biography
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| lived:
| (1751–1818)
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| biography:
| American soldier, born in Pike Co, Pennsylvania, USA. A legendary Continental army sharpshooter, he enlisted (Jun 1775) and fought at Boston and in the New Jersey campaign, served with General Daniel Morgan in the campaign against John Burgoyne (1777), and saw action at Yorktown (1781). His inability to read and write did not bar him from postwar successes in local politics. |
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