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Features, Reviews February 19, 2020 February 20, 2020

Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother

by George Kotlik

Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother by Craig Shirley (Harper, 2019) Rare indeed is the historian of early American history who…

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Thanks Joe. There is so much there in such things if you take a look. It gets you to the minutia that people like you and me get into.
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Thanks Mike. The support documents often have a lot of information. If drill down a bit farther, there are sometimes letters from later generations in the application file that identify…
3. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

You need to take these depositions with a large grain of salt. I use them a lot for my research/writing, but they need at least some confirmation or a parallel…