Showing posts with label POLL Results: HAM Revolutionary War Veterans. Show all posts
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POLL Results: HAM Revolutionary War Veterans

HAM Revolutionary War Poll Results

May, 2008


In May, we had a Free HAM Book Giveaway Contest at the HAM Country blog based on the Revolutionary War Poll questions. The Contest was to win a free three volume set of our book "A Short History of the HAM Surname in Virginia & NC." There were no entries in the contest.


This contest was held for the month of May, and over the Memorial Day weekend.
The largest number of votes on any one question was 4.
Pretty poor results. During the month of May, the HAM Country Blog saw 193 pageloads from 95 unique visitors. So, very few of the visitors actually voted in the Poll.

I had one complaint of a person who was not able to vote, as it did not appear to function correctly for him. We did have a lively discussion off line at the end of May regarding how the contest might be structured to enable more people to win a free set of books in this contest.

There were ten questions in that Poll. The questions were:

- What HAM's fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?

- Which HAM was a Lieutenant in the Navy during the Revolutionary War?

- What was the name of the ship commanded by a HAM during the siege of Yorktown?


- Which HAM was an Indian Spy during the Revolutionary War?

- Which HAM Received a severe head wound during a skirmish with the Tories during the Revolutionary War?


- When was Mordecai HAM finally discharged from the service?


- Who was most likely to be Drury HAM's father, based upon the County land survey?


- Who served under Captain Daniel Sparks?


- Who was denied a pension (due to lack of records) after serving under General Sumpter?


- Who served as a surgeon during the Revolutionary War?


The contest closed May 31st, 2008 at 11:59 PM.

For the May's Contest, which included the Memorial Day holiday, the HAM Country Blog had 193 page loads, 95 unique visitors, and only 4 actually voted in the Poll (about 4 %) on any one question. The You Tube video got about 30 views. There were no video responses posted to the You Tube video.

For the ten polling questions, 28 answers were given in total. Of the 28 answers given, we had 8 that were actually the correct answers. That is, about 29 % (8 out of 28) of the votes were the correct answers. (One of those votes was mine, as a test for functionality.)


Here are the results from the Poll:



What HAM's fought at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?


25 % said Drury HAM
25 % said Samuel HAM
25 % said Stephen HAM
25 % said William HAM



Of the four votes, nobody got this one right.









Which HAM was a Lieutenant in the Navy during the Revolutionary War?



50 % said John HAM
25 % said Mordecai HAM
25 % said William HAM










What was the name of the ship commanded by a HAM during the siege of Yorktown?





66 % said the Warwick
33 % said the Nicholson










Which HAM was an Indian Spy during the Revolutionary War?



66 % said Drury HAM
33 % said George HAM











Which HAM Received a severe head wound during a skirmish with the Tories during the Revolutionary War?


Only 2 votes on this one:

50 % said Mordecai HAM
50 % said Samuel HAM



Nobody got this one correct either.








When was Mordecai HAM finally discharged from the service?


Of 2 votes, 100 % said in 1781.



That was the correct answer.





Who was most likely to be Drury HAM's father, based upon the County land survey?

Three votes.

33 % said George HAM
33 % said Joseph HAM
33 % said Samuel HAM

Looks like all three were guessing here, nobody got this one correct. This was actually one of the toughest questions on this Poll.









Who served under Captain Daniel Sparks?



Only two votes.

50 % said John HAM
50 % said Mordecai HAM











Who was denied a pension (due to lack of records) after serving under General Sumpter?


Once again, only 2 votes.

50 % said Samuel HAM
50 % said William HAM



One person got this one correct.








Who served as a surgeon during the Revolutionary War?

66 % said George HAM
33 % said John HAM



Nobody got the right answer on this one either.