Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New England” in article 2 of The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource]:
... or he would have been aware that our grandfather was fighting for American liberty against the stories and Indians beyond the Alleghenies, at the time that his grandfather was driving cattle through New England to sell to the British on Long island Sound.--That accounts in part for political differences between their grandsons."
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