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   This week we are celebrating the Fourth of July, American Independence Day, by    
   featuring notables from the American Revolution.   
      
   Per wikitree.com I am:   
      
   16 degrees from Thomas Jefferson   
   17 degrees from George III Hanover   
   12 degrees from Joseph Brant   
   20 degrees from George Eliott   
   17 degrees from Peter Francisco   
   17 degrees from Deborah Gannett   
   15 degrees from Christopher Greene   
   34 degrees from Tadeusz Kosciuszko h. Pierzchała   
   16 degrees from Fleury Mesplet   
   17 degrees from Richard Montgomery   
   16 degrees from John Sevier   
   22 degrees from Banastre Tarleton   
      
   More about them:   
      
   Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence,   
   founding father,    
   and US President.   
      
   King George III, King of Great Britain and ruler of the colonies at the   
   beginning of the    
   war.   
      
   Joseph Brant, Mohawk war chief and a leader of the Loyalist forces in the   
   Revolutionary    
   War.   
      
   George Augustus Eliott, notable for his command of the Gibraltar garrison   
   during the    
   Great Siege of Gibraltar, which lasted from 1779 to 1783.   
      
   Pedro Francisco, "Virginia Giant" or :Giant of the Revolution" and American   
   Patriot.   
      
   Deborah Gannett, dressed as a man and fought during the war. The only woman to   
   earn    
   a full military pension in the Revolution.   
      
   Christopher Greene, led the spirited defense of Fort Mercer in the 1777 Battle   
   of Red    
   Bank, and the African American 1st Rhode Island Regiment during the American    
   Revolutionary War, most notably with distinction in the 1778 Battle of Rhode   
   Island.   
      
   Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish General who aided General George Washington during   
   the    
   war.   
      
   Fleuri Mesplet, printer for the Continental Congress before moving to Montreal   
   to set up    
   Quebec's first daily newspaper.   
      
   Richard Montgomery, leading figure in the Invasion of Quebec, until his   
   untimely death    
   at the Battle of Quÿbec on 31 December 1775.   
      
   John Sevier, Sr., one of the commanders at the Battle of King's Mountain, US    
   Representative for North Carolina & Tennessee, 1st Governor of Tennessee.   
      
   Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician known as "Bloody Ban" during   
   the war.   
      
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   I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American,    
   bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, pro hockey players,  singers and   
   musicians, painters, physicians, politicians, poets, popes, writers.  I guess   
   that    
   I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.   
      
   https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly    
   newsletters.   
      
   If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by    
   giving me some basic information by going to:   
      
   https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm   
   and click on the 'Request Form' link.   
      
   I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family   
   history,    
   and I would love to see how WE are related.   
      
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