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How to render Claghorn's birth year has been previously discussed on the George Washington talk page, as seen in the Talk page Archives including Talk:George Washington/Archive 1#Birth date, Talk:George Washington/Archive 6#George Washington's birthday, Talk:George Washington/Archive 6#Founding Fathers' birthdates, Talk:George Washington/Archive 9#GW's birthday & calendar switch issue, Talk:George Washington/Archive 7#Birthdate, and Talk:George Washington/Archive 10#Dates for George Washington's birth. Editorial consensus is that Col. Claghorn was born on "July 6th/Old Style" and on "July 17th/New Style" - this rendering is supported by reliable sources as shown in the article.

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Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article went "live" on October 11, 2012. I was going to wait until I had finished more of the article, and then I decided to get the rudimentary work done and put the article into Mainspace. I plan to continue working on it; however, please do feel free to expand the article and make any necessary corrections. – Painius 03:21, 11 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

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