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The Golden Clasp and the Goldsmith’s Moral Trial
A Virginia planter Col. Taley described by the Valley Farmer and his five year shift system. Meanwhile a precarious tale unfolds of a poor girl pleading for a seven dollar loan and a pawned gold clasp. Col. McHenry intervenes prompting a magistrate trial that exposes a fraudulent goldsmith and ends with rightful possession of the clasp and aid for the girl’s family.
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McHens
U. States
Col. McHenry
Abraham Broechard
Cal. Mc Henry
Abraham Brouchard
Col. Mellenry
Arch Street
Rupert
Cuba
Col. McHeory
Hunter
McHenry