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Isaac Joseph Stephen Jesse

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Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
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  • Isaac v
  • Joseph v
  • Stephen v &
  • Jesse v (my grandfather)
sons of Nehemiah Whitman
  • Phebe
  • [no handwritten text supplied here]
daughters Hannah Brush, daughter of Tredwell Brush, & [no handwritten text supplied here] Platt

Her parents died when she was quite young, and she went was adopted by her aunt Vashti Platt—This latter must have been mistress of quite an estate, for grandmother related that she has seen fourteen little niggers, belonging to the family, eating their supper at evening, ^all at once in the kitchen.

Tredwell Brush, her brother, died a young man, unmarried.

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