MD - Deep Duck - Chapter 10 (Ewing)

[Becky Lindroos]

Aha!  It is interesting how many accurate (verifiable) historical details are referenced and then interwoven into a tale which turns history on its pointy little head and then twists it for good measure.  

Becky 

 On Feb 15, 2015, at 12:11 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> one can even today peruse a sermon by the Right Reverend Ewing here(https://archive.org/details/sermonsbyrevjohn00ewin ). Not as entertaining or imaginative as Cherrycoke, but one can imagine that P might have read 1 or 2. 
> On Feb 15, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Becky Lindroos wrote:
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>> Another thing -  while doing a bit of research on this sermon,  I discovered that the guy to whom Mason gave his journals just prior to his death was one John Ewing in Philadelphia and that he was a Rev’d.  
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>> For our fiction,  Cherrycoke is a Revd and apparently a close friend of Mason.  They are both very interested in astronomy, one as a 

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