Mitchell, Silas Weir

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• Silas

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• Weir

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• Silas

  three, or the third ...

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• Silas

  Wood, a prominent member of the church at Jerusalem; also called Silvanus. He and Judas, surnamed Ba...

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• weir

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• weir

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• Silas

  (contracted form of Silvanus, woody), an eminent member of the early Christian Church, described und...

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• Mitchell, John

  (1815-1875) Journalist and political writer, s. of a Presbyterian minister, was b. in Ulster. For s...

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• major mitchell

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• Lock-weir

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• hebbing-weir

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• Hocking, Rev. Silas Kitto

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