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1. Battle of Hacketstown (continued)

   

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   killed at Hacketstown too. He lived where Hacketts live now & an orangeman killed him because he was after turning Catholic. A Pollard called the Big Smith was married to a Catholic girl. They has seven sons but he wouldn't let her near the Catholics but when he was killed with it years at Hacketstown she did rear them Catholics and four of them settled down here & their descendants are here still & that is how we have the Roman Pollards & the Protestant Pollards.

   

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   • Thomas Ellis