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 | | He was referred to, in a history of Dumfries written in 1746, as "an old Cromwellian," which presumably meant that he had, in the confused religious wars of then recent memory, fought alongside the Cromwellian forces. |
 | | This is an attractive suggestion, and one that would explain the connection between the two families. |
 | | We are left, then, with the first definitely ascertainable fact about the American branch of the Kennan family, which was the marriage, in the year 1744, in or near the village of Holden, not far from Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| partners.nytimes.com /books/first/k/kennan-family.html (2043 words) |
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