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    Artifacts

    No. Because I'm in Delaware, and I've had past experience with historical societies who promote a small group of members bent on promoting themselves instead of local history. Hoped for a legit museum, but will consider them, or others for a gift without strings, rather than have it go to a...
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    Artifacts

    I own this item and due to advanced age wanted to gift it to a museum or the DAR, but it seems no one wants it. I have more info on location it was acquired, and it was very near Atsion, and served, because of a defect, as heat for a colliers hut when Henry Drinker was Ironmaster. As historic...
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    Artifacts

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    Traditional?

    I didn't see a subject I could join so even though this isn't worth a new post, and some members may have different opinions, I'll make bold to comment. The medical establishment is loaded with supernurses and staff who are juvenile to say the least, so I will give them a printed copy of the...
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    Hessian Burials

    Keep us informed, and where we can get it when it comes out. I prowled that area, and to the north that had been the "banks" (fill from river dredging) about eighty four years ago when I went up the 'Sandy track' to school in Verga. I never realized til later, it was the track for trolleys...
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    Artifacts

    We're both wrong. It's supposed to be a eagle. The American bald eagle was adopted as the national bird of the United States of America in 1782. That motto and bird are well represented on the internet. If Henry Drinker ( a Quaker) had anything to do with it, it definitely would be "Peace...
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    Artifacts

    I wondered about that bird but thought the branch in its bill must have made it the dove of peace that is symbolic. All I can find about the phoenix is that Quakers reject symbols. I guess that would include doves as well as a Phoenix. But! It does look like images of that imaginary bird. Either...
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    Artifacts

    He wasn't the only Quaker interned and I recall reading where his wife went to get him when he was released. Henry was a major player in the Quaker community but without trying to date events. I believe Salter managed the iron business because Henry couldn't. Henry was a fascinating figure...
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    Artifacts

    Right offhand, I'd say it's commemorative to the end of the revolutionary war (1783) by the treaty of Paris where the English agreed to very easy terms for the new country. Probably commissioned by Atsion ironmaster Henry Drinker who had been interned in Virginia for refusing to swear loyalty...
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    Heislerville WMA

    My neighbor tells me a GHO discovered a way into his chicken house, and used it as a regular larder for months whenever he needed a snack. He liked Perdue fare.
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    Henry Drinker

    I know you don't need my unvarnished account but... When I was a very young fellow, my mom couldn’t leave me at home with two older sisters who might do in her only son. A clear case of sibling rivalry extremism, I being innocent of any, and all false charges. She took me along on a visit to...
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    Henry Drinker

    Actually there is no shortage of bios of Henry, https://www.geni.com/people/Henry-Drinker/6000000001302245883 Many descendants and also a picture of him on his son's bio
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    Henry Drinker

    I ran across a bio of Henry Drinker who figures in South Jersey iron furnaces. Being a Quaker his influence was felt in southern New Jersey. One of my ancestors was a Quaker who jumped the fence. Since another of my ancestors was a Scots Irish fellow who didn’t get along very well with Quakers I...
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    In a while

    I’ve enjoyed posting a couple stories from my repository that might have some connection to the pine barrens, but that connection doesn’t exist for most of my tales so I’ll give you guys a break and knock it off for now, unless I write something else. When I told my wife Buzbys was going out of...
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    Wolfspider found the W.P. 1700 stone!

    Very late coming on this site, and the thread, but thank you, thank you, thank you for the thread and your following up here.
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