Why Jan 6 Protesters Have Little in Common with Revolutionary Patriots

By certain circumstances, most of my ancestral lines include New England Revolutionary War Patriots, and I have just finished doing extensive research on their lives and situations. Meanwhile, January 6th MAGA protestors (an apparent hodgepodge of QAnon, Proud Boys, Anti-Vaxers, and various Trump-supporting elements) like to compare themselves to 1776 Patriots, but the original Patriots were fighting largely for self-rule while the latter apparently for the rights to be racist, make others sick, and run stop-lights. The latter pretty much hates on Jews, Freemasons, and the French, while the former realized they never would have won without THE JEWS, FREEMASONS, and especially THE FRENCH!

The “Spirit of ‘76” was fed by a need for self-determination, not Christian Nationalism/Anarchy/Anti-Science & Immigration themes (the racism question is complex, as both British and Southern Patriots condoned slavery)

After the posting of the Revolutionary War Database on Ancestry.com and elsewhere, plus the generous Veteran’s Administration restoration of a few ancestral headstones, I’ve learned that most of my ancestors were New England Revolutionary War Patriots. This is because most of them ended up in rural Upstate New York in the late 1700s (with government War Bounty lands to compensate them for their services), where they met each other, married, and farmed. Though they were largely Congregationalist, Baptist, and Presbyterian, Freemason symbols have been found on some of their gravestones. Research of that era shows that Jews such as Haym Salomon…