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From: "Jacqueline R Gibson" <>
Subject: Jolly
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:36:30 +0100

Hi,

Someone obtained the following from a local newspaper running stories from
the Aberdeen Journal one hundred years ago. I don't think this is the
family of Jolly I am interested in but it might be of interest to others.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Aberdeen Journal
Price 4 1/2d Wed. Feb. 3, 1841 No. 4856

Died, at Hillside of Esslie, parish of Fettercairn on the 7th ultimo, John
Jolly, tenant there, in the 87th year of his age. This vetern soldier,
who was dicharged in 1787, while serving in the American War, was wounded
four times in one day - one of the times a ball entered his left breast,
carrying along with it a part of his clothes, and was extracted from his
back a little below the shoulder. A portion of another shot which had
never been removed on his death-bed made him rather more than usually
uneasy and he remarked, "if it could be taken out, he thought he would live
a while yet."

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