New Amsterdam   1665

Captain Daniel Brodhead I   ( British Grenadiers)      Great Plus GrandFather
   

The Nichols Expedition

The Duke of York sends an armada of  four British men-of-war carrying 500 soldiers, under Colonel  Richard Nichols, to the New World. Among these soldiers is Captain Daniel Brodhead of West Riding Yorkshire England.   They capture New Amsterdam and rename it New York!

1737  (Great plus Grandfather)  

Captain Daniel Brodhead II Ulster County New York Militia 

Pennsylvania 1774  The First Continental Congress
Daniel Brodhead III (Great Plus GrandUncle)

The Boston Port Bill.—Then the British Government determined to exercise force, and in March, 1774, passed the Boston Port Bill, which closed the port and led to the outbreak of hostilities. The immediate cause of the war, therefore, was the passage of the Bradford resolutions and the consequences which resulted from that act.

First Continental Congress.—Massachusetts called loudly for help. A convention of county committees met iii Philadelphia. Among the committeemen were John Dickinson, Joseph Reed, soon to be Adjutant-general, Thomas Mifflin, soon to be Major-general, Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, Anthony Wayne, James Wilson, later a Justice of the Supreme Court, and William Irvine and Daniel Brodhead, who later commanded brigades. They adopted a paper, drawn by Dickinson, which recommended the Assembly to appoint delegates to a Congress of the colonies, and to endeavor to secure among others a repeal of the acts quartering troops and imposing duties, and the Boston Port Bill.

Pennsylvanians in the Congress.—The Assembly sent delegates to the Congress which met in Carpenters Hall, on the south side of Chestnut Street below Fourth in Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. The delegates from Pennsylvania to this first Continental Congress, to which came Patrick Henry and George Washington from Virginia, and John Adams and Samuel Adams from Massachusetts, were Joseph Galloway, Samuel Rhoads, Thomas Mifflin, John Dickinson, John Morton, Charles Humphrey, George Ross, and Edward Biddle. Of the six papers drawn by the Congress, the two most important, the Address to the King and the Address to the people of Canada, were written by Dickinson. The Congress determined that if the Act of Parliament changing the government of Massachusetts should be forced upon its people, "All America ought to support them in opposition."

     (Wounded and then captured at the "Battle of Long Island" and was held on a prison ship   
     until exchanged in March of 1777. He then made his way   to his regiment and fought at Brandywine (where he was again wounded), Germantown, and Monmouth. He wintered at "Valley Forge" with his "Band of Brothers" ! Owing to the hardships he endured as a prisoner of war, and suffering from his wounds, he was forced to retire and rejoin his family in 1778.  


10  Brodhead related family members fought for independence during " The American Revolution! "        "Live Free or Die"

December 23, 1776

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

The American Crisis       Thomas Paine




 
The Brodheads would accompany the retreat of George Washington's defeated army to Pennsylvania.    Valley Forge  

   

 The Brodheads would winter with George Washington at Valley Forge. Luke and Daniel would take "The oath of Allegiance" along with: Alexander Hamilton,  Charles Lee, Nathaniel Greene, Benedict Arnold, Anthony Wayne, Baron Von Steuben, Peter Muhlengurg, Tench Tilghman, Marquis De Lafeyette and so on. Luke would become very good friends with Marquis De Lafeyette. Battle after battle, Col. Daniel Brodhead would prove himself a very competent and brave field commander for the Thompson's rifles 8th Pennsylvania.  So much so that George Washington placed him in charge of the Western Department headquartered at Fort Pitt even as a Colonel. A command equal to any of other department. 




Other famous battles the Brodheads were engaged in were the Defense of Philadelphia, Siege of Boston, Princeton, Paoli Massacre, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth,
and command of the Western department headquartered at
Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) 

Serves with George Rogers Clark older brother of William Clark (Lewis and Clark) 

  1812 
Major Richard Brodhead (Great plus Grand father)
 2nd Battalion Pennsylvania State Malitia  

1812 Private Garret Brodhead ( Great plus Grandfather)
Adam Hawks 2^nd Brigade Pennsylvania Militia  


New Hampshire 1829 to 1833
John Brodhead
Jacksonian Democrat     U.S. House of Representatives
New Hampshire               21st and 22nd Congress
Methodist Minister 


1831 to 1833
John Curtis Brodhead
Jacksonian Democrat      U.S. House of Representatives
New York                          22nd Congress


1847 Mexican American War    

Captain Thornton Fleming Brodhead     

Northern Democrat  (distant cousin)

serves in the 15^th infantry during The Mexican American war under Winfield Scott and with U.S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Franklin Pierce, Albert Sydney Johnston,  Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, at the battles of Churubrusco, Contreras, and Mexico City.  (Jefferson Davis of the famed Mississippi rifles would be with Zachary Taylor at Buena Vista etc.) 







 
1848  Wilmot Proviso debates
Senator Richard H. Brodhead           Stephen Douglas style Democrat
(Great plus GrandUncle)

 debates on the slavery issue in the newly acquired territory taken by the Mexican American War . Also debates  the Missouri compromise, and Kansas Nebraska act 

  
 

1853 Senate Bill S-396

Senator Richard H. Brodhead  Authors and helps pass S-396 which funds The beginnings of the  Transcontinental Railroad and Transcontinental Telegraph

Beset by so many contending interests, Congress finally abandoned the effort to settle on one best transcontinental route. Pennsylvania Senator Richard Brodhead's proposal for a reconnaissance of several potential lines by the Topographical Engineers, rejected early in the debate, was resurrected and passed as an amendment to the Army appropriation. The legislation took the difficult decision out of the hands of Congress and placed the burden on Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, who was charged with assigning survey teams to all prospective routes and selecting the best line based on the data compiled by field parties. Presumably, the topogs impartial analysis would succeed where partisan politics failed. [6]


My great grand plus Uncle sponsored and passed funding for the first Transcontinental telegraph to California and Oregon and beginnings of the Transcontinental railroad (see senate bill s-396 during the 32nd congress 1853)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAoIlyw9i0 

1852 Rebuilding the Capital Building Dome

Senator Richard H Brodhead helps pass legislation financing Capital building dome, Congressional library, West and East Wing  see 32nd Congress S-460




http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/capitol/pg187.pdf

Richard H Brodhead would Establish the court of claims

Helps pass legislation for the “10 regiments act” ( 160 acre land parcels for Mexican/American war volunteers)

Helps Revolutionary war and War of 1812 soldiers gain pensions.

He marries Sally Bradford (Jefferson Davis’s niece).

Richard H Brodhead is defeated in 1857 by  Simon Cameron 

Simon Cameron runs for the Republican nomination for president in 1860 and only receives 50 Delegates. On the 2nd vote William Seward has  the most votes. Simon Cameron cuts a deal with Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln wins the nomination. Had Cameron not won Richard H. Brodhead's senate seat in 1857, would William Seward  have been president?

Richard H Brodhead dies at 53 in 1863 a little after Gettysburg 

The Congressional library after the rebuild S-460

1856 

Charles Brodhead  ( distant cousin) and Augustus Wolle (The father of Bethlehem steel) Organize the Saucona Iron Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  They first purchased the property where Bethlehem steel sits on. ( cousin)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTGiHOZZFU 

Michigan 1861  The Wolverines    The First Michigan Cavalry

 Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead  (distant cousin)

Although a staunch Democrat, Thornton was a warm friend of Abraham Lincoln, and received his orders to raise the 1st Michigan Cavalry directly from president Lincoln. 

(Wolverines)

1862   On August  17th, Buford was ordered to make a reconnaissance across the Rapidan in force. 
He sent two of his regiments, the 1st Michigan cavalry and the 5th New York
led by Col. Thornton Fleming Brodhead, and Col. Ira Harris. 
The next day, they captured JEB Stuart's adjutant-general,
who was carrying valuable dispatches from Robert E.Lee.  Pressing on,
they surprised Stuart himself while he was relaxing at a farmhouse with his staff. 
Stuart narrowly got away, but not without leaving his famous plumed cavaliers hat and scarlet cloak -
those fell into the regiments' hands as war prizes.  The Federals returned with both of the prizes and
John Mosby (Mosby’s raiders)  and news that Pope was being flanked by Stonewall Jackson.  Pope immediately

moves his army across the Rappahannock river. The intelligence captured may have saved Popes army from total destruction.

1862  August 30th

Brevet General Thornton Fleming Brodhead is mortally wounded at Lewis Ford while interdicting a
(Jeb Stuart)12^th  Virginia Confederate cavalry flanking movement. Popes army was in retreat to the
outskirts of Washington after its thrashing at Manassas.  His stand at the Lewis Ford foiled Stewarts
attempt at taking thousands of Union prisoners.  

Col. Thornton F. Brodhead, commanding officer of the 1st Michigan Cavalry, was apparently
the last Federal on the battlefield. Brodhead tried to rally Buford's routed forces, and could have escaped
with the rest of the command. However, he chose to stay and try to patch together a defensive line.
Adjutant Lewis Harman of the 12th Virginia met Brodhead near the Lewis Ford.
Harman demanded Brodhead's surrender and, when Brodhead refused, the Confederate shot and mortally
wounded the Yankee officer. Harman rode off with Brodhead's horse, saddle, pistols, and sabre.
Brodhead received a deathbed brevet to brigadier general for his valiant stand at the Lewis Ford.
The 1st Michigan also lost its Major, Charles Town--down with two bullet wounds and a saber cut.  

1863  General George Armstrong Custer
becomes commander of 1st Michigan Cavalry. The 1st Michigan sees battle at Gettysburg and foils Jeb Stuarts attempt to get into the Federal rear while Pickets charge was commencing. 
The Wolverines will serve with honor and distinction throughout the rest of the war. .. 

1863
Lt. Edgar Brodhead    (distant Cousin)
serves on the third ship to be called the U.S.S. Saratoga (Sloop of war)
Acting Lieutenant, Commanding  (cousin)  

Admiral J.A. Dahlgren,
Comdg. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Charleston, S. C.  

1864

Private Jacob Brodhead    (distant cousin)

serves Co. F 16^th New York Artillery Fortress Monroe and Army of the James  (cousin)





1865   During the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia, General  Robert E. Lee must
ride through the mounted ranks of the 1st Michigan cavalry on his way to Appomattox courthouse.



May 10th 1865
4th Michigan cavalry captures Jefferson Davis

"The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." --Jefferson Davis

1898 (cousin)

Coxswain Richard Thornton Brodhead serves on the Auxiliary cruiser U.S.S Yosemite during the Spanish American War….
Blockades San Juan harbor    Puerto Rico 









1907 to 1909
Jefferson Davis Brodhead
Grand Nephew of CSA president Jefferson Davis
Pennsylvania                                          U.S. House of Representatives
                                                                 60th Congress

1914-1918
World War I
SGT. Joseph Held ( German Grand Father) 
German Cavalry Western Front 

(Would not take the Hitler Oath and was sent to
Dachau Concentration Camp in 1934) 
  





German citizens being sent to Dachau in 1933


1916 Border with Mexico (Pancho Villa)
Corporal Myron ladd (Great Uncle)
Washington National Guard

1917-1918
World War I
Master Sgt.  Myron Ladd   (Uncle Myron)

(GrandUncle)
Doughboy  U.S. Army

1942-1945
 Chief Petty Officer (at 19 years old) Jack Currie 
(father inlaw) 
LST Engine man  (LST 358)
United States Navy
Mediterranean Theater

North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France

Invasion of Sicily

May 1943 Bizerte Harbor, Tunisia 

 (1^st CEVG Units directed precision B-52 strikes right along the perimeter line during siege of Khe Sahn Tet offensive.)     

1978 to 2006
Stephan Andrew Brodhead 
"Conservative Party Of Oregon"    


Strategic Air Command  and Military Airlift Command

clickWhile in the Strategic Air Command performed Nuclear Alert on the B-52 during the Cold War

clickWhile a United States Air Force Reserve C-141B/C Flight Engineer
Performs medivac and humanitarian missions worldwide

   









Some Airdrop Footage








Somali,  Rwanda,  Cuban refugee relocation, Northern Watch, Southern Watch, 
Flew FEMA assets on 911, Afghanistan, Alqaida relocation to Gitmo, Iraq war.

100 combat related sorties, 20 medivac sorties into Iraq. 4600 flying hours, over 4000 points, averaged
200 points a year for 20 years.