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anyone know of a great source to find ancestors on the muster for the F&I War? thanks

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The New England Historic and Genealogical Society has a database of soldiers in who served in colonial wars.

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thanks Mary. Could you send me a link to this resource?

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www.newenglandancestors.org/

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thanks so much!

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So much is made of the "revolution" to enhance false patriotism, and unbecoming nationalist chauvanism and jingoism -- and inadvertently reveal ignorance of the fuller history.

The first "revolution" by (such as) Massachusetts-Bay against Britain occurred in the 1680s, which resulted in the overthrow and arrest of Governor Edmund Andros and his lieutenant governor, their imprisonment in Castle Island, and then shipment back to England.

Why? Because the evolution of the Massachusetts-Bay (and other colony) legal system was relatively independent of and variant from that in England. The "conservatives" -- equivalent of Tories -- will assert that the US Constitution and Bill of Rights go back to Magna Carta. In fact they do not, as the British legal system was rejected with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and the sources for US Constitution and Bill of Rights were the state constitutions/bills of rights adopted by the colonies during 1776-77, and 1780 (the latter being Massachusetts-Bay).

That "revolution" was not forgot by the next generation or two: there wasn't the amnesia about our history which exists today.

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I would submit that there is some truth on both sides. Our basic rights are at least in part based on the Magna Carta though Magna Carta granted rights only to the nobility and those rights where still ultimatly granted by the king. However, it is also true that the colonists had a different idea on the function and athority of government then Great Britan had. As expresed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution including the Bill or Rights the colonists rejected the idea of the divine right of kings and felt that government authority was granted by the people and that the people had inalianable rights.

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