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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tavalah, post: 329546, member: 6730&quot;]Are you sure? Maybe I need to post a better picture. I was born in &#039;61, and she had it as long as I can remember. I think she told me once to be careful of it because her mother gave it to her. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and her father was a senator. I don&#039;t think my grandmother bought it new.&nbsp; She had all kinds of antiques from her family, like China cabinets and a claw foot table that I remember hearing was brought over by our ancestors from England. We are actually related to Benedict Arnold. </p><p>History is written by the victors, but my grandmother told me the real reason he turned traitor. He had a brother in England who he wrote for four years, trying to convince him to come fight for the Americans. When he finally gave in and came over, the Americans didn&#039;t believe he was General Arnold&#039;s brother and hung him as a spy as soon as he put into port. But to add insult to injury, they put out the story Benedict was a hen-pecked husband who did it because his wife wanted property promised by the King.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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