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Sarah Holmes Tappan SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN The oft-repeated supposition that Sarah Holmes was a great-niece of Benjamin Franklin is founded upon a family tradition that their relative Mary Franklin had been an aunt of Benjamin Franklin, and there is no preserved verification that such was indeed the case. The concept that any number of the Tappan male offspring would receive the name “Benjamin” in order to evoke this supposed association with the famous family of Franklin is clearly spurious as the name “Benjamin” had been popular among the Tappans from the very beginnings of that family in America. HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1747 October 21, Wednesday (Old Style): Birth of Benjamin Tappan in Manchester, Massachusetts. TAPPAN FAMILY LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1748 January 2, Saturday (1747, Old Style): Sarah Holmes was born in Boston, a daughter of William Holmes, Sr. with Rebecca Holmes. TAPPAN FAMILY THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1760 The population of Boston at this point was 15,631, of which some 8% were black. Ordinarily, racial minorities were banned from Boston’s public spaces at important times — they could not, for instance, enter the town Common during militia musters. Also, a 1723 law had barred them from the Common after dark and a 1746 had barred them from “unnecessary” strolling on public streets on Sunday. Custom seems also to have endorsed attacks on well-dressed blacks during the celebratory week of Harvard Commencement. According to a broadside that dates to approximately this year, however, “Whites & Blacks & Indians too And trulls of every sort” were being expected to be present at a barbecue on the Boston Common in celebration of Council Election Day. Question: would this have been actual blackskins and actual redskins and actual trulls of every sort, or was this an invitation to a general costume party in which the white people of Boston, who were allowed to attend events on the Common, were being expected to show up in fantastical costumes? In about this year Benjamin Tappan became an apprentice to the silversmith William Holmes in Boston. Daniel Bliss of Concord, a son of the Reverend Daniel Bliss, graduated from Harvard College. He would read law with Abel Willard, Esq. of Lancaster. DANIEL B LISS [of Concord], son of Rev. Daniel Bliss, was born March 18, 1740, and graduated [at Harvard College] in 1760. He read law with Abel Willard, Esq., of Lancaster, and was admitted to HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN the bar in Worcester County in May, 1765, and soon after commenced practice in Rutland. He removed to Concord in 1772. He married a daughter of Colonel Murray of Rutland, and, in imitation of his father-in-law, embraced principles opposed by the “sons of liberty.” In March, 1775, he left Concord, and was afterwards commissary in the British army at Québec. He subsequently settled in Fredericktown, New Brunswick, where he was a counsellor at law, and afterwards chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He died in 1806, aged 66. His was the only estate in Concord confiscated by the government. He was a man of great talents, popular manners, and energy of character.1 ALL CONCORD COLLEGE GRADS 1. Lemuel Shattuck’s 1835 A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD;.... Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Company; Concord MA: John Stacy (On or about November 11, 1837 Henry Thoreau would indicate a familiarity with the contents of at least pages 2-3 and 6-9 of this historical study.) HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1768 Due to refusal of Bostonians to pay the small taxes imposed by the Townshend Revenue Acts of 1767, the Royal governor declared that settlement to be in insurrection and caused 4,000 British troops to be disembarked in the harbor. The surrounding towns of the Bay Colony raised “alarm-list companies,” or “minute-men,” pledged to be ready at a moment’s call in case of attack. The colonial Assembly was dissolved when it refused to assist in the collection of taxes. British army troops were quartered in Boston’s Town House and in Faneuil Hall. British troops on Boston Common in 1768, per Lee Remick’s ancestor Christopher Remick Benjamin Tappan relocated from Boston to Northampton, Massachusetts. Court records in Northampton show Benjamin Tappan of Northampton, goldsmith, sold land to Nathaniel Fowles trader, of the same place, and to George Blackman in 1794. Other deeds recorded in Springfield, Hampshire County, bear reference to his trade. A goldsmith for about 20 years, he later went into general business—dry goods, hardware, etc., and altogether was in business in Northampton 62 years. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1769 Sarah Holmes Tappan attended a revival at Falmouth and became convinced that, for her own regeneration, she would require the aid of the Holy Spirit as well as that of her fellow sinners, that only by intercession of Christ could she be sustained in her struggle against the world and the flesh, and that her finding a way to bend her personal will into submission to the Providence of God would constitute the only appropriate expression of her love for Him. She would become the mother and the inspiration of the abolitionists Lewis Tappan and Arthur Tappan. TAPPAN FAMILY Shipbuilding was concentrated in the American colonies in such a manner that, between 1769 and 1771, over 400 vessels amounting to more than a third of the tonnage was produced in Massachusetts shipyards. In general, two classes of ships were being produced, the “topsail” ships which ranged from 100 to more than 400 tons, intended for the transatlantic trade, and the “sloops” and “schooners” intended for fishing and for the coastal trade. Twice as many sloops and schooners were being produced as topsail ships. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Sarah Holmes Tappan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1770 October 22, Monday: Benjamin Tappan got married with Sarah Holmes in Boston. TAPPAN FAMILY HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1771 August 1, Thursday: Sarah Holmes Tappan gave birth to Sarah Tappan in Northampton, Massachusetts. TAPPAN FAMILY HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1773 May 25, Tuesday: In Northampton, Massachusetts, Sarah Holmes Tappan gave birth to Benjamin Tappan, Jr. In 1793 he would come away from college with a bachelor’s degree in his pocket, Voltaire as his theologian, and with Thomas Paine’s THE RIGHTS OF MAN as his credo. –He would be the last son the Tappans would offer to any institution of higher education. He would study art for awhile with Gilbert Stuart and learn the dangers of alcohol, then become a lawyer in Connecticut, then become a merchant in Ohio, and a senator, and a judge. TAPPAN FAMILY HDT WHAT? INDEX SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN SARAH HOLMES TAPPAN 1775 July 14, Friday: In Northampton, Massachusetts, Sarah Holmes Tappan gave birth to Rebecca Tappan. TAPPAN FAMILY At about this part of the month, Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of Virginia, ceased to exercise the functions of his office as he, his wife, and their children took refuge on board the British man-of-war Fowey. From aboard ship he would attempt to instigate the American slaves to servile insurrection. White Virginians would respond by assembling for a convention. The British frigates would then shell the port of Hampton on Hampton Bay and the royal governor would proclaim martial law. Under martial law he would declare freedom for “all slaves or servants, black or white, belonging to rebels, provided they would take up arms and join the royal troops.” The governor would come ashore at Norfolk and hundreds of loyalists and black Americans would journey there to join with him. I AM A NEGATIVE PHILOSOPHER, NOT A POSITIVE ONE: PHILOSOPHY NOT BEING ANY SORT OF SCIENCE, I WOULD HOLD THAT ANY PHILOSOPHICAL ASSERTION THAT TRAVELS UNDER THE PRETENSE THAT IT IS FACTUAL AND ACTUAL MUST BE, TO THE CONTRARY, NECESSARILY SPURIOUS AND UNSUBSTANTIATED. A GOOD EXAMPLE IS THE OFT-HEARD SUPPOSITION “GOD KNOWS THE FUTURE.” AS A NEGATIVIST I NEGATE ANY AND ALL SUCH ASSERTIONS. THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE ME TO REPLACE THESE PSEUDOFACTUAL PHILOSOPHICAL ASSERTIONS WITH MY OWN COUNTERCLAIMS, SUCH AS A POSITIVE ASSERTION THAT IN ORDER TO ALLOW FOR FREE WILL AND FREEDOM OF DECISION “GOD CANNOT KNOW THE FUTURE.” I DO NOT INTEND TO TAKE YOUR GRITTY, GRIMY TEDDY BEAR AWAY FROM YOU AND PRESENT YOU WITH A CUTE CUDDLY PANDA. I WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR TEDDY LEAVING YOU EMPTY-ARMED. I HAVE SAID THAT RATHER THAN BEING OF THE OPINION OF BOETHIUS, WHO WROTE IN 523AD THAT GOD, BEING ETERNAL, MUST BE “OUTSIDE” TIME AND ABLE TO VIEW THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE AS INDIFFERENTLY AND UNCHANGINGLY PRESENT IN HIS ONE WHOLE CREATION, I AM INCLINED TO THE OPINION OF MAIMONIDES, WHO WROTE IN THE 12TH CENTURY THAT ACCORDING TO THE TALMUD FREE WILL IS GRANTED TO EVERY PERSON BY GOD SO THAT WE MAY BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO OUR ACTIONS.
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