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Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution
Routledge, a division of Taylor and Francis, will be reissuing this fall my 2011 book, Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap, and the American Revolution. The letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Biography, Ebenezer Hazard, history, Jeremy Belknap
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Philadelphia in 1787: The Making of the Constitution of the United States
Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, was in 1787 a city of a little over 40,000 people. The city had been founded a century earlier by Quakers and it still had a strong Quaker presence. Philadelphia was the cultural and intellectual … Continue reading
Ephraim Deal Sorrels, Arkansas and Oklahoma Woodsman and Farmer
Ephraim Deal Sorrels, an Arkansas and Oklahoma woodsman and farmer, was born Jan. 5, 1847 in Ashville, Buncombe Co., North Carolina, and died April 4, 1928, in Sparks, Lincoln Co., Oklahoma, aged 81. His father was Thomas M. Sorrels and … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, history, Lawsons, Oklahoma, Sorrels
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What are humans, that You are mindful of them?
Reflections on the 8th Psalm: How admirable is His Name . . . God’s magnificence is greater than that which can be conceived. His glory is unsurpassable by even those with the most fertile imaginations. The multiplicity created by … Continue reading
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Tagged god, Love, Old Testament, psalms
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Lucenda Beach Largent, Illinois Farm Woman of the 19th Century
Lucenda Beach Largent lived from July 12, 1808 to Nov. 26, 1875. Lucenda A. Beach married Archibald Largent (Thomas Largent’s father, George Washington Largent’s grandfather, Claude Christopher Largent’s great-grandfather) in North Carolina in April, 1825, when she was 17. Before … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, history, Largents, women's history
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Andrew McCrillis of Early New Hampshire and Maine
Andrew McCrillis was born on August 21, 1775, Meredith, NH. He died on Feb. 27, 1856, in Maine. Andrew McCrillis was Maria Antoinette Nettie McCrillis’s grandfather, and since Maria was Lida Jane Collamore’s mother, hence Roland Newcomb’s grandmother, then Andrew … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, History of Maine, McCrillis Family
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Robert King Newcomb, Maine Farmer
Robert King Newcomb, August 23, 1836-Feb. 6, 1927 Robert King Newcomb was born August 23, 1836, in Charlotte, Washington Co., Maine, to Robert B. Newcomb and Lydia Beals Lishness Newcomb, daughter of Lewis and Sophia Lishness of Maine. Robert’s father … Continue reading
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Peter Etter, American Loyalist
Peter Etter lived from July 5, 1751 to 1798. Peter Etter was of Swiss descent, his father Peter having been born in 1715 in Bern, Switzerland. His mother, Margaretta Martin, was born in Switzerland in 1724. The elder Peter Etter … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, history, Loyalists
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Will Perkins, Family Historian
William Lennox Perkins, July 12, 1868-August 25, 1946. William Perkins, brother of Hattie Perkins Brown, who was the mother of Florence Brown Phillips and the grandmother of Milton Arnold Phillips, was the Perkins and Crawford family historian as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, books, genealogy, history, History of New Engand, Perkins Family
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Bessie Lura Amos Largent, Pioneer Woman in Early Oklahoma
Bessie Lura Amos Largent was born 129 years ago on Christmas Eve, 1891, in Sebastian County, Arkansas, to William Wilburn Amos and Ursula Calhoun Amos. Bessie was the first born to this farm family that rented land in the region … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, genealogy, Largent Family, Lawsons, Oklahoma, women's history
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The American Plutarch 