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To: RJS1950
The books from the genealogist that my brother hired are massive. Three books on our mothers side and three on our father side.

I try to go through them but I quit and do something else. I must resolve to do better.

I was reading some info from Williamsburg College and found the name of one of our ancestors . The poor guy got in trouble with the Presbyterians and they cut off his ear.

I had no idea that the Presbyterians would do something like that. There is a P. church just down the street, I'd better be careful.

42 posted on 11/26/2015 9:05:08 AM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Presbyterians didn’t run the show in colonial Virginia, they were outsiders who typically tried to live outside the reach of the state church. That doesn’t justify maiming a person, but there might be more behind it than you know because they were not the religious authority there.


43 posted on 11/26/2015 9:09:15 AM PST by RegulatorCountry (E)
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