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From: Pat Wardell <>
Subject: 1735 Oxroast
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:48:01 -0400

What's the story to go with the following item?

from: Kneale, Grace, "Early Death Items From Zenger's New York Journal" in
New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Oct 1916

[1735]
The following were killed at the Oxroast given by Gov. William Colby on the
new Battery, New York:
July 15. John Hendrick Symes, Esq., Sheriff of N. Y. City.
July 15. Catharina Courtland, 9 years, only daughter of Phillip Courtland,
Esq.
July 16. Jacob Hendrick Vollweiller, son in law of William Rome, died of
injuries sustained at Oxroast.



Pat Wardell in Englewood, FL

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