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From: "Curt Malone" <>
Subject: Re: OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA-D Digest V99 #183
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:19:41 -0400


In 1762 the Virginia Assembly authorized Thomas Shepherd to establish a
ferry on the Potomac and to erect the town of Mechlenburg. After his death,
the name was changed to Shepherdstown.

Curt in Farrfax Co.

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