Ugh. Before I tell you any more about The Grove, I have to take care of a couple of corrections.

If you’ve listened to the episode already, you might be a little confused about Mike telling you that you’d be in Nova Scotia. Obviously he got his Halifaxes crossed.

Second, after I’d completed today’s episode and finished all the post-production stuff, I discovered that Willie Jones’ first name isn’t pronounced the way I thought it was. While most people would make the same error I did and say it as “Will-E”, it’s actually pronounced “Wylie”. A reasonable mistake but I should have paid closer attention. I did see one place where it was spelled “Wyley” but didn’t make the connection. mea culpa.

And yes, I do have a little more information about The Grove. A few years earlier, a young man named John Paul, who had recently turned up in America after having fled Scotland, spent some time at The Grove as a guest of the Jones family. Shortly thereafter he was granted some land in Frederick County, Virginia. At around this time, John Paul began appending “Jones” to his name, apparently in honor of Willie.

And, of course, shortly thereafter he became a lieutenant in the newly-minted Continental Navy.

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