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[iviarellereads]

Lord of Chaos, Chapter 28 - Letters

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(Dagger icon) In which I give another eternal sigh.

PERSPECTIVE: Rand is worried that Lews Therin has been very silent in his head lately. He's been taking it out on everyone around him. He decides to stop running from his problems and his feelings, and also to be "harder" against them.(1)

He goes back to Caemlyn, and as soon as he does, he realizes that Alanna is crying, and she stops just moments after he returns, even as distant as the inn in the outer city. He receives two letters from the Sea Folk, one in Cairhien just as he's stepping out, and another in his chambers at Caemlyn.

Another letter is delivered, and Rand realizes that the servant doing the delivering is Sulin, cringing and kneeling like he's some angry king. This is her punishment for treating a gai'shain like a Maiden on the day they went to Shadar Logoth. He says it was his fault, but the Maidens and Aviendha are scandalized at his lack of understanding of ji'e'toh.

The letter Sulin had delivered was unmarked, sealed in purple wax with a flower imprint. The Queen of Ghealdan, writing Rand as "Cousin", writing to "assure [him] of [her] goodwill, and to express [her] hopes of [his] in return." The first time a nation has approached him without his action against them first.

Avi says she must talk to him, and something that had been itching in his head solidifies. He knocks her out of the way as a Gray Man attacks. Rand wraps him in Air, but Taim appears in the doorway and kills him. Rand asks why he killed him when the Gray Man might have been interrogated, but Taim says he didn't want the man to kill Rand, and it was too late to stop his weave by the time he noticed Rand's Air binding.(2)

He adds that he's found a man with the spark (who would channel even without training) and there have been many changes, Rand should come check out the school. All the while, Lews Therin yells that he wants to kill Taim, as he always does. Rand bids Taim get back to training this Jahar Narishma, as his talents may be needed sooner than later.

After he goes, Rand asks the two Maiden guards not to tell anyone Taim was here and there's some more ji'e'toh nonsense,(3) and then Avi gives him a lecture about how he shamed her today, but cuts off as he shuts down his feelings for her visibly.

PERSPECTIVE: Padan Fain is studying the ruby hilted dagger. His concentration gets broken and he kinda pulls an Emperor Kuzco. He's somewhere near Rand, can feel his presence, could still point at him if asked. There's a difference to that pull lately, as if someone took partial possession of Rand and lessened Fain's bond.(4) Fain has also influenced the Whitecloaks and the White Tower with his taint, so that neither will ever fully support or trust Rand.

The Darkfriend family he's staying with bring news that someone tried to murder the Dragon Reborn, and Fain gets angry because Rand is HIS to kill, no one else's! He evils real hard at the Darkfriends, with a passing angry mention that very few of his Whitecloaks remain.(5)

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(1) That's… more than a small contradiction in terms. Unfortunately he has a looooong way to go before his arc completes, as we're only on book 6 of 14. (Eternally scrubbing my face with my hands and reminding myself "he thought the story was nearly done.") (2) Do you believe him? (3) Yes, yes, I'm getting tired, and some of it might be slightly arc relevant but so much of this stuff is repeating itself already. (4) What in the world could have bonded Fain to Rand like that, to feel that Alanna also bonded him? Could that connection to Fain go both ways, and Rand doesn't even notice? Is that why Alanna's so overwhelmed? (5) Tell me you have a better way to describe it than “evils real hard”. Also, he convinced or converted or corrupted some of the Whitecloaks from book 4 in Emond’s Field. So, perhaps those Whitecloaks who attacked Rand weren’t from Niall after all.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Panfandom Hanukkah Bingo 2023 @hanukkahbingo

K4. Anti-Assimilation - Han Solo @ AO3. Han hangs a mezuzah at the door of their senatorial apartments. One of the neighbors timidly informs him that it's crooked.

[agoldenlily-archive]

*leaves some honey cakes for elayne* 😉

Surprise touched her expression as she saw the lone plate there on the table in her room. She had only just come in from the rain that had been falling outside and she was ready to towel off and get into a new dress immediately. There were plenty of things to do today - one being with those that had come to swear to House Trakand, a nuisance really but an important one. She would keep her composure no matter if she wanted to scream at the top of her bloody lungs! But this! This was a nice and lovely surprise. A small plate with the honey cake at the center. When she had first returned to Andor Mistress Harfor had fussed over her, saying she needed to put some meat back onto her bones but now that she was used to the Palace's kitchens again she had been eager to taste every dessert again as though it were her first time. She could almost hear Lini chastising her about her sweet tooth, she didn't need to hear it from Mistress Harfor either! But just one taste wouldn't hurt anyone. Besides someone must have left them for her, she couldn't let it go to waste. That would be just rude and she had been taught better than that.

With a look about herself she practically skipped over to the plate and pulled off a piece of the cake with her fingers, putting it into her mouth. "Light, that's good." She exclaimed softly so that no one, if anyone were on the other side of the door, could hear. She had loved her adventures but there really was nothing like being back in Caemlyn.

[the-hills-of-tanchico]

The servant sank to her knees before him, white head bowed low and hands raised high to proffer yet another letter, this one on thick parchment. The posture itself made him blink; even in Tear he had never seen a servant cringe so, much less in Andor. Mistress Harfor was frowning and shaking her head. The kneeling woman spoke, still with her face down. “This has come for my Lord Dragon." "Sulin?" he gasped. "What are you doing? What are you doing in that... dress?" Sulin turned her face up; she looked perfectly horrible, a wolf trying very hard to pretend she was a doe. (LoC, ch. 28)

At last, a firm answer for our lad: this is what going mad feels like.

[cannoli-reader]

Rand's problem has never been the inability to listen to other people, but in understanding the value of it. Also, he thinks it's a shitty thing to do, and doesn't want to react to opponents and doesn't really care what they are up to, and also, whatever they are saying about him is probably horrible and he deserves it, but he's too gutless to actually listen to it. According to him.

There are some hints that if he did hear what the people around him were saying about him, he might be pleasantly surprised. I was kind of hoping that Elayne would run into that, either when she had to deal with The Dragon Reborn as Queen, to suddenly discover massive sympathy for him among the Palace staff, and Harfor & Norry both defending him to her, or else getting a lot of side-eye from the Cairhienin when she went to claim the Sun Throne, because of her ostensible anti-Rand positions in Andor. I wanted the siswai'aman to go somewhere. I wanted an anti-Wise-One-&-Clan-chief movement to grow up among the Aiel, as they realized that their leaders had been effectively lying to them for 3,000 years, and an appreciation for the one who told them the truth. This would have been a great place for Aviendha to step up as a leader, since she would have been among the first Wise Ones to come after Rand revealed the truth, and had no share of the guilt, and an important part of restoring her institution's credibility, like the Wondergirls were supposed to do for the Tower.

Rand really should have asked Asmodean to teach him how to listen to other people's conversations and then used it against the Wise Ones, same as they had done to him.

[wheelofmeta]

A kinda sad realization I had while rereading a bit of Towers of Midnight; Reene Harfor probably died in Caemlyn’s fall. She most likely had still been at the palace, since she wouldn’t exactly have anything to do at Merrillor. There’s a chance she escaped with the rest of the refugees, but it’s most likely she died. Actually, I imagine a lot of the palace staff did, since it was likely harder for them to escape the city due the palace being in the middle.

[markantonys]

wot glup shitto?

i can't keep up with all the kids' lingo these days, i had to look up what this meant 😔 so i am going off the definition of "character known and praised by hardcore fans but unknown to a general audience" and saying juilin and lini if they count as obscure enough, but if not, then my crew of Senior Citizens Who Run Caemlyn: mistress harfor, essande, and norry. that one moment where mistress harfor's like "oh that guy unfortunately broke his legs :) in an accident :)" and elayne's like "umm girl????" lives in my mind rent free.

[haemosexuality]

What's an unpopular opinion you have about whatever fandom you're into at the moment?

SIX IS NOT EVIL SHE DID NOT DROP MONO TO BE EVIL.

And she wasnt just using mono for whatever ok. Look. she's 9 years old, for starters. maybe even 8 in the second game bc we dont know how much time passed between the end of ln2 and the start of ln1. you Cannot treat her like an adult, or someone that makes rational logic based decisions with a developed brain. shes literally a little kid.

plus like, take a look at the world she lives in. its a post apocalyptic monster filled world where everything and everyone is out to kill her, and she has to be constantly on the run, with no house no food no change of clothes and no certain company (because whoever shes with could always be killed). no one is there to teach that kid whats right or wrong. every single example she has on how to live is Kill Or Be Killed.

she has been to Several traumatic events. getting kidnapped (THREE times), being kept locked in a room, being tortured (probably) by the porcelain kids, getting her body deformed broken and stretched and her mind deteriorated by a probably really painful experience and then having the one person she trusted continuously scream at her and cause her extreme pain, etc. its impossible to go through all that and come out mentally sane, to not lose touch of what is and isnt okay to do.

and she did care about mono, ok?? you can see that through the game. they probably werent like, Best Friends For Life, or Loved Each Other, bc they both knew each other for a very small time and have like no examples of any type of relationship (yeah mono was very die harfor her but hes described as "naturally protective", i think he would have done that for any kid) but you can see that she cares for him. she continuously saves him from the tv, from falling, waits for him, even when the thin man is coming out of the tv and she is clearly terrified she stays and keeps trying to get mono to run with her for as long as she can before survival taking over. if she truly was just "using mono for her own gain" she would not have put her life in danger for him so many times, especially that last one. plus the whole monster six part, where even in a monstrous form where her mind is probably more animalistic than rational, she still recognizes and trusts him. and if she was, why would she drop him there?? he could still be useful after that??

there are a Lot of reasons why she could have dropped mono. theres no way of knowing which one is right, or if it was bc of another reason we didnt even think of, so its up for personal interpretation, but all signs point for it being for a Reason other than "oooh shes manipulative and evil and wanted to cause him harm for no reason". like, here are some facts

1-she had just gone through a Very Extremely Traumatic thing. she got turned into a monster, and brought back to normal by pain. immediately after she had to run from a gigantic mass of eyes and flesh. shes 9. she was not in a state of mind to make rational thought out decisions, she was probably not even thinking much. her minds was probably clouded and running on pure panic and survival instinct

2-mono has just Continuously Caused Her Pain. you can see that while he was breaking the music box, she was screaming and flinching and desperately trying to get him to stop. that hurt, a Lot. plus he kept screaming at her, which she also visibly flinched when he did. he literally just beat her up and yelled at her, when she had just gone through something very traumatic and was trying to cling to the only bit of peace/escapism she had

3-talking about escapism, the Little nightmares official twitter hinted at it being related to the reason. ln 2 whole message is about escapism, and thats what the signal tower provides. to the viewers, it was the tv, for mono, probably isolation- for six it was the music box. she was like brainwashed by it. ln's twitter said both that "extracting someone from a fantasy can be very painful", and that "more of us understand the pain mono caused six than we know" (when we cope w the ganes ending by making fan content where Nothing Bad Happens And They Live Happily Ever after. and like, yeah, from our perspective, we know the transmission was actually harming her, and from monos perspective, she saved her, even if he had to hurt her to do it. but what about her perspective? (which is also something the creators said a lot- we know our side and monos side of things, but we didnt look through what happened with six's eyes, we dont know what stuff looked like from her perspective. thats why at first, it seems like the betrayal came out of nowhere). as ive said again and again (sorry i dont know how to write without being repetitive), she went through a Bunch Of Fucking Traumatic Things In Her Life, and the signal tower has giving her peace, for one. in the game, its implied that the room monster six was in and the music box etc are all actively malicious, but the way i interpret it its also like, a safe space her own mind created for her to retreat to and escape from that nightmare. she was safe there, no danger, no pain, just a comfy room with all her favorite stuff and a soothing music box (the canon version is the same but malicious and brainwashing instead of good lmao. it doesnt matter the point is how she felt). only for mono to come in and rip all that away from her in a very painful way, both physically and mentally. he dragged her back to a life of endless suffering.

4-mono Continuously put her in danger throughout the game. he was the reason she got captured by the hunter (as seen in the comics), he got her repeatedly shot at, the reason why the bullies got her, he freed the fucking thin man, and coward under the bad while she stretched her hand out for help before being taken by him. yeah, he saved her all those times, and many werent really his fault, but again shes 9 and hurt and is not gonna have the most rational of brains. plus her perspective is different from ours. also, mono has Magic- a Lot Of It, and magic has never been good for her. she only saw a bit of his magic (the whole tv thing), but she was shown distancing herself from him every time that happened. she was Scared. six's whole thing, this Worlds whole thing is about survival. thats the most important thing, bc anything will get you killed. as i said, kill or be killed, and mono got very close to getting her killed multiple times, as well as sharing a trait with the things that usually try to kill her.

5-some ppl also say that she could have recognized him as the thin man, or could be gettung hungry and trying to spare him, but those theories dont make much sense to me (especially the hunger one bc her hungry escalates through the first game. she doesnt jump straight into eating people. so itd make no sense for her to think she was going to eat him as nothing like that had ever happened.)

and like probably more that i forgot or didnt pick up on!!!!! why dont people analyze stuff instead of just jumping to "ShEs eViL"!!!!!

and i think a lot of the fandoms perception of Evil Six comes from the fact that they acknowledge she kills people in the game, but see mono as a uwu soft pacifist boy when hes???? not????? he has killed more people than her. hes ruthless. he absolutely killed anyone tht got in his way and in no moment showed any hesitation. he pulled the plug on someone bc they needed a distractio. shes as ready as six is to kill, and no one paints him as evil, just as someone doing what it takes so survive. which he is!!! but so is six!

i could talk about the first game too but then this would be even longer so i wont. anyways if anyone actually read all that i want to study you in a lab how much free time do u even have. thank you tho bye ❤

[aimmyarrowshigh]

Casual but less friendly reminder/adding on that everyone who assumes Adam IS Jewish literally only does so because he has a large, downturned nose, and that’s antisemitic. Adam Driver’s career profits from generalized antisemitism because he gets cast in the roles of Jewish (and/or Jewish-coded) characters over Jewish actors, purely because his looks remind goyim of a stereotypical Jewish man. That’s FUCKED. Adam, a tall goyishe white man, has been cast in multiple films in roles that are specifically written as Jewish characters, whose Jewish identity is central to their character arc.

(And no, I’m not counting Star Wars, because Judaism doesn’t exist as-is in Space, but fwiw I DO think that Ben Solo having been the child of an Alderaanian survivor is important to the backstory/backdrop of Kylo Ren.) I’m counting BlacKKKlansman, Inside Llewyn Davis, Frances Ha, Tracks [I think?], This Is Where I Leave You, and The Meyerowitz Stories.

That’s an awfully large chunk of his career made on playing Jewish characters as a non-Jewish white guy... and that’s, again, even discounting that somehow two Jewish actors have a goyishe son in SW. (Although again, it’s not really a thing in space, given, like, Carrie Fisher being Mark Hamill’s twin. But still.) And yet, how many people in, and outside of, fandom complained when all of the final shortlist actors for Young Han were Jewish actors? You know, the ones who don’t get to play the Jewish characters that Adam plays?

Don’t even get me started on how WASP-y Adam Driver can join the imperialist US military to, quote, get revenge on Muslims, and no one gives him any shit, but Gal Gadot gets slammed with basic-idiot-level literal blood libel from people who should KNOW better, constantly, just because she is Jewish.

Even BB-8, voiced by Ben Schwartz, is more Jewish than Adam Driver. As Oscar said at the Oscars -- BB-8 speaks Yiddish. ;)

Casual Reminder that Adam Driver is not Jewish. Yes, he portrays a Jewish man in BlacKkKlansman, and yes, he portrays the son of two Jewish actors in Star Wars, but he is, in fact, NOT Jewish.

Casual Reminder that Oscar Isaac IS Jewish, IS a POC, and IS Latino. 

If I have to remind you that John Boyega is a POC, then a casual reminder isn’t going to be enough.

[iviarellereads]

Lord of Chaos, Chapter 26 - Connecting Lines

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(Sunburst icon) In which we finally address a long-standing question.

PERSPECTIVE: Rand grumbles about his bond with Alanna, and realizes he hasn't seen Sulin since Shadar Logoth. He rides through Caemlyn and spots someone launching a crossbow bolt at him. He stops it, then gets knocked out of his saddle as one of the Maidens in his guard takes a second assassin's bolt.

When the street clears, there are six more bodies, three of them Aiel, and one maybe also a Maiden. The Aiel apprehend four men, all wearing Whitecloak sunbursts on armbands. Rand chooses one to watch the others hang, then ride back to Pedron Niall to say he'll hang, too, for what happened here.

Rand memorizes the dead Maiden's face, and runs through the list of names of all the women who have died for him. It dates all the way back to Ilyena, though he didn't put that name there himself. He finds that only one of the other dead people is a woman, but bids a nearby Maiden to make sure her family are taken care of, and to find out her name anyway.(1)

Rand races his horse back to the palace, and finds that the Wavemistress of a Sea Folk ship came to petition for audience with him. She and her retinue arrived by horseback and took rooms at an inn, refusing accommodations in the palace. He tells the First Maid that he will see them this afternoon.

Another petition for audience was also received, from a Lady Elenia, who seems to want to seduce Rand. Rand receives her in his rooms, and asks her some questions about Andoran history, trying to puzzle out how closely Tigraine and Morgase were related. They were only cousins of a sort, distantly enough that commoners wouldn't consider them related, though they both had many bloodline ties to the first Queen of Andor.(2)

Rand dismisses Elenia and settles in for a moment, relieved. Then he berates himself as "worse than a lecher" for still wanting Elayne when he thought they might have been related.(3) He tells the Aiel he's going to Cairhien and please don't tell Aviendha.

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(1) Ah. Rand's list. He can acknowledge that men die willingly, but he can't do the same for women, because of his upbringing, for some reason. For all that RJ tried to write what he thought a believable matriarchy would work like… it falls really flat in moments like this, where it becomes clear that Rand is still very patriarchal in nature. We've seen other characters be like this, and even Rand before, but he takes it to a whole new level by forcing himself to remember the names and faces of every woman who died for or because of him. Dude, get over yourself. (This is, if you couldn't tell, a point in Rand's arc where a lot of people, myself included, get really really tired of being in his head. I've never particularly liked him as a character, I read and keep reading for other characters, mainly the women, and I will maintain to my last breath that Rand isn't the main character, nor are Rand, Mat, and Perrin collectively the only main characters of the story, just because they're the only three RJ allowed to be ta'veren and Rand was the first POV we got.) (2) I did the math once, and Morgase and Tigraine were only third cousins, they shared a great-grandparent, making Rand and Elayne fourth cousins, hence barely related in farmer terms. It is interesting that the Andoran houses trace by the number of lines of inheritance from their first queen, though, instead of strictly by royal lineage/firstborn-ness or whatever. Like, the expectation is that Elayne will succeed Morgase, but there have already been those in favour of a claim by Dyelin or potentially someone else. (3) Oh yes, he's not supposed to want three women, despite having spent so much time with the Aiel as to make that, if not normal, at least a viable possibility, especially when one of them is already Aiel. SIGH. At least when his objections are about him being fated to compete in the Last Battle and/or go mad and rot from the inside out, it's about not subjecting others to his affliction. This? This is just more misogyny and boomer gender role weirdness, and I find it hard to maintain sympathy.

[revolutionarywarhistory]

The story of the Extra Regiment's ordinary soldiers: From McCay to Patton [Part 6]

Continued from part 5

The year of 1818

Map of Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio. Courtesy of Google Maps.

Many of the soldiers whom we know of, were in "reduced circumstances." John McCay was living in Baltimore County, 54 years old, showing he was born in 1764 and wad described as "very poor." All the way across the county, in Mount Pleasant, within Ohio's Jefferson County, William Elkins felt similar pressures. He described himself as 85 years of age, which means he would have been born in 1733 or 47 years old in 1780. More likely he is 63 or 65 years old. In 1818, a person named Marren DuVall, living within Warren Township in Jefferson County, Ohio, [9] said that in 1784 she

resided in Frederick county Maryland, – that the aforenamed William Elkins, in that year[1784] came to the house of my father, William Duvall, a captain of the [Frederick County] militia, who had served two tours of duty in the service of the United States, and that from the frequent conversations, between the said Elkins and my father and other revolutionary soldiers, I sincerely beleive that the said Elkins served more than one year in the United States service – I further testify that I have heard my father and many other Revolutionary soldiers, positively say, that they had known the said Elkins while in the service of his country

Furthermore, his pension noted that he was paid $78.40 for "pay from the First August 1780 to the 1st Jan’y 1782" and $80.00 of pay from Jan. 1, 1782 to Jan. 1, 1783, along with another $43.30 from Jan. 1, 1783 until Nov. 1, 1783 when his military service came to a close.

Reprinted from my History Hermann WordPress blog.

Furthermore, William Groves, living in Allegheny County that year, was 63 years old, meaning he was born in 1755. He said he was in "reduced circumstances" and that he was in "need of the assistance of his country for support." The same was the case for Jesse Boswell. That year he as living in York, South Carolina and asked the "assistance of his country for support." A few years later, he applied for a new pension certificate since the old one was destroyed when his home burned in November 1820.

Courtesy of Google Maps. York is in northern South Carolina, only 30-36 miles away from Charlotte, North Carolina depending on the route walked.

In 1818, Philip Huston was an "old man." He described himself as "unable to work for my living and besides in extreme poverty so that I need the assistance of my country for support." The same year, the land office of Maryland noted that he was a drummer in the Maryland Line and hence was entitled to "the Lands Westward of Fort Cumberland to Lot No. 402 Containing 50 acres." He never claimed this land as records attest. There were similar circumstances for Thomas Gadd. He argued he was in "reduced circumstances" and needed the "assistance of his country for support" while living in Baltimore. While it is clear that Mr. Thomas Gadd lived in Anne Arundel County in 1810, and moved to Baltimore sometime before 1818, there are two Thomas Gadds within Queen Anne's, Maryland and hence, it is hard to know which one is him.

The Marylanders: John McCay, William Simmons, William Groves, and John Newton in 1820

John McCay was in horrible circumstances. At age 56 in 1820, he was living in Baltimore without any family, was propertyless, and of ill health since he had to quit his occupation as a sailor, only obtaining "a bare subsistence by labouring about the country." His pension further added that he was entered into a Maryland hospital and became "utterly incapable of labour" and needs to assistance of "his country or from private or public charity" due to his circumstances. Since his name is so common, it is not possible to use Federal census records in this instance. Despite that, there are people with his name consistently living in Baltimore from 1790 to 1820, and he is likely among them.

Fellow soldier William Simmons who had been at John McCay's side, was living in Harford County in 1820. At 61 years of age, he only owned $47 dollars with of property. These included one Cow, one young Cow, four pigs, rush bottomed chairs, one pine table, two iron pots, and some trifle of "Crockery ware," among little much more. He also purchased a horse for $20 and horse cart for $10 but neither is paid for and rented about 10 acres of land for $50 per year. His pension further explained that he was married to a thirty-year old woman named Elizabeth (born in 1790), and had three children with her: Joseph (born in 1810), James (born in 1813), and John (born in 1818). He argued that without the state pension he could not support himself since he was "greatly afflicted by Rheumatic pains." Six years later, he had moved to Stark County, Ohio to "improve his situation." Further records of Simmons are unclear.

Then there is William Groves. In 1820, he owned one old Spay Horse, one Cow, one Colt, and one Pot, even less than William Simmons or William Elkins. Living in Allegheny County at 50 years of age, he was a farmer but was "infirm and unable to do more than half work." He lived with his 50-year-old wife, Mary, a son that was 14 years old, and another under age five. Following the census information, it is possible that William lived in Charles County after the war, as the 1790 and 1800 censuses indicate, specifically in Durham Parish, with his family. [10] Furthermore, records indicate he lived in District 4 of Allegheny, Maryland, specifically in Cumberland, Maryland. He was described as an 83-year-old veteran in 1840, meaning this says he was born in 1757, only two years off what he said in 1820, which shows that he was sharp even in his later life, which is impressive. [11] Other parts of his pension indicate that he lived in Allegheny County from 1812 to 1849, with his wife Mary was living there in 1853.

In 1820, the Maryland General Assembly passed a law to pay him for his military service in the Maryland Line. He was to be paid the half pay of a private in "quarterly payments" as the law indicated. [12] He also received land in Western Maryland for his military service. He specifically received lot 1744, which was, at most, 12.7 miles miles away from the Northern branch of the Potomac River, in the middle of Garrett County:

Using Google Maps, we can pinpoint the location of his land in present-day Garrett County. His land is, by straight shot, 35.5 miles from Cumberland.

This shows where his lot is in relation to the Potomac River. Black dot is where his lot was. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Zoomed in focus on his lot

This shows where he lot directly was located, what it looked like on a map.

Hence, he likely did not live on this land as looking at that approximate location shows no evidence of human habitation. There is only the vast expanse of forest and some new, modern houses.

In 1820, John Newton, age 60, was living in Prince George's County.  He was a laborer who would be paid $40 per year for his pension. In his reduced circumstancs, . John Newton: writing he is "reduced circumstances" while writing in Prince George's County in 1818. The census records are no help in this case, as he is not listed. [13] However, there is strong evidence he was living in Maryland that year. This is indicated by the pension list and legislation, although there are other records that must be weeded out. [14] He specifically received pay in 1818 from the state of Maryland for his revolutionary war service. The law which granted him this pay [15] was as follows:

Resolved, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised, to pay to John Newton, an old soldier, or his order, during his life, a sum of money annually, in half yearly payments, equal to the half pay of a private, for his services during the revolution.

This petition was nothing new. He had petitioned the House of Delegates in 1805 and 1806 on the same issue. [16] In those, he stated he had been wounded in battle, serving from the year 1780 until the end of the war, saying that he was with his wounds,

together with the infirmities of approaching old age, he is rendered incapable of obtaining a maintenance for himself and family

Hence, he received payment at the time, but perhaps he felt it was necessary to apply again because it did not pass the Maryland Senate. It is also worth mentioning that he married Eleanor Callean in May 27, 1781 within Prince George's County. [17]

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[markantonys]

might i add:

[the-hills-of-tanchico]

[...] Some of the servants wore the red-and-white livery they had worn when Morgase ruled, but most were new, garbed in whatever they had on when they came applying for the job, a motley collection of farmers’ and tradesmen’s woolens, mainly dark and plain but running the range of colors, with here and there splashes of embroidery or bits of lace. Rand made a mental note to have Mistress Harfor, the First Maid, find livery enough to go around, so the newcomers would not feel required to work in their best clothes. Palace livery was certainly finer than anything country folk had except perhaps for feastdays. The servants numbered fewer than in Morgase’s day, and a good many of the red-and-white attired men and women were gray and stooped, out of the pensioners’ quarters. Instead of fleeing when so many others did, they had quit their retirement rather than see the palace become run down. Another mental note. Have Mistress Harfor—First Maid was an unprepossessing title, but Reene Harfor ran the Royal Palace day-to-day—find enough servants so these oldsters could enjoy their pensions. Were the pensions still being paid with Morgase dead? He should have thought of that before; Halwin Norry, the chief clerk, would know. (LoC, ch. 10)

Really quite an attractive young man, isn't he.

[agoldenlily-archive]

( DANCE )

he had agreed to stay for this one moment, sending a few of his Redarms to see about rumored skirmishes along the Cairhienien and Tairen borders. he had stayed behind in Caemlyn while he waited for his men to report back through the Gateways that the Kin would make. Elayne was almost certain that it would be okay and that rumor would remain rumor and nothing more. it hadn’t been that long since The Dragon’s Peace had been signed why would anyone want to go against it so soon? or at all?

so to make sure that no one in Caemlyn were bothered by rumors she had listened to the advice of Master Norry and Mistress Harfor and had decided to hold a feast, something to busy the nobles as well as the Common people. it was a splendid idea and she was glad for the distraction herself. she was simply sad that Thom had not been able to make it on such short notice. but they did have different Gleemen and Bards and even people good enough to perform in Luca’s bloody menagerie. not many of her friends could make it and so she had sat her throne, smiling as her twins were thoroughly preoccupied with the Gleeman’s juggling. it was a welcome sight. her hands smoothed out the skirts of her gown, watching the light play over the roses climbing up along the folds of it. Buttered Onions! she wasn’t going to lie and say she wasn’t bloody bored. but then Mat had come in, in a good coat and a smile on his face. her breath didn’t hitch she was glad that she would have someone to talk to. he had asked her to dance and the nobles and commoners alike were glad to see her heading off with the General of the Light out into the thick of dancing.

“it’s a good thing that I wasn’t already preoccupied. what would you have done with yourself then?” she asked with a small laugh. she meant to turn her head away but his hand tensed somewhat on her lower back and he drew back just slightly to look down into her eyes. he’s nearing her and - light, was she even breathing? he’s too close. far too close. his shadow has fallen over her face and her hands mindlessly toy with the fabric at his shoulders. “or maybe I should have just entertained myself and shown these bloody acrobats what a real one looks like.” and he smiles at that and she can’t help but lower her eyes. there was nothing to be said about the near flutter in her chest or the way she tried to inch herself closer to him. nothing at all.

leaning in closer while they are slow dancing with mine.

meme - @luckhissoul

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