GRANDPA DUMPLIN'

i MADE CHICKEN AND DUMPLINS TODAY, THAT MADE ME REMEMBER MY GREATGRAND FATHER NO. 5. HIS NAME WAS DUKE WHALEBONE. THEY CALLED HIM DUMPLIN'. HE MIGRATED FROM ENGLAND TO THE VIRGINIA COLONIES IN 1740.ACTUALY HE HAD NO CHOICE.HE WAS IN NEWGATE PRISON IN LONDON. HE WAS A THIEF. HE HAD HIS CHOICE, GO TO VIRGINA OR GO TO PRISON. HE CHOISE VIRGINA. HIS FATHER JOHN WHALEBONE WAS SENT 20 YEARS BEFORE BUT HE CAME BACK. THEY HUNG HIM AT NEWGATE PRISON. IF DUKE HAD NOT BEEN A THIEF I MIGHT BE IN ENGLAND TODAY. COURSE I PROBABLY HAD OTHER FOREFATHERS IN JAIL, BUT THIS IS THE ONLY WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TRACK. HE SERVED 7 YEARS AS A BOND SERVENT THEN MARRIED MY GRAND MOTHER ELIZEBETH, MOVED TO NORTH COROLINIA AND DIED THERE OF OLD AGE.SISTER NO 2 THINKS THEY CALLED HIM DUMPLIN' COUSE HE WAS PLUMP,I THINK HE WAS A LADIES MAN.