CHARLES DARWIN MOTTICE 12735 AKRICH STREET REDDING, CALIF. 96003
JAN 11, 1995
TIME 7:0'CLOCK EVENING TEMPERATURE 45 F WEATHER: RAINING LIKE HELLHELLO JAY,
WELL IT IS GOOD TO KNOW YOU EVEN IF IT IS IN A LETTER.
ROBERT STATED HE GAVE YOU MY NUMBER AND I AM VERY GLAD HE DID. I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT ME WHICH MAY OR NOT BE IMPORTANT TO YOU. I AM 68 YEARS OLD. I HAVE HAD ALL OF MY HEART SURGERY DONE, MY CATS REMOVED FROM MY EYES AND THE CANCER REMOVED AND THE ONLY THING THAT GETS ME IS THE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. THAT I HAVE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH.
I AM A VETERAN OF WORLD WAR 2 AND KOREA. I AM LISTED IN THE GREAT BATTELSHIP BOOK WITH A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF MY MILITARY IN THE NAVY. I SPENT MY YOUTH AND PART OF MY TWENTIES IN THE NAVY, I AM MARRIED NOW FOR 38 YEARS A.ND I l HAVE A SON AND A DAUGHTER WHO IS MARRIED. MY SON IS GETTING MARRIED THIS MAY.
I HAVE MANY RECORDS ON THE MOTTICE FAMILY THAT ARE ALL DOCUMENTED. I WILL SEND YOU SOME OF THEM OR A COPY OF ALL LATER ON. THE LETTER WHICH I AM SENDING YOU WRITTEN BY JOHN CREIGHTON MOTTICE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A POOR RECORD. RUTH MOTTICE STATED THAT HIS MIND WAS NOT TOO GOOD AT THE TIME OF THE WRITTING. I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN SOME OF IT A.ND YOU BE THE JUDGE. FIRST OF ALL PETER'S FATHER WAS NOT BORN IN GERMANY. HE WAS BORN IN MONS, FRANCE. THIS IS A SMALL TOWN IN THE CENTRAL PART OF FRANCE. DURING THE RELIGIOUS WAR BETWEEN THE CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS, THE PROTESTANTS LEFT FRANCE ANDWENT TO THE ALSACE AND LORRAINE AREA NEAR GERMANY. SOME OF THE PEOPLE WENT INTO GERMANY AND SETTLED. PETER'S GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER STAYED IN GERMANY AND RAISED PETER'S FATHER. PETER AS A YOUNG MAN MARRIED AND CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE LATE 17008. THEY ARRIVED AS MANY BELIEVE IN ABOUT 1765. PETER AND HIS WIFE SETTLED IN MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY ON THE DELEW ARE BAY. THEY GAVE BIRTH TO THEIR ONLY CHILD WHICH WAS PETER. PETER'S FATHER JOINED THE CONTINENTAL AR.M:Y UNDER WASHINGTON AND STAYED AT VALLEY FORGE DURING THE WINTER. ON DECEMBER WASHINGTON MOVED HIS TROOPS ON CHRISTMAS EVE TO THE RIVER AND CROSSED DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. I HAVE A COMPLETE HISTORY ON THIS. THERE WERE NO MEN KILLED DURING THIS BATTLE. THREE OFFIERS OF WASHINGTON'S STAFF AND THREE ENLISTED MEN WERE WOUNDED. THERE WERE TWO DEATHS. PETER'S FATHER AND ONE 'OTHER MAN DIED. THEY WERE NOT KILLED IN BATTLE BUT FROZE TO DEATH ON THE TRENTON SIDE. THE BATTLE OF TRENTON, IF YOU READ ABOUT IT WAS VERY ONE SIDED. WASHINGTON HAD THE UPPER HAND ON THIS FIGHT AND WENT ON TO ANOTHER BATTLE ON JANUARY FIRST 1777.
THE DATES OF PETERS BIRTH WAS FOUND BY KNOWING THE EXACT DAY HE DIED. USING A COMPUTER WITH A PROGRAM SET UP TO DO BIRTH DATES TO DEATH DATES WILL GIVE YOU THE DAY, YEAR AND DAY OF THE WEEK (SUN., MON., TUES AND Etc.)
IN 1812 PETER WOULD HAVE BEEN 40 YEARS OLD. IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO HE WOULD RAVE NOT BEEN A BOY AS JOHN STATED BUT IN HIS MID FORTIES. I HAVE HEARD OF PETER'S INVOL VMENT IN THE WAR AT SANDUSKY. IN 1846 THE MEXICAN WAR STARTED AND PETER WOULD HAVE BEEN 74. I DO NOT THINK THAT PETER WAS IN THAT WAR. NO RECORDS EXIST THAT SHOW HE WAS. JOHN’S SON PETER MOTTICE BORN IN 1829 MUST HAVE BEEN THE PETER WHO WAS IN THIS WAR. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 17 YEARS OLD AND A GOOD AGE FOR A DRUMMER BOY. THE DRUM ENDED UP IN THE CHARLESTON5 W.Va. IN 1909. THIS IS ANOTHER STORY ON HOW THE DRUM GOT THERE. JAMES MOTTICE MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE AS JOHN CREIGHTON MOTTICE. JAMES BEING THE FATHER OF JOHN C. MOTTICE. JOHN CREIGHTON MOTTICE WAS MY GREAT UNCLE BEING THE BROTHER OF MY GRANDFATHER. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CHART YOU CAN SEE THE NAMES AND DATES OF ALL OF JAME 'S CHILDREN. JOHN CRAWFORD MOTTICE ALSO HAD A LARGE FAMILY AND IS LISTED ON THE LEFT OF THE CHART. HIS CHILDREN ARE MARKED WITH (***). THERE ARE MANY NAMES ON THE CHART AND I HAVE NOT EVEN TRIED TO TRACE THEM ALL. ONE WAS WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF RESACA, GA. THAT WAS WILLIAM H.H. MOTTICE AGE 21,5-14-64 TO 7-15-65. PVT. WILLIAM AGE 18 10-14-61 WAS NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN AND BELIEVED KILLED IN BATTLE. THESE DATES ARE THE DATE OF THEIR ENTERING THE SERVICE AND THE DATE THEY WERE DISCHARGED. JAMES W. , JOHN C. , KENSLEY, MILTON ALL ENLISTED 5-2-64 AND SERVED TO 9-4-64. JAMES MOTTICE MY GREAT GRANDFATHER ENLISTED ON THAT SAME DAY.
WITH ALL OF THESE MOTTICES IN TOGETHER IT IS A WONDER THE WAR IS NOT STILL GOING ON. THE MOTTICE'S SERVED THE NORTH. JAMES WAS IN THE 162 OHIO N.G.
I HAVE THE MILITARY RECORDS OF JAMES B. MOTTICE WHICH GIVES A COMPLETE RECORD OF HIM.
JAMES DID NOT DIE IN 1886 AS JOHN STATED. HE DIED JUNE 12, 1889 AT 11 :30 AM. THIS IS ON RECORD. JOHN WAS ACCURATE ON THE DATES OF SARAH MARKS ON THE MARRIAGE DATED, DATE OF BIRTH AND DEATH. ALEXANDER ATWELL MOTTICE, CORDELIA R. MOTTICE , AND ANGELINE MOTTICE ALL WERE BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE AS THEIR FAHER JAMES. THE REST WERE BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE. MY GRANDFATHER TOLD ME THAT HE AND RICHARD WERE NOT BORN IN THE SAME HOUSE AS THEIR FATHER. SO RICHARD AND CHARLES WERE BORN ELSEWERE.THOMAS MOTTICE, A BLACK MAN, BORN TO PETER'S HOUSEKEEPER WAS THE ONLY ILLEGITIMATE CHILD BORN TO PETER. THIS MAN I TRACED AND HIS SON THOMAS AND HIS WIFE CAME TO CHARLESTON WITH MY GRANDFATHER CHARLES B. MOTTICE IN 1909 FROM MIDDLEPORT, OHIO. THE BLACK SIDE OF THE FAMILY CAME TO CHARLESTON, W.Va .. WITH TWO CHILDREN. A SON WHO DIED IN PRISON AND A DAUGHTER WHO WAS KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT. THOMAS AND HIS WIFE BESS DIED DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF WW2. BESS HELPED RAISE MY FATHER AND ALSO TOOK CARE OF ME WHEN I LIVED WITH MY GRANDMOTHER. BESS DIED WHILE I WAS OVERSEAS.
NO OTHER BLACK MOTTICE'S LIVE AS OF THIS DATE THAT I KNOW OF. PETER GAVE THIS ILLEIGITIMATE CHILD HIS NAME AS HE WAS.A·VERY HONORABLE MAN. SO AS YOU' CAN SEE THERE ARE A FEW SKELETONS IN THE MOTTICE CLOSET.
IT IS NOW THE 14th OF JANUARY AND IT IS STILL RAINING.SO FAR IT HAS BEEN OVER 16" INCHES IN THIS STORM. THE STREAM THAT RUNS IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE IS REALLY FLOWING FAST AND HARD. IT IS GOOD HOWEVER AS I HAVE FIVE ACRES OF FOREST THAT CAN USE THE RAIN. THIS
MAY SOUND HARD TO BELIEVE BUT THE RABBITS ARE RUNNING IN ALL DIRECTIONS AND THE DEER ARE LOOKING FOR HIGH PLACES. THE W ATER HAS DRIVEN THE SNAKES OUT OF THE GROUND AND THEY ARE IN THE TREES. THEY SHOULD BE IN THE GROUND THIS TIME OF YEAR. RATTLERS ARE NO FUN EVEN IN THE SUMMER. COYOTES ARE HAVING A FEAST BUT ARE GETTING TO BE A PROBLEM. I LOST MY CAT TO ONE OF THEM THE OTHER NIGHT.
I GOT YOUR BOOK TODAY AND HAV STARED TO READ IT.I FIND IT TO BE VERY EDUCATIONAL. WHEN I WAS IN WASHINGTON,D.C. IN THE LATE FORTIES I WORKED AT THE WHITE HOUSE. EVEN THEN THINGS WERE GETTING SCREWED UP IN THE BANKS. SOMEDAY I WILL WRIE ABOUT MY TIME THERE. AS OF NOW I AM BUSY WRITING THREE BOOKS AND MAYBE SOMEDAY I WILL GET ONE OF THEM DONE. I HAVE A PUBLISHER WHO WANTS MY LAST BOOK. HE LIKES WHAT HE HAS LOOKED AT AND WANTS IT FINISHED. HELL I AM IN NO HURRY. I AM 68 YEARS OLD .AND AM TOO BUSY FIGHTING THE GOVERNTMENT. I SURE LIKE A GOOD SCRAP. IT IS FUN TO GET A FEW INSPECTORS HOT UNDER THE PANTS AND WATCH THEM SQUIRM.
WELL I THINK I WILL STOP FOR NOW. THESE ARE A FEW THINGS TIHAT I HAVE:
PETER'S MARRIAGE PAPERS
PETER'S WILL
PETER'S COURT HEARING
PETER'S CENSUS RECORD OF FAMILY PETER'S DEATH RECORD
PETER'S POLITICAL OFFICE RECORDI AM WAITJNG ON PETER'S MILITARY RECORD. PAGES FROM TWO BOOKS TELLING ABOUT PETER'S LIFE.
GOT THESE PAGES IN BOSTON.I ALSO HAVE RECORDS OF JOHN C. MOTTICE, THE FIRST SON OF PETER, MARRIAGE RECORD AND A CENSUS RECORD OF HIS FAMILY. I HAVE MANY RECORDS FROM MOTTICE'S THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. SO LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU NEED.
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CHARLES DARWIN MOTTICE
2735 AKRICH STREET
REDDING, CALIF. 96003
PHONE/FAX 916-275-2622