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This is what stopped me.

The last line on the Monument Plaque. Col. Timothy Bigelow.

When visiting my folks several weeks later, I sat down to read a couple of magazines. As I reached down to the basket to get a magazine, a name caught my eye. Col Tim Bigelow's name was staring back at me from an open page of the "Forge". I spent the next hour reading and re-reading the story of is life.

As it turns out our common ancestor is Samuel⁽²⁾ - (I think). So Tim and I are very distant relation, but some how on that one hot summer day in Valley Forge we met. Oh, one other thing . The voice that called to me by the old entrance at Valley Forge. It had an old New England accent! Hummmmm

Some of the pictures of the arch.

The Above Pictures was scanned from the large picture just above this one. The Scanner was set to 144 DPI & Zoomed to times 3 (300%) Black & White