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2 unusual facts about Edward Coles


Edward Coles

They met at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where the party boarded a pair of flatboats and began a water-bound journey: floating on the Monongahela River north to Pittsburgh, then west along the Ohio River toward Illinois.

Coles and his young family travelled often to visit his extended family and properties in Virginia and Washington, D.C., as well as the American Bottom and later Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey.



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