Thomas Smiley letters 1814 Smiley, Thomas letters

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Thomas Smiley letters 1814 Smiley, Thomas letters

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In 1814, Baptist minister Thomas Smiley of White Deer Hole Valley, Pennsylvania, wrote three letters to Edward Bird of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about a dispute over the ownership and use of a meeting house on land formerly owned by Bird.

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