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From: "Grace Evans" <>
Subject: Re: "Canton" defination anyone?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:41:40 -0400
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Ralph,

It was my impression, when we visited Switzerland, that a Canton was
equivalent to a State.

Grace

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph E. Tewksbury" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: "Canton" defination anyone?


> I am unfamiliar with the Swiss term "Canton". Is there a resource
that
> explains the system that we know in the U.S. as townships, villages,
county,
> state, etc...
>
> The ancestors of Frederick Garver b:1761 were said to come from Canton
> Berne. Is Canton an equivalent of our counties?
>
> Ralph



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