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High Treason? Yikes!

Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey) [i] Bette Smith>Mildred Cameron>Stella Knox>Wm Wallace Knox>Margaret Anderson>Ann Graves>Richard Darling Graves>Mary Wragg>Richard Wragg (my 6th great-grandfather) One of our ancestors, Richard Wragg, a blacksmith, arrived in Saratoga, New York, scarcely a decade before the American Revolution began. We know he was from Ecclesfield, Yorkshire … Continue reading High Treason? Yikes!