David Revill, "The Roaring Silence—John Cage: A Life"
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"In Virginia, around 1740, an English colonel called William Cage was named a trustee in the will of Lady Fairfax, thereby becoming embroiled in the dispute over her local estate. Into the next generation was born a John Cage who, as an adult, was to help George Washington survey the state and, in the Revolutionary War, fought in the Eighth Virginia Regiment on the Continental Line.
"The story of the Cages we seek begins with a man of the same generation in the same state, William Cage, born in 1745."
David Revill, "The Roaring Silence—John Cage: A Life"
opening lines
"In Virginia, around 1740, an English colonel called William Cage was named a trustee in the will of Lady Fairfax, thereby becoming embroiled in the dispute over her local estate. Into the next generation was born a John Cage who, as an adult, was to help George Washington survey the state and, in the Revolutionary War, fought in the Eighth Virginia Regiment on the Continental Line.
"The story of the Cages we seek begins with a man of the same generation in the same state, William Cage, born in 1745."