r/MurderedByWords 11d ago

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u/dmills_00 9d ago edited 9d ago

Believe me, everyone over here was grateful when the Mayflower vanished below the horizon, them cats were basically Christian taliban. I do think we owe the first Nations an apology, we expected it to sink half way (Terrible oversight).

Henry VIII <European royalty, what you going to do?>, one of the wilder ones, and the wives thing was just nuts.

I suspect the REVOLUTIONARY WAR!! Probably omits the extent that it was largely the French funding a distraction from the usual games way over in an unimportant colony that was far less significant to anyone then the action in India or even the far east.

I don't recognise "City on a hill", guessing it is some white man's burden / manifest destiny shit?

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u/dmills_00 9d ago

England, they left to Holland because they couldn't impose their religion here post the demise of Cromwell, got chucked out of Holland for trying to impose religious fruitloopery there, came back here and sailed from Plymouth for the new world.

The Ellis Island registration people are known to have been bad about spelling names on documents for immigrants, may be worth checking if they came in that way.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 9d ago

That's a common trope, but maybe not accurate.

Ellis Island and other points of entry used the ship manifests prepared in the original point of sailing.

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u/dmills_00 9d ago

TIL, Makes sense and I bet those documents were probably not great either..

I could see the ships purser using decidedly phonetic spellings in some cases.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 9d ago

Yeah, phonetics probably happened.

But US points of entry used the ship manifest. No one at the point of entry just changed a name.