Follow a Revolutionary soldiers travels in the pre WBTS

 Please follow this link to read the memoirs of a Revolutionary soldier that traveled extensively throughout the Southland and his gracious thoughts of the land and it people.


Tom

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https://books.google.com/books?id=oj_mX0dS644C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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