Re: Fourth of July

["Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>]

He sure is lucky, if that was his only wound.  Terrible war!  Ah, the
connection with Darien.  Pretty good chance that those Scots named their
town after the failed colony.  I was wondering about Darien, Ct.  Was it
founded by Scots too?
Laurel


----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@matrix.net>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fourth of July


> >Of course there were Sinclairs on the South's side.  I hope you won't be
> >offended by this.  All were brave men who really believed in their cause.
>
> My Sinclairs were in Georgia at the time (well, except for the ones that
> were in Toronto and Thurso).  That war fell between generations for them.
> My great-great grandfather, the immigrant, was too old.  All his children
> were too young.
>
> However, his daughter's future husband, Thomas Shepard Quarterman,
> was wounded in the hand about the age of 17 while defending a dock in
> Darien, Georgia.
>
> See also
>  http://www.mids.org/sinclair/lesterish/index.html
>
> >Laurel
>
> John
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