Johnny Appleseed ties to Concord 4/19/1775!

[hawkhavn]

I have never seen/heard this before:

Johnny Appleseed, real name John Chapman, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, September 26th, 1774 to Nathaniel Chapman and Elizabeth Symond Chapman. Nathaniel Chapman, was one of the Minutemen who fought at Concord on April 19, 1775, and later in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Johnny's Mother had three children: Elizabeth born in 1770, John, and Nathaniel Jr who died shortly after birth in 1776. His mother was sick from tuberculosis and died three weeks after her third child. It is reasonable to assume that Elizabeth's parents took care of John and his sister while their father was in the Army. John's father married Lucy Cooley of Longmeadow, MA in 1780 and had a family of ten children. Johnny and Elizabeth lived with them for some time in Longmeadow. Johnny was an almost legendary character and nature lover of the frontier days in the Middle West. Very little is known about his everyday life.
Link: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/mass_rev_6.htm

Other References:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Johnny_Appleseed
http://www.nwta.com/Spy/winter00/johnny.html
General Washington's bodyguard: http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/mass_rev_6.htm

And now you know the rest of the story...

Hawkhavn

[POP]

Thanks, Hawk.   
I'm going to incorporate Johnny Appleseed stories into water breaks.
Great links. 
POP

[Johnnyappleseed]

Thanx for the links HH 
JA

[AFTERMATH]

I knew that name, Nathaniel Chapman, stuck out to me for some reason when I'd read it somewhere!