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People June 12, 2013 August 28, 2016

General Gold Silliman: Snatched from Home

by Cathryn J. Prince

Sometime around midnight on May 1, 1779, British soldiers smashed through the wooden door of General Gold Selleck Silliman’s Fairfield, Connecticut home. They snatched…

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