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    "Catherine" Staats (1697–1731). After his mother died, his father married Sarah Gouverneur (1714–1786). He graduated from Yale College in 1746, and upon his father's...
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    John Dickinson (November 13, [O.S. November 2] 1732 – February 14, 1808), a Founding Father of the United States, was an attorney and politician from Philadelphia...
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  • directed by Wallace Fox from a screenplay by John Twist and Wallace Fox, based on a story by Gouverneur Morris. The film stars Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey...
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    served through October 22 when ill health forced him to retire, and Henry Middleton was elected in his place for the balance of the session. Charles Thomson...
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  • W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. Scheiffarth, Engelbert. Der New Yorker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und die Rockenfeller im Neuwieder Raum Genealogisches...
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    Pieces of History, Sept. 14, 2012. "Jacob Shallus". Ancestry.com. Vile, John R. (January 1, 2005). The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive...
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    Declaration of Independence (painting) (category Paintings by John Trumbull)
    William Paca 10. Samuel Chase 11. Lewis Morris 12. William Floyd 13. Arthur Middleton Three seated figures in the back between the two sets of standing figures:...
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    Connecticut, Rufus King from Massachusetts, James Madison from Virginia, and Gouverneur Morris from Pennsylvania, was appointed to distill a final draft constitution...
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    Jefferson to the presidency, for not renewing his appointment and for sending John Quincy Adams instead in 1809. Short also found out that Rosalie not only...
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    Josiah Bartlett John Wentworth Jr. New Jersey John Witherspoon Nathaniel Scudder New York James Duane Francis Lewis William Duer Gouverneur Morris North...
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