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Party: Pro-Administration; Federalist CABOT George , a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass., December 3, 1752;
received a classical…
At Mount VernonDuring the few years that Washington was at Mount Vernon subsequent to the Revolution, the same unbounded hospitality was dispensed as in earlier times, while a far greater…
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