I guess that "prudish" is a better word...........
Anyway--I now see another distinct gene acquired from the CAMPBELL clan!!!!!----love for
MAPLE SYRUP........and tapping those trees (which I did with my children..I'm afraid,
even on Sundays.........possibly only if we had all gone to church first!!)
"Sappy" reminiscing cuz,
Marylyn
PS Anyone heard from our cuz Tom Z lately???????
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Thompson <bill.thompson(a)wtassoc.com>
To: CAMPBELL-PA-NELSON-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:22:10 -0400
Subject: Re: [CaPaNe] "Reply To" Awareness - Puritans
msa440(a)aol.com wrote:
Oh--c'mon Bill.......Give us some real MEAT to talk about!!!!! LOL
We know those CAMPBELLS were no PURITANS! LOL OOOOOOOPPPPPPPPSSSSS!!!! (HI Betty and all
too!!!)
>Marylyn
>
Before addressing Marylyn's Puritan comment, the following item:
My e-mail wasn't working for a day or so, but is OK now. If anyone sent me messages
that bounced, please resend them. I changed ISPs, but that was supposed to be all
"under the covers" and mail sent to @wtassoc.com should have automatically been
redirected. Slight glitch, but all's well now. With one caveat -- the new ISP has a
default I didn't realize -- delete e-mail it thinks is spam. I became suspicious when
my e-mail volume went way down. I've changed the option, so that now it goes to a Junk
Mail folder I can review. The same would have happened for messages sent to
CAMPBELL-PA-NELSON-admin(a)rootsweb.com
So, if you've sent an e-mail in the last week that I've ignored, it may not have
arrived at my new ISP, or they may have wrongly decided it was junk. Please resend the
message or send a new one "Did you get my message of ___ about ___?"
PURITANS
Perhaps it's only a matter of semantics, and how one uses the word
'Puritan',.but I see our early Campbells as being very Puritanical. Obviously they
didn't belong to the same church as the Englishmen who settled Massachusets Bay Colony
in the mid 1600 and hang witches -- tho we have cousins decided from each side in the
Salem witch trials. And from earlier settlers in "Plimouth Plantation", but the
Pilgrims were not quite as rigid.
When I speak of the first generations of our Presbyterian Campbell ancestors being
Puritanical, it's because they seem, as did Presbyterian founder John Knox, to have a
long list of what was sinful activity and been very judgemental of anyone who did not live
acording to their rules of morality.
I recently mentioned the story of the (1793 - 1864) Joseph Campbell his (1783 - 1869)
brother-in-law John Hazlett boycotting for several years the Presbyterian church they had
built because music teacher Steadman Bottom played a violin at a church service. Joseph
felt dancing was a sin. As was collecting maple syrup on Sundays - he wanted all the taps
turned over so the sap would just drip to the ground. His sons figured it was a sin to
just let it go to waste, turned the back over, and used the money from their "Sunday
syrup" to buy a logging chain. For the rest of his life, he wouldn't eat meal if
he thought it was cooked with wood hauled with that logging chain. How he would know which
firewood was which I have no idea, but that story appears on multiple places. He thought
dancing was a sin. And he beat a daughter for using the expression "wish to die"
casually.
The surviving ledgers of his father, the (1748 - 1822) Joseph Campbell, have a whisky
purchase entry every few lines. But in the Europe they came from, water was not safe to
drink, so beer, ale or wine were the standard beverages -- or people added liqour to water
to disinfect it. In the early colonies, people of all ages drank alcoholic beverages or at
least diluted rum or whiskey all the time. And it was before tea, coffee, or hot chocolate
were options.
But, as with the Puritans and the Victorians, there may have been on occasion big
differences between what was preached and what was practiced. Getting caught was
shamefull. E.g. "The Scarlet Letter". Like the private lives of the Puritans,
the lives of our early Campbell ancestors were not free from temptations of pride, greed,
or lust. Any transgressions would have been kept as secret as possible and survive mostly
as rumor or slight hints. Thus it's not till the newspapers of the late 1800s that we
have evidence of Campbell descendants having brushes with the law for juicy items such as
arrest for "bastardy" - i.e. being an unwed father. Those accounts may have been
part of what Marilyn had in mind when she said our Campbell ancestors were "No
PURITANS".
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