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Thank you so much for your reply. I have very little information on Douglas
Carns/Cairnes, William Cairns' father, or on William Cairns himself.
My father is named Robert Bogardus Cairns, after both Gen. Robert Bogardus, the general in
charge of the defense of New York in the war of 1812, his great,great,great grandfather
and Col. Robert Bogardus Snowden, his great grandmother's brother.
I have a great deal of information about the Bogardus family, but I imagine you have read
the same family history that I have.
My great uncle, a general in the army and a West Point graduate, was named Bogardus
Cairns. He went by Bugs.
I would be interested to know how you tie into the Bogardus family.