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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.2
in the "Society of Friends" by bearing arms against the King at the siege of York. Though not absolutely poor, he was not able, in those hard times, just after the Revolution) to give his sons collegiate education. Frederick, (like the rest of the elder sons) was well taught in the rudiments, and disciplined to study and work. At sixteen or seventeen, he was apprenticed to a Court Clerk for the double purpose of supporting himself by doing the practical duties of the place, and of studying law—intending thus, to go
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