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Gunpowder, trade with Bermuda
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Jack Faw <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 Nov 2005 03:06:42 GMT
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Jack Faw <[log in to unmask]> has sent you the following web link:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~bmuwgw/georgewashington.htm
 It is interesting that General George Washigton was concerned that the lack of gunpowder and amo was addressed in this statesman letter to the "ihabitants" of Bermuda, who were in a famine at the time.
  A subsequent record states that a ship load of gunpowder was traded for a load of grain.
  Jack Faw
  Charlottesville, Va.

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