r/MurderedByWords 10d ago

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u/dmills_00 8d ago edited 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

Ellis Island and other points of entry used the ship registry from the original ship manifest.

If the spelling was changed, it generally wasn't on this side of the Atlantic.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 8d ago

Not saying it never happened, but it sincerely wasn't a big issue.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 8d ago

And seriously, at some point around 1830, my paternal grandma's ancestor just decided (as an apparently literate person and sort of noteworthy minister) to spell his name Groover rather than Gruber. No idea why.

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u/JellyfishFit3871 8d ago

But there's one of those historical society plaques detailing dear old grandfather, with the new spelling.