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When we came to the place where they crossed of the
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during the winter of 1776–1777. He and his brothers were commissioned by
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to France in 1779 and then joined up with the fleet of
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584:History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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216:Of the carnage there, Eyre later wrote:
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372:"Kensington Will Abstracts, 1685–1825"
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553:Treman, Ebenezer Mack (1901).
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