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Supporting the Revolution
When Congress passed the Pension Act of 1832, for veterans of the Revolutionary War, they could not have known what a boon it would become to future genealogists. The narratives…
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Choosing Sides
Allow me to introduce you to our ancestor Pleasant Hickman, who was born around 1813 into a large family led by his Baptist minister father Jesse Lee Hickman. We know…
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Defender of St. Louis
Our recent post about Revolutionary War veteran John Pipes Jr. got us thinking about a figure in St. Louis history of whom most people are unaware. The name Fernando de…
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Veteran of the Revolution
Our ancestor John Pipes Jr. was born in 1739 in Rockaway, New Jersey, approximately 40 miles west of New York. His father, John Pipes Sr., and mother Susan Hathaway, moved…