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Frontier, Native Americans, People, Postwar Politics (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 20, 2022 September 20, 2022

Marinus Willett: The Exploits of an Unheralded War Hero

by Richard J. Werther

Marinus Willett was born the son of a Quaker, Edward Willett, on July 31, 1740, in Jamaica, Long Island (now part of Queens). After…

Crime and Justice, Frontier, Loyalists, Native Americans, The War Years (1775-1783) August 25, 2022 August 24, 2022

Walter Butler—The Dastardly Loyalist

by Richard J. Werther

During the American Revolution, some of the hardest-fought and most bitter battles occurred in the land of the Six Nations, the Iroquois lands stretching…

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