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was contentious with disputes over larger issues like smallpox vaccination, fire hazards, and slavery, as well as minutia around protocol. In particular, Vidal was opposed to plays, whic he considred "incompatile with public decency," going so far as to order closed the city's only theatre in
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Vidal acknowledged at least four children — Carolina Maria Salome (b. 1793), Maria Josefa de las
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