Hello and thanks for reading the book! Josiah entered very, very few dates in the journals. However, if I recall correctly, he wrote "I am now in my 88th year", and I believe he died at 91 in the year 1901. I'll have to look that up. In any case, it's listed as fiction becuase that is what the publisher decided. I explained how I could prove everything, but that didn't matter.

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