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The portrayal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period was usually unflattering yet, following the death of Joseph Stalin, the Cold War might not have been quite so cold had a more balanced approach been adopted in the West, for there was a genuine desire by the new administration for a better relationship. IGOR, an account of the experiences of a uniquely talented young Russian, may serve to help illustrate this, though some might dismiss it as implausible.
With sail giving way to steam, Luke Gregory and his shipmate Jonas Davey plan to leave the sea and set up as riverside traders on the Thames, but Davey runs out on Luke leaving him penniless until fortune smiles on him in the shape of a mudlark, or riverside scavenger. The riverside, though, is a rough and dangerous place where life is cheap and poverty and degradation abound, together with mindless religious bigotry that provides a further challenge to Luke’s determination to succeed and achieve the security he craves.
Successful riverside trader and City investor, ex sailor Luke Gregory acquires a country property, fully intending to sell it on. What he finds there leads to a change of direction, which irritates the local landed gentry who resent the arrival of a newcomer.
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Comprising the judges and officers of the different courts of justice; counsel, special pleaders, draftsmen, conveyancers, attorneys, notaries, &c., in England and Wales.
John Sherwin settled in Ispwich, Massachusetts, as a single man, probably in 1666. He married twice and was the father of thirteen children. He died at Ipswich in 1726. His descendant in the seventh generation, Sidney Orville Sherwin, was born in Buckland, Massachusetts, in 1848. He married Mary Adelaide Shedd, daughter of Charles and Eliza Rowell Shedd, at Denmark, Iowa, in 1871. They had nine children, 1872-1895. The family lived in Minnesota, migrated to South Dakota in 1880, and to Stockton, Missouri, in 1894. Mary Adelaide Sherwin died at Stockton in 1916. Sidney Sherwin lived with a son for awhile in Elk City, Oklahoma. He moved to a daughter's home in Iola, Kansas, in 1918. He died at Iola in 1923. Descendants lived in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, California, North Carolina, and elsewhere.
Andrew Elton Williams, son of John S. Williams, was born in 1800 or 1801 in Bulloch County, Georgia. His family moved to Jackson County, Florida in 1820. He married Martha Brett, daughter of John Brett and Elizabeth Gainer, in about 1823. They had eleven known children. He married Melissa Underwood in 1847. They had fourteen known children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Texas.
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