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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Calvin Smith of Smithville
In writing this autobiographical sketch, first, I deem it fit that I name the loins whence I and mine have sprung.
The tradition handed down to me by my ancestors is that previous to the treaty of Ryswick in 1697, my ancestors lived in Alsace, or to be more accurate, in the city (strasburg) where the big clocks are. Previous to this date Alsace was a Province of Germany, but by that treaty was ceded to France.
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