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in 1825, he originated and drew up the plan for slave emancipation, including the deportation of all freed slaves out of the United States and financial compensation to slaveholders, which was recommended at that time to
Congress for adoption. He was one of the leading public critics of the
285:, who in his retirement at Quincy had taken interest in the anti-Masonic movement. In these letters, which were afterward collected and published (New York, 1832), the author maintained that Masonry should be abandoned, chiefly because it had lost its usefulness.
103:, in 1808, where he assisted his father in the care of a farm. The country was at that time a wilderness, and the adventures of young Stone during his early pioneer life formed material that he afterward wrought into border tales.
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in the spring of 1841. He also, as one biographer put it, "cleared away the mists of slander that had gathered around the name of De Witt
Clinton, and by preserving strict impartiality he secured that credence which no
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for the recovery of such papers and documents as were essential to a correct understanding of the colonial history of the state. This was the origin of the collection known as the
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His father, William, was a soldier of the
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Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, Lewis Tappan and the
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in the public schools. He was active in religious enterprises and furthering benevolent associations for the
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on "the evils of the use of tobacco." He was noted for investigating the claims of
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Letters on
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Life of Thurlow Weed including his autobiography and a memoir
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History of the Great Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821
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The vision of Rubeta, an epic of the island of Manhattan
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Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
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238:in their struggles for independence, and, with
124:as his journeyman. Subsequently, he edited the
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803:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
371:Colonel Stone was appointed a chief of the
353:argument could obtain, however ingenious."
814:; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).
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