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(March 6, 2025) de Crèvecoeur, in his 1782 “Letters from an American Farmer,” famously noted how the maritime economy of ...

David Killingray, 'Kent and the abolition of the slave trade: a county study, 1760s-1807' pp. 112-3: sourced to marriage settlement 1724. It seems the marriage date may in fact have been 08/06/1742.

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