According to a Baltimore Sun exclusive, a worker, William Addams Reitwiesner, in the Library of Congress, who on the side does genealogy. And in his spare time he has drafted a family tree report on Sen.Obama, and some other famous folks. And the worker did all this part time. Any one spending anytime in Allen County Public Library Genealogy Department, researching microfilm must be going wow. Not because he found planters in Sen. Obama 's family, but all the Reitwiesner's finds on political figures and others that he researched only part time.
We want to see the paper trail..documents, documents. Anyways. Sen. Obama's family on his mama side may have been planters. Translation, A few of Obama's mama family were slave masters or owners of indentured servants who were African-Americans.
In a reference to his American ancestry, Senator Obama writes "while one of my great-great-grandfathers, Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife's mother was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy."
Clark was actually Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, according to Reitwiesner's research and census data available at ancestry.com. A 1930 census document lists Clark, 84, living in the same El Dorado City, Kan., household as a 12-year-old great-grandson, Stanley A. Dunham. Dunham was Obama's grandfather.
From wargs website:
Christopher Columbus Clark, b. ... , Mo., ... 1846, d. ... [living 1930]
m. Nelson Co., Ky., 6 Jan. 1870
Susan C ... Overall, b. Nelson Co., Ky., ... 1849, d. ... [by 1920]
Clark being a descendant of Maureen Duvall a major land owner
The research traces the Duvalls to Mareen Duvall, a major land owner in Anne Arundel County in the 1600s. The inventory of his estate in 1694 names 18 slaves, according to a family history published in 1952.
Who is Mareen Duvall ?
From Notable Descendants of Maureen Duvall website:
Mareen Duvall was born about 1625, in the Kingdom of France and settled on the south side of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland circa 1655. The first tract of land patented to him in 1659 by Lord Baltimore was called "Laval," the name of an ancient town, the capital of the present Department of Mayenne in France. He was a planter and merchant, and a public spirited citizen of the Province until his death in 1694. He resided at the time of his death at his estate, Middle Plantation, located on South River, and patented to him in 1664 by the Lord Proprietary. His public service consisted in part, with leadership in the Jacobite Party, and the Provincial Archives show his appointment to the Provincial Commission in 1683 by the Proprietary and Assembly, to lay out town sites and ports of entry for the encouragement of trade. He was the patentee of numerous tracts of land, and the purchaser of many others containing several thousand acres, as evidenced by the Public Land Records and his Will dated, and probated in August, 1694
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Mareen Duvall(1652-1694)came to America from Nantes, France with William Burgess. He is one of the founders of the Colony that became the State of Maryland and a direct descendant of King William the Conqueror of England. If you are a direct descendant of Mareen Duvall, you may want to seek membership in the Society of Descendants of Mareen Duvall (See link on this page). A book, originally published in 1952 by Harry Wright Newman, entitled "Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: A Genealogical History", is available from the Society of which I am a LIFE Member (#956L). Other famous direct-line cousins to me by way of Mareen Duvall are President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Hmm is it saying Vice President Dick Cheney, the Bushes side kick might be kin to Sen. Obama? Let's hear the rest of the story about Sen. Obama's mama's planter family members. Now see what Rev. Al Sharpton has started. Who next President George Bush, Jr.?
Thanks for the tip on the New York Times. Slavery was abolished under our American constitution. Black Codes were instituted on all AFrican-Americans freed, enslaved, indentured servants. Even those African-Americans who owned slaves were relegated to second class citizen.
ReplyDeleteSlavery may have ended but discrimination against African-American continues. Keep reading
Thanks for sharing.
Some male members of my African American Tree, who, once free themselves, purchased wive's freedom ... I guess technically one would call them black slaveowners. There is so very much information contained within the Institution of Slavery in the the new world we now call the United States.
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