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To: wagglebee
Here's a thought for you ~ couple of my own ancestors were caught steeling lead coffin covers and fine coffins ~ they were convicted then sent to America to live out their penalties.

No doubt they went right back into the same business ~ which means that when you find a fine coffin, particularly one with a lead coffin cover (which is not indicated here) you really don't know who is supposed to have been in the coffin on its first, or even second uses.

4 posted on 03/26/2006 4:34:53 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah

Except that as far as I now, no convicts were sent to Jamestown. Many were sent to Georgia and later, as the power of the British Empire grew, to Australia.


5 posted on 03/26/2006 4:37:16 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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