Tag: Chancellor L
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Kilsby: An Enslaved Man Who Set Himself Free
We don’t know how many people the Livingstons enslaved at Clermont. We will probably never know. We have snapshots of certain times, wills, census records, doctors’ visits but these don’t tell us about the people who were here in between those times. People who were forced to be here in between the snapshots, so it…
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Dr. William Wilson: Inoculations, Health Insurance and Bleeding in Clermont
William Wilson was born in 1756. Where is a bit of mystery. Some sources have him born in Scotland, other sources list his birth place as Wooler, Northumberland, England, which is very close to the Scottish border. His father was Reverend Alexander Wilson, the presbyterian minister for Wooler. William graduated from the University of…
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