A chance to own a little history...

rabid wombat · Oct 24, 2019

If you have some spare change...

http://looserounds.com/2019/10/10/g...-at-the-battle-of-bunker-hill-up-for-auction/

It would be cool to own....

desidog · Oct 24, 2019

"The Morphy Auctions sale of Extraordinary, Sporting & Collector Firearms takes place in Denver, Pennsylvania on October 22-23"

Darn...missed the boat.

"Final prices include buyers premium: $492,000.00
Estimate: $100,000 - $300,000
Number Bids: 39"

expat_alaska · Oct 24, 2019

From the Morphy Auction site link:

"Simpson’s grandson was Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States; and his great-grandson was Meriwether Lewis, who explored the Western territories of the country as part of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition."

Methinks someone at Morphy's either can't do math and/or has no education in American History.

Jim

mustanger98 · Oct 25, 2019

expat_alaska said:
From the Morphy Auction site link:

"Simpson’s grandson was Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States; and his great-grandson was Meriwether Lewis, who explored the Western territories of the country as part of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition."

Methinks someone at Morphy's either can't do math and/or has no education in American History.

Jim

Yeah, I thought that part made no sense at all.

Steel Horse Rider · Oct 25, 2019

As with a lot of weapons with claims to historical events from centuries ago: How do you know?

Ephraim Kibbey · Oct 25, 2019

Page 30 of this interesting pdf has John Simpson as maternal grandfather to US Grant through his daughter and Grant's mother Hannah Simpson.
It also has a great section on Dutch arms in the Revolutionary War.

https://d279m997dpfwgl.cloudfront.net/wp/2019/10/Bunker-Hill-Musket-History.pdf

Here is the ancestry of Meriwether Lewis and I do not see John Simpson's name among his great grandparents.

https://famouskin.com/pedigree.php?name=4953+meriwether+lewis&ahnum=1

mustanger98 · Oct 25, 2019

I notice Lewis was born in 1774... wrong time frame, on average, to have been a great-grandson of a man who was fighting age during the period of 1775-81.

Malachi Leviticus Blue · Oct 26, 2019

Not to get too far off track, but I had a co-worker who became a grandfather when he was 30 years old.
Getting married in the early teens wasn't exactly uncommon back then so push the envelope and make him a Great Grandfather at 40 and he could still be fighting I suppose.
I'm guessing that's not what happened though, and it doesn't seem likely at all.

rabid wombat · Oct 26, 2019

Going to the other extreme of “early” grandparents. Two of President Tyler’s grandchildren were still alive as of 2017

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...ler-born-in-1790-still-has-2-living-grandsons

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