My 6th great grandfather Capt Timothy McGinnis of the Provincial Army was killed at Lake George, NY in the Battle of Bloody Pond Sept 8, 1755...one of the buckskinned “Yankee Doodle Dandies” of the song...
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I love these stories of our ancestors. One of mine was entertaining the British generals at his home on the night Washington crossed the Delaware. An errand boy came to deliver a note to the British officers as to what was happening but alas, it never got delivered. My ancestor was a merchant in Trenton NJ. Don’t know why he was entertaining them that night.