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A Swamp Fox Soldier, Frontier Scout, and Witness to the Making of America Thomas C. Mills entered the world not as a citizen of the United States, but as a subject of King George III—born on September 29, 1760, in Jamaica, Long Island, an ancient settlement first carved into being by Dutch colonists. Jamaica—originally Rustdorp,
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In his sweeping, four-volume masterpiece Conceived in Liberty, the twentieth-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard painted Anne Hutchinson in blazing colors: a fierce individualist, a radiant threat to what he saw as the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” Murray Rothbard recognized in her a mind that refused to bow, a woman whose conscience
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Edmund Freeman II, my 11th great-grandfather, lived at the crossroads of family ambition, religious conviction, and the perilous experiment of building a new society on the edge of the Atlantic wilderness. A World on the Move: The Pilgrims and Their Financiers Before Edmund Freeman II ever saw the shores of New England, the stage for
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(1210-1290) Amidst the rolling green pastures and fathomless lochs of medieval Galloway—where the heather sighs beneath leaden skies and ancient stones murmur the secrets of centuries past—there lived a woman whose spirit blazed with such brilliance that her name, though half-veiled by time, yet echoes through the corridors of history. A woman of singular compassion
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(1546 – 1595) My 13th great-grandfather through my great-grandfather, William Jennings Bryan Orr, was Thomas Digges. Thomas Digges was a remarkable figure whose life and work marked a turning point in the transition from the medieval worldview to the scientific revolution of the Renaissance. His legacy helped to shape the course of human understanding. Born
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