Ten Days of Truxtun- Going for broke
Day 6, in looking at the life of Tom Truxtun, for whom a circle was named, and that now gone circle names a 'hood.Nothing truly exciting happened between the end of the Revolutionary War and 1794 in Tom's life. He got older, sailed the world, got into a scrape with John Paul Jones, had a bunch of kids, the usual. The notable things to mention was his career as a merchant seaman was pretty good despite nearly losing it all and going into deep debit because the post war economy went into the crapper. Apparently, printing a lot of money, speculating and importing and not really exporting is bad for a country.
Next, Ten Days of Truxtun- In the Navy
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posted by Mari @ 7.10.09
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