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Revolutionary War burial site -Fishkill, NY
Posted by: Edmond Spaeth (ID *****6935)	Date: July 04, 2009 at 09:02:40
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A recent AP news release making its way around the states and the world, tells about the new found location of a mass burial ground for Revolutionary War soldiers in Fishkill, NY. One of the soldiers was Lt. François MARTIN-PELLAND of Hazen's Congress' Own Regiment, who died there of smallpox. His wife and family were campfollowers but survived the epidemic. Here is one article relating to this Fishkill burial site posted in the Danbury News Times.

Click here: NewsTimes.com : NY growth besieges Revolutionary patriots' graves
4 Jul 2009

http://m.newstimes.com/danbury/db_14218/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=186AC32ED536C993A43D816734C5EF89?contentguid=prPNZed5&detailindex=0&pn=0&ps=4&full=true

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