Swanning off with Braddock and Washington
Sharon's great-to-the-x grandfather makes an appearance in a listing of some ancestral items possessed by family members. The compiler of The Husson Manuscripts mentions that his mother had an old poplar chest containing Jean Henri's clothing brush that he bought to brush his wedding clothes and "some buckskin tassels that Jean Henri wore on his coat when he went west with Washington and Braddock to drive the French Catholics out of Penn." The incident referred to is probably The Braddock Expedition (aka Braddock's campaign aka Braddock's Defeat) of 1755. You have probably correctly surmised that this was another piece of American history I missed during my schooling and the subject of this post. The Braddock Expedition seems to mark the beginning of the French and Indian Wars in the colonies, though war was not formally declared until after the end of the expedition. General Edward Braddock led British forces on a campaign to disrupt activities by French colo