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Links of Interest:
Peter Jefferson had arrived in 1735, father of Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President) born in 1743, near Charlottesville, Virginia in Albemarle County on Rivanna River just down the road from William I Vardeman. Connecticut colonist John Higley mints the first colonial copper coins in his own furnace on Hopmeadow Brook in Simsbury.
These Higley pennies bear the words, "I am good copper" and "Value me as you will." "In Boston, the Narrative of Surprising Conversions by Jonathan Edwards is published. This volume is an account of the Great Awakening religious revival movement."
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