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Via Flutterby [1] is this wonderful site of historical maps [2]. I was checking out A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto [3] (1746) when I came across a Ft. Barnwell in North Carolina, built in 1712.

Ft. Barnwell was named for one John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell [4] who fought the Tuscarora [5] in that area in 1711-12. And John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell is an ancestor of mine [6] (on my mom's side of the family—she was a Barnwell). How cool is that?

[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/17440.html

[2] http://www.davidrumsey.com/

[3] http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~204092~3001800:-Composite-Map-of--A-Map-of-the-Bri?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort

[4] http://holmehistories.com/elizabeth-barnwell-gough/tuscarora-jack-barnwell.html

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_people

[6] /boston/2001/03/25.1

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