01/28/2009

Isaac Stanton 1732-1829

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I've always been a big proponent of using newspaper resources in genealogy.  This is the oldest of my ancestors to get a newspaper death notice, from the April 4, 1829 Farmer's Cabinet in N.H.  His extreme age and his service in the French & Indian War no doubt helped and this same notice was copied to dozens of papers.
Jan 28, 2009 9:27:00 PM | Newspaper Obituaries

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