatine Migration: Harrowing saga of early American history

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/1710-palatine-migration-harrowing-saga.html

• Jun 10

The New Netherland Ancestry of Charity Winegard (2026 update)

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-new-netherland-ancestry-of-charity.html

• Jun 9

Transactions Between Job Babcock And Ninigret II Sachem Dynasty

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/transactions-between-job-babcock-and.html

• Jun 8

The Voice on the Border: Job Babcock and the Language of Survival

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-voice-on-border-job-babcock-and.html

• Jun 8

The Forge and the Pulpit: The Armed Defiance of Westerly

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-forge-and-pulpit-armed-defiance-of.html

• Jun 8

The Loom of Aquidneck: The Shared Destiny of the Tylers and Havens

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-loom-of-aquidneck-shared-destiny-of.html

• Jun 8

The Convergence of Empires: From Manhattan Fortresses to Narragansett Fields

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-convergence-of-empires-from.html

• Jun 8

The Current of the Bay: The Maritime Tapestry of Portsmouth and Exeter

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-current-of-bay-maritime-tapestry-of.html

• Jun 7

The Engine of the State: The Uncompromising Hand of Timothy Pickering

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-engine-of-state-uncompromising-hand.html

• Jun 7

The Fortress and the State: The Structural Mastery of the Wingate Bloodline

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-fortress-and-state-structural.html

• Jun 7

The Coggeshall Dynasty: Pillars of the Patent

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-coggeshall-dynasty-pillars-of-patent.html

• Jun 6

The Unyielding Spirit of the Rhode Island Bull Family

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-unyielding-spirit-of-rhode-island.html

• Jun 6

From the Potomac to the Prairies: The Unstoppable Arc of the Mason-Boyd Line

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-potomac-to-prairies-unstoppable.html

• Jun 6

The Master of the Shifting Tides: Jan Cornelissen DeZeeuw

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-master-of-shifting-tides-jan.html

• Jun 5

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/ethan-allen-and-green-mountain-boys.html

• Jun 5

Dr. Zabdiel Boylston and the 1721 Smallpox Crisis

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/dr-zabdiel-boylston-and-1721-smallpox.html

• Jun 5

The Weaver of Medfield: Mary Smith and the Blueprint for Survival

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-weaver-of-medfield-mary-smith-and.html

• Jun 4

The Seeds of the Boylston Line: From London Planter to Frontier Fortitude

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-seeds-of-boylston-line-from-london.html

• Jun 4

Susannah Eaton: The Collateral Cost of the War For Liberty

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/susannah-eaton-collateral-cost-of-war.html

• Jun 4

The Guardians of the Frontier: The Pierce Legacy

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/part-1-sorting-out-two-thomas-pierces.html

• Jun 3

The Fortress of Louisbourg: The "American Dunkirk"

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-fortress-of-louisbourg-american.html

• Jun 2

Captain Adriaen Crijnen Post and The Peach Tree War

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/captain-adriaen-crijnen-post-and-peach.html

• Jun 2

ADIOS OLD PAINT — AN OLD COWBOY'S LAMENT

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-cowboys-lament-thoughts-about-valley.html

• Jun 1

The Architects of the Republic: Cousin Roger Sherman and the Sherman Spirit

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-architects-of-republic-cousin-roger.html

• Jun 1

Our New Netherland Dutch & President Martin Van Buren

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-new-netherland-dutch-president.html

• Jun 1

Our high-stakes, blood-soaked world of Scottish Clan Royalty

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-high-stakes-blood-soaked-world-of.html

• Jun 1

The Year the Earth Stood Still

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-year-earth-stood-still.html

• Jun 1

The Winthrop Tapestry: Boston Iron to Long Island Peace

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-winthrop-tapestry-boston-iron-to.html

• Jun 1

Thank you Gemini AI and Grok xAI for your wisdom and research assistance. -- Drifting Cowboy