While I’m tempted to make the case that my family’s Wise line goes all the way back to Colonel John Wise (1617-1695), who is thought to have arrived in the Virginia Colony from England in 1635, I think it’s probably more likely that the first Wise in my family to step foot in America was […]
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It looks as though my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, Clark Wise, may have been with Washington at Valley Forge
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