20:1520:15, 26 October 2006diffhist−1
Thomas Fitch (governor)
Question mark redundant with "c." (C.=circa, Latin for "around.") Again, the Thomas Fitch Papers (ed. by Albert Bates) and Dexter's Yale Biographies list birth as 1700.
14:5114:51, 26 October 2006diffhist+3
Thomas Fitch (governor)
The inscription on his tombstone actually reads "70th year of his age." Somewhere along the line, it was mistranscribed in print as "78th," and that mistake continues to be repeated.
20:1520:15, 26 October 2006diffhist−1
Thomas Fitch (governor)
Question mark redundant with "c." (C.=circa, Latin for "around.") Again, the Thomas Fitch Papers (ed. by Albert Bates) and Dexter's Yale Biographies list birth as 1700.
14:5114:51, 26 October 2006diffhist+3
Thomas Fitch (governor)
The inscription on his tombstone actually reads "70th year of his age." Somewhere along the line, it was mistranscribed in print as "78th," and that mistake continues to be repeated.