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On my father's side my
father Arthur Leonard McKellips was a McDonnell of Keppock and a Mac
Larewn on his mother's side. My ancestor Samuel McKillip, along with his
brother David McKillip, arrived in America and settled in Vermont. They
joined the "Green Mountain Boys," who originally were formed to protect
Vermont settler's from Indians, French and BRITISH land grabber's out of
New York. I had heard that the good British citizens of Boston , prior
to this, had been warned that a ship load of hostile Scottish Highlander's
were do to arrive. They wrung their collective soft little hands muttering
Woe!, Oh Woe! We need defense against the hostile Indians. and we get this
mess? They counted not the PRIDE of the Highlanders who wouldn't have
spit on British soil, for when the gang plank was lowered, off came a
Piper, Skirling a Battle tune, followed by a horde of Plaid Clad
Highlanders, looking neither right nor left, but eyes straight ahead, who
marched through town and disappeared into the forest, leaving a pack of
gape jawed Englishmen standing in their amazement along the route. I have
long assumed my ancestor and his brother were in this batch of immigrants.
When the Green Mountain Boys heard that a Continental Congress had
convened and that a possibility of war might exist soon with the Chubby
German as King, why the Green Mountain Boys quite naturally marched and
seized Fort Ticonderoga, then proceeded to haul the cannon back to Breed's
Hill ( Bunker Hill ) in Charelstown, across the water from Boston. They
should have left couple of cannon and loaded more Gun-Powder on the
sleds.. My ancestors fought in four battles in the following war and were
in the Who's Who of Vermont. David wounded a number of times.
My Mother was the Grand-daughter of Joshua
Morris of Missouri, who's last wife was an OSAGE Indian, passing for white
because of the discrimination against the children. Hr is buried at
"Painted Rock", Missouri, a n Indian burial Grounds, his wife Rainy , I
believe is buried in Oklahoma. My Grandmother married James Collins who
apparently held citizenship in the Cherokee Nation. My Mother Gladys
Collins McKellips married my father Arthur L. McKellips, settling in
Everett, Washington. I claim my Indian Blood from her Osage background
! Yours Aye, Art McKellips.
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