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William L. Thompson was one of the three Fenian prisoners that Lazette Miller Worden reports on to Augustus Henry Seward on July 17, 1872. William and two compatriots, Owen Starr and Edward J. Mannix, were taken to the State Prison for their participation in the series of small raids into Canada that were conducted by US-supporters of Irish Fenians protesting the rule of Britain.

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William L. Thompson was one of the three Fenian prisoners that Lazette Miller Worden reports on to Augustus Henry Seward on July 17, 1872. William and two compatriots, Owen Starr and Edward J. Mannix, were taken to the State Prison for their participation in the series of small raids into Canada that were conducted by US-supporters of Irish Fenians protesting the rule of Britain.
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Source Citation Description Surname Range: Ten Eyck - Thuis Source Information Ancestry.com. Menands, New York, U.S., Albany Rural Cemetery Burial Cards, 1791-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:Albany Rural Cemetery Internment Cards. Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York. Source Description Many burial records for the Albany Rural Cemetery predate its 1841 founding because some record re-interments from an earlier municipal cemetery that had problems with flooding. Some cards also provide birth and other family information as well as death details.
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