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1763-1783

Hobby, Nancy, 1787-?

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Title: [Hair sample of Nancy Hobby]

Folded into a piece of paper on which is written, "Nancy 's Hobby's hair." Nancy ws a daughter of Gideon Savage, a Corporal of Artillery and Artificer for the Connecticut Continental Line in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. This item was originally housed in Savage's wooden chest (GLC01450.013.02) with others decimalized in GLC01450.013.

GLC01450.013.18

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