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1. Battle of Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   of Nixon's who was on the back (N.B.) road with his cavalry & when he saw the fellow falling out of the saddle he said. "We won't go into Hacketstown or we'll be eaten when a man can't go within a mile of the town without being shot."
   So Nixon returned to Gould or Money or wherever he was from & John Keefe said that every field that there was a bunch of (N.B 2.) reapers or binders he ordered his soldiers to fire on them to get revenge. He used to get people leashed & flogged to death. A Whelan belonging to old Darcy (mentioned above) got flogged or shot or something & Darcy went

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   • Thomas Ellis