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Elkanah Watson Hdt What? Index ELKANAH WATSON HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1758 January 22, Sunday: Canal proponent and county fair founder Elkanah Watson was born in Plymouth and claimed a proud genealogy. ELKANAH WATSON ESSENCE IS BLUR. SPECIFICITY, THE OPPOSITE OF ESSENCE, IS OF THE NATURE OF TRUTH. Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1773 May 4, Wednesday: The good news was out, in Rhode Island, that the brothers Moses Brown and Joseph Brown were back from Massachusetts, and that somehow they had managed to bring the captured leading citizen John Brown home with them. The Reverend Ezra Stiles registered the news in his diary as “A humbling stroke for the Tories!” THE BROWN BROTHERS (Subsequent to these events, 16-year-old Elkanah Watson would become apprenticed to John Brown.) ESSENCES ARE FUZZY, GENERIC, CONCEPTUAL; ARISTOTLE WAS RIGHT WHEN HE INSISTED THAT ALL TRUTH IS SPECIFIC AND PARTICULAR (AND WRONG WHEN HE CHARACTERIZED TRUTH AS A GENERALIZATION). Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1775 In Rhode Island, Elkanah Watson was kicking around as a young man. ELKANAH WATSON’S YOUTH Nicholas Cooke was in charge of the colony. At this point in this roguish colony’s trajectory, one person of every fourteen was a slave, the highest %age in New England. Yet manumissions were occurring (here’s one from Newport for which I don’t yet have a plain-text transcription): “HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE” BEING A VIEW FROM A PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME (JUST AS THE PERSPECTIVE IN A PAINTING IS A VIEW FROM A PARTICULAR POINT IN SPACE), TO “LOOK AT THE COURSE OF HISTORY MORE GENERALLY” WOULD BE TO SACRIFICE PERSPECTIVE ALTOGETHER. THIS IS FANTASY-LAND, YOU’RE FOOLING YOURSELF. THERE CANNOT BE ANY SUCH THINGIE, AS SUCH A PERSPECTIVE. GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON September 12, Tuesday: Late in the summer of 1775, the shortage of powder among General George Washington’s troops besieging Boston had been so severe that they had no longer been able to fire their cannon. Had the British gone on the attack, the riflemen would not have had enough powder to resist them. Therefore on this day the sloop Katy departed Narragansett Bay in an effort to assist the Continental Army by capturing some powder from the British magazine on the island of Bermuda. (By the time the ship would arrive, this powder would already have been captured and would already be enroute to Philadelphia. In November, however, John Brown would manage to bring ashore in Rhode Island a shipment of high-grade pistol powder obtained in Suriname –he would offer this to General Washington at 6 s per pound delivered to Cambridge, a rate that the general would describe as “most exorbitant” because in October the powder had been obtainable for 4 s per pound– and would dispatch Elkanah Watson with a guard of six men to convey the war material securely overland in a covered wagon.) ELKANAH WATSON YOUR GARDEN-VARIETY ACADEMIC HISTORIAN INVITES YOU TO CLIMB ABOARD A HOVERING TIME MACHINE TO SKIM IN METATIME BACK ACROSS THE GEOLOGY OF OUR PAST TIMESLICES, WHILE OFFERING UP A GARDEN VARIETY OF COGENT ASSESSMENTS OF OUR PROGRESSION. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! YOU SHOULD REFUSE THIS HELICOPTERISH OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORICAL PAST, FOR IN THE REAL WORLD THINGS HAPPEN ONLY AS THEY HAPPEN. WHAT THIS SORT WRITES AMOUNTS, LIKE MERE “SCIENCE FICTION,” MERELY TO “HISTORY FICTION”: IT’SNOT WORTH YOUR ATTENTION. GO TO MASTER INDEX OF WARFARE November: Late in the summer of 1775, the shortage of powder among General George Washington’s troops besieging Boston had been so severe that they had no longer been able to fire their cannon. Had the British gone on the attack, the riflemen would not have had enough powder to resist them. Therefore the sloop Katy had been sent off in an abortive attempt to capture some powder from a British magazine on the island of Bermuda, although by the time the ship arrived, this powder had already been captured and was already on its way to Philadelphia. In this month, however, John Brown managed to bring ashore in Rhode Island a shipment of high-grade pistol powder obtained in Suriname, and, despite the fact that in October the powder had been selling at 4s per pound, he offered it to General Washington in Cambridge at 6s per pound –a rate the general described as “most exorbitant”– and dispatched Elkanah Watson with a guard of six men to convey the war material securely overland in a covered wagon. ELKANAH WATSON The war was still not declared, but already John had sold a ship to the new Rhode Island navy, and a cargo of gunpowder at a premium price. Practically overnight, John had become what is Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON called in modern parlance a defense contractor. THE TASK OF THE HISTORIAN IS TO CREATE HINDSIGHT WHILE INTERCEPTING ANY ILLUSION OF FORESIGHT. NOTHING A HUMAN CAN SEE CAN EVER BE SEEN AS IF THROUGH THE EYE OF GOD. Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1777 September 4, Thursday: At the age of 19, Elkanah Watson was entrusted to carry more than $50,000 to John Brown and Nicholas Brown of Providence, Rhode Island’s agents in South Carolina and Georgia. With the money sewed into the linings of his garments, he would accomplish the journey of some 1,200 miles from Providence to Charleston in 70 days (along the way passing through Edenton, North Carolina on the Albemarle Sound near the Great Dismal Swamp, as well as through the state capital of New Bern).1 NEVER READ AHEAD! TO APPRECIATE SEPTEMBER 4TH, 1777 AT ALL ONE MUST APPRECIATE IT AS A TODAY (THE FOLLOWING DAY, TOMORROW, IS BUT A PORTION OF THE UNREALIZED FUTURE AND IFFY AT BEST). November 13, Thursday: Elkanah Watson arrived in Charleston, South Carolina and delivered the funds of John Brown and Nicholas Brown of Providence, Rhode Island to their agent. Then he, with two companions, set out on a tour of exploration of other southern states (they would be dissuaded from entering Florida, which was still under British control). “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY 1. $50,000 then would be roughly equivalent to $5,000,000 now. I would therefore presume that the funds were not in cash, but were instead in the form of large-denomination banknotes or letters of credit that would be rather difficult for a robber to benefit from. HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1779 Improvements were begun on the St. Lawrence River, including a number of short canals. Elkanah Watson traveled to Europe for 5 years, during which time he would study its canals. ELKANAH WATSON “MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FANTASIZING: HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1782 December 5, Thursday: In Kinderhook, New York, the 1st US President to be “born in the USA” was born: Martin Van Buren, who would become our 8th President (1837-1841), was born to Abraham and Maria Hoes Van Buren. King George III formally acknowledged the independence of the former North American colonies. Having won a lottery in Europe Elkanah Watson commissioned John Singleton Copley to paint his portrait, and we can see in the background of this painting that a sailing vessel is displaying the US flag of the period, honoring the original thirteen colonies and their alliance with France. HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1785 Returning to the US, Elkanah Watson met with George Washington to discuss a Potomac/Ohio River Canal. Washington was elected president of the Patowmack Canal Company. ELKANAH WATSON Silas Deane drummed up support for a Lake Champlain/St. Lawrence Canal. NO-ONE’S LIFE IS EVER NOT DRIVEN PRIMARILY BY HAPPENSTANCE John Jay and Alexander Hamilton organized the New-York Manumission Society. Jean-Antoine Houdon, commissioned by the legislature to execute a statue of George Washington, arrived at Mount Vernon; he made a life mask and painstaking measurements of Washington. As you inspect the above piece of plaster, bear in mind please that it was probably in about this year that the mulatto slave West Ford was being born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Some speculate that he was the son of Washington with Venus, a daughter of a slave who had been one of George’s childhood playmates. The story is that during a visit by Washington to the plantation on which Venus was a slave during the previous year, this girl had been asked to serve as his bed companion. Late in this year, Elkanah Watson purchasing a plantation in Edenton, North Carolina and four slaves, and engaged for a 2d time in a commercial enterprise with a merchant of Nantes, François Cossoul, who resided on the island of Haiti. Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1787 Elkanah Watson’s partner in Haiti, François Cossoul, died. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Elkanah Watson “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX ELKANAH WATSON ELKANAH WATSON 1789 On the trail between the Genesee Valley and Fort Niagara in upstate New York, Gilbert R.
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