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Familiar Letters, Volume 06 (of 20

Note 7 — I YEARS OF DISCIPLINE

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This eldest of the children of John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar was born October 22, 1812, and died June 14, 1849. Her grandmother, Mary Jones of Weston, Mass., belonged to a Tory family, and several of the Jones brothers served as officers in the British army against General Washington.

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