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If they can take your property there, they'll take it anywhere…

February 05, 2016 | By MARK MILLER

In 1851, the Civil War had yet to start. Abraham Lincoln was a country lawyer from Illinois. And Dr. Benjamin Brandreth, patriarch of the Brandreth family, bought a plot of land from the State of New York that included non-navigable waterways. The Brandreth family—a bit larger than in 1851, but the familial descendants of that … ...