Two works by Poe decoded. Announcement!!

The "unresolved mysteries" of Sir Robert Dudley's D'America XXXIII continue: The text quoted in post #159 above,.copypasted a year or so ago, has vanished in the meantime and, when Sir Robert's american expeditions are further examined, it is clear he never sailed as far North as Washington or Vancouver, ie the relative maps, added by Giuseppe Cocchini publishers in 1661 (cousins of US Caussins-Cozines), are most propably someoneelse's.

The matter "who discovered America?" already exhausted (without a definite reply) is of no particular importance re this thread, yet those interested to stake their claim for first settling there are advised to visit
http://geoweb.venezia.sbn.it/geoweb/...Americane.html. and further note that the existence of a "northtern passage" was already known in Plato's time. It was next attempted by a venetian sailor named "John Cabot" in the early 17th century. .

Part I
-1631 By his " De symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia. Coloniae Agrippinae:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/stirlingemblem.html", Jesuit Rev Nicolas "Caussin" or Caccini declares himself a "father of Aegyptology".
-1647-1661 the fiorentine-venetian-genoan-french sailors, royal printers and whatnot, Cocchini, (same family as french Cochin-Caussin-Caccini-Causse, later B.Franklin's friends), print Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare demonstrate their particurar knowledge of US northern East Coast
-A french jesuit priest named Nicolas Caussin, relative of the previous (who +1651), first sets foot on Maryland, (St Mary's land), before 1640, marries a Jane Clark, has three sons, Ignatius, John and William and leaves a will in 1653.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/corzine/messages/240.html
-His son Ignatius succeeded him at St Mary's sometime 1648-1675
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb..../g0000086.html
http://gennotes.150m.com/clarkapp.html
-In Williamsburg, Queens, NY, the Cozines own the "schoonmakers" yard:
...a John Cozine was an early settler in this vicinity. He owned the farm of the
late Nicholas Schoonmaker..Francis White’s farm has been occupied by his family since about 1700. His grandfather, Thomas White, kept the king’s store in Maspeth before the Revolution.http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/...y/newtown.html
etc etc etc

Further the contents of the Announcement as well as the above, we fully understand the problematic of "Dutch" or "German" Cuzyns to our documenting the french provenance and true identity of Conewago Rev Cornelius, ie Claude-Denys Cochin or Baron Denys:
As father of all "Cozines" who had a role to play in US history, Rev Cornelius has been the subject of research of many descendants and relatives, unlike the "Cornelii" in simultaneous existence, the cause possibly of the fuss and misunderstanding.
Noteworthy that these "historicaly important" Coz(s)ines have also escaped the attention and scrutiny of historians and, whereas Robert Troop's biography is on the web (Wikipedia) and John Lawrence, a merchant (descendant of Newtown, Brooklyn, founder Thomas Lawrence, 1667) is also to be found in "The Atlantic Crossing" (Time-Life books, Amsterdam, page 48, his ship The Brilliant, Norfolk VA, a tobacco brig bought off by the british admiralty in her first trip to Liverpool, 1775) John Cozine, the other legal expert of the sacred US Constitution, still remains a mystery, at least in the web published family endeavours by his descendants.

Confident that they (Rev Cornelius's descendants) are the same as the french "Mercer dynasty" who also appear, as previously mentioned, 1790-1836 in Zante as "Cochini", we'll next endeavour to further trace them, the lawyer "John Cozine" 1790-1836 in particular, on the web.

yanni, just curious, you cite a lot of digitized/online/web published sources and /or transcribed/interpreted sources of info. How much do you rely on *primary* sources for your research here?

John Balm Cozine, 1722-1798, of unknown father named John, grandson either of Rev Cornelius or his brother, Gerard, propably with a Balsamo mother, his daughter Eliza Althea Cozine born 1785....MARRIED In N. York, Mr John Marshall, of Charleston, S. C. to Miss Eliza Cozine, daughter of the late John Cozine, Esq. ( John Marshall, Federalist Chief Justice of the United States after A.Burr as per http://freepages.history.rootsweb.co...g2/Chap04.html)

1792 John Cozine is granted a piece of Jay, Vermont
..... the legislature decided that “the tract of land called Carthage is an uncommonly good one, and that it should be erected into a township by the name of Jay.” One third of the territory was granted to Gov.Thomas Chittenden, and the remaining two thirds to John Jay and John Cozine, of New York.
(From same site: 1805-1806:“Voted, That Louisa Tolman, an indifferent person, be and is appointed to draw the numbers in the Draft.” John Jay drew 112 lots and John Cozine sixteen. “Draft of that Part of the Northern Division of the township of Jay that was drawn to John Jay, Esquire, by the proprietors of said part of Jay and now divided between John Jay, Esq., and Azarias Williams, this 24th day of November, 1806.”.... The first saw-mill was built in 1822, by Solomon Wolcott, on the Branch, twenty or thirty rods below the present mill site and below the covered bridge. It was carried off the following summer by high water, and was never rebuilt. The house was built upon the bluff on the south side of the stream, and was occupied by a man by the name of White, who run the mill. The next built was a saw-mill erected by Ithamar Hadlock, on the Cook brook, just below the present dam. The precise date cannot be ascertained, but was about 1830. Hadlock sold Ebenezer Brewer a half interest, April 16, 1835, and the whole interest June 22, 1838.)http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/OrleansJay.html

1794: John Cozine vs Aaron Burr (who was appointed Oct 1792 by Governor Clinton as judge of the supreme court):
The opinion of Rufus King in this case was concurred in by Stephen Lush, T. V. W. Graham, and Abraham Van Vechten, of Albany; Richard Harrison, John Lawrence, John Cozine, Cornelius J. Bogart, Robert Troup, James M. Hughes, and Thomas Cooper, of New-York....
for
"An act for the more effectual protection of the southwestern frontier settlers." Unsuccessful efforts were made by Colonel Burr and others to amend it(missing webreference)

1798 April-June: John Cozine is among the "young federalists" who ardently support the notion of a war against jacobin France. The notion failed but some 900 young men then declared their willingness to serve abroad defending the interests of the US (see: PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE WAR OF 1812.BY BENSON J. LOSSING 1869 at http://freepages.history.rootsweb.co...g2/Chap04.html) as follows:

1798 John Balm Cozine: Died of yellow fever September 15,

1809 Cozine street, Greenwich Village, NY:
Just after Paine's death a street was cut through, called Cozine Street. Names were fleeting affairs in early and fast-growing New York, and the one street from Cozine became Columbia, then Burrows, and last of all Grove, which it remains today.... The Commissioners replanning New York desired to pay Paine's memory a compliment and on opening up the street parallel with Grove, they called it Reason Street, for the " Age of Reason." This was objected to by many bigots (who had never read the book) and some tactful diplomat suggested giving it the French twist—Raison Street. Already they had the notion that French could cover a multitude of sins. Even this was too closely suggestive of Tom Paine, " the infidel," so it was shamelessly corrupted to Raisin! Consider the street named originally in honour of the author of the " Age of Reason," eventually called for a dried grape! This too passed, and if you go down there now you will find it called Barrow Street.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles13...illage-5.shtml


PS to "Logos": Source (primary or not) reliability has often been addressed in The Announcement. You don't really believe that such persons, famous for their multiple personnae, can be traced without source interpretation, by itself an art!

Recap.

Imagine yourself finding, in the ruins of your late granparents house, a large oil canvas under the rubble: You'd propably dust and study it next: Wear and tear, you can make out just parts of the picture, know it's by an old master and think there maybe a message in it for you, how it all happened, how did we all end in here, what do you do?

You examine it more, hours and hours, you read about art, techniques, methods and materials and, if you are lucky enough, you "see" more parts, amazing parts but, unlucky you, realise they are not all from the same hand, your canvass the work of many artists, "masters of disguise" to be precise, their messages so hard to read ....what then?

Experts and historians, you next call, refuse to touch your piece, name the masters, interpret the work, face the glow, turn their backs to you and dissappear, they infuriate you.

Later, when you have also seen through the beginning and the end, or so you think, the former crafted by your kin, the latter by someone else who left his rust and torn the work, blood splatters all over blurring the message and cutting your communications long ago, what do you do then?

You go on in the heat, can't back away now, keep on shouting on deaf ears, blame your ignorance, learn in an hour what you have ignored a lifetime, use every means available and, lucky you(!), find next another man's work on your painting, an american, a famous poet and, unlucky you(!), another riddle himself!

You find the strength to quickly relearn all you need then, get to know him better, trust him, interpret him, fascinated, his work, your understanding, keep on stretching your brains to limits never tried before, read anything relevant, wishfull thoughts and mistakes, the painting's message still unclear but the title now reads "roots of globalism", unlucky you, **@%$&#, the cherry to your pie, grind your teeth, go on, forget the heat.

The web, a Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve long gone, get back in the desert, face the army of veiled sheiks ready to tear you down, who are you insolent nobody telling us you know better, but no, you have done your homework, a virtual army, just you, your claim public but blinding the light and your course unsure, climb up that fossiltree for direction, Don Quichotte or SanGiorgio, the mill towers in the distance and the dragon below ready to devour you, fool him, cuddle him, kill him, do something.

You next see shadows moving under the brilliant crust, hear their call faintly at first, louder next, talking strange tonques, bits of their story, enough to read "WE", two letters, blessed be simplicity, you think, but maybe wrong, big is the desert, can't be just you, not just WE the towers and the dragon, there maybe, must be, others here, find them, call them, wake them up, make them talk, force them say their piece but no, not a sound, not a soul, not a word, just you and your thoughts, just you and your mended canvass, just you and this carcass of a dragon and the laugh of Apollo πανδαμάτωρ above all.

Such is the present status or recap of The Announcement, reader......καί ο νοών νοείτο.

I now understand why the Greeks were such great poets; and, above all, I can account, it seems to me, for the harmony, the unity, the perfection, the uniform excellence, of all their works of art. They lived in a perpetual commerce with external nature, and nourished themselves upon the spirit of its forms. Their theatres were all open to the mountains and the sky. Their columns, the ideal types of a sacred forest, with its roof of interwoven tracery, admitted the light and wind; the odour and the freshness of the country penetrated the cities. Their temples were mostly hypæthric; and the flying clouds, the stars, or the deep sky, were seen above. O, but for that series of 6306 wretched wars which terminated in the Roman conquest of the world; but for the Christian religion, which put the finishing stroke on the ancient system; but for those changes that conducted Athens to its ruin — to what an eminence might not humanity have arrived!Shelley’s Impression of Pompeii.
(From a letter to Thomas Love Peacock.) [c. 1818]
http://www.elfinspell.com/CelebratedLetters.html

"Again a revelation came to Joseph Smith from the Lord: 'Joseph, son of man, take a roll of papyrus and write on it these words: 'This papyrus represents Abraham and his sojourn in Egypt.' Then take another papyrus roll and write these words on it: 'This papyrus represents Joseph of Israel.' Now hold them together in your hand as one record. When the saints ask you what your actions mean, say to them, 'This is what the Lord says: I will take the papyrus of Joseph and join it to the papyrus of Abraham. I will make them one record in my hand.' Then hold out the papyrus rolls you have written on, so the saints can see them. And give them this message from the Lord: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations and bring them to Zion."
http://www.myegyptology.net/file/id622.htm

We have visited the British Museum, which contains a vast number and quantity of Egyptian Sepulchres [Sepulchers], Mummies, Hieroglyphics, and Papyrus, the history and account of which we feel much interested in, and shall forward you an account of the same in a future communication.
We subscribe ourselves your brethren in the everlasting covenant,
C. KIMBALL, W. WOODRUFF, G. A. SMITH.
TIMES AND SEASONS.
D. C. SMITH, EDITOR.
CITY OF NAUVOO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1841http://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n05.htm

You might have found the previous post's title irrelevant to the text, viewer, you might have thought it didn't make sense and you could be right:
Nothing makes sense anymore!

For instance, the many Coz(s)ine root hunters make no sense by ignoring the Maryland Caussins while ommiting, at the same time, their heirs, the Maryland Cassins, the "irish-armenians" of said title, well recorded otherwise as early naval officers and scientists, taking part in Decatur's "eastern" expedition, then saving Norfolk VA (fully justifying now Poe's "not long the measure of my falling hours, for of all stars closer was thine to ours") their name printed in gold in US naval history (excepting the short interval, Monroe's doctrine, 1815-1836), their records now at the American Philosophical Society, next to the Cassini astronomy book (http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/c.htm).

It doesn't make any sense to further wait our "Cuzyn" etc US cousins to answer our invitation for a public discussion on the delicate issues of religion and constitution, no "reason" indeed.

The "US Cozine" research was not needed to beginn with, we said as much earlier on: The "Mercer Dynasty" choice of our Paris cousins alongside Poe's interpretation was enough and, as such, further studying early US history to find out exactly why the Baltimore merchants decided, 1815, to finance the "liberation" of Levant seas and thus promote their goodies and then decided, for some "raisin" or other, to cut promised aid and frigates delivery, siding with Britain, at http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/cobmd012.html, makes also no further sense at all:

Researching above source for names and relations, as per name index included there: "Poe, Carrol, Murray, Dennis Claude, Geo. C. Washington, Gerard N. Cassin etc etc etc" in particular, will be to no avail, there are far easier ways to persuade the few remaining infidels (to our rationality) of our riddle solving capacity.

It makes sense, for instance, to ask ourselves "What reason did the Paris "Mercer Dynasty" have to entrust their sensitive family archive to an american author?".

It makes perfect sense because we have now discovered their "Merecr" roots and ties to the Maryland Lawrences and, as such, if we are lucky enough to establish that "Monsieur" (it's a she propably) Winnie H. Lawrence IS of Monrovian provenance and, if furthermore we are also lucky enough to further document our allegation that her book IS a half truth and of no use to us, as already stated, then out point IS made and we save ourselves the trouble, our familyghostbusting patience long exhausted

A monrovian-mormon "Winnie Lawrence" can be found at

http://www.heirsandroots.com/needham.htm

and a review of Winnie H.Lawrence's "Cochin Mercer Dynasty" book can be seen at
http://www.h-france.net/vol3reviews/harrison2.html

The review article--as well as the book itself-naturally fails to address the issue "Mercer Co Cozines" and, as such, the question why would a french family of "notable status", a later "denizen of liberal catholic circles", chose a monrovian american historian-author with quaker-mormon roots, to write their story, has now been answered:

A different philosophy (as per previous post) that' s all!

Whew. Talk about initiative. Do a lot of people read what you have to say? I read a lot of your posts but I can't comment on any of them because I know little of the subject.

..are rare birds indeed, (USS Peackock, Winnie's cochins/cassins etc etc):

BAIRD, Spencer, John Cassin, George N. Lawrence; Reports of Explorations & Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable & Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, . . . in 1854-5. Volume IX. General Reports Upon Zoology of Several Railroad Routes Birds. Washington, House of Representatives, 1858, , 4to [30 x 24 cm]; lvi, 1005 pp, numerous tables, index, contemporary leather-backed boards, rubbed, edge wear, joint cracking but strong, spine title lettering faded, interior is quite clean and very good.

This report was reprinted verbatim for the Cassin bird book, The Birds of North America, published 1860, that became a classic work on the birds of the western US. Zimmer 646: 'The most important work on North American birds up to its date since Audubon and Wilson. The work consist of a critical, descriptive account of all the birds of North America, north of Mexico, and is not restricted to the species collected by the Pacific Railroad Surveys'. Hasse p. 62. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West: 'The massive volumes of the Pacific Railroad Reports represented the combined efforts of the topographical engineers and a sizable contingent of the country's foremost scientists. Not since Napoleon had taken his company of savants into Egypt had the world seen such an assemblage of scientists and technicians marshaled under one banner'.

Now studying botany, the "very red cabbages" of Baltimore city, and will be back soon.

Eureka!

Part 1.
Had it not been for the particular "ornith", Yanni would have long boarded captain Steven Cassin's "Peacock" and sailed off, destination Zante, but....

Poe's 6 years in Philadelphia, 1838-1844....his most productive, yielding "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," among others... (The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was founded in 1812 "for the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, and the advancement of useful learning)....

....fully justify the assumption that Edgar was in close touch with..... .

John Cassin (1813-1869) was a Pennsylvania Quaker, businessman and unpaid curator of birds at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, which housed the largest collection of study skins in existence at the time. Cassin took responsibility for cataloging and arranging the collection, thereby becoming familiar with birds from all over the world.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~nathist/Site/w...2A.html#cassin

After Edgar's death, John joined...

U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere During the Years 1849-50-51-52. (Contains 37 plates and 11 woodcuts all complete. 15 plates are color bird illustrations by John Cassin)

....and Perry's far east expedition next ....

At Hong Kong the expedition broke up, ships returning to the States or remaining on station as part of the regular Asiatic Squadron. Perry, exhausted and ill, traveled by commercial steamer and overland through Europe, arriving in New York in January 1855. On April 23, 1855, his original flagship, the Mississippi, docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard and the next day "Old Matt" formally hauled down his pennant.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/...rry/index.html

...while back home....

One of the most destructive fires with which our city has been visited broke out shortly before 12 o'clock on Thursday night, October 19th. (1854) It is supposed that the fire originated.....to the inflammable nature of the contents of the establishment, the flames spread with a fierceness and rapidity that defied all efforts made.......the cooper-shop of -Page 547-Mr. John Causin, and several tenement houses occupied by colored people, were burnt out.....( THE Chronicles of Baltimore;BY COL. J. THOMAS SCHARF, MEMBER OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC., ETC.BALTIMORE:,TURNBULL BROTHERS, (around 1869):

Col Scharf (like sharp!) member of the Maryland Historical society, was Edgar's first ever biographer and, obviously a half truth writer, a "papyri copier" and an outright "very red cabbage":

No true historian-author can bypass the naval officers Cassins (father John, son Stephen) in charge (1821) of naval yards of Norfolk and Washington and get away with it.

His book has been studied and found very usefull indeed.

(Part II following soon).

Part II

The recent discovery of Edgar's "alleged" friend, the Philadelphia-Baltimore ornithologist John Cassin or Caussin, same family as the US Cassin "irish" sailors, same family as Edgar's previous greek friends, Yanni d'Anastasy's hydrian Cochins or Caussins, opens the road to glory for all "Poe researchers" and other "creative scholars", such as the US Naval Academy (who did well to timely "stop maintaining" their Poe Perplex site btw):

The "Gold Bug", written in 1843, as well as "The Raven" 1845, are full of John Cassin's natural science "traces" (not listed due to much more important findings to be revealed further down) and as such, and further to what has already been stated herein in the past, the unknown...

...man using the pen name "Pocasin" wrote in the Messenger, "The Visionary is a vivid, inventive, and thrilling sketch -- teeming with beautiful language, which has the freshness and volume of the mountain cataract, without its turbulence" in July of 1834 (Thomas,169)

...may well be young John Cassin well aquainted with his family history.

However:

As the "Cassin sailors" recent discovery and the relevant websearch carried out by your truly in the last two days produced important findings leading to :
a) The answer, up to a point, to the question re Edgar's real identity and death.
b) The "greek frigates order" fiasco and those who benefited from it.
c) The identities of the Cassin officers-central figures in the US naval history,
d) "indications" concerning other "central figures" of US history...
e) the solution to the 1835 Zante murder

and as such delicate matters take time to be put together in a readable fashion...

Your patience is required: a) above is under preparation and will be published next.

Hi Yanni.....

Interesting about John Cassin, the "alleged" friend of Edgar Allan Poe. Good that you see Cassin influence in Poe's "The Gold Bug" and "The Raven". "Pocasin" -- very clever pen name.

I must discuss with you Poe and the Beale Papers mystery as you asked me to. It appears to me that Edgar Allan Poe did not author the Beale Papers. There is, however, very good reason to suspect that Poe did author them as in the following site the Beale Papers/Gold Bug comparisons are monumental:

http://www.bealepapers.com

But Poe did not author the Beale Papers. A man by the name of John William Sherman had motive, opportunity and ability to create a treasure hoax; a physical treasure of silver and gold does not exist. However, if a message exists in the elusive B1 cryptogram then there is a treasure of sorts after all as this cryptogram has remained unsolved for about 124 years until now; Kenneth Bauman has deciphered two messages from cryptogram B1. The following sites outline John William Sherman as creator of the "dime novel" Beale Papers:

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/bealeciphers/Page20.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/bealeciphers/Page23.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/bealeciphers/Page24.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/pro/bealeciphers/Page22.htm

John Sherman extensively plagiarized Edgar Allan Poe to make his story (Beale Papaers) appear to be written by Poe. Sherman went as far as to hide a second message in B1 which equates to a signature of Edgar Allan Poe. I have deciphered this signature over and above the first decipherment of the phrase ERE FEN DUE RED KNEE which is explained in this site:

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme5/beale/index.html

Very beneficail to the discovery of the Poe signature was James Gillogly's site: (Jim stops short of discovering the 5 word phrase and Poe signature)

http://members.fortunecity.com/jpeschel/gillog3.htm

My second book will outline the Poe signature and is the entire project for which the book "Leaves of Lavendered Lily" in only an introduction. "Leaves of Lavendered Lily" can be ordered by the following two methods:

http://www.rosedogbookstore.com/leoflali.html

1-800-834-1803

Yanni, I hope this information is beneficial to your research; if you're concvinced, as I am, of Poe' NON-involvement with the Beale Papers, perhaps this can save you some time with the Beale Papers investigation. Even though there likely is no treasure (gold/siler), the Beale Papers, especailly cryptogram B1, IS NOT entirely a hoax. Perhaps there is SOMETHING hidden at Redknee. It is a mysterious project to be solved to say the least. I have done just that and am writing about it. My second book should be published by Christmas of 2007.

Yanni, I would be honored for you to read "Leaves of Lavendered Lily"! And especially honored if you would promote the book in Greece! Thank-you so much for your efforts and good luck on furthering you research -- I'll stay in touch via this thread and private e-mail

Part I
Colonel Scharf of Baltimore provided many clues to the solution of our puzzles including, but not limited to: Edgar's "perplex", as US Navy scholars chose to label it, and it's twin, John Allan's, the two, puzzles and men, inseparable.

"Pocasin" will concentrate on above "twins" and will address the relevant issue of the greek frigate fiasco as well.

Early in this thread we have insisted that Edgar did participate in "his greek expedition" in 1827, was also earlier on in Greece as George or William Townsend Washington (and Egypt as John Fowler Hull) and that John Allan, his foster father, was the same man as John M. Allen, the captain who supplied provisions to Missolonghi at the time of Byron's death (April 1824).

This theorem, that both men used multiple identities, that both shared each other's secrets and were thus chained to eachother, their philosophies totally different, "Until death did them part" AND "money", #1 motive always in criminal cases, is THE ONLY WAY to intepret Edgar, his work and his death.

Because, if this theory is correct, if John Allan is Tampico captain John Allen, he does not die in 1834 but is alive in 1849, Edgar's death, the chain possibly broken as his interests dictate.

This theory ONLY explains the controversial relationship of the two men, partly evident in their correspondence, Edgar's "false Muse" of 1827-1834, his most "productive" period of 1834-1844, his "revengefull-outspoken-sincere" period from then on leading to his death.

"Sordid money" was possibly an influencing factor in Edgar's "sources-biographers" such as Mr Ingram (already mentioned), possibly Mr Nilsen or Neilson (a Poe, love rival of Edgar, from a publishing family Edgar strangely contacted late in life) and a surprising AllEn (who broke the rule spelling the name correctly). Not so with Griswold (who forced Edgar to confess in writing his "greek expedition" and who wished Edgar "good ridance" at his death), possibly not so with colonel Scharf, his colours clear (but banner waving often goes with bad intentions, doesn't it ) too "sharp" to be taken seriously, the one who first dictated in writing, in the short biography of Edgar in his am book, that Edgar's family name MUST be Allan, NOT Allen and that he NEVER joined a greek expedition!

"Multiple identity" made life easier for such "biographers", their heroes using mail to establish their false presences and identities when required: As such Edgar's own correspondence cannot be taken as solid evidence unless this factor is accounnted for and a graphology test is carried out to establish what part of Edgar's writing is his own and what part is not:

Because, the existence of a real William Wilson, is neccessary in this scenario, another "Edgar Allen" attending school in London while "George" or "William Townsend Washington" participates in the greek independence struggle, the topic also to be addressed further down.

There are however a couple of items the "Multiple identity + money" theorem does not explain:
The unknown earlier years of "Edgar", his neoclassical-french tuition, his eagerness to participate in the greek struggle, his 1833-34 criticism for Yanni d'Anastasy (far too patriotic for "philellene" Irishman), the absence of Ireland from his poetry, his origins and identity, his St Germain decoding(Assignation), his own decoding by a Yanni the greek, the maintenace of his myth, perplex and mystery by those who do know and don't tell and, lastly, this author's regenerated interest on "Po Casin".

PS to Legrand:Nice seing you in this thread again and thanks for your kind words. Edgar's Legrand will be addressed soon herein, the Beale treasure (a group of men searching for treasure in "Tampico land") possibly referring to John Allen's own source of wealth, yet for the time being I simply do not have the time to look deeper into the matter but be sure what is next to be revelead concerns you.

Part II (Legrand)

In "The Chronicles of Baltimore" by Colonel Scharf the name Legrand is included and described as follows:

Legrand, J. C. pages 529, 538, 564, 584, 620 : judge in 1849, chief justice of the court of appeals1858, died 1861.

The name rang a bell (E.A.Poe's "The Gold Bug" 1843 William Legrand, the hugenot friend of the author's other central hero) thus further websearching for the name led to:

1834 May 13. Richmond County, North Carolina. Duncan McRae and Hampton LeGrand, Trustees vs. John M. Allen. Mr. John M. Allen, You will take notice that on the 1st day of July next at the house of Obediah DUMAS in WILCOX COUNTY, ALABAMA we shall proceed to take the Deposition of Mark Allen and others to be read as evidence in certain Suits pending in the Superior Court of Law in the County of Richmond, N.C.
http://home.att.net/~hbridges/tidbits.htm

John Allan's alleged death in Richmond, March 1834, is thus followed by a law suit of "Hampton LeGrand, Trustees vs. John M. Allen", May 13 1834, including a "Mark Allen" deposition in Alabama(Tampico Land), then we have the 1843 "Gold Bug" talking for a treasure hidden in a mansion in Philadelphia and last we have a J.C.Legrand appointed judge in Baltimore, same year as Edgar's death of 1849, a rising star in the legal profession from then on.

We do remember reading somewhere that

....John remarried the following year, and his new wife, who provided John with three sons, apparently did not replace Frances in Poe's heart. The new Mrs. Allan was not fond of Edgar, either. In March 1834, upon hearing that John was gravely ill, Poe rushed to the bedside of his dying foster father -- and the second Mrs. Allan attempted to block Poe from entering the dying man's room. Poe pushed by her only to be confronted with a livid John, who cursed Edgar and insisted that the young man leave at once. After John's death, Poe found that the man who had raised him and whom he had often lovingly addressed as "Pa" had changed his will to remove all mentions of Edgar.

Following John Allan's alleged death Edgar writes

"I looked forward to the inheritance of a large fortune - and was in receipt of an annuity sufficient for my support - by a gentleman [who] always treated me with the affection of a father. But a second marriage on his part, and I dare say many follies on my own, at length ended in a quarrel between us."

the above copypasted text goes on next as follows:

John Allan died in March of 1834, leaving nothing of value to his never-adopted foster son Edgar In 1835 he returned to Richmond to work as an editor on the Southern Literary Messenger.

...leaving us wondering if Edgar did ever honour his commitment, covering up his resurrected "partner in chains" John M.Allen, or was indeed the client of "Duncan McRae and Hampton LeGrand, Trustees", an easy question for the keepers of their archive to answer today!

Part III

Where trustees there are trusts as well but the source of John Allen's treasure was certainly neither a "Poe" trust(and there was one) nor an unexpected 1825 "Galt inheritance":
At the time, the "greel frigates fiasco" was yielding its fruits to the many Allens allegedly involved in the "deal":

The "virtuous quaker" of 1823, London (previously mistaken for John Alla(e)n) was William Allen (1770-1843), New Lanark Philanthropist, 20.11.1807 fellow of the Royal Society, partner with Owen and Jeremy Bentham, trustee of the Duke of Kent's financial affairs around 1815, also known for his assistance to German Separatists, 1816-1817 - Bimmelers, Zoarites to settle in the US where, obviously, he was well connected (search for "ALS, receipts, bills, subscription lists, broadside, Meeting related papers and papers of Friends committee assisting the Germans to settle here, find land, etc.includes letters from the following: Allen, William copy of a letter to Stephen Grellet, 3 mo. 27, 1817").

There were many Allens (Allentown) in the US in high positions then, even New York's mayor (before, during and after the "fiasco", the order placed in his playground) was a Stephen Allen, (reformist and prison builder like Bentham and his friends... (http://www.correctionhistory.org/toc...T_report1.html)
...but by far the most "prominent", the one clearly in position to draw full benefit for delaying the frigate delivery and profiting as well, the one with connections on both sides, was a John Allen who, together with a Mr Echford, a Mr Blossom and a Mr Webb, were conveniently subcontracted the order from the other main contractors (among them Bayard, later related to Griswold and Edgar-see their "available curious" correspondence) and made the hit of the century:

Eckford....brought in his half-brother, John Allen, along with a Mr. Blossom as an investor. Allen was a shipbuilder, but remained mostly a silent partner leaving Isaac Webb to manage the yard....The following year Blossom died and from then on the yard was known as Webb and Allen.
In 1825...The Greek government wanted two of them. Christian Bergh was subcontracted to build the Hope and the Webb and Allen yard built the Liberator. The Hope was delivered. Then the Greek government's British allies swung the naval battle against the Turks at Navarino in 1827. So the Greeks canceled the order for the Liberator. The American government ended up purchasing her off the stocks and renamed her the Hudson.
The mid-1820s were prosperous times for the Webb and Allen shipyard... along the East River...http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/page2web.html
also http://jmisc.net/octo/octo-07.htm

Is this John the same as "Tampico" Allen and our John Allan?

(see next)

In a mercer-lawyer governed democratic society, reader, we can only supply all available information to enable you answer the previous rhetoric question while we continue our line of thought as follows:.

Was his foster-father's "captain John Allen-profitable involvement" in the greek frigates deal, the only "holds" Edgar had on him, was this the only reason of their quarrels and final breakup of March 1827?
"Yes" to the first, no" to the second (as we'll see further-down, their quarrels starting much earlier) but such holds were very weak if compared to what Allan had on Edgar and his alleged brother William Henry Leonard Poe.

It's written that Allan prevented Edgar from meeting his other relatives earlier on in life, his elder brother in particular, because of Mrs Allan's fondness and fear of losing her adopted son. This is not quite so:

Mr. Allan, it appears, had at the time of the death of Mrs. David Poe come into the possession of some of her correspondence. What was in these letters no one will ever know as they were afterwards destroyed by Mrs. Clemm at the request of Poe himself. There may have been some compromising matter in them. At any rate, in order to insure Edgar's silence as to his own affairs, Mr. Allan wrote a letter to William Henry Leonard Poe in Baltimore, complaining of Edgar in vague terms accusing him of ingratitude, and attacking the legitimacy of the boy's sister Rosalie.
Certainly it must have drawn the lines much tighter in the Allan household in Richmond. Three years later we find Henry in Baltimore publishing a poem entitled "In a Pocket Book," which shows every indication that the doubts about his sister's legitimacy had gone home.

If "no one will ever know" how can one be sure that it was only Rosalie's pedigree at stake?
How can one be sure of that when, still today, the Schultzes of Pennsylvania reformed church claim that Edgar was not the son of David Poe Jr but of D.P."Sr"?

VIRGINIA MARIA CLEMM (6) born 1810 only child of William Clemm, Jr. and Maria Poe married EDGAR ALLEN POE, the Poet, son of David Poe, Sr. and Elizabeth Cairnes.

And this "minor matter" on their pedigrre was not the only other(besides money) "good hold" John had on Edgar and his sailor brother:

"William Henry Leonard Poe", his birthdate unknown, his service record too, the author of "a" part of E.A.Poe's work, was not a "Poe", not an "Allen", was not even a "Henry":

He was a "William"...

..BUT...

..not a "Wilson", as Edgar described his problematic "self" in 1839.

William Wilson.

In his story Edgar makes reference, among others, to a very specific, if somewhat irrelevant, date, 19th January 1813, a date his "problematic self" was "born".
It took a while to find out what Edgar exactly meant !

The capture of the british frigate Macedonian October 25, 1812

There was a boy only twelve years of age on board the United States, the son of a brave seaman, whose death had left the lad’s mother in poverty. When the crew were clearing the ship for action, the boy stepped up to Decatur and said, "I wish my name may be put down on the roll, sir." "Why so, my lad!" asked the commander. "So that I may have a share of the prize-money," was the earnest reply. Pleased with the spirit of the boy, Decatur granted his request. The boy behaved gallantly throughout the contest. At the close of the action Decatur said to him, "Well, Bill, we have taken the ship, and your share of the prize-money may be about two hundred dollars; * what will you do with it?" "I will send half to my mother, and the other half shall send me to school." The commander was so pleased with the right spirit of the boy that he took him under his protection, procured a midshipman’s berth for him, and superintended his education. – Putnam’s Life of Decatur, page 193.

The following is a list of the officers of the United States: Commander, Stephen Decatur. Lieutenants, William H. Allen, .......Purser Midshipmen...Joseph Cassin, Philip Voorhees....

Lieutenant Allen was put aboard the Macedonian as prize-master; he secured the fore- and main-masts and rigged a jury mizzen-mast, converting the vessel into a bark. Commodore Decatur discontinued his cruise to convoy his prize back to America; they reached New London Dec. 4th. Had it not been for the necessity of convoying the Macedonian, the States would have continued her cruise, for the damage she suffered was of the most trifling character.

James Tertius De Kay, a local naval historian...notes that Allen...was put in command of the prize crew. He brought the ship into New York harbor where a city street was named in his honor.

After the ship The Macedonian arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, as a prize 4 December 1812, and taken into service by April 1813, Captain Jacob Jones in command.

Commander Allen (then master commandant by a commission dated July 24, 1813), finding it impossible to get the wind of his enemy, shortened the sail of the Argus to allow the brig to close. He flung out her colors, and at six o’clock wore and delivered a larboard broadside at grape-shot distance. The fire was immediately returned, and Commander Allen’s left leg was carried away by a round-shot.A London paper of August 27, 1813, contained a long account of the ceremonies on the occasion of the funeral of Commander Allen. Officers of the Royal Marines formed a guard of honor, attended by the Royal Marine Band. Eight captains of the Royal Navy were pall-bearers. Allen’s own officers were chief mourners. The American vice-consul was in attendance, and a large procession of the inhabitants followed the hearse. The coffin was covered with the American flag. In the church (St. Andrew’s) to which it was taken the vicar read the funeral service of the Anglican Church.

....not only his ship, but his leg and eventually his life. Ironically, his brief successor in command was also named William H. Allen. Providence-born Allen died many miles from home in a British hospital, in Plymouth on August 18, 1813.

William Henry Allen was a pretty impressive Naval officer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 21, 1784 (three years after the Battle of Yorktown).

That's how Edgar's problem was born, IF we are to take his word for granted that is!

As before mentioned, "Bill" was not a "Wilson" (captain William Hery Allen died 8 moths after Decatur adopted young Bill BECAUSE he was already a seaman's orphan BEFORE October 1812).

So now we don't just have "William Henry" Leonard "Poe's" birth year, around 1800, but so much more to digest.

(The very date "Wilson" was born, ie the day he received the share of his prize was found at the "members only" Jistor history website, thus the only information drawn therefrom was:
January 19, 1813 WAR DEPARTMENT January 19th, 1813. ... The officers and crew of the Frigate Macedonian 37 and some others have ...)

Think it over carefully, dear viewer, sleep on it, and we'll see what comes next....

...is all one can say on previous two posts, dear viewer. Fortunately a lot of good people had done their job, it was no Augean stable and didn't need a Hercules to clean it, an easterly breeze was enough!

Edgar Allen Poe, the son of David Poe sr, and his true biography now finally open-cards on the table for all to see:

As instructed by commodore Decatur, lieutenant William Henry Allen (with prize-purser officer, later judge, 1817, Joseph Cassin-died in 1822) placed young Bill to the care of frenchman Henry Didier in Baltimore (hometown of Jo Cassin) early in 1813 for his education.
Bill did not need to be told who his parents were, he knew already.

Lieutenant William Henry Allen was next commissioned captain of the Argus July 24, 1813, was killed in battle in August and was buried honourably in London where, soon after, John Allen established his tobacco trading firm with Ellis (using the Allan name to avoid disclosing his family relation to the late captain William).

When young Bill "X" was of age he joined the navy as a midshipan and chased West Indies pirates on board USS Macedonian. The Allens collapsed financially in London, returned to Richmond for master Edgar's schooling. John Allen tried his luck next as a mercenary-captain in the Levant (quite possibly on a Cassin-Cochini ship) until 1823-24, became then involved in the greek frigates deal, returned to Richmond, went into partnership with Webb and, money flowing, enjoyed himself accordingly when...

...all of a sudden...

...Bill X, tired of chasing pirates and aware his uncle's luck had changed to the better, decided to pay him a visit, summer 1825, in his navy outfit. John being away and Mrs Allan unknowing, young Edgar hosted midshipan Bill, his late uncle William's adoptee.

This contact was the beginning of Edgar's problematic on his origins and the beginning of his later quarrel with John Allen.

Henry boarded next the Macedonian (On 11 June 1826 Macedonian departed Norfolk for service on the Pacific station, returning to Hampton Roads, 30 October 1828...and Henry's Montevideo letter shows that he was aboard the U.S.S. Macedonian in 1827) thus, when Edgar run away from home, early Marth 1827, he first contacted the North American weekly where he published his "Pirate", an account of Bill's story, and then boarded a ship to the Levant, enlisting by an assumed name (possibly George T. Washington, later converted to William Townsend Washington) on USS Constitution.

On his return to Fort Moultrie, late 1828, John Allen had many reasons to suspect his "son's" behaviour and aquired knowledge, thus he attempted to harness him limiting his finances, nevertheless Edgar wanted to publish his Al Aaraaf (May-December 1829) and avoided giving the MS to John Allan as requested, Allan then learned in horror what his son had written, feared of his own exposure, thus Edgar's first ever "formal letter" to John Allan of January the 3rd 1830.

Edgar learned the whole truth much later, propably when Bill was dyig(letter of Feb 21st, 1830 to J.Allan).Until 1833 (last leter to J.Allan) he continued addressing him as AllAn and in his correspondence to other Poes, he attempted in vain to persuade them he was the son of David Jr.

When writining his "William Wilson", knowing that Henry is not a "Poe" as the title implies, he hid the fact Bill was also not a "Wilson", the matter much to complicated for his readers to understand anyhow, possibly avoiding to expose his Philadelphia friends, the Cassins, who told him the rest of his brother's story and kept him informed of the Zante 1835 "happenings", thus The Sonnet to Zante, Lygeia, The Assignation and Annabel Lea.

Henry Israjel Allen, Edgar's source", is unreliable (the fact documented by his attempt to credit not just The Pirate to "Bill" but Al Aaraaf as well), his evidence (Eliza Poe's letter of February 8, 1813, that "....Henry frequently speaks of his little brother and expressed a great desire to see him"-Allen 20) suspect of "mispelling".

END OF STORY!

(BTW: The assumption that Edgar was John Fowler Hull, the Gurna quaker of 1823 is withdrawn as false, the rest of The Announcement stays as is!) .

Interesting extracts from recently aquired and studied "ISTORIKA EMEROLOGIA TOU NAYTIKOY AGONOS TOU 1821, Georgiou Sahtouri, Second admiral" Kousoulinou&Athanasiadou publishers, Athens 1890.
(G.Sahtouris (1783-1841), second admiral 1824-1827 on warbrigg "Athina").

"Athina's" shiplog

page 74. October 19th 1824: reports captain Toubazi visiting an american brigg and being advised by captain that the USA intends to present them with a steam driven frigate (24 canons of 48lbs) and 200.thousand $ aid. .

page 122. 23rd of July 1824 Yanni d'Anastasy's ship supplying munition to Missolonghi (Lord Byron dies late April there)

pages 156-159. 30th November1824, Porto Keri, Zante: Captain Kyriakos Paxinos transferred to them from his schooner an american by the name of Washington (book's namelist, page IX, his christian name initial G.). who was very sick and who asked them to stay on board as he could not stay longer on the schooner. They next sail non stop for Hydra where they arrive December the 5th.

page 194. 15th April 1826 Cephalonia, They are advised that Lord Gordon has arrived in Zante and that a british ship has arrived from England with coal to be used to fuel the arriving frigates.

(the one and only american steamdriven frigate "Hope" arrives in Greece late December 1826, is given the name "Hellas" and becomes admiral Lord Cochran's flagship April 1827 on his arrival)

pages 234-238.
30th May 1827: They are anchored at Petsai awaiting, as ordered, first admiral Cochran on the "Hellas". They further report sighting, early in the morning, american frigate "Constitution" and another american trimasted merchantman coming from Napoli di Morea. The merchantman advises of two more american ships soon to arrive with provisions. Cochran on "Hellas" arrives 3pm same day.
2nd June the Constitution sails for Hydra and they (the greek fleet) receive order to sail the 3rd June for Niocastro. They meet Cochran on the Hellas the 9th June.

Part I

We have been imagining lately, dear viewer, how Yanni d'Anastasy replaced John Allen (departing for the States) in supplying munition to Missolonghi in 1824 and how Edgar "Perry" enlisted on the "Constitution", shortly before the flagship met Cochran's "Hellas" off Petsai, and how he must have gotten hold of the late George Washington's diary (recording his previous relation to Yanni's "Ianthe")....

...and have thus been drifting away from our main course which should lead us, St Nicholas allowing, to 1835 Zante.

No matter, we still have time to imagine a while longer:

We just remembered a Mme detective-curator of B.Franklin's archive, how we asked her, long ago, to reveal to us the contents of a "Caccini" correspondend of Mr BFranklin but she, having developed a kind of maternal-patronising feeling towards Benzie, refused to answer back....

Would you be so kind as to send me relative info and perhaps photos of ...b) From Caccini ?, ------. Dunkirk., to Benjamin Franklin 1779 February 17 A.L.S. 3p. XIII, 115.

...we wrote, daring the guess:

Re the identity of the second of Franklin's correspondents Caccini(?): He is either Cassini Cesar Francois de Thury or Cachin Joseph Marie Francois or Georges- Luis "Le Rouge" , all apparently related to the first.

The above tender memory of Mme Waswarderdamename came to being while looking at some maps and, guess what, the same instant, the very same, very enlightening, instant, we also remembered our young american nephew, Jim Couzyn, the head genealogist of the very dutch very Cyzyn family of Conewago!

You may recall, dear viewer, his modest reaction to our claim that

....the true identity of Rev John Causse's predecessor, a Rev Baron Denys who first appears... at Fort Duquesne, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers" (around 1755)

.....was that of the parisian botanist, Claude Denis Cochin, father of today's Paris "Mercer Dynasty" as well as father or uncle or something of recollet Jean Baptiste Causse, friend of B.Franklin, a John "Balm" etc etc.

A very modest reaction, nephew Jim's was, too modest in fact as a counter argument to such an "uprooting" statement!

Yes, an important revelation came while yours truly was looking at some old US maps!

Part II following

Part II

Imagine how difficult it must have been for George-Luis "Le Rouge" or "Luis Rose", as they called him in the States, drawing his maps, months among the redskins in the wilderness of Allegheny, alone but for the good Reverend Cornelius Gerretzen Cuzyn-Cozine, the pacifist dutchman......

1781.7 CARTE DES ENVIRONS DU FORT PITT ET DE LA NOUVELLE PROVINCE INDIANA Dediee A. M. Franklin. This map comes from the French edition of Thomas Hutchins' A Topographical Description of Virginia..., with the French title Description topographique de la Virginie, de la Pensylvanie, du Maryland et de la Caroline Septentrionale: contenant les rivières d'Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokée, Wabash, des Illinois, du Mississipi, &c publieé par Thomas Hutchins. It was translated and published by George Le Rouge in Paris. It shows the region from Fort Pitt south to Kentucky and from the Allegheny Front west to the Muskingum River. The "Indiana" in the title refers to today's West Virginia. This image is from Winsor (1899).

---and then solo rowing his canoo along the whole eastern coast, exchanging letters with his dear Benzie at the same time.......

1783.9 REMARQUES SUR LA NAVIGATION DE TERRE-NEUVE A NEW-YORK AFIN D'EVITER LES COURRANTS ET LES BAS-FONDS AU SUD DE NANTUCKETT ET DU BANC DE GEORGE. A Paris ches Le Rouge... . This is Benjamin Franklin's famous map of the Gulf Stream which includes the eastern coast from Newfoundland to Florida. Pennsylvania and the other states are named. According to McCorkle (#783.10, 786.3, 789.7), who illustrates three versions, Franklin sent a copy of his chart to the French marine office, and when he returned to Philadelphia in 1785 he carried this French chart with him. This map is also illustrated and discussed in Pritchard & Taliaferro #62. An earlier version of Franklin's chart of the Gulf Stream appeared on a circa 1768 map of the Atlantic Ocean which included both North America and Europe, and so is not listed here; it is shown in Pritchard & Taliaferro. The image here is the 1786 version A CHART OF THE GULF STREAM published by the American Philosophical Society, Vol 2. Pl. 5, with "A letter from dr. Benjamin Franklin. Containing sundry maritime observations. August, 1785," and text titled "Remarks Upon the Navigation from Newfoundland to New York, In order to avoid the Gulph Stream." Wheat & Brun #721; Phillips page 592. Image from the Heritage Map Museum CD by permission.
http://www.mapsofpa.com/antiquemaps28a.htm

Both maps by George Luis Le Rouge, (the "red")


A different philosophy, a "dark" philosophy, definitely!

Gay fire-fly of the night we come and go" (Al Aaraaf passage)

Edgar's "greekness", evident to this here greek who claims to be the first to interpret and understand him, was not his own, but Henry's, the good side of his "William Wilson", his greek brother.

"Around" they came to the Levant in 1823, John Allen and young William-Henry, the first as captain of a Cochini ship, William as Guilhelmo Cochini "in charge of the Zante affaires of the egyptian ruler Mehmet Ali", already mentioned, once only on greek records, 21st May 1823 (D.Konomos, Anekdota Keimena Tes Ellinikis Epanastaseos 1821,.Athens 1966, page 68).

When the US frigate purchase was decided, after the "famous" London financing agreement, John Allen left his post and departed for the States, April 1824, whereas, for some unknown reason, Guilhelmo left Zante in a hurry to be next found being transferred, 30th November1824, very sick, on captain Sahtouris's "Athina" off Porto Keri, Zante, asking passage to Hydra declaring himself as "George Washington".
(We also meet Yanni d'Anastasy supplying himself munitition to Missolonghi 23 July (6th August) 1824 whereas late in August he reassumes his official postiton as governor of the island of Santorini after a long absence.)

Passage to the States was provided to "George Washington" and we next see him visiting the Allens in Richmond, summer 1825, in his navy outfit etc.

He excited Edgar with his experiences and returned next to Greece undercover ("below") as George Washington late in 1825 but, because of his health and his "erratic personal behavior and colorful life-style" (he has been convinced in the meantime by Yanni to support the antibrit cause) he was then replaced by a more stable, patrioticaly, Edgar "Perry" who came "above" in May 1827 to inherit not just Henry's diary but his greek contacts as well.

"William Washington" and "George Wilson" are later versions of the one and only "William Wilson".

Any philosophy avoiding the truth is "dark" by definition!

Readers are reminded that "The Sonnet to Zante"-post #1 of this thread-was a first indication of Edgar's link to Greece.

The Sonnet lead next to "Al Aaraaf" and the two poems eventualy revealed to the amazed undersigned the intimate-yet very unlikely then- contact of a famous american poet with his own greek ancestors and, furthermore, the very same period, 1826-1835 his research had previously focused on BECAUSE of a murder in Zante, a murder instigated by the greek national poet Dionisios Solomos with unknown Cochini victims, the fact verified in part by the Sonnet's contents.

Previous research had, by the proccess of elimination, narrowed the list of victims to:

-Anastasy Cochini (about 1760-1835),
(propably elder son of le Comte de Saint Germain, ie Gioachino Cocchi (aka Lazarus Cochini), assistant to Napoleon's war ministry 1812-1815 under general Mortier as revealed while this Announcement was written)

OR

-a "never heard of" Guillhelmo Cochini, in charge of the affairs of Mehemt Ali in Zante in 1823
(Edgar's greek brother "William Wilson" as per last revelations.)

Everything written in here, viewer, all effort and initiative, was for this one and only purpose:

To find Edgar's greek links, contacts and circumstances and to identify the victim of the 1835 murder, an "own moral code" demanding to precisely formulate such an accusation against the sacred cow of greek litterature.

Need it/can it be described just how much more our research has accomplished, what an everlasting impression and effect such accomplishments had on an "ignorant greek Yanni"?

No, it cannot, no attempt can describe it and, furthermore, the topics covered-snapshot like but with a fair amount of close ups, some with microscope+camera combination to show we mean business- so immensely important, so fundamental, do not allow such an attempt.

-Before proceeding to Zante,1835 as scheduled, we feel obliged to point out that solving "Edgar", the aenigma of his "split personality", was a relief: We really liked his greek brother only and we'll not miss the remaining "other half", he may return thus, partly intact, to his worldwide friends and fans.

-Whereas "Al Aaraaf" was based in part on William-Henry's diary as well as Edgar's own later experiences, The Sonnet surely reflects specific news (1835 Zante) John Cassin, the ornithologist, brought to Edgar, thus what we read in the Sonnet are: The indignation of an already "americanised" exfrenchman with greek roots, a romantic view of things, the "lost shrine" an indication of their previous attempt towards a new religion going sour because the central players had in the meantime turned against oneanother, Anastasy, the senior "elder" and holder of all "sacred documents" (plus french property titles, plus Saint Germain files), murdered by his Salomon "followers" and their Cozine+Balsamo "New Age" associates, the next topic and sole object of our research.

-It may also be usefull to advise the reader that although we still seek to determine our own ancestor's roots (the Missolonghi engineer Michel Pierre Cochini) and legacy, our main interest and preferance stays with the Saint Germain-Anastasy-Yanni line and history:

By own considered choice!

THE
Chronicles of Baltimore;

BY
COL. J. THOMAS SCHARF,
MEMBER OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC., ETC.


"'In Whig Club, March 4th, 1777.

"'Resolved, That Mr. William Goddard, do leave this Town by twelve o'clock
to-morrow morning, and the County in three days. Should he refuse due
obedience to this notice, he will be subject to the resentment of a
Legion.'
..................
It seems that Mr. Goddard entirely disregarded their summons, as the
following extracts from the same papers will show. Mr. Goddard says: "That
on Tuesday morning last [25th March], about nine o'clock, a company of
men, some of them armed with swords and some having sticks, came to my
house and took possession of the doors and staircases, after which several
gents, headed by Commodore Nicholson, came up stairs into the printing-
office where I then was. The gents remained on or near the stair-case,
Commodore Nicholson entered the room and seized on me, on which a struggle
ensued. The door was shut by a workman of mine, which was burst open by
the gents who stayed behind, who were pressing forward to assist Commodore
Nicholson. Several of the company seized me, and whilst in that situation
I received several blows given with their fists. My workmen in the office
were treated in the same manner, thrown down and much abused. The workmen,
I believe, were struck in that manner because they were busy in attempting
to shut the persons out who were coming in. I was then dragged down
stairs, when Commodore Nicholson, being apprehensive of firearms, searched
my pockets, and so did several others. The names of the persons who then
entered my house and treated me and my workmen as above, were to the best
of my remembrance as followeth: Commodore James Nicholson, Benjamin
Nicholson, Esq., Col. Nath'l Ramsey, Mr. James Cox, David Stewart, Esq.,
Mr. David Plunkett, Mr. George Turnbull, Mr. Daniel Bowley, Mr. John
Gordon, Mr. George Welsh, Mr. Mark Alexander, Mr. Hugh Young, Mr. John
McClure, Mr. David Poe, Mr. Daniel Lawrence, Capt. Hallock and Campbell. I
was then carried out into the street, and surrounded

Page 160

by a great number of people, most of whom I believed belonged to the Whig
Club, and carried thence to the tavern kept by Mr. David Rusk, and into
the room where the Whig Club generally meet, where I was treated with
great indignity by several present. The company were greatly increased,
and I, besides those already mentioned, remember Mr. Benjamin Griffith,
Capt. Nathaniel Smith, Lieut. Thomas Morgan, John McCabe, Cornelius
Garratson, Job Garratson, James Smith, son of William, and William
Aisquith. After I had been for some time in the Club room, Commodore
Nicholson proposed a private conference in another room, into which a
number withdrew, leaving me in the outer room under guard. After
deliberation they returned, and Commodore Nicholson, as chief or head of
the assembly, told me they had come to a determination that I should
either engage to depart the State immediately, or be subjected to suffer
their original designs. I then told them before I could make my choice, I
should know what their original designs were. The Commodore observed that
was yet a secret; however, my person was unsafe, and they were prepared to
execute their purposes. I then asked how long they would give me to make
preparation. Six hours were mentioned, at the same time it was doubted
whether at their previous meeting, the State, or the town and county only
were intended, and finally determined that the town and county only were
intended. They also gave me leave to stay till night, but to be no longer
seen there until the new form of government, or a new form of government,
bad taken place, or until the wheels of government were in motion. I then
told them as I considered myself unsafe (to which some of the company
immediately replied that I was) I would consent to depart, hoping that
another form of government would speedily take place, I was then released
from the crowd, and suffered to go home to prepare for my journey. I
stayed at home till night, then put myself under the protection of Capt.
Galbraith, who commanded the guard in Baltimore Town that night, and in
the morning set off to Annapolis."

(William Goddard had previously supported the notion, the people of Baltimore should welcome the offer of brit General Howe. )

Part I

Having documented the existence and relations of the Cochini in Zante and the US, their links to Ben Franklin, the Poes, the Allens, their "Balm" choices etc, their relations to Saint Germain'Cioachino Cocchi and his later(?) enemies, the "Voltaire oriented' Cochin-Cozine mercers, we now come to another familiar name:

Salmon!

"Solomos" in greek is salmon, the fish but, when the last "s" is replaced with an n, we have Solomon, the ancient jewish King.

King Solomon would propably have objected to be mistaken for a fish, thus people of his race who bear the name rarely offend him by purposely changing it to "Solomos"(grk) or "Salmon"(eng).

Born (1798) in Zante Dionysios Salomon , the "national greek poet" and alleged murderer, later became a Solomos by choice. He was not the only one however:

There also is a "Salmon" to be found in colonel Scharf's am "Baltimore Chronicle", pages 63, 139, 249, 260, 264, 274

Summarizing:

Salmon George, a "foreigner", arrived Baltimore Nov 1775, appointed judge 1788, member of the orphans court in 1792, member of the health comittee 1794, president of the Bank of Baltimore 1795, died 1807.

So the question arises:

Is our greek Solomos, the poet-murderer, a relative of George Salmon, the Baltimore banker, is the Cochin-Balsamo coexistance in Zante and Baltimore-Philadelphia a possible indication of their cooperation, at the time, with the Salmon "fishy" banking business in Zante and Baltimore-and possibly Paris-as well?

This topic will be addressed next.

Part II

A George Salmon (president/founder of The B.of B. in 1795) was previously noticed arriving in Baltimore as a "foreigner", November 1775 (declaraton of USA Independence year), almost simultaneously with comte Saint Germain's appointment (27th Oct) to Luis XVI's war ministry.
This same year:
-Within a week of the battle of Bunker Hill the Congress voted an issue of paper money and in : ....June 22, 1775 authority was given for an issue of $2,000,000. of bills of credit, based upon the credit of the States.
-The lodge "Nine Muses" was founded in Paris within "Les amis reunis". The two lodges as well as "Philalethes" operated under Savalette de Langes, Saint Germain's son. .

In 1776 Franklin became ambassador to France and was affiliated at the Nine Muses and Cagliostro was initiated into Masonry. In 1777 the Articles of Confederation were adopted by Continental Congress, the battles of Bennington, Brandywine, Germantown, Princeton and Saratoga. George Washington had his mystical vision of the future of the United States and....

In Whig Club, March 4th, 1777. David Poe, "Cornelius Garratson" (ie Claude-Denis Cochin), Daniel Lawrence, James Cox (later cashier of The Baltimore Bank) forced anglophile William Goddard to leave town.

-The printing expertise of the french Caccini-Cochin-Causses,
-their friendship and cooperation with Franklin (their 1779 corespondence on printing techniques and equipment),
-the latter's promotion(fur cup portrait) while in France,
-the subsequent french aid to the USA,
-the particular talents of Giuseppe Balsamo in "document reproduction",
-the fast depreciating first $ issues (1779- January 14th: 8 to 1,October 14th: 30 to 1. 1781- January:100 to 1, May 1781 the "Notes" ceased to pass as Currency),
-the 1786 Louvre theft from the royal designs collection guarded by Charles Nicholas Cochin (possibly including bank or promisory note printing plates)
-the "dissapearance" of Cornelius Cozine in 1785
-the letter exchange between ev John Carrol and Rev. John Causse dated 8/16/1785
-the excommunication of the latter in 1791
-the hydrian myth of Lazarus Cochini saving two jewish banknote forgers in his "first ever" trip to Trieste in 1792 and
-the founding of The Baltimore Bank by George Salmon in 1795....

...certainly all hint at "something maybe wrong", the suspicion further strengthened by the Zante "Salmons" ("count" Niccolo Salomon, Dionisios's father) and their vast wealth and line of business 1795-1807 (Money lending. Niccolo Salomon's 1807 Zante death coinciding with George Salmon's in Baltimore) .

If the origins of the Zante Salomons and the source of their wealth remain still obscure (Venice collapsed financialy long before 1797), Dionisios Salomon relations to the Zante Cochini are well established and on record:

Dec 1st, 1828 Dimitrio-Giaccomo Dion. Cocchini, (the one with a Balsamo wife of previous posts) witnessed Dionisios Solomos's first will and testament!

Furthermore Niccolo Salomon's Zante "myth" does include his nickname: He was known as "Tabacciere", tobacco trader:

Tobacco, Baltimore's main export to Europe, a monopoly then, possibly the cargo of Cassin ships, also traded by John Allen&Co in London later-on (1814-5).

We thus conclude that the Baltimore Salmons and the Zante Solomos are of the same marine species. This conclusion, that the Salmons-Solomos were in friendly terms with the Paris Cochin "Mercers", not the Cassins of Philadelphia or the Cochini of Hydra, matches previous reached on the same subject. Relative financial differences and "secrets" must now be added to the growing list of motives explaining the 1835 murder.

(part III folowing).

Undoubtedly the most remarkable thread I have ever seen!
I thought deciphering one of the cipher messages that he declared a fraud gave me some creds in the area, but I humbly back out, bowing low.

Part III

How did a 1775 Baltimore "foreigner" become an "American Whig" in 1783?

From 1783 arose a story peculiar in the annals of British statecraft. Britain's government in 1783-1784 was prepared to countenance the landing of British "convict servants" on US territory, as a virtual undercover operation. These efforts were unsupervised, except by the hapless English merchant, George Moore, who dealt with an American Whig, George Salmon. ([2])......
Between 1776 and 18 August, 1786, Britain involved seven ships in futile efforts to transport convicts, not including ships sent from Ireland. Those ships were Den Keyser to Africa of 1782-1783, Recovery, to Africa associated with Camden, Calvert and King; Mackrel to Africa; George Moore's Swift I to North America/Nova Scotia, Moore's Swift II to North America/Nova Scotia, Moore's Mercury's to Honduras and Fair American, also associated with George Moore. ([5]) Since 1718, no convict contractor had ever suffered so badly from convict mutiny as Moore. In all, Moore suffered losses of £4500. ([6])http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/thebc25.htm

Salmon's Bank of Baltimore, founded in 1795 (capital $1,200,000) was the second largest bank of the USA then, the first being the Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, founded in 1793 (capital $3,000,000. Next came the Manhattan Company, New York, 1799, $2,000,000)

We don't really know why colonel Scharf (like "sharp") labeled G.Salmon a "foreigner" on his 1775 Baltimore arrival. G.Salmon was possibly a descendant of the "french" Luisiana "Salmons" (see Luisiana commissary Edme-Gatien Salmon , 1733) and, as such, did not fit Scharp's "brit" version of Baltimore's history (the reason he forgot the Cassins) but what we do know is that Baltimore Bank's archive ended up in the hands of another "Sharp" who then was kind enough to trimm it:

SHARP, RICHARD G., COLLECTION, MS. 2309 Papers related to the Bank of Baltimore: letters to the board of directors, President George Salmon (d. 1807) and cashier James Cox, 1798-1821, about various accounts, loans, debts, policies on dividends and stocks, competition of state banks with the Bank of the United States, the printing of bank notes; letter from President William Wilson to Albert Gallatin about the bank's use of notes of the Bank of the United States; an opinion by Luther Martin on the security of a mortgage, 1803; meeting minutes about the use of foreign gold, 1810; advertising broadsides, 1815-35; technical pamphlet on the stereotype steel plate, 1806; pamphlet on the one hundredth anniversary of the National Bank of Baltimore, 1895; photocopies of the manumission of the slaves of Thomas Wilkins of Kent County, Maryland, 1794-1819 and 1824. Register available. Pedley, 141, 270, 1327 32 items, 1794-1895.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....ssitt/mhs.html

It all is a matter of sharpness, isn't it?


PS Thanks Walter but please straighten up and then check out how the alleged "Protocols of the Sion elders" originated from Rite of Mizraim's archives in 1901!

The origins of such thinking and societies are not specifically of interest to me; I wonder why the suggestion. Clearly I missed something in skimming through the thread.

Before entering the final round covering the 1835 murder and the "papyri copiers-mercers", a last word:

To the question: Who was the principle creator of the french Encyclopedia, the top symbol of Enlightment, below the answer by the site of "l'Université du Québec à Montréal - département de philosophie":

On sait qu'après le retrait du privilège royal, chacun des volumes de l'Encyclopédie, imprimés clandestinement, portera en frontispice, une gravure de Cochin fils représentant, sous un temple ionique, la Vérité rayonnante d'une lumière qui écarte et disperse les nuages mais enveloppée d'un voile que la Raison et la Philosophie, à ses côtés, s'apprêtent à arracher. À gauche de la Vérité, voici l'Imagination se disposant à l'embellir et à la couronner. À ses pieds, les principaux métiers ainsi que les techniques qui s'y rattachent.
........
Porte-couleurs parlant d'une entreprise qui a été le symbole général des Lumières, cette gravure célébre l'ouverture de notre histoire moderne. Le passage à l'esprit critique, à l'esprit de liberté qui s'accomplit, au moment des Lumières, par la conjugaison du rationalisme et de l'esprit philosophique, ne pouvait sans doute se faire sans le travail à la fois de sape et de construction du redoutable Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Machine formidable dressée contre la réalité du passé, ses croyances et ses institutions, l'Encyclopédie a permis aux contemporains d'espérer l'avènement d'un monde nouveau, parce qu'ils croyaient tout comme les Philosophes au poids propre de la Raison critique; et que selon la raison, l'homme est destiné à être émancipé par la raison.

Putting two plus two together

Studying european and american history ( 1773-1826) while focusing on "Cocchi&Co"{the other Cocchini names listed herein) and associates (those already mentioned, such as George Washington, Benj.Franklin, Decatur Lafayette etc and others such as John Jay, Baron von Steuben, Fulton, Latrobe, John Paul Jones etc)....

...If a single person should be chosen to get the credits, laurels or be beatified even for creating the one and only USofA, then surely "Saint Germain"-now his full identity has been revealed and their history put together-should be a prime candidate and, in the humble opinion of the undersigned, in such case should then be called either Saint-Saint Germain or Saint "square" Germain (honouring his mathematical skills)!

Until such time the following questions are addressed to this author's american cousins, the Cassin sailors who left their descendants in the island of Hydra before creating-and dying for later-the original US Navy:

a) What kept them for revealing their story all these years?
b) Do they posses any memorabilia from such times?.
c) What are they going to do re their "irish-armenian" roots?

Silence, as good an answer as any!

King Solomon would propably have objected to be mistaken for a fish,

Probably?

Do you mean to say he never repent for his crimes?
With Aaron, Moses brother, breaking the rule (ten commandments) and deifying a calf, isn' it possible that King Solomon (with the 700 wifes and 300 concubines) possibly worshipped fish when he grew up?
Many gout suffering "recollet carnivor warmonger Kings" of his time-and ours-certainly did!
As it turns out, only Pythagoras was right and, imho, industrial societies in particular would greatly benefit to follow his advice and worship the only realy pure-if home grown-deities: The onion, garlic, parsley, lemon etc!

Don't know about red cabbages!

Introductory (I).

The "Poe Announcement" is the conclusion of a wider research covering four centuries of family history previously totaly unknown to the researcher and never published by other sources either.

The initiative of the "wider research" was taken in 1995 when, reaching the age of reason and finding none, the undersigned decided to change course in life, cut short his previous professional life to find his lost "self" and "truth", look back, meet his ancestors, prepare for whatever comes next.

Someone had told him shortly before that his late grandparents voices were broadcasted on the greek radio in a program concerning early greek opera, he wanted to hear them so he contacted the man responsible for the program, a Mr Luntzi, a lawyer from Zante, a classical music expert as well.

The complete manuscript (some 25 kilograms) of a, considered lost till then, greek opera, "Kyra Frossini" by Paul Carrer around 1850-60, was subsequently rediscovered in grandma-Stella's trunk.

Stella (+1958), a soprano, and her husband, the tenor and opera director Giovanni Cocchini, were instrumental in creating the "Greek National Melodrama" in 1901 but, because of later events (1922 national "disaster") and the selfdestructing tragic end of Giovanni in 1925, their history and biography were never written and music, a family tradition till then, was progressively abandoned by their children and grandchildren.

Also found in the trunk was an album with newspaper clippings 1896-1918 covering their opera performances and tours (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Austria, Turkey, Egypt, the Balkans, England, Ireland etc).

Mr Luntzi wanted a copy of the "Kyra Frossini" MS to be exhibited at the "Dionysios Solomos Museum" in Zante (of which he was a member of the board) and furthermore so that, with the assistance of maestro Byron Fidhetji, the opera would be enorchestrated and recorded (funded by the "Friends of classical Music" the relative CD is on circulation eversince 2002-3) and, in return, the name of the undersigned would be placed on the marmor plate with the list of donnors to the Solomos Museum.

How did the MS end up in the hands of Stella and why did she keep it in her trunk to her death?

(Note to the viewer: From hereon the subject mainly concerns modern greek literature and history students, possibly classical music scholars and, finally, specific members of the Cochin-Cassin etc family.
Poe "enthusiasts" and other viewers who have followed this thread for any other of the addressed topics may skip the following text alltogether.)

To follow: Introductory(II)

Introductory(II)

How did the MS end up in the hands of Stella and why did she keep it in her trunk to her death?

The answer to this question (grandpa finding out the hard way how fraudulent his "music associates" and promoters were -his provocative "greek national melodrama" performances leading to the 1922 national tragedy-he buried it along with himself in 1925, grandma Stella never daring "looking back" thereafter) and their (written in the meantime) biographies were bypassed when, searching for grandpa's "voices from the past", his Hydra-Missolonghi ancestors of previous century were discovered and matters got serious.

Mme Adamopoulou, the kind curator of Hydra's Museum, providing assistance and archive material, the "greek part" (1745-1821) of the family history was then published and an announcement was made at the Third Congress of the Hellenic Genealogical Heraldic Society in Athens , October 1998.
At this Congress the existence of an 1853 Zante diary was brought to the undersigned's attention. It contained accusations against the Luntzi family (married to the Solomos post 1835) for participating in the murder of a Cochini in Zante. Other relevant indications from previous research on the Zante Cochini, until then seemingly unrelated to the hydrians, were thus .crosschecked and verified.

This coincidence, the previous "music expert" contact, the Zante lawyer (a kind man who provided relevant books and info for the grandparents bios) being a direct descendant of the alleged murder participants, complicated matters considerably: The possiblility the MS was buried because of "bad blood" between Hydra and Zante, that grandparents wishes were overlooked by an ignorant grandson, led to a phonecall, a couple of weeks later, to the director of the Solomos Museum: Yourstruly's name was to be removed from the said donnors list!

Other contacts, letters and publications re the murder followed to no avail and research then expanded internationaly via the web.

When E.A. Poe's involvement was certain, the "Poe Anouncement" was initiated and developed around poetry herein, poetry thought (and subsequently proven) to be more trustworthy than other "sources".

It has been quite an experience, the risk taken (to publish while researching) by yourstruly well received and appreciated by the reader.

It will end sort of "poeticaly" too, the last chapter dealing with the vilest of human acts, "δολοφονία", premeditated murder, destructon of life, the exact opposite of creation, a "poem in reverse" in fact, carried out by a man of letters, the "greek poet" Dionysios Salomon, author of no less than Greece's national anthem!

Sanctified by the blood of many fallen in battle, the Greek National Anthem that made us all taller bringing tears of pride to our eyes as children.

Our "spotless" anthem!

Still....

As the poet was born in troubled times
and
as he faced society from the wrong side as a child
and
as he truly suffered, subsequent to the murder, some twenty more years to his death...

...as he truly repent...

...this last chapter is not meant as a blame against the poet, his race or his poetry(!), the crime, as we'll later examine, planned not just by himself and family, carried out not to secure their interests only.

There was Cochini involvement too, on both sides of the blade!

Hi all!

Other commitments prevented the undersigned to keep the April date (whereby details on the 1835 Zante murder of a Cochini by the poet Dionysios Salomon and his clan would be revealed) and readers are thus advised to look forward to sometime around middle of May next.


Cheers!

Scruples?

Having crossed the great oceans, to conclude this writing in the pond of greek literature pealing pedals off its center piece, the great "Salomon " daisy (sacred cow we previously named him), may seem inelegant ....

However....


The 1835 Zante murder case must be honoured: It has motivated us to expand our research!

When, October 1998 as stated, Mr Ioannis Andriolas, an Athens dentist originating from Zante, advised the undersigned of the 1853 diary, in his possesion, accusing the Luntzis of a Cochini murder, many local loose ends suddenly all came nicely together:

Yourstruly immediately remembered a similar narration of the incident to himself by Nik. Luntzi (the story was passed on to Nik by Dion. Romas, the playwright who had included it in one of his plays), linked it with the inexplicable dissapearance from Zante, post 1835, of an Ioannis Dionysiou Cochini, a promising young member of the Ionian parliament and a judge, linked it to the "arranged marriage" of the Luntzis post 1835, to the Salomons, linked it to the Zante bishop Nicolaos D.Cochini, brother of the vanished Ioannis, who on enthronement "blessed", 1837, the court's decision granting D.Salomon his inheritance, linked it to another brother, Dimitrio D. Cochini, D.Salomon's witness in his first will and testament, 1828, who also dissapeared post 1835 from Zante, linked it to the Polidori-Chiveti from the Zante village of Macherado, next to the Cochini mansion in Bougiato , lawyers and notaries also conveniently married to the Salomons, linked them to the Hydrian captain Giorgio Chiveto of 1820-1825 , his relations to the hydrian Cochini turning sour around 1821 etc etc ... .

It all fitted nicely together then even if the Balsamo name of Dimitrio's wife did not mean much at the time, even if the fiorentine Cocchis and Gozzinis, the US Cassins, Cozines, Corzines, Causeys, the french Cazins, Cochins, Cachins and Causes and whatnot were still unknown, even if Saint Germain, Poe, Franklin, Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Vanderbilts, the US navy and their shipyards etc could not have been even dreamed of then , even if their stories, our History, were totally unknown to us then.

For this reason this writing must be concluded, must end, in stale waters, fittingly perhaps.

It's estimated that some ten more posts will be needed that will be published herein in the next few weeks.

To facilitate the average viewer, a lot of detail will be avoided.


PS Mr Andriolas intended in 1998 to publish his diary and was supplied at the time with a lot of Zante-Hydra Cochini info and Mr Luntzi was advised at the time of the Andriolas diary and its contents.
Having lost touch with both gentlemen eversince no explanation can be produced of the lack of any relevant publication today!

Expert "solomists" all agree that Dionysios Solomos's work, mental health and biography were heavily influenced by a long family litigation concerning his legitimacy and inheritance.

The text below is a summary from "Solomos bound in the legal system of his time"by law history professor Dim.Chr. Capadochos, Athens 1992. Relevant comments will follow on completion of chapter.
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Dionysios Salomon (1798-1857) was the first child of Angelica Nicle, a maid at the Salomons house from 1796. The poet's father was Nicolo Salomon (1737-1807). Nicolo was married to Marnetta Caccni eversince 1765. Before his marriage he was a tax collector contracted by the Venetian Republic to "farm" the islands of Leucas and Cephalonia. After his marriage however he began trading tobacco making a fortune. He was enobled in 1785, given the title "count of Torcello" by Venice, then in the brink of collapse (1797). He had a brother named Spyridon (no record of his birth, residence or death is mentioned).
When the affair began in 1796, Marnetta was still living with Nicolo, whereas their two children, Roberto, born 1767 and Helena, born 1770, were preparing to get married then and left the family house soon after.
1801 Angelica gave birth to another son, Dimitrio. Marnetta died in 1802 and, that same year, Nicolo included his two lovechildren and their mother in his will: They were to receive two thirds of the estate, Roberto receiving just one third and Helena, married to Stelio Stravopodi, Ant.Martinego's associate, a political opponent of count Nicolo, just her dowry .
A day before Nicolo died, late February 1807, he was married to Angelica, again pregnant at the time, by a stray priest who was however not approved by Zante's orthodox Church.
After Nicolo's death, doubts were expressed as to the father of Angelica's coming third child!
Living in the Salomon mansion was a certain Emmanuel Leontarakis, an associate of the count, maybe not in business only, that's why Roberto insisted to confine his father's mistress to a convent so that the exact date of birth of her next child would be verified. The executors of the count's will however, entrusted with the upbringing of the other two lovechildren and looking after their inheritance as well, chose otherwise: They kept the birth itself as well as the birth date a secret making a deal with Roberto: He was to receive a half of the count's estate, the other half to be shared by the other two boys when they reach 24 years of age. The coming third child was to receive nothing .
Angelica was married 15th August 1807 to Emmanuel and in September her child, Ioannis "Leontarakis", was born.
All concerned were fairly happy with the arrangement made but there was a problem:
The tabaccere 's will as well as the deal between the trustees and Roberto were null and void according to the venetian civil code applying in the Ionian isles long after Venice's collapse: Children born out of marriage were not entitled to any inheritance if there were legitimate children as well!
As such Roberto was entitled the lot and, next in line, would be in theory Ioannis "Leontarakis", if he could prove, that is, he truly was count Nicolo's child and if the deathbed marriage was accepted as valid by the church.

(continued)

Yanni's comments will be placed alongside the chapter's text afterall. They'll be marked as NBY=Notes by Yanni, in ( ) when applicapble. Capadochos book will continue to be used as basis but other sources will be included as well.
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Following Ioannis birth, Angelica, her three sons and her husband were prrovided by the executors a house in the town of Zante to live. Dionysio was sent 1808 to study law in Italy. Dimitrio and Ioannis followed later on.
Dionysio returns to Zante 1818 and lives with the Leontarakis family.
(NBY 1818 the independent Ionian State was consituted with a Lord Commissioner, appointed by the King of Britain, head of state with overwhelming authority. )
Dimitrio studies law in Italy 1817-1820, returns to Zante and, February 1821, gets married to Helena Arvanitaki, daughter of a close associate of the british commisioner, general Thomas Maitland.
-Greeks rise against the Ottomans April 1821-
Dionysio writes his first long poem, the Hymn to Liberty, May 1823 and, that same month, Maitland decides to have a new legal code system written to replace the venetian code but takes his time. (The new civil code was not ratified by the Commisioner until 1841.)
Dionysio already shows a probrit inclination in his Ode to Lord Byron (1825) accusing the revolutionaries, particularly the "profrench" party, for treason. (NBY: Similar signs are to be found already in his previous Hymn to Liberty).
The two brothers are living in the Salomon mansion since 1824, Dimitrio with his wife Helena, Dionysio a bachelor (lifelong). They often quarrel.
(NBY: One can only assume that title to their estate has been transferred to them then as Dionysios at least is of age. Capadochos gives no details when, how and by whom the transfer was made. Another source, "Year of Dionysios Solomos" by Ioannis Chrysicopoulos, Zante, 1998, specifies that the executor, Nik.Messalas, handed over the management of the estate to the two brothers the 6th of June 1826. However, according to Capadochos, Nik.Messalas died in 1821.Who managed the estate after his death? We'll return on the matter later on in another chapter)
In 1827 Roberto's only child, his daughter Bettina, marries the lawyer Dr Nicolo Chiveto.
When count Capodistria, governor of Greece, visits Zante, June 1828, Dionysio breaks up relations with Dimitrio, who is also of age then, and they divide their inheritance thus Dionysio's subsequent first will and testament, 1st December 1828, witnessed by his close friend the lawyer Galvani, his mother's husband Emmanuel Leontarakis and Dimitrio-Giaccomo Dionysio Cochini. The first two(?) are appointed plenipotentiaries. (Source: "Seven Days", Kathimerini, May 24th 1998, "Afieroma to Dionysios Solomos". NBY: Mr Capadochos ommits to mention D-G.D.Cochini in his book and fails to give any details on the will itself.)
The poet then departs, 16th December 1828, for Corfu where he permanently resides from then on. His intimate friend, Dionysio Nic.Foscardi, has been appointed president of the "Ionian Republic" by the brits this same year and the poet's main task is to promote the new civil code via a circle of friends which cost him a fortune.
(NBY: July 1830 Revolt against King Charles in France. Lafayette appointed provisional head of State until Luis-Philippe, the citizen-King is enthroned later on. August 1831 Admirals Miaoulis and George Causse with Mavrocordatos at their side burn the greek fleet in his base at Poros. Lazaros "Orlov" opposes them. Governor Capodistria is murdered in September. Civil unrest in Modern Greece, Capodistria's brother Augustine and followers are arrested and interogated in Corfu. Sources: Various).
(continued)

Dionysios succeeds to have the new civil code (containing tailor-made article 237 equalising legitimate and illegitimate children provided their parents are subsequently married to eachother) approved by the Ionian State Parliament in 1831. The british commissioner however does not approve it and as such the venetian code remains still applicable.
A month after Capodistria's murder, Dionysios befriends his brother again distancing himself from the Leontarakis family. He visits Zante, 29th October 1831, cancels his first will and draws another whereby he appoints his lawyer Galvani and his brother Dimitrio as his plenipotentiaries, Dimitrio replacing Emmanuel Leontarakis. (NBY: Dimitrio-Giacomo Dion. Cochini is not mentioned among his new witnesses or plenipotentiaries.)
While in Zante, Dionysios also insructs (his lawyer?) for the financing of Ioannis Leontarakis law studies in Italy be terminated. According to Angelica's later testimony, there was a mutual agreement, till then, her three sons would equaly share their inheritance. (NBY ie Ioannis, turning 24 in 1831, should get his third this same year.)
Early November Dionysios returns to Corfu wherefrom he sents his greetings to the family of Roberto. Roberto is already seriously ill at the time. By his death, February 1832, the problems of the validity of count Nicolo's will resurface (NBY: Mr Capadochos is not clear exactly how exactly they do in his book).
NBY: Another Zante poet, Dionysios Griparis, married to Maria Dion.Cochini, (sister of Dimitrio-Giacommo etc) dedicates a poem to Dionysios Salomon in 1832. The poem ridicules the myth of the alleged wellbeing of the Ionian citizens under british rule. Source: D.Conomos or D.C. .
NBY: June 1832 Anastasy Cochini , using the "Orlov" nickname as sirname eversince 1825, puts his signature to a letter written by the hydrian elders accepting King Otto as their King. It's the last entry concerning him in Hydra' s archive (source).
December 1832. Dionysios friend, Dion.Foscardi, president, dies.
January 1833 Ioannis Dion. Cochini, Dionysios Voultzos, Dionysios Flabouriaris, Dimitrio Salomon and Gaetano Chiveto are canditates in the elections for Zante's representatives of the Ionaia Parliament. The last four are probrit, the first three only are elected, in that order. (source D.C.)
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September 1833: Under the supervision of Bishop Agelos Chivetos elections take place in Zante to select the head of the church for Zante and Cephalonia. Nicologiorgio Dion. Cochini is among the first five. Dion De Lazari is elected.(source D.C)
October 1833: The commissioner Lord Nuggent formally receives future King Otto in Zante. Dionysios is present at the dinner and presents Lord Nuggent with an ancient marmor plate with the inscription "Kritolaos" found in Vougiato (Cochini territory) as well as the pistols of the late Lord Byron who had died in Missolonghi (D.C.) a year or so before the engineer Michael Petrou Cochini did.
Bestranged Ioannis, on completing his law studies in Italy (May 1833), visits Corfu this same month seeking to meet Dionysios to ask him for explanations. When they do meet however Dionysios refuses to even speak to him and thereafter Ioannis uses the name Leontarakis-Salomon.
Dionysios writes to Dimitrio to advise the Leontarakis family to move away from the house granted to them in 1808 as he intends to use it himself.
Griparis writes one more ode cursing the brits. (D.C.)
November 1833 Dionysio and Dimitrio ask Ioannis to declare why he is using their family name. He replies that he has just now discovered the truth about his father. The two brothers then file a petition to the court asking him to stop using it.
In his letter of November 23, 1833 to Galvani, Dionysios accuses the previous commisioner Adam of having exceeded his authority to disfavour him and affirms his readiness to take revenge in case the injustice against him continues::
"...people would be found to revenge, away from here, through a long and rough road, very certain nevertheless." I
n same letter he lists his new friends, not mentioning Emm.Leontarakis or D-G.Cochini.
November the 30th, 1833 Ioannis Salomon-Leontarakis files a law suit against his brothers asking the court to annul his father's will and be recognised as the only legitimate son, the other two being born out of marriage..
Roberto's death forces Roberto's heirs, his daughter Bettina and her husband, Dr Nik. Chiveto, to side with Dionysio and Dimitrio: If count Nicolo's will would be proven void, their inheritance would also be questioned (NBY: Not quite so! As the only legitimate son, Roberto's right to inherit the lot was rocksolid. One should look for other reasons they changed sides such as the fact that the Chiveti, eversince John Polidori's murder in 1821-he was a Chiveto- obeyed blindly the brits. John Polidori's brother, Gaetano Chiveto, returned to Zante to to participate in the local elections with the probrit party as seen previously. Source: Yanni) .
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