"I noticed that you're from Wethersfield, Connecticut."I was standing, empty-plate-in-hand, in the breakfast buffet line at an Elderhostel Golf program...
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Chapter 1 - "Do You Know About Thomas Hickey?"
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 5:58 PMChapter 2 - History Detecting
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 5:59 PMBut before I went to the society, I thought I would search the World Wide Web and see what I...
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Chapter 3 - Putting On the White Gloves
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:00 PM"We'll have to put on the white gloves for this one." said Assistant Director Melissa Josefiak.Melissa had looked through the...
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Chapter 4 - An Earlier Inquiry
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:01 PMMelissa continued looking though the society's files found a folder labeled "Thomas Hickey" in the archives of inquiries received by...
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Chapter 5 - "Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes"
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:02 PMMeanwhile Turncoats, Traitors and Heroes arrived at the library. It has ten pages devoted to the story of Thomas Hickey,...
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Chapter 6 - Knowlton's Rangers
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:04 PMThe files that Mary Pat Knowlton needed to research were not immediately accessible so while we waited, since I had...
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Chapter 7 - Washington's Guard
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:05 PMSo if Hickey didn't transfer to George Washington's Guard from Knowlton's Rangers where did he come from? Emboldened by my...
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Chapter 8 - Hearsay Evidence
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:06 PMAccording to the Wethersfield Library's Internet catalog search neither History of the American Revolution nor The Commander-in-Chief's Guard: Revolutionary War...
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Chapter 9 - Interpreting the Evidence
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:08 PMI don't remember college term papers being this much trouble. However back then during the research phase I didn't have...
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Chapter 10 - Divertimento
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:09 PMAs well as perhaps giving me the key to the Thomas Hickey mystery, Page Smith related something that, while at...
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Chapter 11 - "American Archives"
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:10 PMThe book that I was hoping could finally answer the question of Thomas Hickey's Wethersfield connection - Peter Force's American...
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Chapter 12 - So What's the Real Story?
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:11 PMWhen I started this project I thought it would result in five or so double spaced pages of clear-cut prose...
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Chapter 13 - Postscript & Bibliography
By Wethersfield Historical Society on March 31, 2008 6:11 PMWhile I was trying to figure out how to end this article I came across the following quotation in the...
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Acknowledgements - Jim Meehan
By Wethersfield Historical Society on February 17, 2009 5:39 PMJim Meehan and his wife Marsha joined the Wethersfield Historical Society in 2006 after retiring from careers in Information Technology...
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