In mid-September, Brig. Gen. David Mounkes got a chance to see exactly how the Kentucky National Guard can help the Republic of Ecuador. A briefing by Ecuadorean military officials and a look at some of their Russian-built helicopters at a base in nearby Sangolqui reinforced the belief the new assistant adjutant general of Kentucky-Air, has in the Guard’s State Partnership Program.
For political wonks, this election season may never end, as the cable news channels are explaining the outcome, ad infinitum. Fortunately, for Eastern Sierra
Very preliminary results in what seems like the longest election season, ever, are in for Inyo and Mono Counties. With less than 40-percent of the total votes
It s Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.
The treasure today is the birth entry for Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in the Watertown, Massachusetts town record book:
The birth entry is in the middle of the right-hand page:
The transcription of this record is: Mehetable Grout Daughter of Joseph & Mary Grout born the 5 of Feb ry 1725/6
The source citation for this record is: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image,
Ancestry.com (
https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2020), Watertown > Births, Marriages and Deaths, page 63 (image 216 of 3991), Mehitable Grout birth record, 1725.
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Eight Day of March in the year of our
Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and twenty Eight an nine I
Caleb Beck
weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto
God therefore Calling unto mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing
That it is Apointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my
Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and
Recommend my soul into the Hands of god that gave it and for my body I
Recommend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian Like and decent manner