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Subject:	Re: Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
From:	Holly Mills <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:50:48 EST
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In a message dated 1/28/2007 2:36:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
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"The Governor had graving irons but could not grave any thing, the stones 
were so hard. I graved my name on a tree by the river side and the governor 
buried a bottle with a paper enclosed in which he writ that he took 
possession of this place in the name and for King George 1st of England."
Hmmm....  one of those early time capsules!  WOnder why he didn't leave us 
the GPS coordinates to make it easier to find again?

Holly
Amherst

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