Everybody Knows Col. Jack
Clayson, Laurel
I need not tell the people of "Old Cayuga" who Col. John Richardson is.
Every body knows who he is, or if every body does not, every body knows
who "Col. Jack" is, and when I tell them that they are one and the same
person they will be at no loss to know who Col. John Richardson is.
-An Old Soldier
Auburn Journal and Advertiser, October 6, 1841.
If only knowing John Richardson's name could tell us who Col. Jack was! So many romantic, sensa...