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| | Robert Patterson, Jr.'s 1882 excerpt from "History of Washington Co." |
 | | Boyer also, in a personal interview with the present writer in 1879, positively affirmed that Rigdon had never lived in Pittsburgh previous to 1822, adding that "they were boys together and he ought to know." Mr. |
 | | 18, 1879, only remarking that one who could hear her relate the incidents of her youth, and specify her reasons for fixing names and dates with an unusual distinctness, would find it difficult to resist a conviction of the accuracy of her memory. |
 | | The reliability of the persons who have, in the interest of truth, related his statement to them will be confidently vouched for by all who know them; and Dr Winter's evidence, thus attested, is of itself sufficient to establish the certainty that Rigdon, in 1822-23, had possession of Spaulding's manuscript. |
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