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Historian Samuel Kercheval was born in 1767 in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Susan Chinn of Lancaster County, Virginia, on September 23, 1787, and they had 12 children. Kercheval interviewed longtime residents of the lower Shenandoah, the...
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