Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Planting the Wilderness, or the Pioneer Boys: A Story of Frontier Life
IN the early spring of the year of our Lord 1773, there lived on the Upper Potomac, in the County of Loudon, in the then Colony of Vir ginia, a man by the name Of Thomas Oxenford. He was a plain, honest, God-fearing man, and was forty-four years Old. He was of English descent, and his parents had come originally to Alexandria, from which place they had removed to the County Of Loudon, and had settled upon a small farm, not far from where the town of Leesburg now stands. Thomas Oxenford was an only child, and, consequently, had inherited.
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