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Title: A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
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Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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SAMUEL SEWALL. (From the collections of the Massachusetts HistoricalSociety.) SECOND GENERATION OF ENGLISHMEN IN AMERICA. 209
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