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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I have an ancestor who got a widow's pension because her husband was "engaged in throwing tea overboard in the harbor Boston". The affidavit she filed in 1838 is still on file. Of course, she was probably full of shit --- we're notorious liars, we Grinches.
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Being ethnic, I don't have any good revolutionary war storys. did your family enjoy the crossing on the Mayflower?
I do have this......
I can go to Ellisisland.org and see when my Granpa entered the country from Calabria, ship's manifest on the net. I told someone else about it, but their grandpa wasn't on it. That's government right?
