Article: Addendum: Sarah Kast McGinness.

by Donald W. Diminie, UE

Earlier this year, just before Convention time I received my certificate as a descendant of Sarah Kast McGinnis. While not a collector of UE certificates, I was especially happy to get this one. You see, Sarah, as far as we know, killed no one in the American Revolution, wasn't a soldier and perhaps never ever carried a weapon. But, as documentation shows, she was as much a Loyalist as any soldier. It was Sarah who twice went back into enemy territory to influence the Mohawk people to remain on the British side in that civil war. This of course was at the request of British authorities. Sarah had grown up living close by the Mohawk in ...

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