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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Fun Facts I Can't Use

I'm writing a game on 1772, but of course when you look up something for 1772 in a chronology your eye is often caught by something from an adjacent year.

Case in point:  in "The Burlington Story", which covers Burlington, New Jersey, there's an awfully boring fact for 1772, which I nonetheless will turn into a question.

But for 1773, there is a far more interesting fact.  On December 4, 1773, a marriage license was issued in Burlington to a couple from Philadelphia:  John Ross and Elizabeth Griscomb.  Miss Griscomb, though, usually went by a nickname.  I think you might be able to figure that out.

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