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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.5
suited neither his tastes nor his talents. He had a large experience in the character and business of the frontier, and was with all, a pretty well read (though not practically) lawyer, and was about to go into the profession. At that time, Jefferson was President and Madison Secretary of State, and both were friends of our family. Frederick was appointed a Judge of the Territorial Court and a Land Commissioner. How he executed the duties of those offices I never knew, but suppose to the
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