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Notes on Ballymena, County Antrim

See here for more stores from County Antrim   Founding Father James McHenry, the Founding Father of the USA, was born into a Presbyterian family in Ballymena on 16 November 1753. Classically educated in Dublin, he was sent to Philadelphia in 1771.  He served as an army surgeon during the Revolution and also assisted in […]