Re: RATCLIFFE DNA Matches
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Re: RATCLIFFE DNA Matches
MELISSA CROW 1/30/05
Of the original seven there remained, besides Mr.
Wingfield, only three in the Council.Newport was in England,
Gosnold was dead, and Kendall deposed.Mr. Wingfield charged that
the three--Ratcliffe, Smith, and Martin--forsook the instructions of
his Majesty, and set up a Triumvirate.At any rate, Wingfield was
forcibly deposed from the Council on the 10th of September.If the
object had been merely to depose him, there was an easier way, for
Wingfield was ready to resign.But it appears, by subsequent
proceedings, that they wished to fasten upon him the charge of
embezzlement, the responsibility of the sufferings of the colony, and
to mulct him in fines.He was arrested, and confined on the pinnace.
Mr. Ratcliffe was made President.
On the 11th of September Mr. Wingfield was brought before the Council
sitting as a court, and heard the charges against him.They were, as
Mr. Wingfield says, mostly frivolous trifles.According to his
report they were these:
First, Mister President [Radcliffe] said that I had denied him a
penny whitle, a chicken, a spoonful of beer, and served him with foul
corn; and with that pulled some grain out of a bag, showing it to the
company.
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So we know there was one Radcliff/Ratcliffe there in those early days.We also know of one other.Wish someone had a descendancy chart on one of them.The one we read of here had no children to my knowledge.The date of this record should be abt. 1610.
Gary
Gary
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Re: RATCLIFFE DNA Matches
MELISSA CROW 2/01/05