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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.3
through the Clerk's office to the bar, as was then very common in Virginia.
About the year 1795, I think, (at all events, it was before my recollection, and I was born in the fall of '93) he got some employment in the Quarter master's Department of the Army of the Northwest, and left home for the frontier. Detroit was his chief point—called home—but he often went on business, to the outposts, Mackinac and others. He never considered that
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