Ransom Letter

A little over two years ago, Tenth member Carrie Hagen published an account of the first recorded ransomed kidnapping in America (in Germantown) in the book we is got him. That ransom note was discovered last year. Carrie writes about the discovery and the kidnapping in the online Smithsonian journal. You can read there article here.

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