I know I've said this before, but it's really worthwhile repeating your Google Book searches for your main ancestors regularly, because they're putting new stuff on all the time.
My latest find has left me gobsmacked - I knew my ancestor Jonathan Mallet had some interesting friends and relations, but I've just discovered that he was the close friend and executor of Peggy Shippen, widow of the notorious Benedict Arnold. General Arnold betrayed George Washington's revolutionary army by going over to the British, and his name is still a byword for treason in America today.
My latest find has left me gobsmacked - I knew my ancestor Jonathan Mallet had some interesting friends and relations, but I've just discovered that he was the close friend and executor of Peggy Shippen, widow of the notorious Benedict Arnold. General Arnold betrayed George Washington's revolutionary army by going over to the British, and his name is still a byword for treason in America today.
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