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Thomas Person

“Leader of popular movements: Regulation, Revolution, and Antifederalism. His home in Goshen stood five miles north.”

State historical marker: G-17: Thomas Person

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Thomas Person Papers, 1769-1783

Person, Thomas. · 1763

Correspondence to and from General Thomas Person and William Person, esquire; Thomas Person (1733-1800) member of the General Assembly and Provincial Congress, and brigadier general in Revolutionary War. Served on the c…

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