It’s been very exciting in the course of my family research journey to uncover a few ancestors considered by their contemporaries to be “colorful characters”. Probably the most colorful and intriguing has been my 3rd great-grandfather in my maternal line, Valentine Mink (1778-1832), as vividly described (and undoubtedly written with much embellishment!) in the following …
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Military Monday – Paul Mink, Penobscot Expedition 2
My 4th great-grandfather, Paul Mink, was a Revolutionary War soldier along with two of his brothers, John and Valentine. Paul was born in 1753 to Johann Georg, a bookbinder from Altendiez, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia and his wife Gerdraut (Ziegler) Mink, German immigrants who arrived to settle Waldoboro Maine on the ship “Elizabeth” in 1753. After locating …
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