Comments on: Beginnings https://clintonvillehistory.com/beginnings/ Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Boyce Rensberger https://clintonvillehistory.com/beginnings/#comment-250 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:59:02 +0000 https://clintonvillehistory.com/?p=3#comment-250 Actually, Balser Hess was not a cobbler (repairer of shoes) but a cordwainer, a maker of high-end leather goods, including shoes. In the war he was a sergeant in the Marechausee, an elite unit of military police that Washington used to enforce discipline on the rag=tag army.

Hess was also my fourth great=grandfather.

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