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Arts & Literature March 23, 2015 August 28, 2016

The Impact of Jonathan Carver’s Journal and Maps

by Merv O. Ahrens

Captain Jonathan Carver’s Reconnaissance Captain Jonathan Carver was hired in August 1766 as a surveyor and draughtsman by Major Robert Rogers, the newly appointed…

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Arts & Literature January 21, 2014 August 28, 2016

A Dragoon a-Wooing

by Don N. Hagist

Even as late as the spring of 1783, there was still a war on. A substantial number of British troops were in New York…

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